From the LA Times
“Using sophisticated communications techniques on the Nevada convention floor in Reno, Paul supporters transmitted mass text messaging to maneuver and direct their troops. When Paul appeared to speak, the ovation was thunderous.
At other times they shouted down the convention chair, Sen. Bob Beers. Taken by surprise the convention organizers and the McCain [...]
Guerilla
Fiat Empire Screening
I went to a screening of “Fiat Empire” downtown this past Sunday-half a block away from Loyola’s Water Tower Campus in fact. If you click that link, you can see a running national debt calculator.
As usual, about 20 or so people showed up. On of the guys was the one who I talked [...]
YouTube: I now have a famous hand.
To my surprise, I got an email that shows me in the newest lonelantern viral video. My hand is the one right at the beginning holding the “What income tax?” sign, and has been viewed over 5,000 times. My raw footage has only 3 views, unfortunately.
Here’s the link to their [...]
IRS Demonstration-April 15, 2008
This was it: The Big Day. It only happens once a year-April 15th, tax day. All the last minute filers show up, and the post office at Canal and Harrison at least, enables them by having postal workers standing outside with giant bins so that its just like a drive-thru. This is the biggest Post [...]
Ameirca: Freedom to Fascism screening
Ron Paul started to tone down his campaign following Super Tuesday; he needed to compete in a primary for his House seat, and frankly, I think he’s just old and probably getting a little tired, even though he still is campaigning, and actively was campaigning in Pennsylvania. Therefore, my opportunities for participation in his campaign [...]
Sign Bombing
(This is not my picture-just an example. It belongs to the Wheeling, IL meetup)
After the office shut down the calling, there was a meetup in the lobby of the office-well, the lobby was the office. Just to give you a little idea of the power of meetup, 5 people signed up for the [...]
My day at the office
Frustrated at my failures to make a difference through precinct-leading, I decided to head down to the Ron Paul campaign office. I had heard they needed help making calls before the election Feb. 5th, so I decided to head down there. Why I wanted to put myself through the torture of making calls [...]
Precinct Leading Day 2
This day really brought the bad/disconnected number issue to an extreme as you can see in the call sheets:
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You might notice I didn’t bother to redact some of the numbers towards the end. Take a closer look. It’s because they’re all the same. And they’re all bad-just one bad number repeated for [...]
Precinct Leading Day 1
I can’t really say what initially caused me to want to be a precinct leader for Ron Paul. I had no idea what it was, and I certainly had no idea what I was getting myself into. The major lesson I learned from this experience is that cold calling people-particularly about politics-is the [...]
How to be a Ron Paul precinct leader
So you want to be a Ron Paul precinct leader. Well here goes. It basically involves three steps: Identification, Conversion and “get out the vote.”
Here is how the Ron Paul website described the Identification process:
Voter ID is as easy as contacting the voters on your precinct list, either by phone or in person, [...]
Where will we go?
The Tribune poses an important question:
The question is, when the contest is finished, where will these people go?
Where will the people who conspired to raise $6 million for Ron Paul in one record day of Internet-fundraisng in December go? Will they settle for McCain, who drew boos among the cheers as [...]
Starting Off
What an unfortunate time to begin a blog about my experiences volunteering with the Ron Paul campaign. I just received an e-mail the other day in which Dr. Paul essentially concedes defeat (with apologies for length-I know blogs are supposed to be for those with short attention spans):
…Let me tell you my thoughts. With Romney [...]
