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tangent4ronpaul
07-07-2008, 08:32 PM
Last weeks list resulted in in 14 Adoptions!

Sorry this list is late...

There have been 109 adoptions from the past 12 lists!

This weeks list with 70 dim Meetups is an improvement! - There are some Meetups on the list with over 100 members. If you were ever considering adopting a Meetup, this would be a good week to do it!

This is now the 12th Adopt a Meetup list and we are noticing a very healthy trend in the number of Meetups at risk with each passing week. In sequence: 63, 68, 74, 74, 63, 55, 51, 53, 42, 52, 56, 79, 70 We are on the upswing and the movement is again gaining momentum!

With our chances to win the nomination starting to look fairly promising, what with all the delegate wins we've had! It's worth another $72 to renew for another 6 months ? lest keep this movement ALIVE! For every one that drops out, we will loose, on average, 50 supporters. Every month, for the next six months roughly 250 Meetups will get that renewal notice. Some will renew - some will not. When a organizer fails to renew, Meetup sends out a notice to the remaining members offering them the position of organizer for 2 weeks, and if there are no bites - the Meetup goes away.

We need volunteer organizers to stem this tide. When an organizer gets a Meetup, you really get 3 for the price of one, and like the early seeder program, if you have less than 3, we would like you to adopt some of these Meetups that are going into oblivion - at least long enough to find a new organizer or direct members to other resources where they can stay in the loop till we find a more permanent solution.

You can now look up these Meetups on:
[http://www.operationcatherder.com/index.php/State_by_State_Status the State by State Status page] to determine which Meetups are the most viable. That will tell you the number of members and the recent activity level. More members or more active means worth saving. Less active and less members, means join and try to contact and migrate supporters to a bigger group.

We need volunteers to join these Meetups and work them - explaining to the members that while we still have a chance at the nomination, other goals are just as important. Things like changing the party platform and rules, having a good delegate showing to establish viability of our message and gain media attention. The transformation of our campaign into a long term movement and electing our candidates to Congress and other positions (we have around 50 ppl running for office - it's not just about Dr. Paul).

While we will be looking at different projects and sites to send people to in the future, we suggest you send supporters to the 2 main web sites: [http://www.RonPaulForums.com Ron Paul Forums] and [http://www.DailyPaul.com Daily Paul] as well as the per-state forums on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo for now - as a stop gap measure. Two other good sites are [http://www.ronpaullive.com Ron Paul Live] and [http://www.ronpaulpublic.com Ron Paul Public]. That way we will know where to find them and direct them further when we are more organized. In addition, [http://www.freedomfortress.net/ Freedom Fortress] will let you mail to like minded supporters based on user adjustable distances from you. Many of these supporters are not connected to the movement beyond Meetup and we need people there to go to stay involved - even if you do not adopt their Meetup temporarily or permanently. Please focus on the Meetups with the most members or local to you first.

If you are a Meetup organizer, three of the 4 organizer groups, representing over 1/4 of the organizers have merged via a bridge. If you don't belong to ONE of these, please join! Just join one - a post to one goes to all.

:[http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/ National Organizers Group]

:[http://ronpaul.meetup.com/158/ National Organizers Group II]

:[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMeetupOrganizers/ RPMeetupOrganizers] Yahoo Group

Please also join:
:[http://www.meetupalliance.com/RonPaul2008 Ron Paul 2008 Alliance]
This group is not currently bridged with the other 3, and is very limited in functionality, but is another way for organizers to communicate. Messages must be read on-line – there is no mailing list for this one.

If you want to be an organizer and are willing to cover the fees, look for an expiring Meetup close to you, join it and accept the organizer position - then join the network.

Remember, one person that does not want to pay the fees can cut off on average 50 supporters - some of which will be into the movement for the long term.

These are the Meetups in danger of going away in the next 2 weeks that need adoption or at least someone to join and encourage supporters to migrate to another nearby Meetup:

07/03/08 list

1 http://rally.meetup.com/5/ (Freedom Fighters) => -1 days left! (10 members)
2 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1182/ (Dump Lindsey Graham in 2008 Meetup) => -1 days left! (19 members)
3 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1467/ (Maryland District 3 Ron Paul Meetup Group) => -1 days left! (41 members)
4 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1576/ (The Fayetteville Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left! (20 members)
5 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1785/ (Ron Paul UTA Trax Train Rally Monday, Feb. 4th @ 5:00p.m.) => -1 days left! (8 members)
6 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1869/ (Citizens For Better Government) => -1 days left! (9 members)
7 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1896/ (Dr. Buddy Witherspoon 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left! (2 members)
8 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/198/ (The Groveland/Big Oak Flat Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => -1 days left! (10 members)
9 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/657/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup for Utah's Canyonlands) => -1 days left! (5 members)
10 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/660/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup for Utah's Sanpete & Juab Counties) => -1 days left! (16 members)
11 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/661/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup for Utah's Castle Country) => -1 days left! (6 members)
12 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/663/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup for Utah's Uintah Basin) => -1 days left! (8 members)
13 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/665/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup for Utah's Millard County) => -1 days left! (5 members)
14 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/939/ (Casper, Wyoming for Ron Paul) => -1 days left! (31 members)
15 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1267/ (Americans for Constitutional Government) => 0 days left! (22 members)
16 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1404/ (Mid-Michigan for Ron Paul R[EVOL]UTION) => 0 days left! (22 members)
17 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1411/ (Johnson & Wales Denver Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (10 members)
18 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1452/ (The Mat-Su/Butte/Chugiak Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (49 members)
19 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1453/ (The Kenai Peninsula / Kodiak Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (17 members)
20 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1693/ (CLOSING PLEASE DO NOT ADOPT) => 0 days left! (21 members)
21 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/205/ (The Chester Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (37 members)
22 http://beararms.meetup.com/94/ (Gun Owners for Ron Paul 2008) => 1 days left! (62 members)
23 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1417/ (Van Zandt County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (11 members)
24 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1438/ (Ron Paul's Pac Men) => 1 days left! (5 members)
25 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1612/ (The Roswell Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (17 members)
26 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1622/ (Alaskans for Ron Paul Statewide Network) => 1 days left! (32 members)
27 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1851/ (Bradford County for Ron Paul) => 1 days left! (13 members)
28 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/391/ (Washington County Bob Barr 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (82 members)
29 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/44/ (The Bemidji Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (20 members)
30 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1340/ (The Watertown Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left! (17 members)
31 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1428/ (UNO/Omaha Students for Ron Paul) => 2 days left! (27 members)
32 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1429/ (The Boyertown Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left! (29 members)
33 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1477/ (The White Stone Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 2 days left! (11 members)
34 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1380/ (The Natchitoches Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (18 members)
35 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1436/ (The Point Roberts Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (3 members)
36 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1500/ (Incline Village/North Tahoe Ron Paul Meetup) => 3 days left! (37 members)
37 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/344/ (The Southwest Missouri Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (72 members)
38 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/446/ (Leesburg / Wildwood Ron Paul Meetup) => 3 days left! (43 members)
39 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/910/ (Group for Sanity & Conscience -- Gadsden, Alabama) => 3 days left! (18 members)
40 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1056/ (The Brookings Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (10 members)
41 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/126/ (The Dunwoody Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (80 members)
42 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1841/ (The Pettis County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 4 days left! (7 members)
43 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/231/ (Northwest Georgia Ron Paul Group) => 4 days left! (52 members)
44 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/923/ (Johnston County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 4 days left! (38 members)
45 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1230/ (UMD Students for Ron Paul) => 5 days left! (34 members)
46 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/459/ (WNC Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 5 days left! (71 members)
47 http://occupationfr.meetup.com/10/ (End the War in Iraq - Las Vegas) => 6 days left! (10 members)
48 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1212/ (The Boone County Liberty Caucus) => 6 days left! (52 members)
49 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1457/ (Northumberland, Union, and Snyder Counties Ron Paul Meetup) => 6 days left! (60 members)
50 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1890/ (The Vineburg Ron Paul 2008 Meetup----Regime Change NOW) => 7 days left! (3 members)
51 http://movement.meetup.com/45/ (The Economic and Political Forum of Fort Myers) => 8 days left! (19 members)
52 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1370/ (Brasília Ron Paul Brazil Meetup Group) => 8 days left! (9 members)
53 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1475/ (The Kennebec County Ron Paul Delegate Meetup Group) => 8 days left! (34 members)
54 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/176/ (Columbia, MO: Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 8 days left! (108 members)
55 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1849/ (Idaho At Large Ron Paul meetup) => 8 days left! (7 members)
56 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1082/ (The Livermore Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 9 days left! (76 members)
57 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1378/ (The Williamstown Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left! (17 members)
58 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1508/ (The Southeast Oklahoma Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left! (15 members)
59 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1601/ (The Revolution Continues...Searcy County For Ron Paul) => 11 days left! (9 members)
60 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/280/ (The Tallahassee - Big Bend Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left! (166 members)
61 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1356/ (The Opelousas Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 12 days left! (22 members)
62 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1606/ (The Kutztown Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (23 members)
63 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1619/ (The Rochelle/Oregon/ Byron Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (18 members)
64 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1856/ (Active or retired Police and/or military personnel) => 12 days left! (8 members)
65 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/320/ (The Chapin Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (19 members)
66 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/721/ (The Great Barrington Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (22 members)
67 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1140/ (The Greenville MS Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (10 members)
68 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1328/ (The New Albany Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (24 members)
69 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/422/ (The Brattleboro Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (34 members)
70 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/86/ (Eugene Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 15 days left! (152 members)