2 Mil By Deadline

[EvilTwinkie]

Since we keep shattering our own expectations, why not test the limits of what is possible... Just believe and make it happen....

2 MIL BY DEADLINE!

[brandon]

I hear ya man! Lets start shooting for 1.5 mil, and when we pass that, 2 mil comes next

Keep calling and emailing people. We are making history here. This is BIG.

[itsnobody]

Yeah lets go for $2 million

[ClayTrainor]

well... im not gonna say it's impossible, but that requires 1 million in 1 day man... we'd be fortunate to get half of that...

but screw these negative thoughts...


2 Million here we come!!!

[coffeewithchess]

This is getting contagious...
quick math...there are over 49,000 Ron Paul meetup members....
1,000,000/49000= $20.41 per person...WE CAN DO THIS IN 24 HOURS!!!

[Phil M]

No! 2 million by midnight!

[AlexAmore]

No! 2 million by midnight!

Agreed!

[LibertyEagle]

You all are cuckoo. But, I love the spirit. :D

[steph3n]

This should be a supporter lead goal, not one set by the campaign, if the campaign set such lofty levels and it even fell a bit short it would be the news, not that the original drive was blown though in a mere 2.5 days.

[LibertyEagle]

I hope they setoff firecrackers when we reach 1 million and then just lower the thermometer down a little, add some new hash marks and don't say a word about any new goals.

[Phil M]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd#2008_presidential_campaign

Chris Dodd was able to raise one million dollars in a day in June 2006. Frigging Chris Dodd!

[steph3n]

Just means he has the 2300 or 4600 ties :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd#2008_presidential_campaign

Chris Dodd was able to raise one million dollars in a day in June 2006. Frigging Chris Dodd!

[LizF]

Just means he has the 2300 or 4600 ties :)


Indeed he should:


"Criticism

The Center for Public Integrity has criticized Dodd for "being the leading advocate in the Senate on behalf of the accounting industry."[23]

Golden Leash Award

The Golden Leash Award was presented to Dodd by Public Campaign, April 29, 1998:

"The Golden Leash is a symbol of the ties between special interest money and elected officials. It is awarded to Members of Congress who demonstrate egregious conduct in the quid pro quo practice of dollar democracy.

"This award serves as a reminder of Senator Dodd's acceptance of $910,304 in campaign cash from January 1993 to December 1997 from the Securities, Investment, Accounting and High-Tech Computer industries... Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers and others donat[ed] $523,551 in PAC and individual contributions. The accounting industry — perhaps the biggest winners in the 1995 securities litigation reform law — donated $345,903 in PAC and individual contributions. This includes such giants as Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young and Coopers & Lybrand, among others. Deloitte & Touche's contributions to Senator Dodd increased nearly five-fold from 1995 to 1996 soon after Congress passed the reform law the industry championed. The computer industry — a fairly new player in the campaign contribution field — ponied up $40,850 in contributions."

Public Campaign's report cites the following examples: Dodd was an original cosponsor of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and he helped to organize the Senate's override of President Clinton's veto. The National Securities Market Improvement Act, which ultimately weakened oversight that would have protected investors. Dodd lined up as a cosponsor of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, an extension of the earlier securities litigation legislation. The bill was strongly supported by The Uniform Standards Coalition, an ad-hoc group of securities, accounting and high-tech computer firms.

Campaign contributions from Enron and Arthur Andersen

On January 30, 2002 Dick Morris wrote in an article for Jewish World Review:

While many candidates of both parties have received campaign contributions from Enron and its self-serving 'independent auditor' Arthur Andersen, very few have passionately fought their cause in Washington as diligently as Chris Dodd. Dodd has received more money from Arthur Andersen than any other Democrat — $54 843.00 — and has aggressively worked to insulate Arthur Andersen and other accounting firms from liability to defrauded investors in cases like Enron.[24]

And in February 2003, Morris wrote:

Dodd protested my [previous] accusations in a letter to the New York Post saying "Dick Morris mistakenly contends that legislation cosponsored by Sen. Christopher Dodd is somehow responsible for the Enron fiasco.
But all independent observers seem to disagree with Dodd. The Washington Post editorialized two weeks ago that "Sen. Chris Dodd, who now proposes reformist legislation, led a battle in 1995 to limit auditor's liability." The Post said that "all the players in this scandal — Enron's managers, its auditors, the lawmakers — helped to create the conditions for Enron's collapse.[25]"

(From the Wikipedia entry in Phil M's post)

[hard@work]

It would take 10,000 people donating $100. It is doable if people aren't already exausted. I'm sure there is 10,000 Ron Paul supporters out there that can drop another $100. Getting all 10,000 of them to do it though ... heh ...

Welp, here's to it!