View Full Version : Ron Paul campaign collects nearly 400 pounds of food for Iowa food bank
LisaNY
11-23-2011, 08:47 PM
Very nice! Goes to show that people can be generous without government coercion:
http://urbandale.patch.com/articles/paul-campaign-collects-400-pounds-of-food-for-iowa-food-bank
stephensmith
11-23-2011, 09:04 PM
Good catch! Thanks for posting.
- Steve
FSP-Rebel
11-23-2011, 09:25 PM
How was this orchestrated? In one town, city, county or more? Great effort either way. Charity ftw!
rp713
11-23-2011, 09:29 PM
great for the community. great for the campaign trail. a win-win
BuddyRey
11-23-2011, 09:32 PM
So much for the "libertarians are selfish" meme.
McDermit
11-23-2011, 09:40 PM
How was this orchestrated? In one town, city, county or more? Great effort either way. Charity ftw!One town, I think. They were distributing 2000 plastic bags in a community, and then went and collected them a cpuple days later.
Forty Twice
11-23-2011, 10:01 PM
h xxp://urbandale.patch.com/articles/poll-forget-the-christmas-list
Found this little poll in the Urbandale Patch where the article about the food drives was written. Good idea by the way. We lead the poll w/ 63 votes. It's surprising how
few votes the other people have. 0 for Cain and Santorum. 1 each for Bachmann and Huntsman. 6 for Newton and 13 for Willard.
Carole
11-24-2011, 02:29 AM
Great work. :)
Congratulations on a job well done.
Johncjackson
11-24-2011, 02:45 AM
So much for the "libertarians are selfish" meme.
They still manage to push that viewpoint by saying that libertarians who donate food but want to cut government funding are going to make poor people starve because there is no way private charity can replace the supply of government foodstuffs.
anewvoice
11-24-2011, 08:08 AM
So what if we combined this, nationwide, leading into the 12/16 moneybomb?
Each bag could contain
- Super Brochure
- 12/16 Teaparty moneybomb flyer
- Request for food
This has many positive outcomes
1) Food bank drives
2) Introduces Ron Paul to more people
3) Introduces the moneybomb date to more real people, making the connection to charity
4) Door to door contact
Thoughts?
LawnWake
11-24-2011, 08:55 AM
So what if we combined this, nationwide, leading into the 12/16 moneybomb?
Each bag could contain
- Super Brochure
- 12/16 Teaparty moneybomb flyer
- Request for food
This has many positive outcomes
1) Food bank drives
2) Introduces Ron Paul to more people
3) Introduces the moneybomb date to more real people, making the connection to charity
4) Door to door contact
Thoughts?
As in.. give poor people food + Ron Paul related flyers? That'll look like we're buying their votes.
FriedChicken
11-24-2011, 09:14 AM
I think hes talking about asking for food, not giving it. The food would go towards local food banks I'd imagine.
This might be a good news worthy story and do some good for our communities as well.
The downside would be we would only be canvassing a fifth of the houses we would normally be ... because it takes more time to tell them what we're doing and takes several minutes for people to gather food.
Unless we don't gather the food on the first go round and just drop off the information - then have them contact somebody if they would like to make a donation to the food bank and we would go back to them for that.
Anyone have any thoughts?
anewvoice
11-24-2011, 09:17 AM
Correct, it's about getting the food. The folks giving will receive the brochure. In Iowa hey dropped off 2000 bags on day 1 and retrieved bags on day 2.
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