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Man from La Mancha
07-19-2007, 03:04 PM
July 19, 2007 NA (Network America) e-wire

Diagnostic on the Ron Paul Campaign 3 Weeks before Ames

Dear Friends in the Ron Paul Campaign,

This Network America ewire is a candid diagnosis of what is needed to
make the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll a Ron Paul success - and first place
finish. I hope this gets to all the Meet Up Groups, and to DailyPaul,
etc.

1. The biggest immediate need, I would say, is that everyone in the
country that supports Ron Paul should ADOPT AN IOWAN. This means you
send $35 (the price of a ticket to vote at Ames) to the effort at:
http://ronpaulstrawpoll.blogspot.com/ -- on that page you will find a
PayPal button on the lower right hand side. Donate want you can. Some
have already left in the comments that they donated for two or three
Iowans. Even $5 is good, as you will then help adopt a part of an Iowan
(others will adopt the rest of that Iowan!).

2. McCain and Rudy Ghouliani have pulled out of the Iowa Straw Poll -
because they have no support on the ground - not in Iowa, and not
anywhere else. Rudy is a Big Media created hologram. His support is all
rigged Big Media Polls and the Ruling Elite's planned computer votefraud
for him in the big computerized states. SO - THE STRAW POLL will come
down to Flippity-Floppity Romney vs. Paul. Washington DC, New York City,
and the Iowa GOP know this. So they are pulling out all the stops for
Romney. Romney himself has just put $6 million into his own campaign -
he's worth, I think, $500 million. So ---

SO - to combat Romney - we need 10,000 Ron Paul supporters to "Adopt an
Iowan" by sending $35 in through the above website. WE ALL HAVE BEEN
ASKING WHAT WE CAN DO - here's something we can do!

The IOWA STRAW POLL is the first major contest of the year. 250 media
major media outlets already have reserved space for hookups at the Iowa
Caucus. For how it attracted so much publicity beginning in 1987 and
since, and for all about the Ames Straw Poll, you can go here:

http://www.votefraud.org/open_letter_straw_poll_part_1.htm

WHY do we need to make sure that Ron Paul wins at Ames? Because it will
bury the lie of the 5 TV Networks and the GOP Establishment - that Ron
Paul is a non-candidate. THEY know it, and that's why there will be a
big push for Romney.

3. This is a "shout out" to those who run the "Adopt an Iowan" website
page -- you need to post a DAILY REPORT of how close you are to getting
10,000 people to "Adopt an Iowan" --- this is how people get excited and
believe that their little bit will ad up. So, if we have 20 Iowans
adopted right now - say that. 50 Iowans adopted tomorrow - say that. And
the excitement will build.

4. The next big Project is Call Iowa! On the top right of
RonPaul2008.com - you will see the words "Iowa Straw Poll" in green.
Everyone in the USA can help the Iowa team call Iowans and get them to
Ames. Do this if you can. Again, if Ron Paul wins or comes in 2nd in
Ames (let's think victory!) - the Big Media lie that he is a minor
candidate without an organization dies a well deserved instant death,
i.e., the Big Media will have to abandon this lie or lose their
credibility with millions more Americans who will finally see what
deceivers they are.

5. Finally, there is the "ride" an Iowan program. This is where people,
in state or out of state, -- volunteer to pick up somebody who needs a
ride to the straw poll. Research, I am told, says that 85% of the people
who attend live within 50 miles of Ames, Iowa. To volunteer to help
drive somebody to the Straw poll, go here:

https://www.ronpaul2008.com/events/iowa-straw-poll/

At the very bottom left you will find a link that says: RSVP to attend
or volunteer - and at that link you can volunteer to drive someone.
(Suggestion to campaing: link all three programs - adopt an Iowan, Call
Iowa, and Drive somebody - so that all three activities are immediately
visible when one clicks on the Iowa Straw Poll spot at the top right of
the home page.)

6. There is developing major image problem for the campaign with the
most dedicated volunteers - and I am begging the Campaign top dogs - Joe
Seehusan, Lew Moore, and Kent Snyder - to come out of the shadows and
address this.

The shut down of the Spooner program was handled very badly - and should
never have been down at all. (Spooner was a sophisticated program
developed by the Austin, Texas group that had a lot of momentum rolling
towards getting people to call in Iowa.) I urge the Spooner people to
put their program back up - but just hand over to Iowa and Headquarters
all the new contacts on a daily basis. That is what all volunteer
initiatives should do: share with headquarters - but this is all going
to go by in the blink of an eye - and it is insane to stifle volunteer
initiatives. The only red flag if someone is dong something that they
are not willing to share with headquarters.

7. There is a perception that the Ron Paul campaign management is
willing to more or less trust the crooked vote count which the Iowa GOP
is again planning to hold at this straw poll. As some of the campaign
officials have been made aware - this is not going to go down well with
a very large number of Ron Paul supporters who are aware of the crooked
computerized machines which the Iowa GOP is still planning to use, and
who also aware that the Iowa GOP was totally complicit in defrauding Pat
Buchanan in Dubuque, Iowa in the 1996 Presidential Caucuses. This is
proven. (Search "House with Doors" on Google.)

It is now established that Iowa GOP is planning to use the thoroughly
discredited Diebold computerized machines to "count" the vote at the
straw poll in Iowa. There are to be 60 counting stations. The voter
marks his ballot for his Presidential choice, feeds his ballot into a
slot that eats the ballots and takes it out of public site. (This is
absolutely unacceptable, i.e. having the ballots disappear from public
site BEFORE they are counted.) Then -

Then at 6 PM when the voting ends, someone designated will do something
that causes the machine to spit out a ticker tape type receipt with the
alleged vote for all the candidates at that machine. To see how easy it
is to rig these Diebold machines, see this experiment done by Princeton
University a short while ago. There is also a FOX news spot on Fox &
Friends which has the Princeton people on as guests --- where they re-do
the experiement exposing the Diebold computer crookery.

IF you seach "Princeton Diebold" on YouTube - then the first two entries
which come up are: "FOX News exposes Princeton / Diebold Vote Reversal
Story", which is 3:08; and "Princeton Scientists Hack Diebold" - which
is 9:28, and the more comprehensive of the two videos.

Back to the action: THEN, when the ticker tape is printed out by the
machine - the Iowa Straw Poll officials will run officiously to a
counting room (as if the main danger is some participant stealing the
ticker tape out of their hand!). Then, in the "counting room" a
representative for each campaign will be allowed to watch somebody add
up the numbers on the ticker tapes.

Problem is, the sleight of hand has already been pulled, as we are
taking on "blind faith" that the ticker tape is reporting the real vote.
Of COURSE, it will not be reporting the real vote. It will be reporting
the phony vote that ensure Romney will "win." Otherwise, the Iowa GOP
would simply have the 300 or so ballots at each station counted in the
open, before representatives of each campaign - by two randomly selected
volunteers at each station. This would be the honest and open way to do
it, and this is what the Iowa GOP state headquarters - is DETERMINED to
prevent.

So, while we welcome some communication from headquarters on this, here
is what a fast-growing group of volunteers is already preparing to do:

a) conduct a parallel election, where Ron Paul supporters - and
everybody else - will be asked to show their ticket before they vote in
the straw poll, write their candidate on an unofficial ballot, and sign
their name and Iowa Address. A group of volunteers will collect these
ballots all day, and will count them at the end - this way we will know
at least a minimum of votes that Ron Paul should get in the Straw Poll -
if the Iowa GOP persists in using the easily-rigged Diebold computers.
(Diebold computers were MADE to rig elections. Period.)

b) Have hundreds of signs present which say something like this: Make
Sure Your Vote Counts - (and then in smaller letters) - double check the
easily rigged Diebold computers the IOWA GOP is using inside for the
vote. (If you are willing to carry around a fold up paper sign -- off
and on all day, such signs will be available on the grounds that day.)

c) Have at least 60 video cameras available interviewing participants
who are willing to go on camera and say who they are voting for and why.
Hopefully all the Ron Paul voters will be willing to go on video camera.
This will make a great YouTube.

d) other activities, not to be announced in advance.

This entire effort will have a chance at forcing the Iowa GOP to admit
Ron Paul's real vote.

8. The proposed Ron Paul press conference: A group of us are proposing
that Congressman Ron Paul hold a press conference on the grounds at Ames
- early in the day. At the press conference, we are proposing that Ron
Paul address the need for an open and honest count of the vote at all
the contests in 2007 and 2008. We are proposing that hundreds and
thousands of his supporters come and stand behind him at this Press
conference. This will make a glorious YouTube Video - a glorious video
for any website that wants to carry it - and all this might even force
the Big Media to cover this press conference. (They're going to look
mighty darn silly if they don't.)

Vital information about the dangers of the Ames Straw Poll have been
placed in the hands of a number of campaign officials. We know that the
Ron Paul campaign officials are buried in details - but this is not an
issue that can be ignored. If HQ does not take the initiative and
respond to this request, then hundreds of us will be forced to besiege
Congressman Paul as he arrives at Ames, Iowa, and ask him to do an
impromptu press conference on the spot.

9. Radio ads on the Big Radio Stations around Des Moines and Ames: A few
days ago, I issued the only strategy available now to break through the
Big Media strategy to keep Ron Paul from the people. As you all know,
there is a studied and well enforced rule that Sean Hannity, Rush
Limbaugh, Tim Russert, etc. - all those on the 5 Big TV Networks and
Clear Channel radio - are not allowed to treat Ron Paul as a serious
candidate, or even mention him as a serious candidate (they usually
don't mention him).

Let's understand: This Big Censorship Policy against Ron Paul enforced
at all these stations - is one of the two big tactics being used by the
Ruling Elite against us. The other is, of course, computer votefraud.

I will state unequivocally that if Ron Paul were given equal and fair
(dare I saw "and balanced"?) coverage by the Big TV and Radio stations -
and as afforded an honest count - he would be the Republican nominee.
Most people haven't thought about what an act of utter treachery (I
would say treason) it is for the anti-Americans running the 5 Big TV
Networks in New York City to promote endlessly three or four candidates
- and ignore all the others. This amounts to illegal corporate donations
to Romney, McCain, Ghouliani, and Fred Thompson. Then, after giving only
a few candidates publicity, these lying networks take polls and ask
people who they've heard of. Incredible.

At the link immediately below, I explained why the Campaign had to take
$300,000 now and bust up this censorship by putting Ron Paul ads on Sean
Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and other big talk show hosts on big Talk Radio
stations in all the major cities in the nation.

These ads must bluntly tell the people what is happening with this
censorship, and direct the listener to www.ronpaul2008.com . There is a
proposed radio ad at the below link also. Based on present experience,
such a campaign would bring back well over $300,000 to the campaign
through internet donations - and it would force Ron Paul into the minds
of tens of millions of conservatives and concerned citizens. And boy are
a lot of Rush and Hannity listeners going to be mad at them when they
find out what they've been hiding from them.

http://www.votefraud.org/ron_paul_needs_to_advertise_now.htm

The Campaign cannot wait longer to challenge the Big Media suppression
of Ron Paul. With time, the lopsided publicity of Romney, etc. - and the
suppression of Ron Paul - will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it
did against Pat Buchanan in 2000.

Right now, the traitors running the 5 Big TV Networks are administering
an IV with euthanasia medicine (censorship and suppression) into the Ron
Paul Campaign. The Campaign must take this head on and explain to the
American people what ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX and Clear Channel are doing
to warp this Presidential Election. The ENTIRE future of the country and
world are at stake here. Do you all grasp that 30 or so New York City
slicksters, who run the 5 Big TV Networks together, and who run News
Election Pool, which coordinate the computer votefraud, are nullifying
the efforts of millions of American activists - because most of the
country still THINKS we have a reasonably fair news media - and because
most of the country THINKS that we have honest vote counts at elections.

10. A Congressional Candidate NOW in Iowa: we still desperately need a
Congressional candidate in Iowa. Anyone over 25 years old can collect 50
valid signatures of registered voters and pay a fee of about $100 and be
on the ballot for congress the Iowa primary next year. At that point,
the big FCC licensed radio stations, like WHO, must run the candidate's
ad verbatim, without alteration or censorship - and they must run the
ads during the programs as specified.

Here is the basic idea of the type of radio ad that must be run between
August 3 and August 11 before the Ames Straw poll:

"On August 11 at Iowa State University in Ames - the Iowa Straw Poll
takes place. The national media is not telling you about the most
interesting candidate, Congressman Ron Paul. Ron Paul voted against the
Iraq war, wants to shut down the IRS, and has never voted for a tax
increase in Congress. The Iowa GOP is AGAIN using the easily riggable
Diebold computers to quote "count the vote" upquote - And many thousands
of Ron Paul supporters think that the Iowa GOP are using these
discredited Diebold machines so that they can steal some of Ron Paul's
vote. Votefraud is what happened to Pat Buchanan in the Iowa Caucus of
1996 - google for the article: A House Without Doors" - and be sure to
go to ronpaul2008.com, that's ronpaul2008.com - and be there at the Ames
Straw Poll to vote AND to help us get a fair count. Paid for by XXX
XXXXX for Congress. That's ronpaul2008.com -- end of rough draft radio
ad.

NOW - what has been presented above is a comprehensive strategy for
victory in Ames - and to begin to alert the rest of the country to the
criminal votefraud syndicate that is stealing America at each election
since at least the 1988 election.

All parts of it need to be done for success.

End of this Network America ewire.


Jim Condit Jr.,
Director, Network America Ewire List
Director, Citizens for a Fair Vote Count
Mailing Address: PO Box 11339, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211

maiki
07-19-2007, 03:08 PM
I've adopted an iowan. I pledge to adopt another iowan if they add some sort of update system (doesn't have to be live, but at least daily) to see how much money they have received. I'd adopt more, but I'm a very poor student. :(

david.griffus
07-19-2007, 03:10 PM
Wow. That's quite the mouthful. Not all of us believe that the ballot counting is rigged, though.

DeadheadForPaul
07-19-2007, 03:11 PM
Bumparoo

sleeper
07-19-2007, 03:28 PM
ADOPT AN IOWAN

Do you have pictures? I would like a busty brunette 5'4 to 5'7 100 to 125lbs. Around the age of 28 to 33 to adopt. Will take very good care of her.:D

FreedomLover
07-19-2007, 03:28 PM
What's the assurance that the people being adopted will vote for RP? There needs to be some inclination about how much they support him.

Also, with many RP supporters heading to Ames, is it possible to convert many voters who have been paid by the other campaigns and buttered up with free meals to vote for RP instead? Or is that against the rules somehow? I mean, this whole event is basically buying votes so I don't see why we cant go after the people who already have tickets, a weak-allegiance to the candidate they've been prompted to vote for, and save the campaign some money.

jonahtrainer
07-19-2007, 03:29 PM
Wow. That's quite the mouthful. Not all of us believe that the ballot counting is rigged, though.

You may want to check out Hacking Democracy (http://youtube.com/watch?v=lxGSXYUkplA) part 3 of 9 at 4:01.

In 2003 Diebold's CEO wrote "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year."

Ironically, that is exactly what happened. Coincidence?

Man from La Mancha
07-19-2007, 03:50 PM
Wow. That's quite the mouthful. Not all of us believe that the ballot counting is rigged, though.

Just wait and observe, maybe not on a straw poll or even primaries but when it counts to lull people into a false sense of security but when it matters you will see and it be too late. If you will study the last 10 years, vote fraud is there. What does it hurt to use a very cheap paper ballot.

I challenge you to try to witness any voting process. In fact I will personally pay $200 you if you can take a video camera into any puplic machine election vote count and tape it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-732315032094935580&q=vote+fraud+video&total=506&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3240313687140816520&q=vote+fraud+video&total=506&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1917681459214167245&q=vote+fraud+video&total=506&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

Just type vote fraud in youtube or google and wake up

Avalon
07-19-2007, 04:54 PM
First of all a "parallel election" (sic) is only useful if you can demonstrate its legitimacy and get a very significant number of people to participate. Having people write their address and sign their name to their vote will ruin both. Instead what you need to do is provide an anonymous poll to people who have already voted (ie, have a blue left thumb) and then stain their right thumb also with indelible ink after they vote in your poll.

Second, we shouldn't be forcing issues onto the campaign, either by pushing vote fraud and ron paul in the same breath or by strong arming him to do a press release. Let's make this happen as individuals outside of the campaign. It'll come off as more credible if it isn't about a single candidate anyway...which is why I advocate bringing in black box voting or another well known group.


Here's my full plan, for those who haven't read it before:

1. If you do an exit poll, first you have to make sure you do it at the event, which will require you renting a well placed table at the straw poll and possibly asking permission (make sure to read the contract and any rules/regulations they have thoroughly).
2. Make sure to make it anonymous like the real poll.
3. Make sure it is run/endorsed by an independent third party like black box voting.
4. Make sure everything is recorded (the ballot boxes empty, the voting booths stocked with a single ballot each time someone votes), every person that votes (counted to make sure it matches the vote total at the end; faces blurred out for people who you did not get permission from).
5. Make sure no one can vote again and, if possible, that the person has already "officially" voted. This can be done the same way as in the official poll, indelible ink on the other thumb. Record this.
6. Make sure to get a majority to participate (your case's credibility will be exponentially related to how many participate). In order to do this, you will need to get public exposure before the event, especially exposure in trusted sources like local papers, radio, and TV. You will also need at least a dozen supporters to channel people to the exit voting booths and convince them to do it and more to run the process, secure the voting area, record the entire process.

1,3, and 6 need to be worked on immediately. If enough of you guys are interested and motivated to help (who can be there in Iowa), I'll put my weight behind this.


Lastly, where are these "fast-growing group of volunteers"? I've gotten no real feedback on my plan other than support from Oregon4RP and seemingly no interest in implementing it. We're three weeks away folks.

Lord Xar
07-19-2007, 06:21 PM
I like this idea.... BUT, has anybody contacted ALL the meetup groups for this???

AND who is the point person for this, AND can we audit the payments on a regular basis???

If you want adopt an iowan to work, you need to promote it.... Disseminate it.. I would pint ALL of the meetups, and reference your site AND this site for verification etc... or whatever, or perhaps EVEN your phone number.

You can't hope to wait before just people happen to come across this on their own..

This is what I would do...

1. CONTACT ALL THE MEETUPS
2. CONTACT all releveant Ron Paul websites, blogs etc...

This IS important.. but you gotta put the foot work in..

Plus, I think its important you make available the 'figures'.

thanks

ChicagoLawyer
07-19-2007, 09:01 PM
Adopt an Iowan and Operation Spooner, nor any other independent operation cannot coordinate with the official Ron Paul Campaign, nor any of its staffers. If they did the expenditures and contributions of those groups would be considered part of the Campaign's and the Campaign would expose itself to the wrath of the FEC and heavy fines and criminal penalties.

This isn't some excuse dreamed up by HQ so they won't have to deal with us. This is the law, unconstitutional as we believe it is. The Campaign can't get within a ten foot pole of the Adopt and Iowan money. Let's just pursue these things independently--within the bounds of the law ourselves--and let the Campaign do what it's gotta do.

Jeremie in Minnesota
07-19-2007, 09:25 PM
I like this idea.... BUT, has anybody contacted ALL the meetup groups for this???

AND who is the point person for this, AND can we audit the payments on a regular basis???

If you want adopt an iowan to work, you need to promote it.... Disseminate it.. I would pint ALL of the meetups, and reference your site AND this site for verification etc... or whatever, or perhaps EVEN your phone number.

You can't hope to wait before just people happen to come across this on their own..

This is what I would do...

1. CONTACT ALL THE MEETUPS
2. CONTACT all releveant Ron Paul websites, blogs etc...

This IS important.. but you gotta put the foot work in..

Plus, I think its important you make available the 'figures'.

thanks

Yeah, we are working on all of this. We need to provide updates on the numbers, and we are going to for either a 527 or PAC in light of already raising $4000.

We have also established the Ron Paul - National Meetup Organizer group (#511) where we are trying to capture EVERY Organizer as a member. It is taking a lot of effort, but we're working on it.

LibertyEagle
07-19-2007, 09:56 PM
Adopt an Iowan and Operation Spooner, nor any other independent operation cannot coordinate with the official Ron Paul Campaign, nor any of its staffers. If they did the expenditures and contributions of those groups would be considered part of the Campaign's and the Campaign would expose itself to the wrath of the FEC and heavy fines and criminal penalties.

This isn't some excuse dreamed up by HQ so they won't have to deal with us. This is the law, unconstitutional as we believe it is. The Campaign can't get within a ten foot pole of the Adopt and Iowan money. Let's just pursue these things independently--within the bounds of the law ourselves--and let the Campaign do what it's gotta do.


This message should be STICKIED for future reference.

FreedomLover
07-19-2007, 10:05 PM
This message should be STICKIED for future reference.

YES. There are a lot of people who need to read that.

Bradley in DC
07-19-2007, 10:10 PM
I've adopted an iowan.

Watching Sally Struthers on late night TV again? :D

inibo
07-19-2007, 10:17 PM
This message should be STICKIED for future reference.


Yes, sticky it.