What Did You Do For Ron Paul This Week?

[jblosser]

Let's try a little experiment here in peer pressure and friendly oneupmanship.



The Rules:

- Make a reply below listing the things you did for Ron Paul in the last week, other than going to meetups* or posting on Ron Paul-related forums.

- No other posts please; don't comment on people's contributions, just list your own.

(*If your meetup did something this week more than getting together and talking, and you helped, by all means tell us about that.)

If this goes well we can make a new thread each week or even each day.

[Electrostatic]

I volunteered to become the lit cooridnator for Seattle/King county meetups.. Now I'm have an ungodly amount of stress... Oh well.... :o

We need Seatlle oriented "Slim Jim" palm cards yesterday.... I found a place in Portland that will do 5000 for $288, but now I need to get proofs of 2 styles before our meetup in Sunday. We have another 5000 of the "Officials" and 500 bumper stickers coming from HQ, but they are up to a 2 week lead time...

Anyone know any Professional looking, ready to print, West Coast oriented material PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

I also stood on to of an overpass for a while yesterday with a sign. That was much easier. Oh, and I converted another couple people at the local Denny's....

[Syren123]

A couple of us from our meetup group did a table at the South Pasadena Farmers Market yesterday.

Left Ron Paul business cards at my doctors office (stealth), the post office, at a couple of ATMs.

Ordered yard signs from a guy on eBay.

[surf]

i became a republican precinct committee officer

[Syren123]

Electrostatic - there's a list here on this forum under Take Action I think for the best prices on printing, etc. on the internet. Our materials guy uses taradel.com exclusively for our printing - hands down the cheapest prices anywhere. We're in CA and he gets our printing in a week.

[Roxi]

well.... I organized a group of around 20 people to hold up signs for Ron Paul on busy street corners (twice)

I ordered 5,000 slim jims (which I got today, and they are quite overwhelming)

I have talked to and given flyers to aprox 200 people (i work at sonic, and give them to customers)


OH yeah, ive also worked about 12 hours making calls to iowa

[PatriotOne]

Answered six telemarker calls and sold THEM on RP :D

Talked to neighbors on either side of me about RP.

Told my sister RP wanted to legalize pot (done deal :D ) and made her promise to register Repub for the primary. I wish they were all so easy ;)

Ordered 100 names for mailings for the Mail Iowa program.

Working on ex-in-laws (Dems)

[Oddball]

I sent him $100.00.

[jblosser]

Over the weekend I went with our area meetups to the FW gun show where we carried signs, handed out slim jims, and talked to people.

During the week I worked to secure a location for the upcoming rally/fundraiser at the TX straw poll, set up the initial basic site for Ron Paul San Antonio, started up the FW meetup and planned the first meeting, called around the local GOP structure to find sympathetic parties, arranged to get people from our meetups at the Liberty 21 conference the end of this week, and generally tried to get the DFW groups better organized to get things done.

[BIG_J]

sent him 50$ and then 20$ to the spam campaign for SC

[andrewgreve]

Yesterday and today I stood on a busy street corner by myself for a total of about 6 hours with my "Ron Paul 2008" sign and shirt. I got a really good response from a lot of people. Some people are clueless though. How bout you other guys out there on the streets?

I also printed off over 1,000 ron paul issues flyers.

[quickmike]

This week, not much because I've been working all week and now I have the flu:mad: so Ive been in bed trolling the forums with my laptop all day. For the last month and 1/2 I go out on the weekends and go door to door with the tri fold flyers, giving out 50 -100 on a weekend. I dont think I'll be up to it this weekend though.

[Spirit of '76]

Published the preliminary site at http://www.ronpaul.name (under serious construction)

Started two new meetup groups in WV and scheduled the first meetup

Made the lessons in two college classes I teach revolve around the concept of "Bureaucracy", then made sure to drop Ron Paul's name a couple of times, with illustrating points about the IRS, etc. ;)

And some other stuff I forget...

[nullvalu]

I handed out flyers at a local Gun Show.

I posted flyers on the bulliten boards at 2 local grocery stores.

Just about an hour ago, in a Barnes & Noble parking lot, I was sharing my disdain for all this Harry Potter madness with another patron and gave her a flyer, telling her about Ron Paul.

also sold my brother & sister on Ron Paul.. the parents are next..

[LibertyEagle]

well.... I organized a group of around 20 people to hold up signs for Ron Paul on busy street corners (twice)

I ordered 5,000 slim jims (which I got today, and they are quite overwhelming)

I have talked to and given flyers to aprox 200 people (i work at sonic, and give them to customers)


OH yeah, ive also worked about 12 hours making calls to iowa

WOW! :eek: Way to go!

[hells_unicorn]

1. I placed 100 Ron Paul issue fliers on cars at parking lots near Walmart and Giant.

2. Talked to a dozen people about Ron Paul, many of them at the parking lots in question.

3. Recruited a parent of one of my guitar students who will also pass out fliers at the local flea market, which I and my fellow Quakertown Meet-up co-founder plan to do as well.

4. I got several requests from people I know for Ron Paul t-shirts and pins.

5. I arranged a dinner with the family of one of my co-workers at one of the stores, I may be able to win over his entire family.

6. I'm continuing to build the Quakertown Meet-up, which already has grown to 12 members.

7. I donated $100 to Ron Paul's campaign, I've given $700 so far including that.

[FSP-Rebel]

i'll have worked over 40 hours directly for Paul and will have given the max by the end of Sept.

[buffalokid777]

Handed out trifolds and slimjims along with the info on Q2 military donations.

Much better response than usual this week, only 1 person who wouldn't look at the flyers because Ron Paul is a republican, a younger person (probably early twenties) his only response was "I don't care who he is if he's a republican, I'm voting for Hillary!". But overall much more positive response than usual, especially favorable response to Q2 Military donations, so a pretty good week :)

[sleeper]

I went to 5 porn sites so far and got banned by one so far.. :D :D Who the hell or what is darwin? Unless someone hacked my letter.. Banned from a porn site. Now that is funny as hell..


vBulletin Message

You have been banned for the following reason:
Vote Darwin for President!

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

[hells_unicorn]

Handed out trifolds and slimjims along with the info on Q2 military donations.

Much better response than usual this week, only 1 person who wouldn't look at the flyers because Ron Paul is a republican, a younger person (probably early twenties) his only response was "I don't care who he is if he's a republican, I'm voting for Hillary!". But overall much more positive response than usual, especially favorable response to Q2 Military donations, so a pretty good week :)

I had one person who was coming to their car and I offered a flier, she asked "Is it political?", to which I replied "Yes", which was followed by a "No, I hate politicians". Now I obviously sympathized with her view, but she could have at least heard me out, oh well.

In regards to your particular case, the younger they are, the more passionate they tend to be once their mind is made up. Older supporters of democrats are a bit more cynical, thus they will at least hear you out before getting all negative, and in some cases might be won over with the right approach.

[inibo]

I know you said no meetup stuff, but I just got back from the a meetup in DC where my second $100.00 (my first was the day Dr. Paul announced his exploratory committee) went toward the total of over $2000.00 that was collected.

We are starting to realize we have outgrown the Internet. It's time to take the real world as well.

I also "spammed" my coworkers and my family with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8
which in my opinion is they best video yet for the non-hardcore non-initiate.

I also got a big pile of fliers an bumper stickers to spread around.

[Sematary]

I put out dozens of flyers in my local area. I know - doesn't sound like much, but it takes time to make those tri-folds. I also talk him up at every opportunity. I got my Iowa phone call list today and those calls will be made next week.

[jblosser]

I know you said no meetup stuff, but I just got back from the a meetup in DC where my second $100.00 (my first was the day Dr. Paul announced his exploratory committee) went toward the total of over $2000.00 that was collected.

Yeah, I should modify that... don't just post "I went to <x> meetup", but if the meetup did something more than talking about the campaign and you participated, by all means tell us.

[BLS]

I made my first campaign donation of $50
I donated $20 to the "SPAM Spartanburg" Project
I recruited 2 friends this week by MSN'ing them "Stop Dreaming".
One even called me at midnight and asked "is this guy for real?" :D
The other I saw Tuesday evening and he was like "man that guy is the real deal".

I have some friends coming over for a BBQ today and will slowly seep RP into their heads throughout the evening, once something political is brought up.

[markpa]

Put up three (yes only 3) official flyers at my college for the summer classes people.

Sent away for 50 addresses for the mail Iowa campaign.

Made a myspace page for our local meet-up:

http://www.myspace.com/yorkmeetup

[Lady Liberty]

Worked on an image for supporting Ron Paul.
Sent that to friends/family with a few tidbits about Ron.
Joined facebook and supported Ron Paul's profile.
Voted in polls and signed petitions



Quite humbled to read what ya'll have been doing, I'll try my best to keep up. :o

[qedtanya]

I have made numerous phone calls to try to organize the Silent/Live Auction for the Rally in San Antonio next Saturday (I still need donations of anyone has anything good, email me!), talked to 10 people about Dr. Paul, convinced my friend and colleague who was waffling to come to the Rally just to listen and see if it made any difference to her thinking, agreed to donate $100 (get paid on Friday), bought my tickets for the Rally, discussed "Freedome to Facism" with our neighbor who is gay and doesn't like Dr. Paul's stance on gay marriage - up until viewing that video she was going to vote for Obama- , and spent hours trying to convince my dad to vote in the primaries.

[jblosser]

bump

[AZ Libertarian]

OH MAN. I've been busy.
6 hours last weekend working on signs/banners for South Carolina.
15 hours Mon and Tue folding flyers, inserting double-sided half-page flyers (pro-2nd amendment report card from GOA on one side & pro-life stance on the other)into them, putting labels on DVD's, inserting RINO card paks with small RPREVOLUTION stickers and a small half-fold $20 bill (when you open it up and find out it isn't a twenty inside it says "Disappointed? Not if you put Ron Paul in the White House!!!" :p) into the DVD sleeve, inserting two bumper stickers into ANOTHER flyer and then inserting all that into a small lunch bag stamped RON PAUL REVOLUTION - and we did 2000 out of the 10,000 we are in the process of doing - to send along with 109 signs and banners, cases of t-shirts, stencils to make more signs and banners, and more stuff I am prolly forgetting about to South Carolina for the Greenville Rally.
Wed I cut a stencil for a new sign design that one of our members created and painted on coroplast, and that took me a couple of hours because of all the small letters.
I can't put in print what I did Thursday, but it involved 280 pushcards.....:D
Friday I got with the state coordinator for a minimeeting, and to get 2500 more pushcards and a stack of bumper stickers to hand out at Ozfest next Tuesday, and Rush next Friday. 8:00pm Friday night, I get a call from one of the state coordinator's assistants saying sorry for the late notice, but there is a Home Schooling Convention being held at the Convention Center downtown tomorrow, and could I rustle up some help in passing out pushcards & info?
I was there from 8:00am until about 1:30pm, and 6 of us (on & off) handed out about 1500 cards and 500 copies of Ron's stance on Homeschooling. We probably could have stayed a little longer, but this is Arizona, and by 1:30 the sun had come over the building and started roasting us, so it was time to go home. We made lots of friends there, and only 3 people said that they knew about Ron that would NOT vote for him; contrast that with a couple of dozen that knew him and were GLAD we were doing what we were doing.

Oh yeah, and I spend about 6 hours a day on the computer between meetup organization, research, ranting on this forum, and pulling my hair out or being happy, depending on what the 'media' is doing to Ron on any given day.

(The longer I sit here and cool off - the more I remember) I also had a great stroke of luck this week. I had contacted an influential radio talk show host (I won't name him here because its still a surprise for the group - I'll tell them Wednesday) and asked him to come and speak to our Meetup Group. He supported Badnarik on the air last election cycle, and he's been talking up Ron a LOT lately. He responded back saying that he was glad to know about us (7th largest Meetup in the U.S.) and that he would be out of town next week and couldn't make this meeting, but that he would be happy to say now, in advance, he would be happy to come speak if I were to invite him in the future. SCORE!!!!!

Do all you can - the time is NOW - let nothing block your path.

LET'S TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!

[Bradley in DC]

I too went to the greater DC Meetup where we raised over $2000. We worked on our voter list strategy (I go the list of DC registered Republicans from the Board of Elections last week). Two of us gave out 400 flyers on a street corner in Dupont at the top of the metro (subway) stop today. I was wearing a Ron Paul shirt for the rest of the day in a park wtih the dogs which got more attention. I hatched a plan to take over the RNC (PM me for details), been working with some others on the delegate selection process, etc. I was going to help the office move on Friday or Saturday, but by the time I was free on Friday afternoon, they were already finished!

[Lark]

Following the lead of one of our Meet Up members, Lori, I sent an email message to Carl Leubsdorf, the Washington Bureau Chief of the Dallas Morning News, who'd failed to even mention Dr. Paul in an article he wrote called, Who Has the Best Plan?, about the Republican primary campaign strategy, etc.

http://ronpaul.meetup.com/65/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3297697 (http://ronpaul.meeetup.com/65/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3297697)

I also posted a new article on the blog, Subversive Music to My Ears.

http://DallasForRonPaul.org (http://DallasForRonPaul.org)

Finally, I made public my pledge of $5K from my barter account to get the Dallas groups thinking of ways to use it effectively.

[ghemminger]

Great IDEA....

1. Donated about 300 bucks

2. signed up with 4 meetups

3. Making 100 calls to Iowa

4. Signed up for 100 mailers to IOWA

5. Organizing Daily Ralies for Riverside Meetup, M-F 6:00-7:00pm Tyler MAll, front of Target (4-8 volunteers)

(Kirk) Passing out slimJims talking to 30-50 voters, per day

Recruited 3 new memebers to Meetup

6. organizing caravan to straw poll.

7. email marketing all contacts with updates about Ron Paul

8. Registered with local GOP, pursuing info about being a delegate

[ghemminger]

I was talking to a older friend about RPs internet support, and you know what he said......

Thos people aren't regtistered...and they sure as hell won't vote......

[LeFou]

Pledged $50 for a booth at TX straw poll. Painted 4 (4X8) signs with another meetup member this afternoon. Got started on my Iowa numbers

[B964]

Went to 4 day long local music festival.
Got two more to switch to republican for primary(I fill out the cards with them and mailed them myself).
Handed out issues statements.
Converted serveral and rasied serious interest with alot.
Fended offf a few socialist gang ups(for some reason I did not expect that)
Handed out a few Ron Paul t-shirts I made(easy and cheap iron on letters from craft store)
Had a great time enjoying life.

[Thomas_Paine]

Spoke with almost everyone I came into contact with about RP, gave them campaign materials.

Attended a local GOP function and gave everyone Paul packets.

Organized and executed a "Who is Ron Paul" Presentation for our community in local library.

Got my list of 100 Iowan addresses.

[Akus]

Spoke with almost everyone I came into contact with about RP, gave them campaign materials.

That and called 50 Iowans today. Damn they have a lot of dead names there.

[DjLoTi]

When I called my bank girl today I told her about Ron

[austin356]

Made two 9'x4' banner stencils; One said "Ron Paul Revolution" and one said "Ron Paul - President 2008".

Made 10 banners and plan dozen upon dozens more next time (hard part is over). Saturday will be the day that our host's garage is geared up Henry Ford style.

[inibo]

:)

I went camping with some friends. Two are already sympathizers. They are a couple. She has already decided to register Republican to vote in the Pennsylvania primary; he likes what he's seen and heard, but hadn't yet really drunk the Kool-Aid. There was another couple who had heard the name but otherwise didn't know much about him. One other fellow had never heard of him at all, but, he said he was already registered as a Republican. He and I had a long discussion, perhaps three hours, covering foreign policy, the rule of law, the history of state power, and on and on and on. At one point he asked about Ron Paul's policy toward the U.N.

"He would get us out," I said.

"Give me a bumper sticker," he said.

Something that amazed me was my passion--I've never been so on fire, except, perhaps, when I was an active evangelical Christian. I thought for a moment that I was going off on a fanatical tirade. I sort of stopped myself short and began to apologize, but two of my friends just smiled and told me to bring it on. It was invigorating!

All told, three cars left today with Ron Paul 2008 bumper stickers.

Viva la R3V0_|ution!

[austin356]

This is part of my results:

T-town Apartment

http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/austinw356/?action=view&current=DSCF0247.jpg

http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f380/austinw356/?action=view&current=DSCF0246.jpg

[georgia_tech_swagger]

I help put up and strategically locate over 200 massive banners.

I distributed 1000's of goody bags containing DVDs, bumper stickers, flyers, etc.
I distributed 1000's of trifold flyers.
I distributed 1000's of "Ron Paul 20 dollar bills".

I showed support at Ron's impromptu meeting at the Beacon.
I showed support at Ron's Spartanburg luncheon.
I showed support at Ron's Greenville rally.

I called the local CBS news affiliate to make sure they covered Ron.
I called the local FOX news affiliate to make sure they covered Ron.
I called the Spartanburg Herald Journal and thanked them for their good and fair coverage.

Big thanks to Ernie H. for goody bags and 20's.
Big thanks to Hal G. for trifolds.
Big thanks to Josh C. for banners.

[inibo]

I recruited 2 friends this week by MSN'ing them "Stop Dreaming".
One even called me at midnight and asked "is this guy for real?" :D
The other I saw Tuesday evening and he was like "man that guy is the real deal".


I have been sending that to folks willy-nilly, it is a wonderful general introduction to Dr. Paul. I watch it at least one a day just because it inspires me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8
In fact, I'm watching it right now.