Free At Last Moneybomb Promotion Team

[Jeremy]

well that's it folks =)
let's continue donating on a regular basis


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forget this whole thread now: just tell everyone it's today!!!!

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OK, this will be the actual thread used for the team I am starting. I will ask to get it stickied. The reason I am starting this is because I don't think it's being promoted enough, so I am taking matters into my own hands and asking everyone here to join me.

I will edit this post with a lot of information, but I'll keep it simple to start.

Please post here if you want to sign up and I'll put your name on the list(s)

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Internet Team(s) - join more than one

General - Promote it throughout the internet to anyone you know on MySpace, Facebook, Meetup, etc. Also post at different message boards
stormcommander

MySpace - Make sure as many people as possible who are on Ron Paul's MySpace friends list gets a message.
stormcommander
hillertexas
Kacela

Facebook - Make sure as many people as possible who are on Ron Paul's Facebook supporter list gets a message

Meetup - Contact as many meetup people as possible and make sure the event is well known

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Promotion Offline
Encourage people you know offline as well to donate on the 21st (will add more later)

(this post will have more added to it later)

[Jeremy]

I'm not sure if this will work, but if someone is interested in being a leader of one of the sub-teams, say so here as well

[Bilgefisher]

I'm trying to promote it on youtube videos.

[Jeremy]

Sign up for the general one then I guess

[hillertexas]

Add me to the MySpace team

[Jeremy]

there

[fmontez]

I sense there could be serious blowback from the MLK day money bomb… I hope Ron Paul addresses the Newsletters scandal prior to the event… it just seems... Hypocritical to do this fundraiser until Dr. Paul reveals the names of the bigoted ghostwriters.

It’s a double edged sword, the better Dr. Paul does, the more the Media will report about the Newsletters.

[Jeremy]

That's not true. He has already addressed it and it's not going to come back up. You must be a little late... the whole story is over. The president of the NAACP backed us up today as well. Besides, this event will show people that he's not racist... how would it do the opposite? o.0

[hillertexas]

We need a template for the messages in MySpace.
There are 114724 MySpace friend of Ron Paul

[fmontez]

That's not true. He has already addressed it and it's not going to come back up. You must be a little late... the whole story is over. The president of the NAACP backed us up today as well. Besides, this event will show people that he's not racist... how would it do the opposite? o.0

I am sorry, but the scandal has not gone away, and the NAACP and Ron Pauls statement is not sufficient... it needs to be addressed, and saying that the scandal is gone isn't going to make it go away. We know and believe in Ron Paul so the scandal seems silly to us, but to the average voters needs more.

[Jeremy]

Please stop talking about that in this thread. It's not going to be a problem.

[fmontez]

Please stop talking about that in this thread. It's not going to be a problem.

Ok, stick your head in the sand… good luck.

[RonPaulwillWin]

fmontez you seriously need to GTFO

[hillertexas]

Suggestions please!

Template so far:
Subject: Now is the time to rise....

On January 21st, 2008..

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh116/ronpaulequalshope/goldquote2.jpg?t=1200355666

Please join us this January 21st as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by acting together to support Dr. Ron Paul, a new hero who fights for the same American principles of liberty and justice for all.


Martin Luther King Jr. was an American hero who dedicated his life to fighting for liberty and justice for all Americans. In 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, he saluted our spirits with the immortal words, "I have a dream..." Today the dream of liberty and justice for all is slipping through our fingers. Our government no longer speaks for the people. It is waging an immoral, unconstitutional war abroad, while stripping us of our basic civil liberties at home. Now another American hero has taken the stage to fight for our freedom. Dr. Ron Paul, like Dr. King, opposes the immoral wars that we have fought abroad, and he believes in the principles on which our beloved Republic was founded.

On January 21st, when we honor Dr. King and his message of peace and freedom, please support Dr. Ron Paul, who carries the same message, with a pledge of $10 or more. Do not let history record that those of us who had the most to lose, did the least to prevent its happening.

Please pledge to donate on January 21, 2008 at www.freeatlast2008.com.

Let your voice be heard.

Please pass this along to your friends and family.

http://www.freeatlast2008.com/images/banner468x60.jpg

[Jeremy]

is linking to YT videos too much?

oh and also, maybe we should, at the bottom, ask them to encourage their friends to participate as well

[Bittle]

Why does Ron Paul support MLK so much? King was an admitted Marxist and was against most of the freedoms we're fighting for right now in America via Dr. Paul. If this money bomb is just to make Paul seem "anti-racist", then I think it's pretty ridiculous.

[Jeremy]

King was for liberty and against America trying to police the world

[hillertexas]

from bnyles:
"Well the easiest way would be to ask the owners of http://www.myspace.com/ronpaul2008 and http://www.myspace.com/congressmanronpaul to post a bulletin.

Harvesting MySpace friend id-s would be doable but sending messages is something completely different. Why? Because MySpace has installed a CAPTCHA test -- it means that in order to send a message You have to recognize an image and type in the numbers and charaters You see. That is a very difficult thing to do with a computer program. So real human beings have to send the messages.

Right now Ron Paul 2008 profile has over 100000 friends. If everybody sent 100 predefined messages then we need a thousand volunteers to get the word out. Of course that would require a central master contact list. I do not know if people would bother to update it.. so I guess the only way would be to distribute 100 friend chunks of it. But then again, bad boys might grab it and we will never now that say 50000 people have not received the message.

The only real solution I see is a creation of a proxy website for sending messages to MySpace. It would go something like this:

1) a user logs into this proxy website using his or her MySpace account (username and password are not saved, only used for authentication to MySpace)

2) theres a button "send message" -- when clicked, the user grabs an entry from the master friend list, sees the CAPTCHA from MySpace, solves it and sends the message away. So sending a message to a friend of Ron Paul would require less than 10 seconds.

Everyone could do it, provided that. And the real benefit is that the sender doesn't have to surf the profile of Ron Paul and synchronize with other grassroots activists about who has been notified of the upcoming money bomb."

[Jeremy]

OK, can you try to contact them?

Although, if they work for the official campaign, they won't be able to do it. I bet the second one you posted doesn't work for RP though

[hillertexas]

bump

[James T]

SC needs canvassers!!!!

[Kacela]

Add me to the MySpace team, and fast - we don't have much time; I still have the software I used to spread the message for November 5th, and December 16th - I can do 1,000 MySpace Ids per day with my 20 MySpace accounts - We're going to need alot more than 3 people with 115,000 IDs to send messages to...

[hillertexas]

Add me to the MySpace team, and fast - we don't have much time; I still have the software I used to spread the message for November 5th, and December 16th - I can do 1,000 MySpace Ids per day with my 20 MySpace accounts - We're going to need alot more than 3 people with 115,000 IDs to send messages to...

YES PLEASE!

[hillertexas]

Add me to the MySpace team, and fast - we don't have much time; I still have the software I used to spread the message for November 5th, and December 16th - I can do 1,000 MySpace Ids per day with my 20 MySpace accounts - We're going to need alot more than 3 people with 115,000 IDs to send messages to...

Here is a template for MySpace:


On January 21, 2008...

<a href="http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh116/ronpaulequalshope/?action=view&current=goldquote2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh116/ronpaulequalshope/goldquote2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Please join us this January 21st as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by acting together to support Dr. Ron Paul, a new hero who fights for the same American principles of liberty and justice for all.


Martin Luther King Jr. was an American hero who dedicated his life to fighting for liberty and justice for all Americans. In 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, he saluted our spirits with the immortal words, "I have a dream..." Today the dream of liberty and justice for all is slipping through our fingers. Our government no longer speaks for the people. It is waging an immoral, unconstitutional war abroad, while stripping us of our basic civil liberties at home. Now another American hero has taken the stage to fight for our freedom. Dr. Ron Paul, like Dr. King, opposes the immoral wars that we have fought abroad, and he believes in the principles on which our beloved Republic was founded.

On January 21st, when we honor Dr. King and his message of peace and freedom, please support Dr. Ron Paul, who carries the same message, with a pledge of $10 or more. Do not let history record that those of us who had the most to lose, did the least to prevent its happening.

Please pledge to donate on January 21, 2008 at www.freeatlast2008.com

Let your voice be heard.

Please pass this along to your friends and family.

<a href="http://www.FreeAtLast2008.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.FreeAtLast2008.com/images/banner468x60.jpg" /></a>

[hillertexas]

bump

[Cincy]

I thought that campaign central clearly does not want us to do any more money bombs. I agree...
A) If we don't meet a stated goal, it will look bad on the campaign & RP's viability as a candidate.
B) Tacking this on so closely to such a strong public figure might be taken incorrectly as trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's image. It may work with founding father associations, but I think you are digging a grave with this association. There is no way to live up to ALL of the expectation people will make about such an association.

If we want to bring in the African American vote, we have to sell our ideas to living breathing African Americans & get them to speak out on Ron Paul's behalf. There is no other way to do it.

[Kacela]

Cincy - this really doesn't have anything to do about trying to get the "African American" vote - it's about the message; Also, there is no real set goal on this, so any amount will be a victory. I'm hoping for $2 - 3 million.

This will allow for new "converts" to enjoy the excitement of a big money day as well.

And hillertexas, check your PMs - I gave you contact info for Brian - the guy who spearheaded that November 5th and the December 16th MySpace messaging blitzes; As this takes alot of babysitting to coordinate, he will NOT be able to do it for this event, work is just to involved for him at the moment.

[parke]

I am sorry, but the scandal has not gone away, and the NAACP and Ron Pauls statement is not sufficient... it needs to be addressed, and saying that the scandal is gone isn't going to make it go away. We know and believe in Ron Paul so the scandal seems silly to us, but to the average voters needs more.

Well its pretty fucking ironic that supporters would choose this day. It makes sense to me, and if any of the fruit flies that call themselves journalists would do some research on what Ron Paul has written, they would know he didnt write the stuff himself.

I stand by Ron Paul. I do not believe he has racist tendencies because I researched enough about his character to (gasp) judge him.

I hope this MB raises a ton of money. Maybe the following day he could have a few blacks that have known him for 20+ years come to bat for him at the press release.

If the average voter needs more, they need to get online and find it. The TV sure as hell isnt going to say anything fair about him. Thomas Jefferson said the only honest people in newspapers were the advertisers.

I agree.

[Kacela]

I am currently capturing all 114,951 MySpace friend ID's of Ron Paul. I will then parse the file into 2000 ID "chunks" to be distributed as a text file to be used with the FriendBlaster program. Capturing the IDs will take a few hours.

Brian (who spearheaded the MySpace blitzes for the 5th and the 16th) will be sending an email out shortly, to all who participated before, basically introducing me as the main point of contact to get the ID's from for this event.

[romeshomey]

I am suprised that this event was not even mentioned at our Meetup last night with over 100+ in attendance.

It didn't even cross my mind until I was on the drive home, but I couldn't believe this wasn't even brought up.

None of the meetups in my state have organized anything for the January 21st event.

No money bomb, no march, no nadda.....

[hillertexas]

bump

[hillertexas]

I am currently capturing all 114,951 MySpace friend ID's of Ron Paul. I will then parse the file into 2000 ID "chunks" to be distributed as a text file to be used with the FriendBlaster program. Capturing the IDs will take a few hours.

Brian (who spearheaded the MySpace blitzes for the 5th and the 16th) will be sending an email out shortly, to all who participated before, basically introducing me as the main point of contact to get the ID's from for this event.

I can help in any way however I will need specific instructions.
Kacela, you rock.

[Jeremy]

Well its pretty fucking ironic that supporters would choose this day. It makes sense to me, and if any of the fruit flies that call themselves journalists would do some research on what Ron Paul has written, they would know he didnt write the stuff himself.

I stand by Ron Paul. I do not believe he has racist tendencies because I researched enough about his character to (gasp) judge him.

I hope this MB raises a ton of money. Maybe the following day he could have a few blacks that have known him for 20+ years come to bat for him at the press release.

If the average voter needs more, they need to get online and find it. The TV sure as hell isnt going to say anything fair about him. Thomas Jefferson said the only honest people in newspapers were the advertisers.

I agree.

This idea was made before the racist newsletters were found by the MSM. We had the Franklin one and this one, but once people falsely accused him, this one became bigger. Well it was actually when Ron Paul acknowledged this day, which he didn't do for any other money bomb.

[Jeremy]

I can help in any way however I will need specific instructions.
Kacela, you rock.

Well you have that thing written up, so maybe that's what could be sent out.

[Crickett]

I am suprised that this event was not even mentioned at our Meetup last night with over 100+ in attendance.

It didn't even cross my mind until I was on the drive home, but I couldn't believe this wasn't even brought up.

None of the meetups in my state have organized anything for the January 21st event.

No money bomb, no march, no nadda.....

Hmm..dunno..but call some people and get them to watch a couple of the videos on the freeatlast2008 site. They are pretty inspiring.

[Kacela]

For promoting on MySpace, if you have a few hours, and you have a Windows-based PC (I'm still looking for a similar program for Macs), I've parsed up the firends of Dr. Paul from MySpace and I have a program that will just about do everything for you - you just need to sit there and decipher a CAPTCHA image after every message sent. Not too exciting, but it works well.

We could use some help. If your interested in lending a hand, I could send you the program and a bunch of IDs - the only caveat is that you need to have a bunch of MySpace ID's to use with it... MySpace seems to frown on sending more than 50 messages a day from any one account. hillertexas may have some MySpace accounts that were created and verified - before we found out that hillertexas had a Mac

So if you have a Windows PC, Multiple MySpace accounts, and some time, PM me your email address, and I'll send instructions along with 50 IDs to start with.

[smartguy911]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWClI8zsH4

we need to heavily promote this video. use this to post on facebook, forums, myspace etc

[Jeramie]

Im asking, because I have not seen alot of discussion on this one? I know Mr. Lyman was trying to put one together for Febuary, or is this going to be seperate from his? I will contribute to both, was trying to figure out what was going on.

[Jeremy]

Im asking, because I have not seen alot of discussion on this one? I know Mr. Lyman was trying to put one together for Febuary, or is this going to be seperate from his? I will contribute to both, was trying to figure out what was going on.

This money bomb is definitely the biggest one planned at the moment. It started getting bigger when RP mentioned it himself a few days ago. Do your best to promote it! =)

[hillertexas]

bump

[Kacela]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWClI8zsH4

we need to heavily promote this video. use this to post on facebook, forums, myspace etc

I've placed a link to this movie in the template that hillertexas made for sending to MySpace users. BTW, we could use some help getting messages to all of Ron Pauls friends on MySpace. I believe the messaging to MySpace users was a huge factor in the success og Nov 5th and Dec 16 - the only other times our messaging team was active. If we don't get more help, the results of this moneybomb will be lackluster.

PM me if you have a Windows PC and a few hours to message a few hundred MySpace users.

[austin4paul]

In addition to MySpace, we need a team to promote on Craigslist. You can use the MySpace template above and post to the politics section of every Craigslist city.

If you can help with Craigslist also, please post here!

[austin4paul]

Also another great place to post is the newcomer meet-up groups in your city! These are people that are new to an area and looking for ways to get involved.

[Jeramie]

This money bomb is definitely the biggest one planned at the moment. It started getting bigger when RP mentioned it himself a few days ago. Do your best to promote it! =)

Hey thanks, I will post it, and get it out to my email group.....

[Bittle]

"According to King's biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, "King privately described himself as a Marxist." In his 1981 book, "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.", Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, "...we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution.... The whole structure of American life must be changed.... We are engaged in the class struggle."

I still don't understand why Paul can sell out to the idea of supporting MLK, a Marxist, or why people here insist on this money bomb. I don't agree with it, and won't contribute to its intentions. I still believe this has something to do with the racist accusations. Paul, whether he wrote or was aware of those comments in his publication, should of stood behind them. Rather than caving in, he should of challenged his accusers to prove the statements wrong. Saying something based in fact does not make it racist, by any means. Ron Paul is not a racist. Paul trying to cover up for the accusation makes it sound like he is guilty.

[Itzsoez]

Bittle

you don't sound like you truly support Ron Paul.

1st in a free society, groups of people who believe in Marxism, communism, socialism or whatever can co-exist. So how does this make Ron Paul a sell out? It doesn't. Ron Paul is about freedom and if you're free, then you're free to be a Marxist.

2nd Ron Paul did not cave. He simply did not write those statements.
look at the controversial statements Ron Paul has said about Lincoln, Reagan, the civil war, etc. He did not cave! He stood his ground every time. So when he says he did not write the racist comments, I believe him 100%.

[KiwiMango]

21 states have primaries on Super Tuesday Feb. 5

1,000 delegates are up for grabs on Feb. 5

Candidate needs: 1,190 for GOP nomination (WSJ)

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Resources:

20 million donated through last qtr. has been slated/spent for ads/exp. in Super Tuesday states.

RP and HQ requested an additional 23 million in their Dec. 07 press release, specifically for ads/exp. for Super Tuesday. Remember that?

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To date, the base responded with only $850,000. toward this 23 mill.

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DONATE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN NOW!!! DON'T DELAY--there are 21 states and 1,000 delegates up for grabs about 3 weeks away!!!

[davidt!]

This thread should be in the main grass roots forum.

[thehighwaymanq]

BUMP!

And what is the goal for this quater?

[parke]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=1014183#post1014183

anyone interested in helping organize a peace music festival?

[sillvergirl]

Mlk Moneybomb Promotion Site

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If anyone here is able and willing to help keep my MLK RON PAUL Moneybomb site bumped up ( posting required every 20-30 minutes to keep the thread on page one), I would greatly appreciate it.

My thread is titled, "I have a dream, January 21st...."

The site is at this link:


http://www.godlikeproductions.com/fo...sage491224/pg


MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE VISIT THIS MAIN SITE EACH DAY


I put up a similar thread prior to Tea Party day, which received more than 2500 views. It just becomes difficult to stay up 24 hr/day keeping these threads bumped up for maximum effect. Plus, some friendly posters help keep the nasty trolls out. Thank you.

[sillvergirl]

Here is the thread which I am maintaining to reach out to thousands of viewers

on MLK day. "I HAVE A DREAM... JANUARY 21st......"

Please help bump this thread!! Comments and reasons to vote for and support Ron Paul's candidacy are most welcome!!


http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message491224/pg1

[newyearsrevolution08]

the best place to PROMOTE THIS is to make sure EVERY ron paul meetup group 1. has it on their calendar and 2. they send out a broadcast email to every member in their meetup group about the event.

we have a TARGETED audience of over 90k people who want to help out and some are too lazy to canvass OR cant for one reason or another BUT are more then happy to toss some money on a credit card for the cause.


join 10 ron paul meetup groups, email the message about it to the groups and ask that it gets put on the calendar immediately.

[scrosnoe]

just saw Paul Harvey flash on the donated screen - any chance this is the famous Paul Harvey and we should have an official endorsement???? or did I miss something - that would be worth a press release for sure