Attn. Alaska. Be ware of Kerri Price from HQ.

[erowe1]

Attention all grassroots volunteers in Alaska. Upon opening offices in Anchorage and Fairbanks one of the staffers the official campaign sent up there to help you guys is Kerri Price. Friends, I don't know how seriously I can put this. But she is bad news. She worked in the Michigan campaign and it is no exaggeration to say that her involvement literally cost RP votes in Michigan (on the campaigns dime nonetheless). There are threads in the forums that talk about this, as well as one here:
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/boards/vie...ager.offset=40

I know what I'm talking about firsthand, and can tell you there are many other volunteers who worked in Michigan who can corroborate what I'm saying.

My advice to all Alaska grassroots is to steer clear of her. Do not share information with her. Do not trust her to provide you with anything. Do not let her take any kind of authority role in your local campaign structure. Shun her as much as possible and let her sit in an office fiddling around on Facebook the whole time. It will be a lot less of a waste than if you let her try to "help."

[hillertexas]

I don't think there's evidence of any more than incompetence. But it's a level of incompetence that is just as bad as if it were deliberate. Like I said, it's clear that things are worse with her help than without it. Basically, she came in thinking she knew everything and in effect took over the operation of the whole state. Since Leslie Roszman is still the state coordinator, and Kerri is only the coordinator for SE Michigan, this never should have happened. But I think Leslie may be too nice of a person to confront her. Kerri has consistently demanded that everyone who wants to be involved in helping the official campaign must do the things she wants. Usually her ideas don't make sense. And when people ask her questions, she gives these condescending pat answers that reveal she's too clueless to understand what they were really getting at. For example, right after she got here in early December she realized that the deadline for voter registration was Dec. 15 and decided that we needed to drop all campaign activities and commit all of our efforts to a massive voter registration drive, like we're MTV Rock the Vote or something. When people asked her why it's worth the time to register people who don't support Ron Paul she replied by saying, "If they aren't registered they can't vote for him." (Well, yeah, but that doesn't answer the question.) On conference calls when people brought up the suggestion of getting organized in how we will run our get out the vote efforts, she replied, "Well, I know there's this video on the official website that talks about that, but since we started so late here, we don't have time to worry about that." Once again, totally clueless. I knew she was wrong because I and the local volunteers I'd been working with had already been collecting phone numbers from supporters and potential supporters we met, asking them if we could call them to remind them to vote on election day. We're going to call them ourselves. Kerri didn't like that idea because she had never thought of it. Kerri also wanted to make a major statewide effort to communicate RP's pro-life stance. When one member expressed the thought on the michigan4ronpaul message board that there may be other issues that will win more votes, she had their post deleted. In Southwest Michigan, circumstances that had gone on earlier in the Fall left a big vacuum of leadership for only meetup group centered in Berrien county (and there never was one in Cass county). So our Michiana for Ron Paul group, which is pretty big and well-organized and includes people from both of those counties as well as Indiana (where most of it's members are from) made a point of concentrating all of its efforts there. Since October, we have been the only group campaigning in those counties and have had at least 10 events in them, including canvassing every decent sized town. Two of us were appointed as the Berrien and Cass county coordinators and provided with lists of contacts of people in those counties that had been in touch with the national campaign. We were to integrate them into the canvassing efforts and provide them with yard signs and literature. Last week, at the 11th hour, at the order of Kerri they removed us from those positions because we don't reside in Michigan. They assigned new people to those positions who had no idea what to do. Now after 4 weeks of Kerri giving us the run around about how all the signs and lit. we need we be here any day, it just came in the past two days, and now these completely uninitiated county coordinators have to figure out what to do with them.

One other thing I forgot to add. The minute Kerri came into Michigan she started insisting that we had to get everyone off of Meetup. She wanted us to use the phone and email and the second-rate michigan4ronpaul.com website to replace everything that we had been using meetup for. She insisted that meetup is strictly a social networking site and not good for planning campaign events. This claim is absolutely ludicrous. That's like saying that we shouldn't have ads on TV because TV is only for sitcoms and sports. I think her real reason is that the vast nationwide use of meetup groups allows for grassroots workers to act separately from national HQ, and she wouldn't be able to control what happened in Michigan as long as this grassroots operation remained in place.

I agree that the problem isn't strictly one against her personally. From the testimonies we've already encountered in Iowa and New Hampshire, there are other equally terrible people working for the campaign. I don't know the names of others. But we need to blacklist them.

All campaign staff, such as Kerri Price, who are going into states and causing all this damage, must be shut off from the real campaign that is going on there. I don't know where Kerri will go next (perhaps Ohio, since that's where she's from, or perhaps another midwestern state that's earlier than them, such as Illinois which votes on Super Tuesday). But the volunteers there need to be warned not to grant her any authority whatsoever. They cannot trust her promises about providing them with materials. They should order what they need themselves, and preferably not through the official campaign's store. They cannot take orders from her. And they cannot integrate her into their operations unless she agrees to assist underneath the leadership they have in place. If this blacklisting results in people like her getting fired, that would help a lot. Even if it only results in minimizing their impact on the campaign, that would also help.

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[Devil_rules_in_extremes]

Interesting.

[seapilot]

Have not met her, yet Alaskans are independent and dont take orders. Outsiders that cause trouble are soon put "outside in the cold". Our two local leaders are running things well and the crew from outside are supporting. They might have sent her here because she could cause the least trouble. Alaska is huge and to connect with Alaskans independent thinking it helps to be and think like an Alaskan. Alaskans are naturally distrustful of people that just arrive from outside, to show them how things are done.

[thomaseusin]

Have not met her, yet Alaskans are independent and dont take orders.

No kidding! Coming up here for business, it's always Alaskans vs. the "Lower 48"

[noztnac]

It sounds to me like she is enthusiastic but not a good leader. Not everyone knows how to lead. I'd advise assigning her to a task where her abilities will be useful and where she feels she is contributing but one where she is not making important decisions. She can be an asset. We need all the help we can get.

[captainelectron]

I am not getting into details here, but a HUGE problem developed shortly after the campaign staff showed up. I may provide details after February 9th. For now, I only want to give Paul the best possible showing, so that the next candidate will find his way a bit smoother. Alaska has 29 delegates to the national convention. I and many others are working on delivering as many as possible to Ron Paul, and have no time for drama.

[Dave Pedersen]

Where is HQ finding these people? HQ should be HQ and not interfere within states. They should cut their staff by 250 and function from one single location.

Create 90 second television ads which have substance and present fresh visions of freedom. They should be constantly creating fresh visual and textual imagery of what freedom promises to actually be in the reality of a Ron Paul administration.

With 50 people in one location they can do this and let the grassroots do what the grassroots does best.

[RonPaulFTW08]

Have not met her, yet Alaskans are independent and dont take orders. Outsiders that cause trouble are soon put "outside in the cold". Our two local leaders are running things well and the crew from outside are supporting. They might have sent her here because she could cause the least trouble. Alaska is huge and to connect with Alaskans independent thinking it helps to be and think like an Alaskan. Alaskans are naturally distrustful of people that just arrive from outside, to show them how things are done.

Good luck to you guys.. So does the official campaign know of the issues with her? Anyone tried to talk to them? What's their response? Is she gonna get fired?

[seapilot]

Best advice is to send only one official staff member to each state HQ for communication purposes. The rest should be volunteers and the money used for advertising. That would be my strategy. As Captain electron posted we have to focus on getting out the vote for this Tuesday.