Help Ron Paul Win South Dakota (Urgent Request)

[skyorbit]

Hi. My name is Tracy Saboe. Most of you i think know me. I was very active in the 2008 Campaign. Current Polling has Ron Paul actually leading in SD, so it's just a matter of getting boots on the ground to make sure his supporters show up.

Right now, we have an urgent request. We're need to raise funds to send mailers to the various 3rd parties in South Dakota (all of which are closely alined with Ron Paul's positions.) The Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, and the Reform Party.

We're just going to mail them out ourselves so we have a chip-in set up. We're only needing about $2,000 for this. And then, after we get this project done, we're going to be sending mailers to Republicans in low population density counties. In total for everything we're probably needing about $20,000, but for now, this is the most urgent because it's more time sensitive and these are much easier converts.

We did this 4 years ago, and I personally know of many people who changed their registration specifically to vote for ron Paul as a result. This time, with him actually having a possibility of winning with a brokered convention, I believe it'll be even more effective.

Please donate whatever you can.
http://sdronpaul.chipin.com/mailer-to-3rd-parties-ii

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I have this cross posted at the Daily Paul. Please vote up and keep it bumped if you have an account there.
http://www.dailypaul.com/225426/help...urgent-request

Update.
We've been able to cut some expenses and get a bulk rate, so we've been able to cut our expenses down to about $1,300 instead.

I also had a very generous donor mail me a check for $250, so with that, we only need about $300 more to go and we'll have this completed.

We're stuffing envelopes Sunday. If anybody wants to donate anything more to help us cover costs it would be greatly appreciated.

In addition to this we've bought booths at several events around the state, and I just made an ad buy in our Local TidBits for $200, so we're trying to recoup costs from other projects as well.

Tracy

[sailingaway]

this sounds like a good idea. What is the flyer going to have in it?

[skyorbit]

We're drafting a letter. And we're just going to include some Slim Jims from the campaign. With the letter, along with a voter Registration card. Last time we just sent a letter w/o any fliers or voter Registration cards, but we're borrowing those ideas from things that have been successful in other states this time around.

I don't have a copy of the letter we used 4 years ago, (I don't think. I might be on my old hard drive somewhere) but we'll highlight 3 points that are important to typical CP, LP, and RP types, as well as a message about how Ron Paul's poling numbers. (Both public polls that have been done in this state have Ron Paul winning. Both back in Dec when Cain, Bachman, and Perry were in, and more recently in February when it got down to 4 we were polling 27%) And more recently at a state Republican Party straw poll (Which I wasn't involved in because it was executive GOP committee types) they had a pretty even 3-way split between Ron Paul, Santorum and RomneyCare.

The only reason we wouldn't win I think would be if the media started saying Romney Already won and people just start voting for "the winner". but right now, with both Gingrich, and Santorum ALSO openly disputing that, it gives us more credibility. Regardless, I believe we can get a strong 30% or better of the vote, which could get us anywhere between 40%-60% of the delegates depending on how many other breach the 20% threshold, but every 2-3 points is another delegate, so obviously we want as many votes as possible.

We're in the process of drafting it the letters we're going to send out this time around. If anybody wants to help do that, it would be highly appreciated.

Tracy

[skyorbit]

PS, I'm not the one in charge of spelling -- in case your worried

[PolicyReader]

Embedded the Chip-In so it's easy to donated directly in this thread, feel free to move it into the OP for pride of place

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Great work you're doing there, thank you for stepping up and being involved.
+rep

[Jmalo]

What polls are showing him leading? It would be kind of nice to have links. Are hey actual polls, or online polls from local news sites?

[skyorbit]

It's behind the paper's paywall now because it's considered an Archive but the 1st poll done in SD was reported here by the Mitchell Paper. (The only paper that carried it -- yes our papers here are owned by the conglomerates too.)
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/even...roup/homepage/
This one showed him Ron Paul 22%
Gingrich 19%
Bachmann 18%
Perry 15%
Romney 10%

This is the only one I have a link too. But many of the Perry, Bachman, and Cain types went to Paul around here after they dropped out. Many of them had Paul as their 2nd choice around here. There was a more recent one in Feb after the winnowing that had Paul higher, but I can't even find a link to it now.

Our papers do their best to not report news they don't like.

There haven't been anymore public polls since Feb, so I understand they're dated, but it's still a good indication that we can win as long as we make sure all of our people turn out. The Campaign believes they could win here outright if they had the resources. i believe they have some internal polling. But with them contesting California and the primary being the same day as ours, their resources are stretched thin, so it's up to us to help out.

That's what the Primary in SD is about. making sure your people turn out.

Tracy

[skyorbit]

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[ronpaulhawaii]

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[ClydeCoulter]

Embedded the Chip-In so it's easy to donated directly in this thread, feel free to move it into the OP for pride of place

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Great work you're doing there, thank you for stepping up and being involved.
+rep

We should be able to fulfull that 2k request in short time

[skyorbit]

Thank you! Tracy

[skyorbit]

Bump

I don't know why the widgets in this thread still say $80. I'm up to $260. So we just have $1740 to go

[helmuth_hubener]

Tracy Saboe is legit; I've known him since he was on the Free State Project forum back, what, 8 years ago now. This project will be totally beneficial and an excellent use of our funds. With all the millions we've put into this campaign, let's at least give $20,000 to a group of on-the-ground activists who know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it, in a state that we are doing the best in in the polls. No overhead, no waste, just pure results.

Let's flood them with money!

[Tinnuhana]

Total: $40.00

This receipt confirms that you authorized a payment to Sioux Falls, for Ron Paul meet-up for the event Mailer to 3rd Parties to Change Registrations to Republican to vote for Ron Paul

[Tinnuhana]

In which state is Republic of Lakota located? Ron should be getting a lot of votes from there.

[rich34]

This seems like a very good way of going about winning South Dakota. I think it's a great way of trying to secure a win in the beauty contest and then hopefully a sweep in the delegate race. OP, I'm not sure where all you have taken your request for funds, but I'd go beyond this forum just in case you're not able to raise the funds here. I trust and hope the official campaign is going to dump a chunk of change into SD especially if winning the beauty contest is on the line. It's to bad the primary wasn't a little earlier in the race.



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[Darguth]

So...can non-Republicans vote in the GOP primary in South Dakota then? I'm *hoping* so if you're planning on blanketing CP and LP members with mailers

[ClydeCoulter]

Tracy Saboe is legit; I've known him since he was on the Free State Project forum back, what, 8 years ago now. This project will be totally beneficial and an excellent use of our funds. With all the millions we've put into this campaign, let's at least give $2,000 to a group of on-the-ground activists who know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it, in a state that we are doing the best in in the polls. No overhead, no waste, just pure results.

Let's flood them with money!

^^HERE, HERE^^^ (fixed the amount to 2k)

[Paul Or Nothing II]

Current Polling has Ron Paul actually leading in SD, so it's just a matter of getting boots on the ground to make sure his supporters show up.

I've been dying to hear something like this!

By the way, great work you're doing OP!

[helmuth_hubener]

^^HERE, HERE^^^ (fixed the amount to 2k)

But they need 20,000 at some point.

In total for everything we're probably needing about $20,000, but for now, this is the most urgent because it's more time sensitive and these are much easier converts.

Anyway, let's get them as much as we can!

[skyorbit]

In which state is Republic of Lakota located? Ron should be getting a lot of votes from there.

South Dakota

[skyorbit]

So...can non-Republicans vote in the GOP primary in South Dakota then? I'm *hoping* so if you're planning on blanketing CP and LP members with mailers

Well, we're sending them voter Registration forms. They have until May 20th to change their voter registration.

[skyorbit]

Tracy Saboe is legit; I've known him since he was on the Free State Project forum back, what, 8 years ago now. This project will be totally beneficial and an excellent use of our funds. With all the millions we've put into this campaign, let's at least give $20,000 to a group of on-the-ground activists who know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it, in a state that we are doing the best in in the polls. No overhead, no waste, just pure results.

Let's flood them with money!

Thank you so much for your kind words. What was your handle over on the FSP boards?

[skyorbit]

Yes, the campaign is going to be spending money on the state too. We're actively going to tea party rallies and things now to go after the former Santorum supporters. Most Santorum, and Gingrich supporters around here honestly believe that their candidate actually is a small government Constitutionalist type, so with them basically not in the race anymore, and Ron Paul beating Gingrich everywhere for the past month, he's really the only option.

Many of the people on Santorum's delegate slate are even now switching to Ron Paul in the primary because they Hate Mitt Romney. It doesn't matter what Santorum does. He can endorse Mitt Romney if he wants. Santorum's supporters aren't going to do what he says just because he says it. (at least here in South Dakota. Can't speak for other states)

For the record, the Beauty Contest IS directly tied to the Primary vote. The Delgates for each candidate have already been selected. The Primary determines how many of each delegate slate goes to national. Anybody that gets at least 20% of the vote, get's a proportionate amount of delegates. I'll bet that most of the undecideds will just vote for who the media tells them "the winner" is, but there's a good 40-60% of the vote that's really anti-Romney around here. About %30 of that is Ron Paul, so I think we'll do very well.

Tracy

[Vanilluxe]

If Ron Paul wins South Dakota, then I remember Bill o Reilly has to fork over 10k to Stossel

[Paul Or Nothing II]

Many of the people on Santorum's delegate slate are even now switching to Ron Paul in the primary because they Hate Mitt Romney. It doesn't matter what Santorum does. He can endorse Mitt Romney if he wants. Santorum's supporters aren't going to do what he says just because he says it. (at least here in South Dakota. Can't speak for other states)

This is the point to note, the reason we MUST keep pushing, I'm sure most of the Santorum people & delegates will NOT go for Romney even if Santorum endorsed Romney because most of the Santorum voters were anti-Romney voters all along & with Gingrich being broke, Ron Paul is their ONLY CONSERVATIVE option on the table, we need to focus more on this!

If Ron Paul wins South Dakota, then I remember Bill o Reilly has to fork over 10k to Stossel

We should remind Stossel to get his $10000 from O'Reilly when Paul wins SD

[eleganz]

On top of whatever you're doing, you also have PFH and the L.A. & NYC phone-banks helping out.

[fatjohn]

If Ron Paul wins South Dakota, then I remember Bill o Reilly has to fork over 10k to Stossel

Wasn't it a thousand? I don't think O'reilly is so pompous to bet ten k. Some Willemeniard Romneybus III on the other hand...

[LCG8928]

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[skyorbit]

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