Election Is Over. Time To Build Infrastructure.

[jeffro97]

The election is finally over, and now it's time to move on. We need to begin to work and build the infrastructure and support for liberty, and eventually, liberty candidates. We need to, as people of Florida, work together, to lay the necessary groundwork in spreading the message of liberty, work on spreading liberty to people of all groups, and pulling people together to support others as well. This would be great to have if Rand was running.

Florida is the 3rd largest state. There are small pockets of liberty here, and nothing really has a major pull. The LP here is a bit disorganized in some counties, and the GOP is hostile still. We need to fix things here, before we even begin with 2016.

If you'd like to assist in this, shoot me a PM here, and let's get some work done.

[tangent4ronpaul]

WHOA NELLY! - Please don't.
We don't need another "Facebook is the new Meetup" disaster.
We already have tons of overlapping and sometimes inactive infrastructure. We don't need more fragmentation and we do need to talk to Team Rand before building out new infrastructure.

Most importantly, we need a uniform rollout with clear paths of communication.
Lets not repeat RP II or to a lesser extent RP I...

We really don't need people going loose cannon again.

-t

ps: I'm one of the people that set up most of the infrastructure for Ron's initial prez run and organized organizers.

[jeffro97]

WHOA NELLY! - Please don't.
We don't need another "Facebook is the new Meetup" disaster.
We already have tons of overlapping and sometimes inactive infrastructure. We don't need more fragmentation and we do need to talk to Team Rand before building out new infrastructure.

Most importantly, we need a uniform rollout with clear paths of communication.
Lets not repeat RP II or to a lesser extent RP I...

We really don't need people going loose cannon again.

-t

ps: I'm one of the people that set up most of the infrastructure for Ron's initial prez run and organized organizers.

Thanks for stopping me before something bad happened.

[tangent4ronpaul]

A very positive step you could take at this point is trying to figure out what is in your state. Yahoo, Meetup, MySpace, Facebook, C4L, YAL, LP, message forums, etc. Who's active, who are the organizers, how strong? Stuff like that.

Just please wait before starting anything new till we figure out, nationally and with the official campaign, what direction we want to go and how not to repeat mistakes from past campaigns.

thanks,

-t

[torchbearer]

planning

[jeffro97]

A very positive step you could take at this point is trying to figure out what is in your state. Yahoo, Meetup, MySpace, Facebook, C4L, YAL, LP, message forums, etc. Who's active, who are the organizers, how strong? Stuff like that.

Just please wait before starting anything new till we figure out, nationally and with the official campaign, what direction we want to go and how not to repeat mistakes from past campaigns.

thanks,

-t

That actually is a good idea. Perhaps I'll try to put something like together. Maybe in December when I have the time. Thanks for that.

[Peace&Freedom]

WHOA NELLY! - Please don't.
We don't need another "Facebook is the new Meetup" disaster.
We already have tons of overlapping and sometimes inactive infrastructure. We don't need more fragmentation and we do need to talk to Team Rand before building out new infrastructure.

Most importantly, we need a uniform rollout with clear paths of communication.
Lets not repeat RP II or to a lesser extent RP I...

We really don't need people going loose cannon again.

-t

ps: I'm one of the people that set up most of the infrastructure for Ron's initial prez run and organized organizers.

There are issues packed into the premises that are not resolved. Arguably the mistakes of the movement were its "uniform rollout" (code for under whom, exactly?) centered around the Paul campaign, instead of a more durable grassroots-centered build-up. The most interesting and innovative ideas for promoting Paul came from the "loose cannons," from money bombs to blimps to call-in efforts, that the "official campaign" was hesitant to even think about. Most of the communication problem was with the campaign insufficiently engaging the grassroots, not the reverse. And so on.

There is a need for the already identified activists (from previous cycles) to get back in touch (online and offline), so presumably each state should develop a means of re-establishing their network. An activist base can then work on the other projects such as building their core numbers through alliances (CFL people communicating with pro-liberty Tea Party people and LP/CP members willing to help). We have to be prepared for reasonable divisions or "fragmentation" (say, if Rand ends up hiring Benton and co, some people will get off the bus), and a longer term planning after 2016 (should Rand's campaign fail).

[philipped]

I'm relatively new to this angle, I'm in South Florida but I'm ready now to do whatever is needed as soon as necessary.

[philipped]

So anyone who's seeing this in Miami Dade or Broward....PM me.

[jurgs01]

Let me know when you start to identify liberty candidates in Florida. We have the ability to spread the word much faster than would otherwise be possible.

[philipped]

Let me know when you start to identify liberty candidates in Florida. We have the ability to spread the word much faster than would otherwise be possible.

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