Open letter to Kent Snyder, Low Moore, Jesse Benton, Joe Seehusen, et.al

[SteveMartin]

Dear Campaign team,

I know that a lot of you guys want to see Ron Paul win as badly as we leaders in the grassroots do, but there is a crisis facing this campaign that involves a growing level of discontent from the grassroots with the way the official campaign relates to the unpaid "staff" out here in the hinterlands.

There are many, many complaints popping up with increasing frequency on many popular Ron Paul forums, and I will summarize some of the key ones for you here:

1. The communication responses some of us have been getting from Arlington when we either write or call in are HORRENDOUS. I don't mean that we are upset that ideas aren't adopted (though I'm sure some of that is a concern to some people) it's that we DON'T RECEIVE ANY RESPONSE at all many times.

2. The word is spreading that Arlington staff has been told to have no communication with certain of us with "conspiracy views." That condescending attitude towards a HUGE part of your support base (and I am not limiting this to 911 stuff) is AWFUL, and is only going to hurt the campaign in the long haul. We have had enough with pandering to the "conspiracy-nuts-in-the-grassroots- don't-deserve-our-attention" attitude.

3. The Michigan situation has grown intolerable. You have put people in place there with next to no political experience AND THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIMARY before Super Tuesday. You have a former Communist Party member and pornographer, a housewife who never voted before, and a very young former Bush campaign staffer handling this state now, and we are going to pay for it dearly on January 15th.

4. We were promised a campaign liaison for this message board (and others) MONTHS ago and one was even hired at one point, but there is no liaison and has not been one since somebody told Justine to stop posting here months ago. That is intolerable. There are pinned threads at the top of these boards FOR A REASON.

5. Iowa reports say that we had only one copy of a voter list of all RP supporters NOT BACKED UP ANYWHERE on a computer that was to be used by 250 college volunteers all day in Iowa for the day before the IA caucus and it was destroyed. WHAT KIND OF INCOMPETENCE ALLOWS FOR SUCH A SITUATION? Remedies must be instantly employed to insure: A> It was not intentionally destroyed, and B> That this can never happen again.

6. There are eminently qualified people who have offered expertise on many issues who are being snubbed continually--especially with regard to commercial production.

I know you are all very busy, but in the final analysis, so are we, and we are the ones paying your (in some cases exorbitant) salaries. It is beginning to feel like Arlington is becoming to RP supporters what Washington, D.C. is to Americans more generally. We matter, and we have good ideas. LISTEN TO US, COMMUNICATE WITH US, DON'T WRITE US OFF if our position on a couple of things may vary with yours, or even with Dr. Paul's.

We can not win this nomination unless things change, and the cooperation between you guys and the grassroots improves DRAMATICALLY and VERY QUICKLY.

Thanks for listening.

Steve Martin
Ron Paul Meetup Coordinator #17
Northern Maine

[apc3161]

You are being too kind. The bottom line is that these guys are now out of their leagues. No one expected this campaign to get this far or raise this much money. It is time for the campaign to hire real professionals a la Romney so we get things done. They have over 20 million dollars, money isn't the problem anymore, it is experience.

The guys working there now don't need to be fired, but they need to have new bosses of their own with real experience.

[Menthol Patch]

"The word is spreading that Arlington staff has been told to have no communication with certain of us with "conspiracy views." That condescending attitude towards a HUGE part of your support base (and I am not limiting this to 911 stuff) is AWFUL, and is only going to hurt the campaign in the long haul. We have had enough with pandering to the "conspiracy-nuts-in-the-grassroots- don't-deserve-our-attention" attitude."

How can that be true when Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Kent Snyder goes on the Alex Jones show very frequently?

[SteveMartin]

Oh, and I have called 6 times and written 4 times SINCE JUNE to have you add "the Ron Paul" of Maine, Rep. Henry Joy, to your endorsement list whenever you came out with one. And you did, and he's still not on it despite another call and another email--and another broken promise that it would be taken care of.

[SteveMartin]

Originally Posted by Menthol Patch

"The word is spreading that Arlington staff has been told to have no communication with certain of us with "conspiracy views." That condescending attitude towards a HUGE part of your support base (and I am not limiting this to 911 stuff) is AWFUL, and is only going to hurt the campaign in the long haul. We have had enough with pandering to the "conspiracy-nuts-in-the-grassroots- don't-deserve-our-attention" attitude."

How can that be true when Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Kent Snyder goes on the Alex Jones show very frequently?

I have it on pretty good authority from someone within the campaign, and I can also speak from my own personal experience. I used to communicate regularly with officials at the campaign, but haven't had an email or phone call responded to now since September, or early October.

[newmedia4ron]

We will do this with or without the official campaign.

Do you go here?
http://www.michigan4ronpaul.com/index.php

refer to every Ron Paul supporter in Michigan to communicate with each other there.
Forget that get their phone numbers and call them.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by apc3161

You are being too kind. The bottom line is that these guys are now out of their leagues. No one expected this campaign to get this far or raise this much money. It is time for the campaign to hire real professionals a la Romney so we get things done. They have over 20 million dollars, money isn't the problem anymore, it is experience.

The guys working there now don't need to be fired, but they need to have new bosses of their own with real experience.

YES!!!

[SteveMartin]

http://ronpaul.meetup.com/boards/vie...e=yes#14015889

[1913_to_2008]

Originally Posted by apc3161

You are being too kind. The bottom line is that these guys are now out of their leagues. No one expected this campaign to get this far or raise this much money. It is time for the campaign to hire real professionals a la Romney so we get things done. They have over 20 million dollars, money isn't the problem anymore, it is experience.

The guys working there now don't need to be fired, but they need to have new bosses of their own with real experience.

Right on!!! Good thinking!!!

[Malakai0]

This stuff is all bullshit. Leave the campaign alone please.


Jesse Rand and Ron all guest on Alex Jones monthly, how exactly are they avoiding the conspiracy people?


This whole topic sounds like an opposition plant to me. A few people keep trying to stir up trouble on the different forums. 20/20 just aired a segment on the dirty tricks being use din 08, opposition trying to divide us from eachother or for the campaign is easily possible.

The campaign is doing fine. Sorry Ron isn't holding your hand and personally taking every one of thousands of calls to listen to armchair quarterbacks critique his campaign.


If you have so much time for negative content and bitching, go to your local meetup and help get RP elected.