A message from Trevor Lyman

[Deborah K]

This November 5th
RonPaulFriday.com - Be the message!

Posted: 07 Jan 2008 10:45 AM CST



http://www.RonPaulFriday.com
Be the message!
It’s great to wear a Ron Paul T-shirt to help spread the word. What would happen if tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ron Paul supporters wore their shirts on the same day?

Once a week, every friday, we’ll join together and wear our shirts, hats and buttons on the same day. Fight the polls, show our strength and spread the word more effectively than ever before by acting together and becoming the message.

(btw- if you were having troubles getting to http://www.FreeAtLast2008.com last night the issues have been fixed)


Over 4,000 sign ups in 2 days - RonPaulMarch.com

Posted: 06 Jan 2008 12:06 PM CST



Great news- signs ups for the mass donation day at FreeAtLast2008.com are coming in rapidly.. we’ve had over 4,000 in just two days!

Because it’s so important to fight the polls and show our numbers I’ve partnered up with Greg over at RonPaulMarch.com. He’s provided a great system to sign up for marches in your town or city AND it’s co-ordinated with the MeetUp system.

Click the banner below and sign up to pledge your participation in our nation wide march event.



As we all know the media didn’t pay as much attention to our fund raising record of “6 million in one day” as we would have liked. It’s time for a change in strategy. Hundreds of thousands of donors in one day will stun the political status quo, boost moral and continue to draw attention to our message. The pledge is only $10 (or more) so we can all participate while raising large amounts of money. It’s a win, win for us all.

We can add yet another win by compounding our impact with a co-ordinated march. MLK day is a national holiday so we all have the day off and can participate. It’s also symbolic, Martin Luther King brought about change in Washington through marches and protests, and so will we. It’s a proven strategy and we should do what works and take back our country. We only have one chance. Now is the time.

Please pledge to participate in the mass donation day and the march and please ask everyone you know to do the same.

 

[itshappening]

i like the march idea !!

 

[kushaze]

I respect Trevor Lyman, but I don't understand why he gets to use his email list to pick freeatlast2008 as the moneybomb day. It seems it should have been discussed amongst everyone in the forums before they picked an official day. I think this communication error is whats causing the moneybomb days to be unsuccessful so far.

 

[RP4U&ME]

Oh, I don't know about the march idea. It could be interpreted the wrong way, like we're diverting attention AWAY from MLK. It should be his day, I think having Ron Paul marches(if they're massive) could invite derision. We have to be really sensitive to potential racial misunderstandings, more so than other campaigns.
But I think it's a great choice of days for a money bomb (better than Franklin), that's more reverential.

 

[Deborah K]

We can't operate out of fear. Afraid of offending some group, etc. And Trevor Lyman single handedly raised 4.38 million dollars for Ron Paul. I don't have a problem with him leading with other ideas he may have.

The media is against us. We have to make ourselves known to those who rely upon the media. Time is running out!

 

[damijin]

We can't operate out of fear. Afraid of offending some group, etc. And Trevor Lyman single handedly raised 4.38 million dollars for Ron Paul. I don't have a problem with him leading with other ideas he may have.

The media is against us. We have to make ourselves known to those who rely upon the media. Time is running out!

I completely support Trevor and I've participated in the two major money bombs -- but lets be careful with that word 'single-handedly'

That was an excuse the media used when they couldn't fathom what our grassroots can do as a spontaneous network. Even Trevor would never say he did anything single handedly

 

[brandon]

Trevor Lyman single handedly raised 4.38 million dollars for Ron Paul.

Yea, it didn't have anything to do with the 40,000 people who donated money, or the thousands of people who made the idea viral. All trevor Lyman.

 

[szczebrzeszyn]

And Trevor Lyman single handedly raised 4.38 million dollars for Ron Paul.

Are you crazy? He didn't raise anything. PEOPLE DID!

 

[Electric Church]

Are you crazy? He didn't raise anything. PEOPLE DID!

And I'm sure Trevor agrees ...no reason to be angry

 

[RP4U&ME]

All I'm saying is that the African American community might take offense to holding competing marches on MLK's day. If you're really committed to doing it you need to be sensitive about it.
You would need as many MLK signs as Paul signs. And even then pundits could spin it as trying to piggyback off of Dr. King's legacy. If Al Sharpton latches on to that, watch out. If he starts yapping he might say that Dr. King would not have endorsed Dr. Paul and you'll never get him to shut up.

A better idea would be to march in your community's MLK parade, which is already organized, and wear a Paul button, have some fliers, tell fellow marchers about him.

 

[slantedview]

I respect Trevor Lyman, but I don't understand why he gets to use his email list to pick freeatlast2008 as the moneybomb day. It seems it should have been discussed amongst everyone in the forums before they picked an official day. I think this communication error is whats causing the moneybomb days to be unsuccessful so far.

who cares who picks what the next day is. the point is that someone does it and we all join in. who other than trevor would you have choose a day?

 

[Indy Vidual]

Why doesn't he post it here himself?

 

[slantedview]

All I'm saying is that the African American community might take offense to holding competing marches on MLK's day. If you're really committed to doing it you need to be sensitive about it.
You would need as many MLK signs as Paul signs. And even then pundits could spin it as trying to piggyback off of Dr. King's legacy. If Al Sharpton latches on to that, watch out. If he starts yapping he might say that Dr. King would not have endorsed Dr. Paul and you'll never get him to shut up.

A better idea would be to march in your community's MLK parade, which is already organized, and wear a Paul button, have some fliers, tell fellow marchers about him.

You are wrong. MLKJ stood for protecting individual liberties and freedoms. Our of respect for him, we will show our support for the candidate that most closely embodies and defends the views of MLKJ.

What could possibly be wrong with that?

 

[kushaze]

who cares who picks what the next day is. the point is that someone does it and we all join in. who other than trevor would you have choose a day?

Obviously because the theme didn't unite us, but rather divided us. You make it sound like Trevor Lyman is a genius or something. He should have consulted the forums before choosing.

 

[nc4rp]

I support Trevor and will wholeheartedly paticipate. no one "consulted" with anyone about his first money bomb..... no need here either. he is proven competent and trustworthy.

 

[slantedview]

Obviously because the theme didn't unite us, but rather divided us. You make it sound like Trevor Lyman is a genius or something. He should have consulted the forums before choosing.

i'm not sure where in my brief statement you got the idea that i think trevor is a genius. let me repeat what i said:

"who cares who picks what the next day is. the point is that someone does it and we all join in. who other than trevor would you have choose a day?"

seriously, who? i don't care who it is, but it has to be someone choosing it - so it may as well be him.

 

[szczebrzeszyn]

And I'm sure Trevor agrees ...no reason to be angry

Well, I'm really sick and tired of people repeating this BS. I hear it all the time in these forums. I don't understand how could anyone be so disrespectful to all the donors that day and all the people who actually made this all thing successful. Trevor did a freaking amateur website, that's it! The rest was done by the grassroots (sorry!). Some people should really get over it.

 

[FreeTraveler]

I respect Trevor Lyman, but I don't understand why he gets to use his email list to pick freeatlast2008 as the moneybomb day. It seems it should have been discussed amongst everyone in the forums before they picked an official day. I think this communication error is whats causing the moneybomb days to be unsuccessful so far.

+1

Also, I don't think they've gotten approval from the King Foundation, and people have been sued before for connecting causes to MLK that the Foundation didn't approve of. I won't be donating to this one.

 

[kushaze]

i'm not sure where in my brief statement you got the idea that i think trevor is a genius. let me repeat what i said:

"who cares who picks what the next day is. the point is that someone does it and we all join in. who other than trevor would you have choose a day?"

seriously, who? i don't care who it is, but it has to be someone choosing it - so it may as well be him.

I am not supporting that day and it has nothing to do with the theme. I am not supporting it because it hasn't united us. We can't just have someone pick a day and go with it, the mass majority of us have to be in agreement. Not all of us just fall in line.

 

[RP4U&ME]

Marching in the same parade would be more of a show of solidarity.
I'm not an expert on race relations, but you never know. It would not surprise me if alternative marches were seen as trying to take away attention that should be focused on Dr. King.
People already try to paint Dr. Paul as a racist, we just need to be extra careful about these things.