Bam! This is how we raise 23 Million Dollars for Ron Paul

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Bam! This is how we raise 23 Million Dollars for Ron Paul
Posted January 23rd, 2008 by TheBlandit

The Great 23 Million Dollar Paul Contest.

We will provide the medicine for what ails. What is the ailment you might ask?

Why its that nasy MSM Flu...

Y'know, the one that's been spewing out bullshit to us all these years. Networks that have been instructed not to show any hint of Ron Paul. Networks that routinely slap us in the face with a pie as it were!

My friends, I think 23 Million is a paultry sum if this is what Ron Paul is asking for in order to combat this.

We should be able to give him 50!

How you might ask? Well, I'll give you a hint. All we need to do is look at the numbers. It is a numbers game after all.

SO.

Brass tacs. We need 23 Million, that's 23 with 6 Zeros.

Lets take a look at what we as supporters have on our side, and all of our zeros...

This is how we will do it.

We have approximately 1500 meetup groups. With about 90,000 members in Ron Paul meetup groups, this works out to an average of 60 people per group. Each person in the meetup group would only need to donate an average of $255 per person.

How you say?

We shall have a contest!

A Grand Meetup Challenge that will be bigger, better than the first Great Meetup Challenge.

Imagine if we did that again?

With the numbers that we have now?

Which meetup will raise the most?

Which state will take highest state?

We will put together a website, think NBA, NFL, or CFL. All stats, all the time.

There will be awards, prizes, tears. Laughter and Joy.

If we had it over a 30 day period, that $255 amount works out to $63.75/week.

There are many ways to bring the money in.

People could sell signs, take donations. Sell memorabilia. Some may have a garage sale.

Everyone has been talking about how this is an insurmountable amount. Last time i checked though, nothing was impossible with this crowd. We raised 4 million in one day, then 6 million the next.

Heck, we can raise 2 million even when the economy is crashing.

WE CAN DO IT!

Bringing together all the Meetups in the great 23 Million Dollar Paul Challenge will be event that catapults Ron Paul to the convention, and into the White House.

If you think this is as great idea as i do, then please forward it and lets get this thing rolling!

Chris
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Good idea - it works to get people working together in terms of a concerted effort with a specific challenge.

Perhaps a web page would be good to link to in order to send the message to the meetups.

Like, for "The Great 23 Million Dollar Meetup Challenge"
 
I like this idea. Run with it. Everyone who is a meetup member to forward this to their group leaders.
 
Love it. Meetups are the way to go...who can raise the most money? Which state? Good job.
 
about time someone came up with a new idea aside from the old "moneybomb"

this just might work.
 
For one, this would need its own web site with a cool way to few the stats.

it could be done similar to how folding@home works. Have a scoreboard/ranking system that has a score listed with a user and the users team (or meetup).

ie. joeblow has donated $50, and team Coffee has $5,000 , total number of donations, avg donation size, etc.

It works great for F@H because it allows for very stiff competition and really is what drives the whole program.

I'm not sure how to accurately track the donations though
 
Why don't we have a raffle? Everyone who donates the campaign gets a chance at a free car or something. It could be a campaign vehicle you get after the election. I"ve always wanted a bus.
 
If anyone is willing to coordinate this I can write PHP, Java, HTML, whatever. Just don't have me do graphics design. :D
 
If someone gets something up about this please send the link, I am not good at this stuff.
 
If we can get this going I will donate a server

:D If we can get this going I will donate a server :D
 
I like the way you think. It'd stimulate mini bombs, small moneybombs from individual meetup groups.

Also include the state option though, most donations come from people who are not in any meetup group and you don't want to exclude them from the fun and the action.

Maybe you could make it as such that a person who makes a donation selects up to three rolldown menus. The first one indicates what state the person is in, the second one what region/city he is in, and the third one indicates what Meetup (if any) the person is in (cq what meetup group he endorses ?). All three should be optional and not mandatory IMO.

It could be really awesome I agree and it'd most certainly give a boost to the donation drive. Minibombs would be the hit of 2008 whereas nationwide moneybombs were the hit of 2007.

I really really like it and think your idea is absolutely fantastic. Hope you can find some people to help you out with the programming, let's bump this thread and brainstorm on further specifications until you do.

two thumbs up!
 
For one, this would need its own web site with a cool way to few the stats.

it could be done similar to how folding@home works. Have a scoreboard/ranking system that has a score listed with a user and the users team (or meetup).

ie. joeblow has donated $50, and team Coffee has $5,000 , total number of donations, avg donation size, etc.

It works great for F@H because it allows for very stiff competition and really is what drives the whole program.

I'm not sure how to accurately track the donations though

You forgot to plug Ron Paul's Folding@Home team. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=51522 has the info about Folding@Home if anyone wants to join. You can help Ron Paul's name recognition, and science!

Sorry Chris (pauliticalpress), I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Great idea! Any YouTube video makers out there who want to make viral videos promoting this?
 
By the way, since this site will run alongside the official campaign and not through the official campaign I think that you should include foreigners in your donations. You do need to put up a disclaimer that any foreign donations will be used to promote a number of grassroot projects instead of the official campaign. This will stimulate your foreign supporters to donate more to the projects and you have got significant foreign support (thank YouTube for that).

It could help proven grassroot projects like the Ron Paul air force and Operation brodcast freedom a.o.
 
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