Campaign appoints Grassroots Communications Coordinator

Welcome to the board, Daniel... good luck and yes, hold on for the ride. I have a suggestion for you... you may want to stay away from threads that are titled similar to the following:

!!!!!OMG.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!SUPER IMPORTANT: CAMPAIGN WILL COME TO SCREECHING HALT UNLESS THIS IS ADDRESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm going to vomit!!!

or "FU Frank"

Otherwise, dive right in! Glad to have you here.. say hi to Dr. Paul for us and tell him we're behind him 100%.

Good Luck! :)
 
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Someone go Get Trevor off the blimp he needs to step up and help us with the MLK money bomb I know we gave him some heat before but he we need him/mailing list :D:
 
So I'll list a couple of the biggest complaints that people have here.

1. The Ads do... err... suck. I will explain why in 2.

2. He is not forceful enough! For the LOVE OF GOD someone please tell Dr. Paul to be more forceful. He is NOT getting the point across that he is different. He is NOT calling out the people on how they're not real conservatives. Last nights debate is the first time out of all of them he's ever done it halfway right. Just think of how many more people we'd have if he'd been calling them out from day 1. Yea, we could be winning right now. I'm hoping that means it's a change that's already occurred. If so GREAT. I'd take it up a notch from there still though... If not it's literally our LAST CHANCE at winning this thing. Why not mention that every other candidate is babbling about trying to "fix" minor scrapes and bruises while our country is gushing blood from our main artery.

3. I think the official campaign needs to send an email to everyone they have in their database saying in far more, and far sweeter words "If you people give a shit about this country and your future find a local meetup group NOW, and stop being a lazy shits and hit the fucking streets!!! Do you want another line towing fascist or communist Democrat elected??? Well think of how little effort it is to get active for a few weeks compared to living in HELL for the rest of your life".

Quite frankly that's the situation we're in, and that's what these people need to be told. Our Seattle meetup has 600+ people. I've only ever seen 50 people TOPS show up at anything. I know for a fact that there are THOUSANDS of people in Seattle that support him that HQ has the information of. Even if we only got similar ratios to the current meetup member-to-actually showup situation it would be a HUGE increase. This NEEDS to happen. All these armchair big talkers need to realize THEY have to get their asses out of their chairs and doing something useful. And not just a few days before the election. The sooner we mobilize people the better. I'm going to try to get the head of the Seattle group to send out a similar message tomorrow with his endorsement... If he doesn't like it you can still send messages to the whole group anyway! If we were actually mobilizing 500 of the nearly 700 people vs 20 tomorrow do you know what a difference that'd make between now and Feb. 9th??? HUGE. I recommend ALL meetups do this. We all know we have far more members than are active. They need to be REAL members who show up, not just numbers on a fucking website.




I'm sorry for my rant, and my cussing, but I'm getting very angry at how few of people are actually doing anything. When I think about the difference that could be made in slapping people in the head and getting some more of them out I just get all GRRRRRR if ya know what I mean :)

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!!

Vaughn
 
Also agree with point #1 above by Exer51.

If Dr. Paul could paint some mental images when he speaks... like the image of applying bandaids when blood is gushing out... We can all instantly 'see' the folly of that action.

Isn't it true that people think in pictures or images? Reagan was great at that imagery style of talking...

"Artificially low interest rates" may cause some brains to go bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... but if an image of the stress that so many are living with as a result of artificially low rates and easy DEBT ( I love how they call it debt, credit... classic example of newspeak) and BIG payments, could be used.. I just think that would work with people better sometimes.

If he could find a way to go "through" the camera and talk to us. I think people are really looking for what he offers.... they just don't see it in the quick and often distracting 'glances' that the MSM affords them of Dr. Paul.
 
Daniel,

Welcome!

I hope you'll be able to help people feel more "in the loop" about what the campaign is doing and why. How is all the money that was donated being used? What is being accomplished? What do you need (e.g. money) and what are you going to do with it?

Nature abhors a vacuum and so do grassroots supporters. In the absense of information, all kinds of rumors get bantied about, and they usually aren't the kind that inspire confidence in the campaign team and/or more donations.

Transparency has been enormously successful in funding the campaign. Let it spread to other areas and who knows what we can accomplish.
 
stevedasbach said:
Daniel,

Welcome!

I hope you'll be able to help people feel more "in the loop" about what the campaign is doing and why. How is all the money that was donated being used? What is being accomplished? What do you need (e.g. money) and what are you going to do with it?

Nature abhors a vacuum and so do grassroots supporters. In the absense of information, all kinds of rumors get bantied about, and they usually aren't the kind that inspire confidence in the campaign team and/or more donations.

Transparency has been enormously successful in funding the campaign. Let it spread to other areas and who knows what we can accomplish.
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Absolutely.
You need to show up here daily and let us know what is going on and what to do.

Do you have direct contact with Snyder and Co. ?
 
Knowing some of the posters here, I have to wonder if Dan McCarthy will ever post here again!
 
No worries -- I'll post again. I've been working on the blog and a few other projects and getting a feel for my new responsibilities before really launching into the fray, but I'm here and I'll give whatever info and perspective I can as things develop.

I can be reached by private message through Ron Paul Forums or by email here -- as I've said on the blog, please keep messages as short as possible, so I can get through as much as possible from as many activists as possible.

More to come soon...
 
Daniel McCarthy said:
No worries -- I'll post again. I've been working on the blog and a few other projects and getting a feel for my new responsibilities before really launching into the fray, but I'm here and I'll give whatever info and perspective I can as things develop.

I can be reached by private message through Ron Paul Forums or by email here -- as I've said on the blog, please keep messages as short as possible, so I can get through as much as possible from as many activists as possible.

More to come soon...
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Daniel, is Dr. Paul going to take the federal matching funds?
 
Daniel McCarthy said:
No worries -- I'll post again. I've been working on the blog and a few other projects and getting a feel for my new responsibilities before really launching into the fray, but I'm here and I'll give whatever info and perspective I can as things develop.

I can be reached by private message through Ron Paul Forums or by email here -- as I've said on the blog, please keep messages as short as possible, so I can get through as much as possible from as many activists as possible.

More to come soon...
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So far, I like what I see. Good job. Keep up the good work.
 
Thank you Daniel for joining the forums! Reiterating what was said earlier, could the mods or admin create a special thread or category of threads just for the purpose of feedback with HQ? Knowing how the threads can get chaotic and disorganized in the Grassroots Central, maybe we can dedicate something just for this feedback? Do others think that would be a good idea?
 
Also to the higher powers of this forum:

Is there a way that the threads the Mr. McCarthy posts in are automatically highlighted?

It would be useful for the forum members to know where to go for the official word.
 
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