Ok, give me your thoughts on this format.
We set up a completely voluntary system of filtering ideas, packaging our message, funneling money to important areas of interest (VERY BIG ADVANTAGE), and communicating to everyone as a whole (i.e. a giant e-mail list)
This is the way we do it. We gather a "roundtable" of people who have different areas of strategical expertise. We need people who have experience in campaigns before, a journalist, a lawyer, a marketing expert, ect. ect. People who have strategic experience.
The people on this roundtable all agree that no one person is in charge and that all ideas will be considered, but, not all ideas will be put into action. They take a vote after a discussion and debate on what to do. They then give this recomendation to another "roundtable" of people with creative expertise. People who have experience making commercials, writing articles, making websites, ect. ect. ect. These people put their heads together and come up with the best commercial/brochure/t-shirt/website/whatever possible. They then distribute their finished product to the people that need it (this will change depending on the project the time during the campaign)
Additionally another, probably smaller, "roundtable" will convene and focus one one thing and one thing only. Finances. They can organize fund-raisers and other things to raise money for the operation, and for the grassroots campaign. ONE RULE: Money gets distributed to anyone who asks as long as they can demonstrate that the money is being used to promote Ron Paul in the best possible light, and only to promote Ron Paul.
We will need a group of volunteers at this point to communicate to general grassroots people about what new product or strategy is rolling out of the roundtables. And subsequently, that same group of volunteers needs to report back to us the response and needs in their particular regions. (i.e. This commercial isn't going over well, please try to focus on this more, remember to do this for this region, that brochure rocked, ect.) This group should have ten volunteers (each responsible for 5 states).
Ok, slightly outside of the organization we should have a consortium for all the specialized interest groups supporting Ron Paul. Texans for Paul, Christians for Paul, punks for Paul, whatever, who can be our eyes and ears in their individual communities. They'll tell us what they need, and what they'd like to see, and let the strategic and technical experts work hard to make them the happiest people on the face of the earth. Any organization in complete support of Paul should gets this level of access, no questions asked. This is the most important part of this organization. This is the intel division of this "war".
Then there's the rank and file who agree to do one thing and one thing only. . . . communicate. This means give us your e-mail so the regional communication volunteers, and to tell them what you need and how to do it. I mean think about it. You have an oppertunity to make a presintation to your moose club, and maybe to all the moose clubs in your state. You need brochures, a video, campaign fodder (buttons, etc.) money for gas, blah blah blah. That's a a lot of work and a lot of time you'd have to spend tracking down each individual person that make such and such an item and before you know it, you're half assing the project because you've got a full time job, a family, and yard to mow. Wouldn't be great to just be able to fire off an e-mail to your regional person detailing what you want to do and then have all that stuff, and instuctions on how to do it, sent to your door?? It's a turn key operation for you. But, if you are more independant than that, you can pick and choose from our ideas, create your own and tell the grassroots about them, ect. ect. ect.
One overall rule, this is strictly volunteer, no one is paid, no one is the "supreme leader."
Ok, I know that was long, but. . . give me your thoughts.
