Help get $40k to Rand by Oct 1st! Urgent!

jrice said:
[url]http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137272073519&index=1#/ical/event.php?eid=137272073519[/URL]

Here is the link on Facebook for this event - I hope the link works. We need to get at least 1000 or so signed up to meet this goal - we only need 48 at this moment so looks like Matt's estimate to need 40k on the 30th was right on - SPREAD THE WORD! If this link doesn't work let me know ...

We have invited over 1800 to this aready with 70 confirmed and 95 maybes.
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Here is the correct link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137272073519
 
Wait a second. Has Rand bought any advertisements? Radio ads? Anything? If not, what's the point of throwing more money at him?
 
MicroBalrog said:
Wait a second. Has Rand bought any advertisements? Radio ads? Anything? If not, what's the point of throwing more money at him?
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What a strange comment. Do you think the order goes buy ads first, then get money to pay for them? Or do you mean that he won't need more money until he first spends what he has, so that we can sit on the money we might donate until the very day the campaign would wish to spend it and then donate it all at that time, as though you imagine the campaign can budget its future expenses based on money it hopes to raise, rather than money it has?

The more money the campaign has the better, and the sooner it gets it the better. This applies both for money it will spend later on campaign ads and money it will spend immediately on staff, consultants, travel expenses, and campaign materials (signage, etc.).
 
MicroBalrog said:
Wait a second. Has Rand bought any advertisements? Radio ads? Anything? If not, what's the point of throwing more money at him?
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Grayson spent very little of his first quarter earnings and ZERO on advertising, too bad his supporters don't think like you.:p
 
$47,000 to go, so close to hitting that $1 million mark for the quarter - so freakin close

Less than $12k a day needed til the 30th (4 days)

Imagine the headlines in Kentucky if Rand outraised Betrey! Pics of Grey coming out of buildings covering his face - lots of "no comments" or "just leave me alone" when asked by the news media. Especially Rand showing $1,000,000 vs $970,000 for the quarter

We need basically 470 people to donate $100

OR

We need basically 117 people to donate $100 per day for each day remaining
 
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I believe Rand Paul has started sending out direct mailers.

Those are more effective, especially cost-wise, at this point.
 
Do we still have a real shot of making this a million $ quarter? I like the idea. I was not going to donate again for awhile. In fact, between the two money bombs I already donated more than what I would consider a sacrificial amount for me. But if the remaining amount we need to add in online donations (once any money that was raised offline from Rand's appearances etc. gets added in) is a doable amount, and if other people are serious enough to sacrifice to make it happen, then I'll go in for another $50 by Sept. 30th.

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In fact, here's an idea I'd go along with. If there are others of you who weren't going to donate any more this quarter, but who, like me, might donate if it really counts, then let's make a pact between us where if we get pledges on here for new donations before Sept. 30 that add up to over $5k, we'll donate together. If that happens, count me in for 50.
 
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I know Rand Paul Forums is the place to go for extreme and provocative comments, but I just do not get these negative comments about Rand's campaign.

I'm EXTREMELY involved in Rand's grassroots campaign in Kentucky. I'm working more than 40 hours a week on it, and that definitely does not include the time I could be spending on here rallying the national troops. I guess I shouldn't have assumed that all liberty loving people on here are going to support Rand, although I don't know why they wouldn't. In Kentucky, we've been busting our asses to get Rand elected and WE ARE WINNING. Rand will be our next senator. I'm not some pie-in-the-sky optimist about these things. I worked hard on Ron Paul's campaign not because I thought he'd be president (it would have been nice!), but because it was the best avenue to advocate for liberty and educate people.

Ignore Rand's fund raising success as irrelevant if you will, but explain how an eye doctor who has never run for dog catcher pulled an early 26% poll against 37% for Trey Grayson, the career politician and current two term Secretary of State.

For those of you not clued in to Kentucky politics, I'll explain what's happening. People all over the country are sick of these weasel career politicians. Until about six months ago, most Republicans in Kentucky were still asleep and thought Mitch McConnell was a conservative. They never questioned it. He's the Senate Minority Leader, king poobah of the GOP. Must be a conservative, right?

Then, Mitch not only voted for the TARP-1 bailout, he twisted a lot of Republican arms in the Senate. The bailout wouldn't have passed without him. This was the same bailout that 94% of his constituents opposed, and many STRONGLY opposed it. The Republican voters in Kentucky were shocked when we finally pried their eyes open and made them see this. Here's a little slim jim I made to 'splain it to them.

http://files.meetup.com/510992/DitchMitch.pdf

Once they woke up, they've been talking to each other and the news is spreading. I've worked hard to make sure the local 9/12 group stopped thinking that Mitch was their guy and realized that he is the problem. It was a tough sell at first, but now they're screaming this fact to everyone who will listen. Somebody woke up in a grumpy mood! They are pissed off!

When Mitch was pushing the bailout for Wall Street banksters, our other senator, Jim Bunning, went on national TV and called it socialism. Mitch cut off his funding and got him booted out of the Senate. That sealed the deal for Kentucky Republicans. Mitch is persona non grata.

This is not a good election to be Mitch's hand picked lap poodle.

Then, to add insult to injury, Mitch's campaign managers are running Grayson's campaign and they see Rand raising money faster than them and Rand rocketing up in the polls with a friggin' ARMY of insanely dedicated grassroots advocates. You can't find an antique car show or a damn bean festival in Kentucky where there aren't Rand Rangers working the crowd, passing out literature and asking people, "Have you heard about Rand?" There are handmade banners all over the state. Rand is campaigning like a fiend. Grayson's guys freak out and what do they do? They totally don't understand what's happening, so they throw Grayson a big DC Insider lobbyist-funded $500-a-plate weasel feast. Bwa ha ha ha ha! Now we've got voters so mad at McConnell's oligarchy of fatcat DC non-representatives that there's blood squirting out of the corners of their eyes. Nice job on KentuckyFight.com, BTW! From our local grassroots perspective, that was perfect!

Today's a good example. Rand has three campaign stops... yes, on a Monday! The grassroots is campaigning at numerous locations too. Grayson? [Insert sound of lonely crickets chirping in the distance.] He's nowhere. He's been going to women Republican meetings and is well received there by maybe a dozen GOP ladies. He's been talking to high school students, probably hoping to cultivate some young GOP supporters for a little energy. It looks good to have them at campaign stops later, but nothing so far. At the last high school function I heard about, some of my friends totally stole his thunder. It became a Rand event. It was almost sad.

The GOP at the county level smells blood in the water. Many are switching from the heretofore heir apparent to the throne to Rand because they know, even this early, that Grayson cannot win this race. Many of these people don't care about liberty. They just want an R to win, and they know it's Rand, not Trey. They can see where the momentum is leading.

On the campaign trail, Rand is very effective. People immediately know that he's genuine. He has his father's love of liberty, but the message is carefully crafted to be the most electable message possible. He appeals to almost everyone.

The biggest problem we have is getting campaign materials fast enough. The campaign can't keep up, and I've been printing a LOT of Rand grassroots campaign materials and I'm gearing up to print a lot more. Even the Rand campaign has no idea how many people are campaigning for him in Kentucky, and how completely dedicated we are.

The state fair is another good example. There were 12 people there when I was there. We had four people working the booth and eight working the crowd. Every place you looked, there were people wearing "I'm A Rand Fan" lapel stickers. Grayson had no presence there at all. Zip.

TEA parties? I told Rand today that I've about given up on TEA parties. A large percentage of the people there are wearing Rand T-shirts and buttons, and when I show up to campaign, there are three guys I've never seen before wearing Rand shirts and campaigning for Rand, passing out slim jims and bumper stickers. There's no point preaching to the choir.

Sorry I've been too busy campaigning to let you guys know what's happening here in Kentucky, but even with the GOP dirty tricks to come, Rand WILL BE our next senator.

I wish all of the best to Kokesh, Schiff, Harris, and all of the other worthy liberty candidates. I love those guys! I think they all have a very good chance this year, given that the sheeple have finally awakened, due in no small part to the Ron Paul campaign, and we can take some well deserved pride in that fact. But don't tell me there are liberty candidates with a better chance to win than Rand. It's just not true.

When people hear Rand speak, they want to vote for him. Most feel strongly enough about it to donate money and many become active grassroots volunteers. There is no stopping this freight train. In a couple of months, I think that'll be as obvious to everyone as it is to the Rand Paul grassroots volunteers.

A cool mil in 3Q09 would be a great news story that would help make the inevitability of Rand's campaign a fact to more people sooner, but with or without that goal being achieved, Rand will be our next senator. Count on it.

Thank you to all who have donated to Rand's campaign. I think it's the best possible investment in liberty that you can make. If not, I wouldn't have invested my entire life into this campaign.
 
Liberty4Ever said:
I know Rand Paul Forums is the place to go for extreme and provocative comments, but I just do not get these negative comments about Rand's campaign.

I'm EXTREMELY involved in Rand's grassroots campaign in Kentucky. I'm working more than 40 hours a week on it, and that definitely does not include the time I could be spending on here rallying the national troops. I guess I shouldn't have assumed that all liberty loving people on here are going to support Rand, although I don't know why they wouldn't. In Kentucky, we've been busting our asses to get Rand elected and WE ARE WINNING. Rand will be our next senator. I'm not some pie-in-the-sky optimist about these things. I worked hard on Ron Paul's campaign not because I thought he'd be president (it would have been nice!), but because it was the best avenue to advocate for liberty and educate people.

Ignore Rand's fund raising success as irrelevant if you will, but explain how an eye doctor who has never run for dog catcher pulled an early 26% poll against 37% for Trey Grayson, the career politician and current two term Secretary of State.

For those of you not clued in to Kentucky politics, I'll explain what's happening. People all over the country are sick of these weasel career politicians. Until about six months ago, most Republicans in Kentucky were still asleep and thought Mitch McConnell was a conservative. They never questioned it. He's the Senate Minority Leader, king poobah of the GOP. Must be a conservative, right?

Then, Mitch not only voted for the TARP-1 bailout, he twisted a lot of Republican arms in the Senate. The bailout wouldn't have passed without him. This was the same bailout that 94% of his constituents opposed, and many STRONGLY opposed it. The Republican voters in Kentucky were shocked when we finally pried their eyes open and made them see this. Here's a little slim jim I made to 'splain it to them.

[url]http://files.meetup.com/510992/DitchMitch.pdf[/URL]

Once they woke up, they've been talking to each other and the news is spreading. I've worked hard to make sure the local 9/12 group stopped thinking that Mitch was their guy and realized that he is the problem. It was a tough sell at first, but now they're screaming this fact to everyone who will listen. Somebody woke up in a grumpy mood! They are pissed off!

When Mitch was pushing the bailout for Wall Street banksters, our other senator, Jim Bunning, went on national TV and called it socialism. Mitch cut off his funding and got him booted out of the Senate. That sealed the deal for Kentucky Republicans. Mitch is persona non grata.

This is not a good election to be Mitch's hand picked lap poodle.

Then, to add insult to injury, Mitch's campaign managers are running Grayson's campaign and they see Rand raising money faster than them and Rand rocketing up in the polls with a friggin' ARMY of insanely dedicated grassroots advocates. You can't find an antique car show or a damn bean festival in Kentucky where there aren't Rand Rangers working the crowd, passing out literature and asking people, "Have you heard about Rand?" There are handmade banners all over the state. Rand is campaigning like a fiend. Grayson's guys freak out and what do they do? They totally don't understand what's happening, so they throw Grayson a big DC Insider lobbyist-funded $500-a-plate weasel feast. Bwa ha ha ha ha! Now we've got voters so mad at McConnell's oligarchy of fatcat DC non-representatives that there's blood squirting out of the corners of their eyes. Nice job on KentuckyFight.com, BTW! From our local grassroots perspective, that was perfect!

Today's a good example. Rand has three campaign stops... yes, on a Monday! The grassroots is campaigning at numerous locations too. Grayson? [Insert sound of lonely crickets chirping in the distance.] He's nowhere. He's been going to women Republican meetings and is well received there by maybe a dozen GOP ladies. He's been talking to high school students, probably hoping to cultivate some young GOP supporters for a little energy. It looks good to have them at campaign stops later, but nothing so far. At the last high school function I heard about, some of my friends totally stole his thunder. It became a Rand event. It was almost sad.

The GOP at the county level smells blood in the water. Many are switching from the heretofore heir apparent to the throne to Rand because they know, even this early, that Grayson cannot win this race. Many of these people don't care about liberty. They just want an R to win, and they know it's Rand, not Trey. They can see where the momentum is leading.

On the campaign trail, Rand is very effective. People immediately know that he's genuine. He has his father's love of liberty, but the message is carefully crafted to be the most electable message possible. He appeals to almost everyone.

The biggest problem we have is getting campaign materials fast enough. The campaign can't keep up, and I've been printing a LOT of Rand grassroots campaign materials and I'm gearing up to print a lot more. Even the Rand campaign has no idea how many people are campaigning for him in Kentucky, and how completely dedicated we are.

The state fair is another good example. There were 12 people there when I was there. We had four people working the booth and eight working the crowd. Every place you looked, there were people wearing "I'm A Rand Fan" lapel stickers. Grayson had no presence there at all. Zip.

TEA parties? I told Rand today that I've about given up on TEA parties. A large percentage of the people there are wearing Rand T-shirts and buttons, and when I show up to campaign, there are three guys I've never seen before wearing Rand shirts and campaigning for Rand, passing out slim jims and bumper stickers. There's no point preaching to the choir.

Sorry I've been too busy campaigning to let you guys know what's happening here in Kentucky, but even with the GOP dirty tricks to come, Rand WILL BE our next senator.

I wish all of the best to Kokesh, Schiff, Harris, and all of the other worthy liberty candidates. I love those guys! I think they all have a very good chance this year, given that the sheeple have finally awakened, due in no small part to the Ron Paul campaign, and we can take some well deserved pride in that fact. But don't tell me there are liberty candidates with a better chance to win than Rand. It's just not true.

When people hear Rand speak, they want to vote for him. Most feel strongly enough about it to donate money and many become active grassroots volunteers. There is no stopping this freight train. In a couple of months, I think that'll be as obvious to everyone as it is to the Rand Paul grassroots volunteers.

A cool mil in 3Q09 would be a great news story that would help make the inevitability of Rand's campaign a fact to more people sooner, but with or without that goal being achieved, Rand will be our next senator. Count on it.

Thank you to all who have donated to Rand's campaign. I think it's the best possible investment in liberty that you can make. If not, I wouldn't have invested my entire life into this campaign.
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Good post.

Boots on the ground reports help us to really understand what is going on.

Thanks.
 
Liberty4ever,

Thank you for posting that. You and the grassroots in Kentucky ROCK!

Anybody else willing to throw in $50 to bring Rand's numbers up to $1MILL for the quarter?
 
Thank you for your post Liberty4Ever. It was VERY well written and inspirational in its enthusiasm.

I'm already in for several hundred, but I suppose I could squeeze another 50 bucks out. :D
 
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