Help Needed: Volunteers Going to Iowa (ChipIn)

[RonPaul101.com]

One of your pitches is that you're taking a total of 4 people.

And it appears that this is just going to be the way we roll.

Did you say that you would be working for the official campaign?

Yes, we are coordinating with Anthony Reed at the campaign, working in the Eastern Iowa area.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Can we use a temp agency for this? Or found a temp agency, just to do this?

The amount of money we're spending on gas is too high. And you're bringing 4 people, which is a good number. So, I'm not bashing you. I don't think that your story is the worst I've seen.

Spending so much money on gasoline is not efficient.

Hire Iowans. Find them, and hire them.

How much more efficient will they be? Again my overhead broken down by volunteer and by hour is about $3 an hour. And we knowledgeable and passionate supporters already. You can't hire passion from a temp agency. If you need proof or want a writing sample to judge my articulation check out my recent news article which the campaign picked up "Ron Paul's Plan a Perfect Match for the Tea Party" is on the main page of http://www.ronpaul2012.com, as it was picked up by Jack Hunter.

I'm Lou.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

If you're going there just to canvass, then sign up for the Christmas with Ron Paul program. They will cover your lodging completely.

We're not youth (probably a good thing to have some age diversity) and I've tried and already contacted the campaign. Gage, do you remember me from the Values Voter Summit in DC? We spoke outside the hotel after the straw poll and you took a picture of me and the group.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Can you take money from paypal? Can you take money from foreigners?

I'm just trying to find efficiencies.

PayPal is fine, the ChipIn uses PayPal. I would think foreigners can contribute. The reasoning is that it is to fund logistics and the money isn't used to buy campaign supplies, and its not donating to a campaign.

They're just putting gas in my subcompact, nothing more. Admittedly, I can't give legal advice though...

 

[parocks]

dup

 

[parocks]

How much more efficient will they be? Again my overhead broken down by volunteer and by hour is about $3 an hour. And we knowledgeable and passionate supporters already. You can't hire passion from a temp agency. If you need proof or want a writing sample to judge my articulation check out my recent news article which the campaign picked up "Ron Paul's Plan a Perfect Match for the Tea Party" is on the main page of http://www.ronpaul2012.com, as it was picked up by Jack Hunter.

I'm Lou.

I'm talking about hiring Iowans here, you can figure out why Iowans are better.

Anyway, there should be a system. Some organization here.

Apparently the official youth for Ron Paul Christmas program is letting the individuals figure out how to get there.

There needs to be organization.

 

[parocks]

PayPal is fine, the ChipIn uses PayPal. I would think foreigners can contribute. The reasoning is that it is to fund logistics and the money isn't used to buy campaign supplies, and its not donating to a campaign.

They're just putting gas in my subcompact, nothing more. Admittedly, I can't give legal advice though...

target foreigners.

but, this needs organization.

 

[D.A.S.]

I am driving myself and three others in my car from New Jersey to Iowa City, IA on January 1st to help out the Ron Paul 2012 campaign (Anthony Reed's Eastern Iowa Subgroup.) We need $233 for gas (2,000 miles round-trip @ 30 MPG @ $3.50 a gallon) and we need $342 for lodging (2 volunteers per room; so 2 rooms for 3 nights @ $57 per room per night average with taxes.)

We are a group of Ron Paul supporters with experience canvassing and campaigning. I organized this same group for other events in the past and have coordinated this Iowa effort with the official Ron Paul campaign. We will be going door-to-door, hosting rallies, handing out Ron Paul 2012 literature, and turning out voters to the caucuses on January 3rd.

http://ronpaul101.chipin.com/campaigning-in-iowa

If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. Please PM me if you have any questions for me directly.

Happy to support your very important work in Iowa. Personal contact out there is everything.

Your transaction ID for this payment is: 4FY54668AX024851W: $25.

This should put you at $100 now.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

I'm talking about hiring Iowans here, you can figure out why Iowans are better.

Anyway, there should be a system. Some organization here.

Apparently the official youth for Ron Paul Christmas program is letting the individuals figure out how to get there.

There needs to be organization.

I agree that Iowan supporters are better, but I disagree that a disinterested hired minimum wage worker is somehow better. For example, if a passionate driven supporter approached my home with a southern accent, I might know they're not from around here but their actually being interested and true to themselves comes out in conversation. I'd prefer that to some hourly worker zombie who happen to be from New Jersey like me... yuk. I can picture someone with a Ben Stein like voice saying, "Hello Resident, Would you please consider voting for Ron Paul tomorrow. Oh you're busy, thank you, goodbye." (Plus people will often ask if your paid or not, it matters to them.) Versus, "I am an unpaid volunteer who drove 14 hours just to ask for your support and answer any questions you might have about..."

Again I wish I lived closer, but I can't change that right now. We may just have to disagree on this one.

I don't know how to reach out to foreigners but I think you have a point. They likely need an outlet of expressing interest in helping volunteers and are legally very limited in what if anything they can do to help.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Happy to support your very important work in Iowa. Personal contact out there is everything.

Your transaction ID for this payment is: 4FY54668AX024851W: $25.

This should put you at $100 now.

Thanks DAS, its good to hear from you again. We'll make you proud out there. +Rep

 

[Tinnuhana]

You should go to the RPF chat room some time when it's crowded and get the mods to put your chip in at the top. Lots of people got to CPAC that way.

 

[Umbro2914]

yeah but dude, you're going 1 day before the primary.... before you even get organized / know wtf is going on, its going to be all over. I wish you good luck, but I dont see this as being a well-thought out idea, but rather an act of impulse.

 

[All Ways]

how much more do you need?

 

[RonPaul101.com]

yeah but dude, you're going 1 day before the primary.... before you even get organized / know wtf is going on, its going to be all over. I wish you good luck, but I dont see this as being a well-thought out idea, but rather an act of impulse.

I have a very specific itinerary (have lists of places to be and what to do; we're organized just not physically present there yet) and I have coordinated with the official campaign, they are expecting us at a given place and time, I just need to physically get there and we can't burden the entire load financially.

I don't mind people passing on this project's ChipIn, you're entitled, but when did "Let it not be said, that we did nothing" turn into, "Is all this really necessary?"...

 

[RonPaul101.com]

how much more do you need?

I'm still a couple hundred away. I had a forum member PM me and donate his home theatre system. He said take it and sell it on ebay and put the money towards my Iowa project (should yield at least $100 on ebay, so I'm told).

 

[KingRobbStark]

Nothing is too late. Hope you make a difference.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

Nothing is too late. Hope you make a difference.

Thanks.

 

[parocks]

I agree that Iowan supporters are better, but I disagree that a disinterested hired minimum wage worker is somehow better. For example, if a passionate driven supporter approached my home with a southern accent, I might know they're not from around here but their actually being interested and true to themselves comes out in conversation. I'd prefer that to some hourly worker zombie who happen to be from New Jersey like me... yuk. I can picture someone with a Ben Stein like voice saying, "Hello Resident, Would you please consider voting for Ron Paul tomorrow. Oh you're busy, thank you, goodbye." (Plus people will often ask if your paid or not, it matters to them.) Versus, "I am an unpaid volunteer who drove 14 hours just to ask for your support and answer any questions you might have about..."

Again I wish I lived closer, but I can't change that right now. We may just have to disagree on this one.

I don't know how to reach out to foreigners but I think you have a point. They likely need an outlet of expressing interest in helping volunteers and are legally very limited in what if anything they can do to help.

You haven't exactly figured out all the ways that Iowans are better. This might be a tricky one, and certainly not everyone is going to get it.

There is something "magic" about an Iowan on caucus day. It has nothing to do with their persuasiveness.

 

[unknown]

Nothing is too late. Hope you make a difference.

Exactly. Should be applauded.

 

[RonPaul101.com]

There is something "magic" about an Iowan on caucus day. It has nothing to do with their persuasiveness.

Oooo, a riddle. Other than the fact that you would be seemingly gaining a vote by hiring this Iowan, I don't get it.