Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
*SNIP*
On Christmas Day several hundred of you left over 300 fake pledges worth over $700,000. Sincerely,
Brett Harris
Founder, HucksArmy.com
Real grass-roots moneybombs spike after midnight. This one was clearly driven by the morning MSM coverage...
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
DEAR RON PAUL SUPPORTERS,
I took this page down last week because I thought you had gotten the point -- namely, that your reckless, immature behavior was hurting Ron Paul and dooms your supposed "revolution" of love.
Apparently not.
On Christmas Day several hundred of you left over 300 fake pledges worth over $700,000. This was the most concerted attack on our fundraiser yet, and you did it on a day when most decent people would be focused on family and friends -- not politics. You obviously were waiting for a a day when I wouldn't be around to screen out your fake pledges -- and I trusted you to respect Christmas.
Before I have said that Ron Paul's greatest handicap is the reckless abuse of the freedom he advocates. Now I also believe that you spammers are examples of where Ron Paul's ideology takes ordinary people. The #1 response I have received from you spammers is the question, "How can freedom be abused? It's freedom."
That's why we have no common ground. That's why Ron Paul's "revolution" is doomed to failure. Whether the rotten apples in the Ron Paul barrel outnumber or overpower the good ones -- the result is the same.
Thanks for listening.
Sincerely,
Brett Harris
Founder, HucksArmy.com
Dec27th.com launched on December 17th. On December 19th web traffic to HucksArmy.com dropped 60%. On December 20th it dropped another 60%. Welcome to the black hole of Christmas Holidays.
Some people will inevitably try to compare our fundraiser with Ron Paul's largest moneybombs. But we feel that the only accurate and fair comparisons would be with other holiday fundraisers.
There are two to choose from:
(1) Fred Thompson's "Red Truck" Challenge - The Thompson campaign has pulled out all stops in order to fund their newest television commercial. Their holiday fundraising drive dominates Fred08.com and between Wednesday morning and Thursday evening they have sent out five fundraising emails. 24-hour result? $75,000.
(2) Ron Paul's Counter-Bomb - As soon as we announced our fundraising drive Ron Paul's competitive supporters began planning to upstage us (i.e. raise more than us on December 27th). They even created a special website and spread the word through Facebook, MySpace, and Meetup where they have large established networks. 24-hour result? $27,000.
The graph below demonstrates our conclusion: The Dec27th.com fundraiser was a remarkable success when compared to other holiday fundraisers. No campaign can escape the holidays. Huckabee grassroots are alive and well.
Sounds like they're in denial. Where's this website of ours for the "counter-bomb" anyway? I hadn't heard of it.
he had a private fund raiser in florida the other day and brought in over 400k......was looking for details on it,but found nothing yet.....just curious what the price to participate was and who was there.......
found this on rummy though......
"I'm really confident," said former Property Appraiser Rocky Rodriguez, co-chairman of the Mitt Romney campaign in Broward. "We have a well-organized campaign throughout the state. We have done it very quietly, very methodically, and very professionally."
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/new...g/2007/12/romney_and_huckabee_supporters.html
then found this on rocky.....http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/14/TampaBay/Under_pressure__major.shtml
So the final numbers on hucks day, did'nt make it to $100,000????
what was the final numbers....... really sad I expect...... just amazing!