Operation College Campus Blitz

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[JosephTheLibertarian]

finished that batch

I'll take them

confirmation??

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

hello?

 

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[JosephTheLibertarian]

sure j/k lol

doing them right now. np

Yeah, even Frank Luntz said that Ron Paul volunteers were EVERYWHERE in the late debate... no other candidate has this kind of grassroots, guys like Obama have to pay for theirs.

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I did 551-575

now on to 626-648

 

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[JosephTheLibertarian]

completed 626-648 + 524 & 525

mission accomplished

night

 

[ZandarKoad]

Free speech on public property

If the school says no, then consider trying to set up your own table on the sidewalk outside the school. This may not work for many reasons: the students may park on campus and they don't walk on the sidewalk; or the city may not allow it. DO NOT BREAK ANY LAWS. If you are going to try this approach, make sure you call the local police first and find out the rules and regulations for being on the sidewalk. We are not a bunch of hoodlums. We are respectable Ron Paul supporters!

I have extensive real life experience engaging in free speech on public sidewalks, and these are my recommendations for your consideration.

If it is indeed a public sidewalk or if the campus is a STATE campus, then it is not PRIVATE PROPERTY. It is, in fact, PUBLIC PROPERTY. This means you can do whatever you darn well please. Now, don't get me wrong. If you are doing something potentially flamatory (ie religous speech) you will probably get complaints, and there may even be some school administrators who will ask/demand that you leave. If people really really don't like you, the police might be called and may threaten arrest, etc. If you are on PUBLIC PROPERTY, I suggest you stand your mother effing ground and get a lawyer if necessary. The cops can't tell you to leave. However, if you are on PRIVATE PROPERTY, I suggest you don't start in the first place.

If you are simply telling others about Ron Paul/handing out flyers, I can't imagine that you would get very many complaints at all. In fact, most will probably LOVE to see you there. And if someone asked you about your 'permit' for your activities you could impress them with your knowledge of the constitution and the first amendment.

 

[rysmith2023]

Operation...

I covered 683-649.
I skipped any outside of the US.
I skipped any with an organizer I'd already notified.
I passed this info to some friends.
Good Luck!
rysmith2023

 

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[kylebrotherton]

In Washington State, we got permission from two community colleges in Snohomish County. I was at one today. We had a table, under a canopy. They let us walk around handing out fliers. We were polite and friendly. Got a great response.

 

[ThePieSwindler]

I'm GOING to college soon. I'm going to try to get a sizable group at my school to do some Ron Paul activism.

 

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[LibertyEagle]

I think you're being too hard on yourself, Jennifer. That's what I think. I think I just read the post in the stickies that you were talking about. That sounds like a Meetup organizer; not someone directly with the campaign. Sounds like he's frustrated for the same reason you are. He can't get anyone to do anything besides sit at their keyboards either.

You had a good idea. Your message may or may not have been forwarded by the Meetup Organizers to the respective members of the group. That could explain the slow response.

 

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[Bro.Butch]

In Washington State, we got permission from two community colleges in Snohomish County. I was at one today. We had a table, under a canopy. They let us walk around handing out fliers. We were polite and friendly. Got a great response.

This is how it is @ Auburn you ask permission and they allow you to have a table on the main concourse. Several thousand people will come by. I think Aug. 15 is when they are having the RP table !!!

 

[mport1]

Well, here is an update. Sadly, I have received less than 8 emails regarding this subject. I thought there would be a lot more. I learned a lot through this and through mail I receive from others when I write articles and I thought I would share it with you.

We all come up with ideas all the time that we think are terrific. Some are, some not. But, we cannot expect everyone to jump on board OUR idea just because we think it is terrific. This taught me a couple of things. One, I cannot expect the campaign to jump just because the all powerful me came up with an idea. They must get 20,000 ideas a day. And two, it made me more determined than ever to focus on the goals of the campaign and help them with their projects. Like the Iowa focus and things like that.

That way, when the campaign asks for help I can jump in with both feet and not be bogged down by my own projects. It really hit home for me today when I read that post by a coordinator for the campaign, or whatever he is (It is now a sticky called primaries focus or something.) He was complaining that with all this support out here, the campaign can barely get a handful of people to help when they ask.

Yesterday, when I was trying to find 25 people to help me send out messages, just messages, pre-written even, it took over 1300 viewers before I got help from 13 people. But that is mostly my own hubris thinking that MY idea is so brilliant that of course everyone should stop what they are doing to help me.

Anyway, I thought I would share my soul searching moments. Not sure why, but who knows, someone else may be sharing frustrations that I was having. I now realize a lot of my problems stemmed from my own demands, my own unrealistic expectations and not a lack of support from hq or others on this board.

Rock on all!

Let's go get this man elected!

I feel your pain. It is extremley hard to get people motivated (even hard working Ron Paul volunteers). Sometimes it feels like you are yelling into a vacuum. Wish there was some way to concentrate on the important efforts like this and push some of the debate and discussions to the side.