Ron Paul 8 million left in bank

Other Comments from Jesse Benton!!

Benton also said that they just opened three offices in Maine and an office in Louisana. He commented that the MLK Money Bomb, FreeatLast.com was January 21st.

If they took in $19.8 million in the 4th quarter and had $5.43 million in the bank to start the last quarter of 2007 ( a total of $25.23 million) they burned thru $17.23 million in the last three months of 2007 or about $5.73 million a month.

My guess is in January 2008 they will spend at least $6 million easy. Their $8 million cushion to start this 1st quarter will be gone fast unless we replenish the coffers in the next 2 weeks.

The http//:www.freeatlast2008.com[/url] MoneyBomb on January 21st will be critical to the very survival of this campaign.
 
sadly the coffers will not be replenished if folks think they underperforming. i get the impression they're a bunch of amateurs who have never run anything this big before
 
If it's true, stick a fork in us.

Especially after the MLK bomb does as poorly as it's shaping up to.

Go promote it people. Make more videos if you know how to, make flyers, put a link to it in your signature at other message board accounts, post about it at your meetup groups, on face book, and myspace pages.

Just for the f*ck of it, we should aim to blow away the old record just to show the world that we are a force to be reckoned with and that we will not back down and way, even if they black him out of the media.
 
Probably less than 5 million by now. That will dry up and shrivel soon without another big infusion.

300 paid staffers is way too many in my opinion. That's a huge amount of overhead eating up the money day after day. They have not justified their employment considering the voting results.

I have to agree with that.
 
sadly the coffers will not be replenished if folks think they underperforming. i get the impression they're a bunch of amateurs who have never run anything this big before

Unfortunately, I think you're right. Another thing that really hurts people's morale is the comparatively poor performance in IA and NH. MI wasn't as bad, but only because we beat Fred and Rudolph. Compared to pretty boy and the preacher, the votes Ron got weren't all that much. We need to do well in the next couple of primaries before Super Tuesday to really launch this thing!

Nothing succeeds like success. If we can do well in NV and wake people up to the fact that RP is "electable", I have a feeling a lot more people will jump on board. Americans have this weird idea that primaries are like horse races.
 
Benton also said that they just opened three offices in Maine and an office in Louisana.

If they took in $19.8 million in the 4th quarter and had $5.43 million in the bank to start the last quarter of 2007 ( a total of $25.23 million) they burned thru $17.23 million in the last three months of 2007 or about $5.73 million a month.

ARE THEY BUILDING THE OFFICES!!! $17 MILLION DOLLARS IN THREE MONTHS, BARELY ANY TV ADS (broke rudy is spending millions in florida on ads???), NO PRODUCTION QUALITY AND STILL SINGLE DIGITS!!! AND BENTON HAS MADE $90,674.61!!!

*Calms down*
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So long as they bought ad time for super tuesday and have paid for better ads in the works, this might not be as bad.
 
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The infomercial probably cost quite a bit. However, I do agree this is probably money spent for some strategy they haven't revealed. Super Tuesday is where the big delegates are at, not these little dingly things beforehand. Having a bunch of nationwide ads bombarding the airwaves would go a long way to securing a victory on Super Tuesday, more than anything else.

So that's where I think some of this money is probably going.
 
I'm part of Super Tuesday and I haven't heard a peep. It's like the blimp says! Who is Ron Paul?? O_o
 
lol, like I've said a billion time, I doubt Super Tuesday advertising would be on until after SC, anytime before would get lost in the clutter
 
... people.. a 50 state campaign is freaking expensive.
Howard Dean spent over $50,000,000 in 2004 . They've paid for things we haven't seen yet (I hope..).

Grassroots did well with raising $20M, but that's a drop in the bucket. So get ready to donate on the 21st. Do something like sell junk on eBay to fill up your paypal tanks.
 
The "Last Chance for Liberty" 5 day money train weekend begins at MIDNIGHT tonight EST!

A final opportunity for Ron Paul supporters to donate in order to change the course of this election and the future of this nation is upon us. This 5 day last chance fundraising event begins with the "Benjamins for Paul" PRIMARY SHOCKER on the 17th and ends with the MLK "Free at Last" money bomb on the 21st.

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http://www.freeatlast2008.com/

The goal of this effort is raise as much money as possible during this five day period. If we could raise a full ten million dollars it would be gigantic last minute boost to the Ron Paul campaign. This is an ALL INCLUSIVE event. Everyone is free to donate on any day they choose. Do you support the Ben Franklin or MLK money bombs? Feel free to donate on that day! Do you hate money bombs? Then donate on the 18th, 19th, or 20th! What really matters is that we raise as MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE during this five day period!

Why must we raise the money by the end of the 21st? The answer is simple. Any money collected AFTER the 21st may or may not be used for SUPER TUESDAY. The campaign needs money and they need it NOW!

Effectively campaigning in such a large number of states is VERY expensive. It's even more expensive when you consider the mainstream media gives hundreds of millions of dollars of free publicity to every other candidate except Ron Paul. This means we have to compete with candidates that have the support of the mainstream media. However, what they don't realize is that there are thousands and thousands of us and we are going to give the campaign the money to buy their own publicity!

The mainstream media want to silence Ron Paul's message. Lets make them SHAKE IN FEAR by giving Ron Paul so much money he can campaign effectively in EVERY single state!
 
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