Bump. Because this MUST happen.
All that is left to be done is for shotdown to bring the paperwork to the secretary of state's office with the $500 dollars.
I'm confident he can achieve this.
I would think a press release would be required to get the media attention.
I know I can get some bloggers to run the story. Popular bloggers and news sites like the dead pelican.
I think Chad would cover it alright.
Brent,
I write press releases and such for a living, so I'm going to take care of that. Im willing to bet we'll get a few bites.
Because of the nature of this project, we're going to wait until they ACCEPT our paperwork before we actually send out anything. When we do, it'll hit the blogs first. Ballot-access.org, IndPoliticalReport.com, ThirdPartyWatch.com, LewRockwell.com/blog, and TheDeadPelican.com will all go first. I know the people who run each of those. I suspect next we'll just send the message to every TV, Radio, and Print newspaper in the state. After that, I'll send something to CNN, Fox, The New York Times, etc etc. I think this would make national news.
As for AdamT, I'd love to have our core team sit down with him and hammer out something. And I'd love to raise 100k and put a REAL dent in McCain's totals.
This is awesome, but I think someone should make sure it's OK with Goldwater Jr before the papers are filed. He might raise an objection to it; after all he did eventually endorse McCain. That could be a problem if substitution isn't allowed.
If he doesn't want on the ticket, perhaps a Louisiana "Favorite Son" would be in order.
Brent,
I think Gov. Gary Johnson would agree to it. He has nothing to lose, loves Ron Paul, and likes being controversial. However, I couldnt get in contact with him.
Plus--Johnson doesnt add much in the way of votes. Goldwater does.