Ron Paul Love Bomb

[SteveMartin]

Dear friends and supporters of Ron Paul,

My name is Steve Martin, and I am the Meetup coordinator of Meetup #17 in Aroostook County, Maine. I am one of the earlier supporters of Dr. Paul's run for President, and I think I have stumbled upon an idea that will help the campaign, and also help others, in a number of ways.

Ron Paul supporters have been maligned in certain segments of the press recently because certain folks with despicable anti-Semitic or other racist views have made it known that they support Ron Paul or that they have contributed to his campaign.

The "Ron Paul Love Bomb" project is designed to show that the vast majority of
Ron Paul supporters are loving people who share an interest in helping to shape the future of the country for the benefit of all Americans.

While we certainly understand that donations directly to the campaign are of the highest priority, we believe that this opportunity offers donors who have reached their $2300 limit, and international supporters, a way to contribute in another effective way to the campaign. Of course, all Ron Paul supporters who feel that the message that these donations will send is important may give as well.

We will be collecting funds at www.RonPaulLoveBomb up until December 30th, when we will distribute the funds collected as a "love bomb" to the following 2 charities:

1. The Social & Humanitarian Fund of Chabad-Lubavitch, a prominent Jewish charity
http://lubavitch.com/... .

and...

2. The United Negro College Fund:
http://www.uncf.org/?... .

This will be especially effective timing, as the funds will be distributed just before the Iowa Caucuses and the early primaries begin.

Please do what you can, and spread the word about the Ron Paul Love Bomb far and wide!

For Ron Paul and the Republic,
Steve Martin
[email protected]
207-532-3635

 

[hillertexas]

I like it

 

[jake]

honorable suggestion!

 

[AlexMerced]

yes, hopefully my local meetup will all go to a local soup kitchen and help out

 

[SteveMartin]

Also, I was one of the very first posters and one of the most frequent posters at the official meetup message boards at www.ronpaul.meetup.com, just so you know this is not some scam. This is the thread where the idea originated for those who may be interested:

http://ronpaul.meetup.com/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3823258&pager.offset=0

And, if you are a member of a meetup group, would you take a minute and send the following email to the members of your group. You do this by simply putting ronpaul-###@meetup.com in the "send to" line. The ### should be replaced with your meetup group number (but it may be 1 digit long, 2, 3 or 4 digits long--not necessarily three), and then everyone who is a member of your group will have an opportunity to share in this important project.

Copy and Paste the previous post above into your text box. (A HUGE THANKS IN ADVANCE!)

 

[SteveMartin]

Thanks guys and gals! Glad most of you seem to think the idea has some merit.

Any suggestions to make the website (www.RonPaulLoveBomb.com) or the overall plan even better?

 

[Original_Intent]

As a long time poster on this site, I can vouch for Steve he is one of the prime movers over on the official Meetup.com boards.

Not sure if my endorsement means anything, but there it is.

Steve is awesome!

Steve, how can we get some good media coverage of this without appearing to toot our own horn? Would the recipients be willing to do a press release if the funds raised were substantial? I think this is an awesome idea!

 

[AlexMerced]

it's the daily doube, if we each recruit one new person a day, support doubles daily

 

[SteveMartin]

As a long time poster on this site, I can vouch for Steve he is one of the prime movers over on the official Meetup.com boards.

Not sure if my endorsement means anything, but there it is.

Steve is awesome!

Steve, how can we get some good media coverage of this without appearing to toot our own horn? Would the recipients be willing to do a press release if the funds raised were substantial? I think this is an awesome idea!

Wow! thanks for the endorsement, my friend. I am not sure I would be convinced this wasn't a scam, so I set it up so that I can not even touch the money myself. A friend of mine (an RP friend I have never met, but talked to many times) named Tom Golebieswki (the Meetup #23 coordinator) is the only one with access, and he is 300 miles from me in southern Maine.

As far as media publicity, a lot of that will depend on how well we do. If we only raise a few thousand we probably won't do much with publicity. If we raise a lot, I may try to get RP to go give the checks to the groups in person.

We'll have to play that all by ear.

 

[PaulNation2008]

A "love bomb" might make us sound like hippies to the media/GOP voters.

Just a thought.

 

[Suzu]

As a long time poster on this site, I can vouch for Steve he is one of the prime movers over on the official Meetup.com boards.

Not sure if my endorsement means anything, but there it is.

Steve is awesome!

What O_I said...

 

[Original_Intent]

Or we could play it as putting the "3VOL" in R[3VOL]UTION.

 

[SteveMartin]

I am embarrassed to say that I can not afford to be the first contributor at www.RonPaulLoveBomb.com myself...I did put $18.95 into getting the site up and running though...

So, who will be the FAMOUS first donor?...lol..

 

[Original_Intent]

Steve,

As much as i want to, I can not do anything until after the Dec 16th nuke. I have not even pledged on the TeaParty site yet because I am trying to figure out where that $100 is coming from. I am going to do it, I just want to make sure my mouth isn't writing checks that my ___ can't cash.

I expect I will be in for at least $25 , but again I won't pledge until the 16th is done.

 

[SteveMartin]

Steve,

As much as i want to, I can not do anything until after the Dec 16th nuke. I have not even pledged on the TeaParty site yet because I am trying to figure out where that $100 is coming from. I am going to do it, I just want to make sure my mouth isn't writing checks that my ___ can't cash.

I expect I will be in for at least $25 , but again I won't pledge until the 16th is done.

OI,

Thanks, but we aren't collecting pledges, just cash...lol...So if/when you can spare a few bucks we'll be there for ya!

Oh, and YES we are playing on the rELOVolution theme...We are indeed trying to put the "Love" in "revolution"...I'll tell Tom to add those words to the site some place....great idea.

 

[FireofLiberty]

I think the UNCF promotes collectivist views.

 

[TechnoGuyRob]

Bump! Excellent initiative.

But I do agree an organization other than UNCF might be...favorable.

 

[ClockwiseSpark]

I think it's a great idea though I fear the MSM will just ignore it and continue to call us Anti-Semites and racists. Still, that has never stopped us before. Let's do it.

 

[SteveMartin]

Bump! Excellent initiative.

But I do agree an organization other than UNCF might be...favorable.

The idea was to find an organization that helps folks of color that is not involved directly in politics (such as the Rainbow Coalition, etc.). Most folks think of them as what they basically are...a fund to help send poorer black kids to college.

 

[hddn-agnda]

I like this idea, but the hypocrisy of Original Intent should be shown for what it is...

trashing every other fundraising effort that would send money to Ron Paul, while supporting this idea that wouldn't send a single penny to Ron Paul. Just an observation... I won't add my own opinion as to the intentions of... Original Intent--just post that for you to make your own judgements.