STEP 1: Nominate your PAC name here (rules are inside)

[malkusm]

This thread is part of a process intended on developing a PAC name that is completely decided upon by the grassroots here.

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STEP 1. Nomination thread

Please provide your nomination for the name of our state candidate PAC below. In addition to the name, please provide a brief description (100 words or less) of your reasoning behind the name that you nominated.

Rules:
+ Limit one nomination per user.
+ No obscenity, no "gag" names, nothing that would get us sued. This thread is serious business.
+ Please check the thread before you post. It will be easier for us if there are no duplicate names.
+ This thread will close for suggestiong in THREE (3) days. If your idea is not submitted in this thread by 9:30 PM on Wednesday, October 24, 2010, it will not be included in the future steps.

Format:
(Your PAC name here)

(Description of your reasoning for supporting the PAC here, in 100 words or less.)

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Future steps:

Step 2: Forum vote

The nominations will be included in a poll. The poll will be here on Liberty Forest (if there are 20 or fewer nominations), or a link will be provided for members to vote (if there are more than 20). The voting will be open for THREE (3) days from the time that the poll opens.

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Step 3: Runoff vote

If a simple majority is not reached in the first forum vote, the top THREE (3) vote-getters from the first vote will be entered into a "runoff" vote. This vote will be held in a poll on Liberty Forest. The voting will be open for FIVE (5) days....no, no, just checking if you're still reading. THREE days, just like everything else.

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Who's first?

 

[forsmant]

Liberty Caucus PAC

No description neccesary

 

[Austin]

Bill of Rights PAC

I don't believe we are required to have PAC in the name.. If that is the case, PAC could be substituted with Coalition, Committee, etc.

I will update with a description of my reasons for this PAC name soon.

 

[CaseyJones]

"Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us." -- Patrick Henry

Destiny Of Nations PAC

 

[malkusm]

Rightful Remedy PAC

"That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." -Kentucky Resolutions of 1799

Additionally: "Rightful Remedy PAC" is about as non-partisan as it gets. People don't necessarily need to get the reference to nullification in order to get behind us.

 

[Kotin]

Tree of Liberty PAC

 

[osan]

How about Rightful Action? Consider the Jeffersonian quote:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

Edit: Sentinels of Liberty?
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[CaseyJones]

step up folks , now is the time , here is the place

 

[eOs]

Liberty Forest PAC

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

American States for a Constitutional Republic (Coalition, Committee, or Initiative or none) [you don't have to have "PAC" in the name]

ASCR

Why:

+ "American"- our continent, our heritage.
+ "States" - the States are the only source of power here. They were the First. They have forgotten their power and abdicated to a Frankensteinian monster. No one but the States themselves can restore their rightful place, especially not any nebulous federal government.
+ "Constitutional" - government based on laws, not men
+ "Republic" - government free from hereditary or monarchical rule, based on representative suffrage.

 

[LibertyMage]

Tea Party State Leaders Fund

We need to remember the constituency we want to resonate with. We want to ride the Tea Party waves as long as possible. In the minds of the people, the connection between our group and the Tea Party needs to be one that easily made.

"Tea Party State Leaders Fund", modeled after Jim Demint's successful "Senate Conservatives Fund". You could actually model the entire campaign after that campaign, which was driven via the internet.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I discovered some time ago that legislators and lawmakers (like Ron Paul's Liberty PAC) have their own PAC's with which they help allied members, or potential allies. I intend to name mine the "Constitutional Sovereignty Initiative" with a shortname "CSI-PAC" for ease of check writing.

My suggestion for this PAC is the "Constitutional Alliance Fund" with the shortname "CAF-PAC" again, for easy check writing.

I mention both here, on the outside chance that CSI-PAC generates excitement, I am willing to give it up for the greater cause. That said, I would really like to keep CSI-PAC as my legislative PAC So CAF-PAC "Constitutional Alliance Find" is my offering.

ETA - the more I think about it though, it almost seems as though the two should be reversed..... Like a legislators PAC is to help me build my alliances, and the PAC in question is the initiative to elect State House legislators. huh. I dunno.

Well, good thing I provided both. Y'all can decide which one fits this PAC the best.

 

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

Midnight Riders PAC (or something else connected to Paul Revere)

I feel that a name associated with Revere would be appealing to your average tea party attendee without having to use symbols that have been co-opted by the tea party (i.e. Gadsden flag). Many independent voters, Democrats and even some Republicans are not fans of the tea party and would be turned off by something seen as being associated with the tea party.

Everyone (at least mostly everyone) is familiar with the story of Paul Revere and what his famous ride was all about. This story also has no partisan connection and is something that the average citizen can relate to and appreciate regardless of their political leanings. As far as we are concerned it would represent one of the foundations of why we all do what we do and that is attempting to wake up the citizenry, to alert them to what is happening in this country and rally them to fight for the Republic.

It would also be easy to use for fundraising purposes. The logo could easily be a lantern or an outline of a man on horseback. A volunteer or donor newsletter could be titled "the lantern" and any functions could be called "Revere rallies" or something like that. I just see a lot of positives with using something associated with Paul Revere.

btw, I know I went over 100 words (as was requested) so I apologize.

 

[malkusm]

Bump -- more ideas are welcome. Nobody's suggested "Gadsden PAC" yet, which was a serious consideration....anyone want to make the token gesture and nominate it?

 

[Thomas]

Gadsden PAC

 

[JoshLowry]

Gadsden PAC

The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the snake is the legend "Dont tread on me." The flag was designed by and is named after American general and statesman Christopher Gadsden. It was also used by the United States Marine Corps as an early motto flag.

The flag and the name have been a large draw to those who are currently active in the tea party. This is going to be our target audience for donors in the first year or two. The gadsden flag has been non-partisan for hundreds of years. We can help it to remain that way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag

In December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

"I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shewn and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?"

I also have current control over GadsdenPAC.com and GadsdenPAC.org

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I do like Gadsden PAC, and I like the idea of taking the Tea Party back from the Tea Party. The reason I did not nominate it was because there was significant opposition to the name as the thought went it might turn off anybody who didn't like the Tea Parties. I still consider Gadsden PAC as my 1st choice, but I will attempt to avoid the internal division that it's adoption will create. A split at this stage will be detrimental to our future successes I think.

 

[JoshLowry]

I really don't mind what we call it.

Our actions will define the organization.

 

[MRoCkEd]

Bill of Rights PAC

I don't believe we are required to have PAC in the name.. If that is the case, PAC could be substituted with Coalition, Committee, etc.

I will update with a description of my reasons for this PAC name soon.

Seconded for "Bill of Rights Coalition."

Everybody likes some part of the Bill of Rights. Liberals like the fourth, conservatives like the second, tea partiers like the tenth, and Ron Paulers love them all.

As a state-level PAC, our goal is to restore the original intent of the constitution, as emphasized by the Bill of Rights - The federal government can't do anything besides the enumerated powers. Everything else is left to the states.

We intend to resist these violations through the rightful remedies our founders intended the states to use.

 

[Thomas]

i'm in favor of Rightful Remedy PAC