This sort of thread is the kind of bullshit that just makes me laugh out loud.
First, I have to tell everyone who is reading this, there ain't no chance in hell some dopey girl is gonna 'sabotage' ANYTHING I do for Ron Paul.
The folks who are posting this crap LET HER sabotage them.
Second, how ridiculous is it to allow this to happen while you all stand by and grumble under your breath about it, then come here after the fact with all of the details?
I've kept up with meetup e-mails daily from NYC, NH, SC low country, SC upstate, Charlotte and several others, as well as stayed in touch with Jim, Kate, Amanda, Chris, Scott, Josh, Avery, etc., directly or indirectly. I can't imagine for one second any of us (or any one of us) grumbling about this person or that person, regardless of who hired them or into what position they were hired, while we let them 'sabotage the state'.
In fact, this sort of thing hasn't come up once in my experience through any of the people I've met and worked with around the country.
The person in charge has to be sharp or that person is either ignored or replaced and the beat goes on. PERIOD.
I would have made life so uncomfortable for such a person that she would have had to complain to HQ, not the other way around. And, it would have happened sooner rather than later.
All I can say to folks from other states is, don't wait until there's nothing that can be done and then whine, blame and ask for your donation back. Get on the horn immediately, even if it's something you only have a feeling about, and...don't start a thread about it here, in a public forum. Ping someone through e-mail, PM or by phone and let it go from there.
Please don't respond to me with some 'you don't know, you weren't there' crap. I'm just saying my piece on these useless, unfounded 'the campaign is incompetent' threads, posts, whatever.
McCain has fired hundreds of staffers. Rudy has also and is asking them to work for free. Huckleberry doesn't have a staff. Mitt could have all the staff on earth and it wouldn't help him in the least with the stupid things he says everywhere he goes. Brownback, Gilmore, Thompson, Tancredo, are ALL out of the race.
The bozos who are ahead of us have constant, daily media attention in newspapers, magazines, on TV and radio. All Ron gets is 'long shot', 'dark horse', 'fringe', 'hopeful' who is 'languishing in the polls'.
Put some blame there, will ya? The campaign has done miraculously to even still be in the race, and they'll be in the race through Super Tuesday. A miracle in it's own rite.
Guliani raised $50 million by the end of the 3rd Qtr, and spent $30 million by October.
Romney had $63 million " " " " " " " and spent $54 million by October.
McCain raised $33 million " " " " " " " and spent $30 million by October.
Ron had raised $8 million " " " " " " " and spent $3 million by October.
$3 million and only negative media against $105 million and mega free media.
THIS is how the campaign began the 4th quarter. At the same time, all of the states so far had moved their primary dates closer and closer to the 1st of the year, designed to head off the momentum of RP.
We donated millions a mere few weeks ago and Ron is in this race. We have no idea what is planned for Super Tuesday because it would be insane to announce publicly, but we seem obsessed with being this campaigns biggest detractors...right here in this forum.
Please let us get the results of the vote tonight before the campaign bashing begins, eh?
Sorry, just not what I want to see in this forum anymore. I hear enough of this shit from the media. Some pea-brained nobody 'sabotaged' Michigan. Sheesh, what next?
Bosso