What Happened to the Blimps Legal Team???
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Yeah seriously...talk about lack of info...
Charles Wilson
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Is there a legal problem with the blimp? I need to know now before I make my donation.
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MindStalker
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Sounds more like the legal team quit. They haven't been paid yet probably and donations haven't increased. Remember these guys where hired guns not Ron Paul supporters.
Now this is only my guess. I'm not connected with the blimp at all.
Now this is only my guess. I'm not connected with the blimp at all.
I'm GUESSING that they bailed because not enough funds have been raised to pay their retainer. My GUESS is that the 240K that has been raised thus far goes to the blimp company and salaries for Trevor and others, plus the retainer fees due to the legal team was to have been paid from the money not yet raised...so they probably think we will not raise the 400K by the 20th or 21st and they bailed.
This is just a guess.
This is just a guess.
I hope you're correct. I just want to make sure there is no pending litigation but rather that they just quit for money reasons...
I got the email too, and went and looked at the site, where indeed the former Legal Team link is MIA. I note however that on the "Transparency" page Brad Smith is still listed, with his fee still carefully opaqued (it was originally listed as a $10,000 retainer and $500/hour).
I posted before about my misgivings about the blimp's legal situation (if it was risky enough to require spending a precious $10,000 of supporters' money to hire a lawyer who's a prominent Mitt Romney supporter as "protection", who's to say an enemy couldn't spend more to attack it -- and guess who has that kind of money to spare?), which decided me not to participate. I loved the idea, and still do in principle, but it certainly hasn't turned out as expected (no Boston, no NH, actually grounded due to weather on 12/16), and now it's in trouble -- despite the $10K already spent on a DC lawyer? -- before it's even really gotten off the ground?
The campaign coulda used another $250,000 on the 16th, in my view; and next spring/summer, when the weather's better and we have a real idea where all this is going, would've been a better time to do a blimp. It was a one-day wonder in the press, yeah, but it's not really going to buy all that much more name recognition before the first primaries.
And BTW, I don't really care for being dunned for blimp support because I signed up at TeaParty07.com; mixing the two is bad manners, IMO.
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Lawyers, hmph. This is why we have to stop lawyers from reaching the white house, all they care about is money which is why we are in the situation we are these days. To me lawyers and liars are the same thing.
I'm going to guess that all the previous indicators are true and the blimp is a giant clusterfuck of a project doomed to eventual catastrophic failure.
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More Information Coming Soon...
More information on our need for legal assistance will be forthcoming in the next few days. We have not had any lawyers bail out for lack of payment.
Right now the blimp is still scheduled to depart with both banners on Wednesday 12/19 in the morning and will be heading towards Washington DC/Philadelphia, PA.
More information on our need for legal assistance will be forthcoming in the next few days. We have not had any lawyers bail out for lack of payment.
Right now the blimp is still scheduled to depart with both banners on Wednesday 12/19 in the morning and will be heading towards Washington DC/Philadelphia, PA.
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Why we had to guess ? What's happen with transparency ? Can't the spend 5-10 minutes to explain to forumers ? 240 K isn't their money, after all. Damn. I really hate to complain. But those blimp organizers have a serious issue with upfront and straight forward talking.
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I'm not really down with the blimp...i think its a cool idea in theory, but it would be better at the end of the day when we are more secure. I personally think its a waste of money and kind of makes us look like kooks. Take yourself outside of the campaign, what would you think? and if its bringing all this trouble might be better to cut our losses now, but then again it could just be a small problem...who knows
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Then put information in the flightplan. Updating information in the ronpaulblimp should be the top priority.
More money will be forthcoming when information flows freely. And when we are asked/informed of problems and given input into their solution.
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Our departure tommorow AM has been in the flight plan since yesterday afternoon..if I remember correctly. I also updated the blog: www.RonPaulBlimpBlog.com with more detailed information.
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We have reached out and asked for help with our problems from the demographic that we need help from right now, lawyers. As soon as we are ready for more help with ideas like promotions, rallying and user friendliness (probably in a few days) we'll ask everyone. Thanks!
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