Wisconsin for Ron Paul 2008

Its been fun

2008-05-13T15:18:00.002-05:00

It seems that the even though the official campaign is not officially over all campaigning activities ceased to happen long before the Wisconsin primary. I will leave the blog here for awhile but I will not be updating it anymore. Most of the Wisconsin meetup groups have disbanded already. Hopefully we will be able to all get together again if we have the opportunity to support another candidate who loves and supports our freedom.

Wisconsin Ron Paul Billboard Campaign

2008-02-14T14:03:00.001-06:00

The Fox Valley Meetup group along with the American Liberty Coalition PAC sponsor a billboard campaign in the Fox Valley. Read the article here.

Signs and Campaign Materials

2008-02-13T10:17:00.002-06:00

The Walworth County Meetup group has campaign materials available to anyone in the area that needs supplies. Our organizer went to Illinois this past week and picked up several 4x8 foot signs as well as some other campaign materials. If you need materials and can get them out before Tuesday contact the Walworth Meetup group.

We also have smaller yard signs and slimjims.

Ron Paul Billboards

2008-02-10T22:15:00.000-06:00

Here's a picture of a digital billboard that is running up in Stevens Point up until the primary on the 19th. The billboard was done by Wisconsin's American Liberty Coalition PAC. Click on the link to check them out and donate if you can.

New Mass Donation Day

2008-01-25T11:52:00.000-06:00

Here is our opportunity to give the knockout punch. Its theme is to raise awareness of the 16th Amendment, 'ratified' February 3, 1913. The IRS requires us to testify against ourselves directly in opposition of the 5th Amendment.

The donation level is steeper this time but maybe you can think about giving part of your tax return or the new "Economic Stimulus" check towards this effort. I signed up for this today. I still have a little over $500 left before I max out my $2300 donation.

Here is a graph showing the signup rates...

Help get out the message of Common Sense

2008-01-25T07:11:00.000-06:00

The leader of the Wisconsin Fox Valley group is leading an effort to get the Man of Common Sense advertisements published in 6 local newspapers. This would be done as an 8.5 x 11" sheet inserted in the paper. We can reach 10,000 people for 8 cents each. Here is the chipin where you can help with the effort.

Thanks for any financial help you can give! Going to a brokered convention? Wisconsin could be very important to Dr. Paul!

What is the Ron Paul Campaign Doing?

2008-01-22T09:57:00.000-06:00

Ok, I know that this will be a rather long read but it is VERY inspirational and puts things into perspective of how the campaign is going and how we have a very real chance to win. This was written by Warren, one of the MeetUp group leaders in Wisconsin...

Now is not the time to falter...

The following was a great read, and was hi-lighted and sent to me by Angela (leader of the Waukesha group) I agree completely that it should be passed along. GO READ IT NOW if you can:

Ron Paul's Moneybomb Fizzles: Rudy May Get Last Laugh After All

Reading that, it made me go back and actually REALLY READ through recent emails from the campaign... in doing so I found that I had indeed overlooked several important statements.

1) TWENTY STATES of MASS TV and RADIO ADS -- In the December 29th email, all I apparently saw was the $23 Million request -- I totally overlooked that they had stated quite clearly what the purpose of the request was:

To run radio and television ads in 20 states simultaneously will cost a fortune. Not to mention the cost of voter contact mailings to those 20 states. And then there is the cost of contacting hundreds of thousands of people by phone. All of this, plus other projects, will cost $23 million more than we presently have in the bank.

Do I think they could be BETTER at communicating this information? No doubt. The above was "buried" in the 4th paragraph of a 7 paragraph plain text email. (No bold, no italic... no "subheading"... just buried. Obviously Kent Snyder, the Campaign Chairman and author of the letter could learn a few things about letter construction and improved communication.) Granted I *do* still wish they would make 100% clear what they have spent so far and how they have spent it... but the above request DID clearly state the purpose. (Let's just hope they use GOOD ads this time... I guess the *quality* and the content of the 20-states worth of the ads is something one must step out in faith on.)

2) IOWA campaign held-back on resources anticipating problems & opposition -- In the January 7th email entitled "How Do I Say Thank You" the following was (once again) "buried" in the second to last paragraph:

In our Iowa campaign, since it was a caucus, we were dealing with party activists for the most part, not the people. And some of the activists were very unhappy to hear our views, trying to scream them down! Others thought that peace violates Christianity.

OK, again it could have been subtitled and made a lot clearer (and perhaps even titled better?), but it is fairly obvious that there WAS a purposeful reticence (and not just an after-the fact justification) to spend more money in a state and to a "select few" (Iowa Caucuses draw only a minor single digit % participation) who are known to be somewhat "oppositional" to the message. I also DO wish they had owned up to the failed database and poor use of the college students -- who sacrificed their Christmas vacation time with little to show for it but bruises and experience. (However those students who DID go through it learned SOLID lessons, hopefully the campaign did too? Time will tell, I guess.)

3) New Hampshire was a miscalculation & was on purpose NOT the subject of major ad campaign -- Why? Well as is laid out in the rest of the same paragraph in the January 7th (day before NH primary) email cited above, the campaign THOUGHT that New Hampshire would be a "cake-walk" and that advertising there was unnecessary (and they were thinking and hedging their bets for Super Tuesday):

But New Hampshire is another story. There is a state and a people tailor-made for us. Live Free! Then there are Michigan, South Carolina, and Super Tuesday and its nearly 20 primaries. Frankly, we need $23 million more to have a chance of beating the establishment candidates.

I think in the above there is a pretty solid *hint* that they though NH was a "slam-dunk" and the failure there caused them to "pull-back" from Michigan AND South Carolina in anticipation of Super Tuesday. Again this was never clearly spelled out, but it WAS hinted at.

4) "We have made mistakes." -- The January 10th "Onward" email I *know* that I read thoroughly, but even here I missed something the first and second time around. And that is the sentence already cited: "We have made mistakes." Perhaps because I regularly "own up" to my personal mistakes, I missed the rarity and clarity of the OWNERSHIP of that statement; this is NOT a George W. Bush disavowal of responsibility -- it does not say "Mistakes were made." Instead, it clearly states "WE" -- followed by "MADE" -- followed by "MISTAKES."

Now obviously, one could WISH that they had included some "listing," however short, of the mistakes they believe were made, AND some assurance thereby that the appropriate LESSONS had been learned. As he often does, Ron "assumes" that we know the mistakes he is talking about -- perhaps, and this is a hopeful thought, this is because they (the campaign) had gone over and reviewed the mistakes so many times that they sincerely THOUGHT everyone knew the whole list. (Got news for the campaign, if you don't tell us... well, we don't have ESP and don't have microphones bugging HQ meetings [at least not yet.. though that sounds like a good idea, no?]) But on looking at it in the CONTEXT of the immediately prior January 7th email about NH being "tailor made" I think I have seen (and already pointed out in #4 above... they "assumed" NH was already won, and therefore did NOT splurge on ads during the final days.)

5) "we are in this all the way through a brokered convention." -- As it was the last sentence in a longish introductory paragraph of the January 20th email "Message From Ron" on the Nevada results, I missed this statement. It is a critical statement... one that should have stood by itself, in it's own paragraph as it is MUCH too powerful to be buried.

Thanks to you, we are in this all the way through a brokered convention.

See how much of a difference THAT makes. Hmmm...

Also, this makes clear the campaign's full (and yes, risky!) strategy -- that this year there will NOT be a clear "consensus" winner of the nomination prior to the convention. But that instead the convention will be a rare BROKERED one; and that for once, Ron Paul intends to run a "brokerage house."

OK, so to me at least there IS NOW a clearcut STATED CAMPAIGN STRATEGY. The goal is NOT necessarily to try to become the "consensus winner" (though circumstances MAY yet make that possible) -- but instead the goal is to fight this out across ALL FIFTY STATES... claiming 2nds, even 3rds, and enough 1sts to end up with a SIGNIFICANT (perhaps 1/3) delegate count. To be fair the campaign has more or less said this already -- it just never seemed real. And doubtless it is "crazy" because it IS entirely different than Huckabee, Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson (and all the others who have already dropped out) -- all of them have bet ALL of their cash up front, hoping that momentum and a "consensus" will carry them through Feb 5th. News for you them is that there currently is NO consensus. Both tactics are risky. But ALL the other candidates have bet the same way -- only Ron has bet on a different color and number on the roulette wheel.

6) "working hard in Florida, in Louisiana and then Super Tuesday 20 states." -- OK, perhaps this one is obvious, within the January 20th email -- but still it needs to be emphasized that the campaign IS pushing into the remaining "early" states (and I am assuming from this that the state of Maine *may* just be bypassed as relatively small and another NH) Hopefully doing so is NOT yet another mistake.

BTW as far as "fessing up" I was unaware until yesterday that Louisiana has an important part of it's caucus process on Jan 22nd. Seems the OTHER campaigns have missed that as well. Louisiana meetups say there is HEAVY dissatisfaction with the Federal Government (duh!) and that while the election there is chaotic, they have hopes for a good result (meaning high delegates for Ron Paul).

7) "I promise you that I will continue to pour all my heart and mind and strength into the battle." -- Again at the end of the January 20th "Message from Ron" email -- an overlooked sentence. Why overlooked? because it was "buried" in the midst of the last paragraph -- almost immediately following the very distracting (and easily dismissed) "Please make your most generous donation"
sentence we are all sick of , and the following blue web-donation site link -- which especially in a plain text note tells you "look ONLY at me because I'm blue and clickable." And for most people, the rest of the paragraph goes completely UNREAD, because... hey why would they put something important there?

I promise you that I will continue to pour all my heart and mind and strength into the battle. I know you will too.

Again communication 101... see how much more powerful that is standing by it's lonesome. BOTH sentences reaffirm that there IS dedication to winning here... something I had begun to doubt.

What this all means.

It means that the campaign has NOT wasted it's cash to date. It means that they closed the wallet & trimmed back in the early states ON PURPOSE in order to make certain they could still play at least a fairly STRONG HAND on February 5th, even if the 1st Quarter donations do not amount to anywhere near the Goal they have set.

In short, we have a pretty solid poker hand, and a few "wild" cards as well (with the Economy and Iraq War) -- while all of the rest of the candidates have maybe a pair or a single high card. And we are sitting on enough chips to make a winning ante... one that may just "buy" the table and the whole game.

If Ron had even more chips, the victory would be virtually assured. (As to the content of the cards -- the TV ads, possibly several "attack ads" -- with all of their skeletons it would greatly surprise me if we were UNABLE to use their own words and videotaped statements against them as knockout blows (like Rudy in Drag, or his blatant statement that "I am NOT a Republican" -- likewise Romney's similar statement, or McCain's 100-year occupation of Iraq -- all of which make the 20-year old "newsletter" pale in comparison!)

Keep in mind that while WE, the technically-savvy internet people have probably seen ALL of these things, the general public has not. And the several Republicans I know who "think" they support Rudy... have no idea what he is really like; their support of Rudy will disappear like a puffball the very instant they see Rudy-in-Drag being "nuzzled" by the Donald! (There was a precursor to this a week or so back, when listening to a WPR show the guest jokingly called Giuliani a "serial cross-dresser" -- 15 minutes later, an incredulous caller who claimed he HAD been a Rudy supporter repeated that phrase and asked the guest for evidence... on being told it was a "well-known" thing in Beltway and that yes, it was factual... the caller was noticeably deflated. And this was only by HEARING it described... he still had not SEEN this video... I guarantee just 10 seconds of that aired on national TV in an attack ad would completely END Giuliani's bid.) And whether they were done with Hollywood "professionality" or not... they would have the same effect.

Note: For those who believe Ron will not attack or run negative ads... that is actually very true. But he is NOT afraid to use opposing candidates own words, images, statements and video against them -- THAT is fair game (especially when they declaim to NOT be Republicans, well in doing so the absent themselves from Reagan's 11th Commandment), and Ron is NOT afraid to play that... he is simply awaiting the right time to reveal those "trump" cards. (OK, I'm mixing my card-game metaphors... but Whist is even more complex than Poker, and subject to more dramatic turns. Something tells me Ron, like Captain Horatio Hornblower, is a really good whist player!)

Final statement... people need to step up to the plate and donate to the campaign again... especially Wisconsin folks. I know that our work here WILL BE important as well, but Feb 5th comes first.

I would donate more myself, but as you are all (painfully) aware... I am maxed out...

So it is up to all of you. Whether it is $5 or $10, $20 or $50 or even more if you can afford it, please contribute so that the PUBLIC can see what the others are TRULY like, and Ron Paul can get OUR message out.

Don't wait for money-bombs... just do it when and as you are able.

--
Warren L. Miller
Organizer, Wisconsin Ron Paul Organizers (Meta-Group)
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/687/

A Man of Common Sense

2008-01-17T09:57:00.000-06:00

Here is a great piece created by one of our local Wisconsin MeetUp organizers. Check out the site and download pdfs at http://manofcommonsense.com

Madison - New Year's Eve March

2007-12-31T13:37:00.000-06:00

This is a great way to meet your fellow Ron Paul supporters and nice way to start your New Year's Eve festivities. Come one, come all! Come for an hour or stay for four. If anyone has any media contacts please let them and me know.

This is the Dane County version of a Nation-wide March in support of Congressman Paul.

Please bring signs, banners, A great big USA Flag would be great! Slim jims, buttons, stickers, enthusiasm, and most of all, as many other people as you can get to join in!

When: 4:00pm-??
Where:
Wisconsin State Capitol Building
2 East Main Street Madison East Washington Ave. side.
Madison , WI 53702

How to find the organizer(s)
"Wisconsin State Capitol Building-Madison WI- East Washington Ave. side. State Street is a pedestrian/ bus street only, on the UW campus with many taverns and foot traffic. A great place for New Year's Eve! Please consider coming."

Southeastern Wisconsin - Tea Party '07

2007-12-10T19:42:00.001-06:00

Join members of several area Ron Paul Meetup groups on the evening of December 16th and help celebrate both the 234th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party...
And (of course) the spectacular nationwide 24-hour fund-raising day for the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign!

Make Your Donation Online Right At The Party!
(WiFi and internet access will be available, with Real-Time Returns & Graphs Projected on a Big Screen!)

Click on the image above to see a full sized flier you can use to invite others to the party.

Sunday, December 16th starting at 5PM

Sperino's "Pizza Room" in Elkhorn, WI
$7.50 per adult for food
(There will be Door Prizes!)
Limited Capacity--RSVP by Dec 12th.
RSVP via your local Ron Paul Meetup Group!
(Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha, Walworth & UW Whitewater Students)

Tea Party + Two

2007-11-27T12:17:00.000-06:00

This December the 16th as you probably already know is another "Money Bomb" mass donation day for Ron Paul. It is commemorating the Boston Tea Party this time. A meetup member from Wisconsin has come up with a good idea and a great video to help us make an even bigger impact than just with our money on Dec 16th. Watch the following video to find out more:

Pledge for Ron Paul Blimp

2007-11-20T16:29:00.000-06:00

From the ronpaulblimp.com site...

Imagine..the mainstream media is mesmerized as the image of the Ron Paul blimp is shown to tens of millions of Americans throughout the day (and throughout the month). Wolf Blizter, stunned and as if in a trance, repeats the words "Amazing, Amazing".

As GPS co-ordinates stream to the website a map shows the Ron Paul blimp's location in real time. The local Television stations broadcast it's every move. The curious flock together and make a trip see history in the making. Emails with pictures are sent, then forwarded, then forwarded again. Youtube videos go viral and reach tens of millions of views. Ron Paul becomes the first presidential candidate in history to have his very own blimp. The PR stunt generates millions upon millions of dollars worth in free publicity, and captures the imagination of America.

Please join us in our goal to raise $200,000 to make and fly the first ever Presidential Blimp in history. Choose a pledge amount below and enter your email address to confirm the pledge. When we reach our goal in pledges you'll receive an email letting you know it's time to fulfill the pledge.

Christian Ron Paul Radio Ads

2007-11-01T11:43:00.000-05:00

Our local Meetup groups are teaming together to create and air some radio ads on some local Christian radio stations. Here is a chipin widgit that you can use to donate to the cause. I will post the ads as soon as they are ready.

2007 GOP 1st District Fall Fest

2007-11-01T11:32:00.001-05:00

I'm a little late putting updates here lately so I apologize. Our Southeastern Wisconsin meetup members attended the annual GOP Fall Fest in Burlington last weekend. We had a great time and there was a great showing for Ron Paul there. No other presidential candidate was represented at all at the meeting (no signs even).

There was a straw poll there where you could vote by donating 50 cents to the UW Whitewater college republicans group. Ron Paul won the straw poll by a landslide. Its always great to get together with supporters and make our presence known.

There was a raffle at the event also. I was fortunate to win the prize of $91.00. I will be donating those proceeds to the efforts to get Ron Paul elected. I encourage everyone out there to get involved in supporting Ron Paul and to attend your local GOP events.

Updated Ron Paul DVD

2007-10-20T20:01:00.000-05:00

I just updated the Ron Paul DVD this weekend that I had posted here before. I included some of the new video footage that has come out recently. The following is a list of the videos from You Tube included at this point:

A New Hope
Stop Dreaming
PBS Interview
Candidates at Google
One Voice

Please download the updated torrent file. Here is the new torrent file link: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3851155

I will continue to seed the orignial DVD for a few days. After that I will stop seeding it and it will probably not be available unless others are seeding it.

My Blog is not allowing me to upload a picture at this time so I will add one of the main menu as soon as possible.

The Fifth of November

2007-10-18T14:47:00.001-05:00

We all need to be in on this. What a message we could send if we could make this happen. Send this to anyone you can to get them on board.

Ron Paul: A New Hope

2007-10-12T13:59:00.000-05:00

Here is a great new video about Ron Paul. Watch it, share and enjoy. I'm probably going to put this on the next Ron Paul dvd that I put together.

Moving Ron Paul Billboard

2007-10-06T13:26:00.001-05:00

Here's a pic of the new decal I just put onto my car:

I ordered this on ebay. I think it cost me around $20. More information about ordering can be found here.

If lots of people put things like this on our vehicles we can create lots of exposure as we drive to work every day.

Wisconsin Police Restricting Free Speech

2007-10-04T10:26:00.000-05:00

Some of our members in the Green Bay area recently met with some resistance from the local police department while holding a sign above a freeway on a public sidewalk. Watch the video below:

Remember what your rights are and stand up for them! Please support our members in Green Bay as they fight against this sort of thing.

Please write to the local media and newspapers in the Green Bay area and raise awareness that this sort of thing is happening.

Ron Paul DVD

2007-09-29T11:02:00.000-05:00

After downloading the DVD from ronpauldvd.com we at the Walworth County group found that we though it could have been done a little bit better to grab people's interest and help show them about Dr. Paul. The following is a screen shot of the menu.

The videos have been downloaded from YouTube but we did it up as professional as possible. The idea behind these is to burn DVD's and give them out to people that may not use the internet or have access to these videos. They have been a great success so far. You can buy dvd's for around 30 cents so they aren't that expensive.

I published this as an .iso image on Bittorrent. You are free to download the iso and burn it to DVD's and distribute it how you wish. You can download and use Alcohol to burn the DVD's if you don't have software to do it.

Here is a link to the torrent: Removed old link - see this new link: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3851155 (Approx 3.1 GB)

Please be kind and seed this torrent after you download it to help others get it.

Take Courage to Stand Up for Our Freedoms

2007-09-28T15:42:00.000-05:00

Here are some excerpts from an email sent out to a group of supporters from one of our Wisconsin meetup members this week when discussing preparations for "Paint the Town Ron" this weekend. This is in response to some members expressing their fears with us putting signs up in public places. It is very encouraging and inspirational to realize the fight we are currently in and the risks that Ron Paul is taking for us by running for president on the issues that we believe in.

Like Teddy, I've had enough in my life of critics, of timid souls, of nervous Nellies -- they whine and worry, complain and criticize, but never manage to risk anything, and they never manage to DO much of anything. I am not afraid of failure, I am afraid of living to realize I did NOT even try.

And thinking of those words, I remember the Ron Paul from the 1970's and from the 1988 Libertarian campaign; he had fire and spirit then -- the kind of fire and spirit we have only recently begun seeing in him again -- and which return HE attributes to US encouraging him by our stepping out in faith and risk.

Now if Ron Paul himself felt that the "Revolution" and the PaintTheTownRon campaign elements were somehow "tarnishing" his good name, he has had MANY and frequent public opportunities recently and in the past to disavow, condemn or even slightly disapprove of them. Truly, just one strong word or public expression of such a disapproving sentiment on TV recently would have caused a significant "stop" or "pause" in these ideas. One of the major such opportunities for him was about a month ago on August 22nd, on live (and recorded) TV -- fortunately a full video record of the interview is available online and is linked directly below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESkqd1i3IU

Dr Paul's certainly does not express any fear that these signs put up by "enthusiastic supporters" (who he refers to humorously as his campaign "leaders") will in any way "damage his reputation" (else why did he laugh and make that joke concerning the signs being posted on "telephone poles" and "freeway overpasses" -- he could have easily, even subtly expressed at least some slight disdain or disapproval; I read neither in his words or manner.)

No, the only such "concern" or "fear" you will find from the campaign or the candidate is the few sentences on the official campaign site which disavow any and all such actions for liability purposes. (And if you do not understand the liability concerns in our modern litigious society...well what can one say.)

But I think instead that your expressed "fear" (and indeed that of others, myself included) is actually quite different in nature, it is an ingrained, inherent fear of somehow brushing up against or displeasing city hall, or any other part of the "establishment" that has insinuated itself into our society in the past century. We are no longer the free men and women that our ancestors were, and we show it mostly by what we fear, we fear phantoms that live in caves halfway across the world, we fear pieces of paper being spewed from bureaucrats desks and computers; we fear being "fined" and losing even just a tiny little bit of the federal "scrip" that they condescendingly allow us to keep before they inflate it away.

Yet I think that this fear is something that is completely foreign to Dr Paul himself. Something that is completely foreign to our founding fathers and their principles. (Alas, if there were just a few more with that "Sunshine patriot" attitude 230 some years ago, we'd have Queen Elizabeth on our money right now.) So, in the end, it is a fear of taking nearly ANY risk whatsoever, no matter how little it is we are risking (many are even afraid of talking to others about Ron Paul, fearing "rejection" and "disapproval").

Think instead, of what we are in essence asking Dr Paul to risk, versus what we are willing (or willing to "allow" others) to risk.

WE are expecting Dr. Paul to literally risk his life in opposing the current war (Do any of you remember MLK? Or RFK? How about George Wallace? I do; I remember watching the news after each of those. I remember the hopes that were literally "crushed" by each of those sad events. I know that Presidential candidates and others who take positions in serious opposition to the establishment, are risking their very lives and the lives of those they love; Dr. Paul certainly knows this; his entire family knows this.)

If HE were a nervous Nellie, he would stay home and enjoy his many grandchildren; he would not risk THAT, nor any of the rest of what we are asking him to risk.

But WE are expecting him to risk that for our sakes. WE expect him then to essentially defy his entire party establishment, to fight and campaign day after wearying day, for a nearly a whole year in order hopefully, possibly, win the nomination; and to do all that ...in order to fight and campaign again and again, for another several months in order to try to win an election when the "political winds" are decidedly against his party. Then again even more remotely, but still hopefully, to take office, and to accept what is probably one of the, if not THE most grueling and wearying job in the world. And once in that job to not merely occupy the chair, no WE expect him to stand firm and almost certainly fight and almost certainly oppose both parties in both houses of Congress (and major portions of the entire federal bureaucracy) in order to fulfill his campaign promises.

And what you are claiming to be afraid of ...is what exactly was it again... that some handful of the people (locally) may do something to "damage" his reputation by some action that we, personally, by potentially violating some municipal "sign ordinance" and (face a possible personal fine for littering or some other such "peace disturbance" misdemeanor).

Now never mind that over 100 other meetup groups across the entire nation are committed to and planning to do that very same thing -- on that very same weekend -- in their local (often much larger, more populated and media saturated cities)... and you are seriously expecting me to believe that you are "concerned" that somehow, "magically," we few handful of SE Wisconsin supporters by putting up a few banners, that we will somehow seriously damage his reputation and ruin his chances of winning the election? You are actually seriously saying that?

I think the best response is to that is to paraphrase Mark 8:33.

Or ...if you are not religious, then pick your favorite Patrick Henry quotation.

But, fortunately I am not answerable to any of you. Nor is anyone else.

Each of us as individuals are responsible for our own actions, our own choices and contributions, whether in time, money, supplies and/or risks taken... or not taken.

Whether any of you like it or choose to participate in it, the PaintTheTownRon campaign *is* happening around the country this coming weekend. SE Wisconsin can choose to "bow out" or to do things in only a "minor" way. I suppose if all of the meetup groups decide to risk so little, then we will hear absolutely nothing about the whole thing, either in the local, or the national news. No TV interviews will be scheduled for Dr. Paul about it, no news articles will be written. The pundits will be free to talk all they want about the "president of the internets" and may also call him the "president of the emails" -- and they can all chuckle and go back to talking about the horse-race between Rudy and Fred, or which dress Hilary (or was it Rudy) wore at her last campaign stop.

And you can all sleep peacefully in your beds.

But Dr. Paul will have no such concerns for his reputation... he doesn;t shirk such small things. Indeed, if his reputation were that shaky or so easily damaged, then this campaign were a lost cause from the start. The campaign has liabilites, I agree, but this is not among them. His reputation will not be "sullied" by some handful of people in Wisconsin hanging some half-dozen, nay even two, or ten dozen banners.

Personally, I want to rock the boat of complacency and apathy... I plan on dumping some proverbial tea into the water this weekend! Anyone who VOLUNTARILY and with FULL UNDERSTANDING of the possible negative personal consequences and risks, yet STILL cares to join me ...those souls can "dress up like an indian" and meet me here for my midnight war planning and painting session. Those opposed can stay home and watch TV.

I am only a little man, living in a small rural county... But after this weekend is over, and I have done my own personal "utmost" -- then and only then will *I* be able to sleep peacefully, knowing I have done my part...

You each choose what you think is right and necessary, either to do, or not to do. But remember that failing to choose is also a choice.

Ron Paul Supporters are Everywhere

2007-09-27T09:03:00.000-05:00

Here is a great video showing Ron Paul's support.

Presidential Poll Added

2007-09-26T20:41:00.000-05:00

I added the following presidential poll to this site. Go ahead and show your support for your candidate. This is a valid poll and it is setup to prevent double voting and all the other usual reasons the media uses to downplay Ron Paul's support. Lets keep showing them our support!

Ron Paul Chicago Rally Bus Trip

2007-09-26T10:23:00.001-05:00

On September 22nd 55 loyal supporters joined together from Wisconsin to charter a bus down to the Ron Paul rally in Chicago. I think the event was a success and we did as much as we could to promote Ron Paul while in Chicago.

We arrived more than an hour before the rally started downtown. We immediately got out our signs, banners and literature and hit the streets to raise awarness for Dr. Paul. I think we had a great impact from our sheer numbers downtown that afternoon. Afterwards we attended the rally and heard another magnificent speech from Dr. Paul.

It was great to meet so many other supporters of Ron Paul like myself. We had people on the bus from all parts of Wisconsin including, Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Fox Valley, and LaCrosse.

Here is a picture of all the supporters when we returned to Wisconsin after the rally.

Here is a link to some more pictures from our trip:
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/853/photos/

Ron Paul Raises $24M Overnight

2007-09-26T08:41:00.000-05:00

I left my browser up at work overnight last night with the ronpaul2008.com website up on the screen. Below is a picture of what I had on my screen when I came in this morning:

Of course this was just a programming glitch that somehow appeared from his site. I can only hope that this is a sign of the numbers that will be released next week! :)

Wiscosin For Ron Paul

2007-09-26T08:35:00.000-05:00

I am creating this blog as a place to document and collect the happenings and support for Ron Paul in Wisconsin for the 2008 presidential election. Feel free to send me any comments or material to post if you are from Wisconsin. Our goal is one and the same - to get Ron Paul in the White House in 2008.