December 17th, 2007 0.008%
Tricia and I constituted a small portion of the 24,940 new donors to Ron Paul’s campaign during yesterday’s Tea Party, a group effort that led to over $6,000,000 in contributions within 24 hours. The party is over, but you can still donate and join the revolution.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Pretty impressive, don’t you think?
December 17th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
What makes you choose to support Ron Paul, pray tell?
December 17th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
In no particular order (and non-exhaustively):
1) integrity
2) constitutional (I think our constitution spells out a pretty reasonable, very limited role for the federal government and its associated checks and balances… I think we should stick to it)
3) non-interventionist foreign policy from a military point of view (unless the Congress passes articles of war)
4) some form of improvement in the management of our currency
5) basic live-and-let-live outlook, at least from a government/regulatory point of view
December 17th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Count the College Station Brunone family as 1 of the almost 25,000 first-time donors on Sunday.
Oh, and put a few more zeros after that decimal point and before the 8 for our giving percentage.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
My question is what will happen to all this money he is raising since we know he really won’t be elected.
December 18th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
He discusses the money here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alxjl4IjZ9k
In brief, he says (paraphrase alert): They didn’t give me the money to stick in the bank, so well figure out how to most effectively spend it on a national campaign.
And I would suggest all bets are off on who wins as we are likely headed toward a brokered convention on the Republican side.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I think it would be the coolest thing ever if he won in spite of all the nay-saying going on….THAT would make a great Lifetime Original Movie:
Ron Paul: Against All Odds.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Interesting. Can’t go there with you, but interesting.