posted by Kyle on Aug 10
I am in my hotel room, and I am very, very exhausted.
I will sleep in tomorrow and when I wake up I’ll attend the “RonStock” event. I’ll update here as I can.
Here is an email I sent to the Ron Paul meetup group before I left. It is mainly regarding the fund raiser at my house on the 20th of August.
Dear Fellow Patriots,
This is the last call for a ride to Iowa. My friend Jesda and I will be leaving tomorrow around 12:00 Noon. We will have room in the car for up to three other people. If you want to go, please let me know.
Since I won’t be back until around the 14th, and I’m going to have my house party on the 20th, I really need people to help out to make it a success. Rob and Chad have kindly agreed to help cook, which is wonderful. Here is the other help that I need so that we can make this a success:
1) I need someone to coordinate tickets or whatever. Rather than set a mandatory donation, I’d rather have a suggested donation. Remember, I am paying for all of the food out of pocket, so anything donated just goes straight to the campaign. I will have a couple of computers set up so people can donate at the RonPaul2008.com website if they’d rather not write a check. A way that usually packs these events is to get group members to commit to “selling” a certain number of tickets. So, if you’d like to coordinate this, please claim the job. If you’d like to commit to bringing a certain number of people, also please let me know.
2) Silent Auction Coordinator: Yoko has been kind enough to donate some t-shirts that we can sell, but I need someone to organize donations of items for a silent auction. We only need four or five items, preferably having something to do with freedom. Items I have seen at previous silent auctions benefiting the freedom movement are: books, dvds, guns, framed copies of the constitution, declaration of independence, magna carta etc. If someone owns a business and wants to donate a gift certificate, that is cool as well.
3) If you have some kind of a special dish that you like to make, please feel free to bring it and let me know.
4) Entertainment: I’d like it if someone can burn some DVDs of Ron Paul speaking and stuff like that so that we can put them on the TV.
5) If anyone would like to volunteer to help set up and/or clean up, please also let me know.
6) Campaign Materials: It would be great to have campaign materials to give to people who attend so that they can take them out and coordinate them.
I’ll be keeping up with email as much as I can while I’m on the road and at the straw poll. I’m going to be focusing on reaching out to undecided voters and those who are confused and thus considering doing a bad thing ( i.e. voting for one of the statists).
Thank you all for your help!
Kyle
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