Note: For the time being I'll be on the road working seven days a week and unsure how often I can update the website. Perhaps once or twice a week so please check back for our unique updates...
Important News: August 7, 2008
"Mayor Tom Barrett promised Monday to try to help a disabled man after the city foreclosed on his house to collect fines that resulted from a $50 parking citation, but the mayor stopped short of saying the city would drop its pursuit of the $245,000 house. The city
foreclosed last week on Peter Tubic's home on W. Verona Court after trying for more than four years to collect on the fine, which had escalated to $2,645 and turned into a tax lien. Tubic, 62, got the fine in 2004 for parking his van with no license plates in the driveway of his parents' home..."
Important News: August 5, 2008
In order to best secure your legal rights these are the ten things to
remember if you're ever confronted by the police.
Important News: August 2, 2008
According to Seymour Hersh, in order to provoke war
Chaney considered a proposal to dress Navy seals up as Iranians to shoot.
Important News: August 2, 2008
Three in ten women in the US military are
raped by other soldiers while in service. "Women serving in the U.S. military today are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq."
Important News: August 1, 2008
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said falling U.S. home prices are
"nowhere near the bottom" and the resulting market turmoil isn't showing signs of abating.
Important News: July 31, 2008
Russia responds to threats made by
John McCain. We're not interested in what [John] McCain has to say. Let him become president first, then we'll listen to him," a senior Russian diplomat told reporters on Tuesday, according to AFP. "We want the American electorate to answer for the choice it will make....At the moment, they are turning Russia into a scapegoat for the mistakes of their foreign policy."
Important Audio: July 30, 2008
Ron Paul
interview on the
Glenn Beck program.
Important News: July 29, 2008
Some intel types are beginning to express concerns that the Israelis might do something completely crazy to get the US involved.
US involved. Those who argue that Israel would never do such a thing should think again. Israel is willing to behave with complete ruthlessness towards the US if they feel that the stakes are high enough, witness the attack on the USS Liberty and the bombing of the US Consulate in Alexandria in the 1950s.
Important News: July 29, 2008
John McCain threatens
Russia. a barrell.
Important News: July 29, 2008
Oil could reach
$500 a barrel.
Important News: July 29, 2008
John MCCain's voting record
regarding our troops.
Important News: July 29, 2008
John MCCain's voting record appears to be
against our troops.
Important News: July 25, 2008
John MCCain says he's learning to use the
internet. "I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself," McCain told the New York Times in an interview that appeared Sunday. "I don't expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need." Even so, McCain bluntly admits, "I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail."
Important News: July 24, 2008
A Continental Airlines flight carrying former presidential candidate Ron Paul and six other members of Congress to Washington, D.C., made an
emergency landing in New Orleans on Tuesday after a loss in cabin pressure.
Video: July 21, 2008
DVD's mailed to GOP
National Delegates.
Important News: July 17, 2008
The U.S. terrorist watch list now has
1 million names on it, partly due to the loose criteria for adding names to the list, a rights group said Monday. The Inspector General of the Justice Department reported last year that the Terrorist Screening Center had over 700,000 names as of April 2007 and that the list was growing by an average of 20,000 names per month. Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, was on the watch list and only recently removed, and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy was also on the list causing him trouble and delays when flying, he said. Former Assistant Attorney General Jim Robinson also has his name on the list.
Important News: July 17, 2008
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, has said that America should
"facilitate" an Israeli attack on suspected nuclear facilities in Iran.
Video: July 15, 2008
Ron Paul's message to
Obama supporters.
Important News: July 14, 2008
It was a hot and sunny day in Washington DC today where estimates from 1500 (on the low end) and 8000 (on the high end) participated in the
Ron Paul Revolution March and Rally. Several speakers and musical guests enthralled the freedom eager crowd. For the most part the speeches were directly in line with the Ron Paul platform. Though for my money the best speech given today was the one by Michael Scheuer, former head of CIA’s Bin Laden unit.
Important News: July 10, 2008
This morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on MSNBC and blasted Congress for being lazy. He said that instead of taking a Fourth of July recess, senators should have stuck around and passed a housing bill. However,
McCain ranks as the #1 most absent senator of the 110th Congress, having missed 61.8 percent of the votes. He even beats Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who took several months off while recovering from a brain hemorrhage.
Video: July 10, 2008
John McCain believes Vladimir Putin is the president of
Germany.
Important News: July 9, 2008
Contrary to popular myth, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not great Americans. Instead, they were great Englishmen. In fact, they were as much English citizens as Americans today are American citizens. It’s easy to forget that the revolutionaries in 1776 were people who took up arms against their own government. So how is it that these men are considered
patriots?
Important News: July 9, 2008
Ali Shirazi is a cleric working as representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the naval unit of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. "The Zionist regime is pressuring White House officials to attack
Iran. If they commit such a stupidity, Tel Aviv and US shipping in the Persian Gulf will be Iran's first targets and they will be burned in Iran's crushing response," Mr Shirazi was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies. "The Iranian nation will never accept bullying."
Important News: July 7, 2008
"I hear members of Congress saying 'if we could only nuke them'," said the congressman Thursday.
Paul explained the president plans to impose 'an absolute blockade of the entire country of Iran, and punish any country or any business group around the world if they trade with Iran'.
Video: July 4th, 2008
Former President Jimmy Carter talks of
Israeli influence.
Important News: July 3, 2008
Senator Joe Lieberman "warns" that the terrorists will strike again in
early 2009.
Important News: July 3, 2008
Republican Senator Thad Cochran is quoted as saying he "observed McCain engage in a physical confrontation...at a "meeting table in a room lined with armed personnel." Senator Cochran said McCain "got
mad at the guy and he just reached over there and snatched him."
Important News: June 29, 2008
Appearently John McCain has refused to pay his taxes for the last
four years and is currently in default.
Important News: June 27, 2008
Israel encourages the USA to pre-emptively attack
Iran.
Video: June 27, 2008
Ron Paul speaks regarding the sanctions and/or possible pre-emptive invasion of
Iran.
Important News: June 25, 2008
Victory in Texas: Trans-Texas Corridor temporarily
defeated!
Important News: June 25, 2008
Neo-Cons introduce bill to ban certain semi-automatic
rifles. Ron Paul was our last chance to have a conservative in the White House for at least four years.
Important News: June 23, 2008
Oklahoma files Bill to restore the
Constitutional limits of the federal government.
Important News: June 21, 2008
On Tuesday June 10, 2008, something interesting happened here in South Carolina. For the first time in a long time, an authentically populist conservative won a close race in a very important political primary. Bob Conley is a virtual unknown who defeated an establishment candidate supported by the usual coterie of party insiders and special interest groups. The primary victory was narrow (1,058 votes) and the turnout was very low (only 17%), but nonetheless Conley, a conservative, observant Catholic from a blue-collar background, will be his party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate come November—as a Democrat.
Maverick Conley bolted the GOP a few years ago over amnesty, war and trade policy and was a vocal supporter of Ron Paul’s presidential bid.
Important News: June 20, 2008
Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the
US Federal Government. This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout that are used by many small online businesses. The privacy implications for America's small businesses are breathtaking. At a time when concerns about both identity theft and government spying are paramount, Congress wants to create a new honey pot of private data that includes Social Security numbers. This bill reduces privacy across America's payment processing systems and treats every American small business or eBay power seller like a criminal on parole...
Important News: June 20, 2008
Representative Ron Paul says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a section from a bill passed by Congress which would have barred the U.S. from going to war with Iran without a congressional vote, claiming she did so at the behest of the leadership of Israel and
AIPAC. “She [Pelosi] removed it deliberately,” Paul says. “And then, the astounding thing is, when asked why, she said the leadership in Israel asked her to."
Video: June 19, 2008
Ron Paul is
interviewed by Wolf Blitzer.
Video: June 16, 2008
Ron Paul interviewed by Tom Abrahams regarding
Campaign for Liberty.
Important News: June 13, 2008
Ron Paul officially shifts the movement into Phase II and announces the official launch of
Campaign for Liberty!
Important News: June 13, 2008
Ron Paul officially
ends his campaign and passes the batan to his followers. I was there at the beginning and honored to be there at the end (of Phase I, the presidential campaign). Although I myself was hoping he would go ahead and take it to the National Convention...he did allow the campaign to continue until every state had voted. I think this as his way of saying, "the votes in every state should matter".
It was good to see Dr Paul again this evening at the Ice Cream Social with the Texas GOP Convention. Unlike times in the past, this evening he didn't allow photos nor didn't give signatures (although he did shake every one of the thousand of hands present). I strangely thought of a mother bird telling her young, "you're old enough to fly on your own; you're young, strong and I've taught you well. So it's time to leave the nest and fly". For awhile Ron's been stressing that this is "our" movement, independent with meetups, etc... He's taught us how to fly and now we just need to do it and move the Revolution into Phase II. Dr No delivered tens of thousands of patriot babies, liberty babies into the system. We're young but now do understand enough of the process to mature into Sons of Liberty. We will always love you Dr Paul as the Father of the Revolution. Let's not let him or our posterity down and spread our wings mightily...for Liberty!
Video: June 12, 2008
Ron's speech tonight in
Houston.
Video: June 11, 2008
Ron Paul on Neil Cavuto: we will have our own
National Convention.
Video: June 11, 2008
Terrorists neo-cons begin a campaign of
hate, intimidation and criminality as they break into the homes of Ron Paul candidates who fight for small government.
Important News: June 11, 2008
"A Paul campaign aide said the Texas congressman hopes to pack about 11,000 supporters into the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2, which coincides with the second day of the
Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in neighboring St. Paul. Paul's plan to stage his own event is bad news for McCain, said G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College."
Important News: June 11, 2008
"There are numerous e-mails and messages floating on the internet that all carry the same basic messages. "A small group of Ron Paul supporters "has viciously attacked the Party and is trying to overthrow the Rules that our grassroots passed and have been using for years all because they want to create enough chaos to take over the Party." This is
hardly the case. First of all I voted for Mike Huckabee as did several of the plaintiffs in the suit against the RPT. Gary Polland, attorney representing the plaintiffs supported John McCain in the primary. So what do Republicans do when party leaders continue to violate party rules and state law?"
Important News: June 10, 2008
"Harris County Court Judge Roberta Lloyd today ruled that the Request for Declaratory Judgement filed by Debra Medina and other grassroots Republicans was in fact a Writ of Mandamus and therefore
outside the jurisdiction of her court and dissolved the temporary restraining order granted last week by visiting judge Tom Sullivan."
Important News: June 9, 2008
"Presidential candidate Ron Paul received a total of over 45,000 votes in the final three Republican presidential
primaries on June 3. Dr. Paul’s strongest showing was in Montana, where he garnered 22 percent of the vote, followed by 17 percent in South Dakota and 14 percent in New Mexico respectively."
Important News: June 9, 2008
"After a decade of political dominance, the Texas GOP is opening its party convention in Houston this week with a troubling prospect: Grumpy Republicans may not turn out to vote this fall. Many of the grass-roots Texas Republicans see presumptive presidential nominee John McCain as
not conservative enough. Others still support presidential candidate Ron Paul. Some are unhappy over immigration, high federal spending..." Editor's Note: True conservatives are unlikely to vote for liberal John McCain. Ron Paul is America's last chance for the GOP to win the White House in 2008.
Important News: June 9, 2008
"Paul, a Lake Jackson Republican running for president and for re-election to Congress, won't have an official speaking role at the convention. He estimated about a third of the delegates attending the convention support Paul, even though McCain won the state's GOP primary. Zimmerman, who describes himself as a "Barry Goldwater Republican" and has attended
GOP state conventions for more than a decade, said the struggle between Paul supporters and other delegates at the Houston convention will be typical of minority-majority clashes that have occurred repeatedly at past Texas conventions."
Important News: June 7, 2008
"A new Political Action Committee has been filed with the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board. The PAC, Ron Paul Republicans, has been started by Bill Johnson of Coon Rapids and other Ron Paul
supporters . "Our focus right now is to get Ron Paul like-minded people in political positions and start bringing the Republican Party back to its roots. We're trying to change the party from the inside," Johnson said."
Important News: June 7, 2008
"Supporters of Ron Paul’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination are planning to hold an insurgent
state convention July 28 in Reno, Nev., even though the party has scheduled a sanctioned gathering July 26 to finish electing the state’s national delegates. Paul’s backers say Nevada Republican leaders abruptly shut down the state's first convention attempt last April before final votes were cast. Earlier in the day, Paul's supporters had won a rules change that appeared to be leading to a national slate of delegates mostly pledged to Paul than to presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain."
Important News: June 6, 2008
"A Harris County judge on Wednesday ordered the Texas Republican Party to comply with state
election law at its state convention in Houston next week after Republican activists alleged that the party illegally uses procedures to minimize grass-root dissent." Editor's Note: These days it seems like on one side we have the liberals and the other, socialists. I never thought I'd see the day that conservatives would have to fight in order to attend a GOP convention.
Important News: June 4, 2008
"Clinton, a New York senator, said she was willing to become Obama's vice presidential nominee if it would help
Democrats win the White House." Ed Note: this ticket is unstoppable for pro-war John McCain. There's one last chance for the GOP to take the White House and that's Ron Paul.
Important News: June 2, 2008
That following has kept the Paul campaign alive far beyond the candidate's March 6 announcement via YouTube video that his national campaign was "scaling down." In subsequent months, Paul fans, without assistance from the national headquarters, took over some county-level
Republican conventions in Missouri and Texas. He won 16 percent of the vote in the Pennsylvania primary, his native state. He took 15 percent in Oregon and 24 percent in Idaho. Paul has not yet endorsed McCain.
Important News: June 2, 2008
Ron Paul volunteers organize
Operation Saint Paul!
Important News: June 1, 2008
Ron Paul supporters were blocked in Minnesota. “We have our
presumptive nominee in John McCain”, he added. Paul’s backers, who Carey estimated represent no more than a quarter of the delegates..." Question, if John McCain is our presumptive nominee then wouldn't that make Hillary/Obama our presumptive president?
Important News: June 1, 2008
North Carolina: Judge rules that having more than two parties on the ballot will confuse and frustrate the voters. Quote, "The more parties there are that are recognized by the State and that place candidates on the ballot, the greater the chance there is for ballots that are so long as to be unwieldy and to risk voter confusion and frustration of the
electoral process." Following this same reasoning wouldn't two parties also be confusing, why not have just one party on the ballot?
Important News: May 30, 2008
"We still have the option to vote for a true
conservative. McCain received an "F" Rating from the Gun Owners of America, while Ron Paul received an "A+" rating. McCain votes with Teddy Kennedy on every piece of gun control legislation (a worse record than Hillary Clinton), while Paul is actively working to repeal the last 20 years of federal gun control laws. McCain has a terrible record when..."
Important News: May 29, 2008
Ron Paul gets
24% in Idaho, more votes than Hillary and Obama combined!
Important News: May 29, 2008
John McCain hosts a
party and no one comes.
Video: May 29, 2008
Scandal breaks out as McCain
Advisers turn out to be paid lobbyists.
Video: May 26, 2008
Republican John Mcain's book makes number 4,322 on the New York Times Best Seller List. The "other" candidate left in the Presidential race,
Ron Paul comes in at number one!
Important News: May 24, 2008
John McCain says he'll be
too old to be preisdent in 2008.
Video: May 24, 2008
Ron Paul will come to Branson, Mo on
May 30th for a rally outside the state convention.
Important News: May 23, 2008
"Ten minutes later, he says, a casually dressed Swanson showed up, flanked by a woman whom he introduced as FBI Special Agent Maureen E. Mazzola. For the next 20 minutes, Mazzola would do most of the talking. “She told me that I had the perfect ‘look,’” recalls Carroll. “And that I had the perfect personality—they kept saying I was friendly and personable—for what they were looking for.” What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement.
Carroll’s story echoes a familiar theme. During the lead-up the 2004 Republican National Convention..."
Important News: May 22, 2008
Here's an interesting fact from this article, "Forty-one percent of Clinton supporters said they'd cast their vote for
McCain". Has the GOP moved so far to the left that nearly the majority of Hillary Clinton supporters will vote for the "presumptive" Republican nominee over a fellow Democrat? Again folks, Ron Paul is the only conservative left in the presidential race. Conservatives you have one last ditch chance and that's at the GOP National Convention.
Important News: May 22, 2008
"Ron Paul Campaigns in Arizona May
22. What:
Ron Paul Freedom Rally
Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort
7677 North 16th St., Phoenix, Arizona 85020
When:
Thursday, May 22, 6:30 PM PT"
Important News: May 21, 2008
"Joe Malloy, 30, served as a
Republican precinct member from 2002 to 2006, he said. He is now a Paul supporter and as for Paul supporters not fulfilling their precinct obligations, he said, "The last couple of times I was at the central committee, there were a lot of empty seats anyway." "I don't understand what the hubbub is; there are people getting involved. I'm surprised they aren't being welcomed," Malloy said."
Important News: May 21, 2008
"Ron Paul gets 15% of the vote in
Oregon."
Important News: May 19, 2008
"What I am saying is that he has been the subject of numerous meetings of GOP establishment figures and they have exchanged ideas and techniques for keeping him and his minions at bay. I know because I was accidentally and spontaneously in the middle of just such a conversation. Last week I appeared on a number of television programs and ended up in “the green room” with a couple of
GOP luminaries. One of the party’s most famous and powerful Senators and a former governor who came within a hair of becoming the vice president. You can guess which television network it was. We each had a book to promote. Anyway, somehow they got into a discussion of Ron Paul and how his supporters had the nerve, the gall, the cheek to show up at “their” respective Republican State Conventions and practically take over. Each man described to the other how through parliamentary maneuver and outright theft they had recently blocked the Paulistas from embarrassing the GOP by winning “their” delegates to the national convention. They passed these stories back and forth with great gusto and laughter and genuine appreciation for the political skill of the other."
Important News: May 19, 2008
"The Trilateral are "seriously concerned" with Ron Paul. Traditionally the younger generation were aligned with liberals. There's an old saying about being a liberal when you are young and a conservative when you are older. Due to Ron Paul's "political education rallies" many of the next generation of leaders are conservative libertarians -- known as
Jeffersonian Republicans. 200 years ago the real Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson fought the Federalists who believed in a Big Government, a National Debt and were pro Central Bank."
Important News: May 19, 2008
"Georgia: Paul supporters were outnumbered among the several hundred delegates on the floor of the Columbus Civic Center on Saturday, with party leaders electing a slate of delegates supporting the
Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona. On Saturday, conventioneers elected 30 delegates and 30 alternates to the national convention, 39 other delegates were determined by the results of the Feb. 5 presidential primary, won by Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. A party nominating committee met Friday and Saturday to create the slate of delegate candidates for the consideration of the full convention which included Republicans who originally supported candidates other than McCain, including Huckabee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani and former US Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, leaving out Paul supporters."
Important News: May 19, 2008
"If you're an establishment Republican, you might want to sit down and read this very carefully. We who support
Dr Ron Paul are the new GOP and we're not taking over the Republican Party, we are taking it back. We are working to support smaller government, balanced budgets, individual liberty, lower taxes and minding our own business; ideas you clearly abandoned long ago."
Important News: May 18, 2008
"Barr might well inherit the sizable support garnered by Rep. Ron Paul during his own run for the Republican nomination -- and leave McCain sputtering the sorts of epithets usually uttered by Democrats talking about Ralph Nader.
Paul's activists are swarming local Republican party committees and conventions, quietly capturing or lining up delegates in states such as Alaska, Missouri, Minnesota, Florida, Texas and Washington."
Important News: May 18, 2008
"Nearly half of likely voters — 48 percent — are not satisfied with the current candidates for president, with
Republicans and conservative voters the most unhappy about their likely candidate choices in November, a new nationwide Zogby Interactive poll shows."
Important News: May 17, 2008
"Luminaries at the Trilateral Commission meeting in Washington expressed confidence that they own all three major presidential candidates, who, despite political posturing, will support sovereignty-surrendering measures such as NAFTA and the
“North American Union.”...the Trilateralists paid huge tribute to Ron Paul in an equally large twist of irony, by expressing alarm that he is causing “significant future damage.” They expressed concern that Paul’s rallies have attracted multitudes of young people who are getting “their political education."
Important News: May 16, 2008
"But this week a House Republican said publicly what many say privately, that there is another truth. "Members and pundits . . . fail to understand the deep seated antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures," said Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia in a 20-page memo to House GOP leaders. The party, Mr. Davis told me, is "an airplane flying right into a mountain. This is and will be the great challenge for John McCain: The Democratic argument, now being market tested by Obama Inc., that a McCain victory will yield nothing more or less than
George Bush's third term."
Important News: May 16, 2008
"Throughout the campaign season,
Ron Paul supporters have fought against the odds. But his self-reliant attitude and brutal honesty has made him a cult figure among those who believe in the small-government tradition of Taft, Goldwater and Reagan. He’s never supported the war in Iraq, supporters say. He’s never voted for an unbalanced budget. He wants to control the borders and stop the weakening of the dollar. And his stubbornly un-P.C. speeches during the few early debates..."
Video: May 15, 2008
"Ron Paul supporters will demand that their part of the party will get some representation at the GOP
convention...I want to go to the GOP convention to see what these Ron Paul guys do because it's going to be a blast."
Important News: May 14, 2008
"The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mike Duncan, had a private meeting with Paul in April to discuss the future of the party but no decision has been made yet on speaking roles at the convention, according to an RNC official. As for Paul, although he only has collected 19 delegates so far compared to McCain's 1,413, he plans on bringing them to the convention and stressing his limited government agenda, which includes abolishing the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service.
Paul is also insisting on a speaking opportunity at the convention, which the GOP has yet to offer."
Video: May 14, 2008
"Ron Paul supporters planning
revolt at GOP National Convention."
Important News: May 13, 2008
"Maverick Republican Rep. Ron Paul is said to be working quietly on making the party's national convention less than smooth for presumptive nominee John McCain. The Los Angeles Times reported on its political blog Monday that "an embarrassing public revolt" is in the works by the Texas congressman's camp and its allies, who
don't see McCain as being conservative enough."
Important News: May 13, 2008
''Rep. Ron Paul is still in the GOP race and even drew 16% of the vote in the recent Pennsylvania Republican primary. Now his supporters are planning to stage a
revolt at the Republican National Convention in September, possibly with the aim of securing Paul a prime time speaking slot. Conservative radio talk show host Mike Gallagher told the hosts of Fox and Friends on Tuesday, "There is no question that this could be a major headache for John McCain. [He] would be well-served to kind of reach out and give him an olive branch at the convention," Gallagher continued. "Let him speak, give him a role, because if these people are disrespected -- you know, this, combined with Bob Barr's announcement that Barr now is running as a Libertarian, is going to just take votes away from John McCain and could be a disaster for the Republican Party."
Important News: May 13, 2008
''I just received a call around 8 PM from phone number 866-852-2508. As soon as you say "hello" A recorded message comes on. "Hello, as you being a Delegate or Alternate to the Texas Republican Party State Convention, we would like you ask your opinion on a few things." #3 Do you support a preemptive strike on IRAN to protect Israel?
(the word "Nuclear" might have been in there, I don't remember.) #4
Will you support John McCain as the Republican Party
nominee. It is my opinion that the Texas GOP is using this survey to flush out all Ron Paul supporters and challenge them at a Credentials committee before the convention."
Important News: May 13, 2008
''The Revolution: A Manifesto'' Book Signing in Austin,
May 19th."
Important News: May 13, 2008
"State Republican Party leaders are still hunting for a date to complete a convention abruptly shut down prior to final votes on what was shaping up as a Nevada delegation to the national GOP convention with more supporters for
Ron Paul than John McCain. Ron Paul backers were upset by the recess at the April 26 convention and expressed concern about getting fair treatment when it resumes. Party leaders have insisted the Paul supporters won't be disenfranchised. Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator for the Paul campaign, has said supporters of the Texas congressman will turn out in force for the rest of the convention, adding that the big concern is that the 31-member national convention delegation not be picked in secret."
Video: May 13, 2008
"Fox News 5 utilizes subliminal messages to push
John McCain."
Important News: May 13, 2008
"The much-vaunted Senate “compromise” on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are. The reality is that this bill will grant amnesty to virtually all of the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the country today. Supporters use very creative language to try and convince us that amnesty is not really amnesty, but when individuals who have entered the United States illegally are granted citizenship – regardless of the fees they are charged – what you have is
amnesty. I will continue to oppose any immigration bill that grants amnesty to illegals or undermines our liberty and sovereignty." -Ron Paul
Important News: May 12, 2008
"Ron Paul has no chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination this year, but he continues to head toward the party’s National Convention with an ardent group of supporters and a
Second Phase strategy."
Important News: May 12, 2008
"Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against
McCain. Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there. But in the meantime, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September."
Important News: May 11, 2008
"A stealth strategy by supporters of Ron Paul to win delegates at the Idaho Republican Convention leaves mainstream party leaders anxious and a bit secretive themselves. The Republican Party is nervous about us, but they should be delighted there's young blood. Ron Paul's made it cool to be a
Republican."
Important News: May 10, 2008
"The Ron Paul Revolution will not go quietly. As they have done in Nevada, Minnesota and elsewhere, a number of Utah Ron Paul backers are trying to get elected today as delegates to the
Republican National Convention where, under a proposed rule change, they could be free to vote for whomever they want."
Important News: May 8, 2008
John McCain just opened up a
spanish language website and is scheduled to speak for a second time at
"The Race" . Do you think this could be a prelude that the sponsor of the McCain-Kennedy Amnesty Bill will maintain his career-long liberal stance on illegal immigration? Ron Paul is the only conservative remaining in the presidential race.
Important News: May 8, 2008
BJ Lawson, a Ron Paul Republican wins GOP
nomination in his bid for the
US Congress.
Important News: May 7, 2008
"Will a GOP uprising take place at the Republican National Convention? As the mainstream media obsesses over the Democratic Party’s brewing civil war, supporters of Republican presidential candidate US Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, are already staging their own quiet uprising at GOP conventions across the nation. Instead, Paul’s grassroots and netroots campaign is attempting to stack the deck with what can only be called “cryptodelegates”—elected delegates to the
national convention who are privately supporting Paul’s presidential bid. They would be “bound” to vote for McCain on the first ballot, but may vote for whomever they choose if the nomination is forced to a second ballot. Already, hell is breaking loose at the county and state levels."
Video: May 7, 2008
"Ron Paul: I'm still in the race, and I'm — I'm a candidate. We only have a couple more primaries left. And we want to maximize our influence in the
Republican Party...but it's not over until it's over. And maybe there are still a few conservatives out there that would like to vote for somebody who believes in limited government, and the Constitution, and less taxes, a different foreign policy."
Video: Ron Paul on CNN on May 2, 2008
"Wolf Blitzer tries to fool Ron Paul into supporting McCain and other crafty tricks. Ron Paul supports
the Constitution instead."
Important News: May 1, 2008
"We Are Not
Interlopers! I am a Republican. I am a pro-life, pro-family Christian who homeschools his four children. I was raised to revere the words of Reagan, Washington, and Augustine, and in 1996 I had a Sheriff remove a Democrat protestor from a polling place near my univeristy in Indiana so that I could vote for Bob Dole. "
Audio: Interview with Grassroots Leaders
"Grassroots leaders inspired by Dr. Paul’s message of freedom, peace, and prosperity are working to reform the Republican Party and bring it back to its traditions. Last weekend in Texas, supporters were able to make tremendous strides across the state, winning delegate slates and passing limited government resolutions to add to the Texas GOP platform. Campaign Spokesman Jesse Benton recently sat down with
three Texas grassroots leaders."
Important News: April 28, 2008
"Texas Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul is scheduled to speak at the Montana State Republican Party
Convention on June 20th. The Montana Republican Party State Convention will be held June 19th-21st, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Missoula. Paul came in second place behind Mitt Romney in the February 5th Montana Republican Presidential Preference Caucus with 25% of the vote."
Important News: April 26, 2008
"The Nevada Republican party suspended its convention on Saturday night with no
delegates elected to attend the party's national convention in September. The state party chairman, Sue Lowden says that the party will reconvene to nominate the state's 31 delegates in Las Vegas at a later date. An argument over the delegate nominating process sent the party into disarray. The nominating committee put forth a list of candidates and called for a vote. Ron Paul supporters on the floor were unhappy with the list of candidates. Through a rule change, delegates were able to start nominating candidates from the floor of the convention."
Important News: April 19th, 2008
"Republicans who support Texas congressman Ron Paul for president won all three available national convention seats from Missouri’s 5th congressional district today. The delegates, who will attend the GOP convention in Minneapolis this September, are still expected to vote for Sen. John McCain on the first ballot,
unless party rules change."
Important News: April 18, 2008
"But don't delegates play an important role choosing the party's nominee and shaping its platform? Some delegates to the Republican National Convention Sept. 1-4 in St. Paul have been told to stick to the bands and balloons. An email, called a "National Delegate Self-Nomination Form," sent to some 7th District GOP delegates warns them that they
shouldn't expect much of a role or influence at the convention. Supporters of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul — who won six of 12 delegate slots to the GOP national convention at Fourth, Fifth and Sixth District conventions in early April — think the email was directed at them."
Important News: April 06, 2008
"Ron Paul supporters shook things up in at least three of Minnesota's congressional district conventions yesterday when they captured nearly
all of the national delegates and alternates for the Republican National Convention this fall."
Important News: April 03, 2008
"Paul backers unexpectedly
took control of a GOP convention in Austin and the Victoria County convention...Suttle and McDonald independently compared the district convention to the rise of Christian conservatives through GOP ranks in the late 1980s. That surge, a component of Bush's success, helped win elections. Springsteen wrote it: "From small things, mama, big things one day come."
Important News: March 31, 2008
"I mean this was just comical at times to see these people get so upset by the takeover. We were well prepared, organized and professional and it worked out the way we planned. We had meetings and worked out the strategy weeks in advance and then met the week of the
convention to have our own mock session so we would know what to expect."
Important News: March 18, 2008
"Ron Paul, a Texas congressman who is running a renegade quest for the presidential nomination, staged a
political guerrilla attack. At that caucus at St. Peters City Hall — as well as others across the state — party regulars like Bennett were overwhelmed. Caucuses in Missouri, held only in presidential election years, are typically low-key affairs attended mainly by party diehards. But this year, the pro-Paul activists commandeered gatherings in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Springfield. Paul supporters also controlled caucuses in at least a half dozen rural counties. The result: Paul's supporters predict they have snagged roughly a third..."
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Knowledge for Future Elections
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Tip: State Convention Information for Texas
"We want as many Republicans as possible to be a part of this year's
State Convention. This page was designed to help answer any questions you may have regarding the convention and events that will be taking place. As the convention draws nearer, more information will be added to this page, so please check back on a regular basis."
Tip: Details of the State Convention Process for Texas
"Meeting by congressional caucus in Presidential years, state convention delegates elect delegates and alternates to the national convention and elect a member to sit on the National Nominations Committee, which selects at-large delegates to the
National Convention. At every state convention, there will be five temporary committees: Credentials, Organization, State Nominations, Platform, and Rules. The State Chairman appoints the committee chairmen. The SREC members appoint committee members. Each committee is comprised of the chairman and one member from each senate district. After the convention starts, senate districts will elect their permanent committee members, who will use the temporary committees’ work as a starting point."
Tip: Overview of the State Convention for Texas
"Structure of the
State Convention, What Happens at the State Convention, Day 1..."
Tip: State Republican Executive Committee
"Know your
SREC members at the State Convention."
Tip: Register for your State Convention
"Welcome to the
Convention Registration for the state of Texas."
Tip: Robert’s Rules of Order
"In 1876 General Henry M. Robert set out to bring the rules of the American Congress to members of ordinary societies with the publication of Pocket Manual of Rules of Order. It sold half a million copies before this revision of 1915 and made
Robert’s name synonymous with the orderly rule of reason in deliberative societies."
Tip: FAQ for the National Convention
"Top Ten
Questions regarding the GOP National Convention."
Tip: Rules of the Republican National Convention
"In compliance with The Rules of the Republican Party adopted by the 2004 Convention on August 30, 2004, in New York, New York, the Republican National Committee hereby directs that a
national convention of delegated representatives of the
Republican Party be convened in Minneapolis – Saint Paul."
Tip: The Diamond Technique for Committees
"In the 1960s, I came across a small training manual distributed by the Communist Party that showed how a small group of people – as few as four – could dominate a much larger group and sway the outcome of any action taken by that group. It was called the
Diamond
Technique. The principle is based on the fact that people in groups tend to be effected by mass psychology."
Tip: If You Can't be a National Delegate be a Volunteer
"With the help of volunteers, the 2008 Republican National Convention will be a truly remarkable event. The convention and the 2008 Minneapolis-Saint Paul Host Committee will recruit more than 8,000
volunteers."
Tip: Get Behind the Scenes at the National Convention and Get College Credit
"Thousands of college students from across the United States have witnessed the behind-the-scenes operations of national elections since 1984 by participating in the campaign seminar series offered by
The Washington Center. For national politics in the United States, 2008 will be a seminal year and the Campaign 2008 Presidential Academic Seminar Series offers you a front row seat!"
Tip: Guide to Keep Track of Upcoming Primaries
"To become the Republican nominee for president, a candidate needs to capture 1,191
delegate votes. Additional unpledged delegates are free to vote for any candidate."
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