[Peace-discuss] road trip to Iowa for Ron Paul?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Bob,

It does look like Ron Paul is in striking distance in Iowa despite a 
massive campaign
to black him out in the media.

Tony Pomonis who is on this list is connected with local people who are 
in turn connected with
people in Iowa and with the Ron Paul campaign directly.  Maybe Tony will 
see this and comment.

You may be interested in doing something independently.
Many will be doing working independently, but perhaps it may be useful 
to coordinate
with others to avoid reduplication of efforts and minimize turf 
conflicts and any confusion or backlash.

Some local people have been participating in phone banking and have 
access to voter lists.

I am also copying Barry Holley and Marty Johnson who are involved locally.
Barry was and still is a big fan of Kucinich.

Maybe they can help you get plugged in some where in Iowa, maybe help 
you find a place to stay.

I am pretty sure that Steve Bierfeldt is the Iowa Campaign director for 
Ron Paul.  He is
a really good guy.  Barry or Marty may have his contact info.

I like your simple message:

/if you want to end the war in
Afghanistan, if you don't want war with Iran, if you want to cut the
military budget, vote for Ron Paul in the Republican caucus./

We may not agree with Ron Paul on every issue and certainly may not agree
with all of Ron Paul's supporters on every possible issue but when you
boil it down to foreign policy it works for lots of us.




On 11/17/2011 3:41 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Thanks, Carl. There's a lot that people can do without any traveling:
> basically, time and money.
>
> Time: calling potential voters in Iowa. As I understand it, the Paul
> campaign is focusing its outreach on "Republicans." That means there
> is a huge group of potential peace voters that the Paul campaign is
> not reaching out to. We can get voter lists and call.
>
> For example, we could get the voter list for people who voted in the
> 2008 Democratic caucus - a lot of first time people who told pollsters
> that ending the Iraq war was their top issue - and we could do this in
> particular areas where peace voters tend to congregate: university
> towns. Ames, Iowa City, Cedar Falls.
>
> The call script would be simple: if you want to end the war in
> Afghanistan, if you don't want war with Iran, if you want to cut the
> military budget, vote for Ron Paul in the Republican caucus.
>
> People are more likely to do this if they do it collectively, because
> it's more pleasant. So there could be a calling party at someone's
> house.
>
> Money: I am working to get some of the national peace groups to
> cooperate on an "Iowa voter guide" - where do the candidates stand on
> war with Iran, ending the Afghanistan war, cutting the military
> budget? Then we would publish this in the Des Moines Register and
> other newspapers. Folks could donate money to this project: the more
> we raise, the more we can distribute.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Carl G. Estabrook
> <galliher at illinois.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> Bob--
>>
>> I wouldn't be able to participate but I would contribute/fund-raise for the
>> effort.
>>
>> The difference between Paul and the other Republican candidates (and Obama)
>> on war issues couldn't be more obvious. I'm delighted to see that you're
>> doing something about it.
>>
>> The two most important things the federal government does is kill people and
>> transfer wealth from the majority to the rich.
>>
>> The Obama administration has proved itself even more brutal and efficient at
>> those tasks than its predecessor. It has expanded wars in the Mideast and
>> Africa, and has conducted a good-cop/bad-cop charade on government spending
>> with the Republicans to attack social supports. And the beneficiaries of
>> Obama's policies are the 1%, whose wealth has increased at an accelerating
>> rate, even after the financial crisis - as more and more Americans are
>> coming to recognize.
>>
>> Ron Paul of course votes consistently against Obama's wars, on ethical and
>> political grounds. And he commendably voted against Obama's mendacious debt
>> deal.
>>
>> Unfortunately, on economic policy Paul is a notorious believer in the debt
>> and deficit malarkey peddled by both parties. What Paul believes as a matter
>> of "libertarian" conviction is being used by others - often cynically - to
>> scare Americans into accepting the elite's austerity program. (Wealth is so
>> concentrated in America that an emergency tax of 15% on investable assets
>> over $1 million would make the deficit disappear  - and 99% of American
>> would not be subject to the tax.)
>>
>> Nevertheless Paul votes correctly - against both the wars and the debt deal
>> - and is the only major party candidate to do so.
>>
>> Best wishes for your efforts,
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> In December 2003/January 2004 - when I was a graduate student - I
>>> spent the winter break in Ames, Iowa, as a volunteer for Kucinich,
>>> coordinating the campaign in Ames.
>>>
>>> I am thinking of doing something similar now - for Ron Paul.
>>>
>>> The Iowa Republican caucus is essentially an open primary. You just
>>> have to show up, register as a Republican, and then you can vote.
>>>
>>> A new Bloomberg poll shows that the race is a four way statistical
>>> tie: Cain, Paul, Romney, Gingrich.
>>>
>>> This means that any mobilization effort could tip the balance.
>>>
>>> What if we got a group of people from C-U, picked a target where we
>>> thought we could be useful (the Kucinich campaign sent me to Ames
>>> because it's a campus town), rented an apartment for a month, and
>>> worked on mobilizing peace voters for the caucus on January 3?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert Naiman
>>> Policy Director
>>> Just Foreign Policy
>>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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