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

Wed Nov 16 16:51:10 CST 2011

Barry Holley writes:

Mike Heath is now RP Coordinator for RP IOWA
Mikeh at ronpaul2012.com

Ani Degroot: ani at ronpaul2012.com 319 541 7821
Midwest Coordinator Ron Paul Youth if he wants to work with Universities 
there in IOWA

On 11/17/2011 6:25 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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