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

Thu Nov 17 08:20:28 CST 2011

Bob,
the Voter Guide idea is brilliant.
Also, I would love to donate an evening to phone banking on RP's behalf.
Phone banking pizza party??
Let's do this.
--Tony P.
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:51 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:

> **
> 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> <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 Policywww.justforeignpolicy.orgnaiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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