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

Thu Nov 17 09:27:31 CST 2011

I wrote to the second of the addresses that Wayne provided, the youth one.

In the meantime, I found information indicating that the voter registration
deadline is December 24. So that is a target: if folks who aren't already
registered as Republicans don't register by December 24, they can't vote on
January 3.

I found that here:

http://www.bluerepublican.org/welcome-to-blue-republican/iowa/

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Anthony Pomonis <apomonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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