fund raising

"Louisiana will be only one of two states where voters will have the opportunity to pull the lever for Paul, a congressman from Texas who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination. Paul built a wide coalition of grass roots support that helped him raise tens of millions of dollars for his campaign."

The other state is Montana.

To further promote and market the upcoming Liberty Straw Poll, we have created a useful Flash-based widget. There are two versions, one that is 300 pixels wide and a second that is 150 pixels wide:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 12, 2008

Introducing the Liberty Straw Poll: A new campaign support system for pro-liberty candidates

A new political campaign promotional system, the Liberty Straw Poll, has been created to raise awareness and funding for candidates at all levels of government who best promise to serve the people with a platform of freedom, prosperity and peace through adherence to the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution.

While participating in a recent Congressional campaign the strategy session turned towards fund raising as it so often does. The campaign like most campaigns was strapped for cash and the discussion turned towards holding a money bomb. What is a money bomb? A money bomb is a previously specified time period, usually a day (24 hours), when a candidate's supporters pool their donations in an attempt to raise a shed load of campaign funds in a short period of time. In addition to raising money, it is also an attempt to gain media attention. Ron Paul's grassroots supporters originated and perfected the money bomb concept. Over $4 million was raised during the November 5th money bomb and over $6 million for the Tea Party event on December 16th last year. Since then the economy has only worsened and the money bomb totals have dwindled.

This is the fourth in a series of videos to help members understand Freeople's key functionality.

The video focuses on how to create calendar events which will be displayed on the Freeople Calendar and Google Maps. Also included are the steps for creating a donation event to raise funds for a group activity or cause.

Other videos in the series are as follows:

Since very early in the 2008 campaign, I have been impressed by how much has been accomplished with ChipIn. The small widget has been a great success in helping people raise funds for everything from television advertising to envelopes and stationary.