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| Why is Bob Barr running for President? - This msg has already appeared on these meetups: 305 (champ | martin johnson | Jul 24, 2008 |
| Fw: DVDs 4 Delegates Project / Almost an Emergency -- We still need some delegate lists -- please help! - Volunteers! We need your help getting these delegate lists! If you can help, please contact Kathleen for instructions--see below. Evan Cutler, Organizer From: Kathleen J. [mailto:[address removed]] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:06 AM Evan | martin johnson | Jul 19, 2008 |
| Fellow Ron Paul Revolutionaries - Fellow Ron Paul Revolutionaries, An exciting opportunity exists NOW to receive a free weekly newsletter from the group that secured the FIRST victory in America to WIN for Ron Pau | Kenny Wink | Jul 17, 2008 |
| Bus Trip to GOB convention in Sept UPDATE! - | martin johnson | Jun 29, 2008 |
| Fw: [ronpaul-511] Why Ron Paul Made the Most Brilliant Move In Political History - ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Mail Bridge To: [address removed] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:55:13 AM Subject: [ronpaul-511] Why Ron Paul Made the Most Brilliant Move In Political History Sender: "Brenda K | martin johnson | Jun 20, 2008 |
| Fw: [ronpaul-1873] Ron Paul called me, Evan, last night and guaranteed me that if we win him the nomination in St. Paul—He will Accept it. - Preview not available | martin johnson | Jun 16, 2008 |
| Fw: [ronpaul-1873] Progress & Needs Report … And Warning - Preview not available | martin johnson | May 1, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1873] TUES NAT'L RONPAULPUBLIC ROBERTS RULES CONF CALL - passing this along. I don't think this conference call will work with so many people, &nbs | martin johnson | Apr 20, 2008 |
| Can you write in Ron Paul's name? Not in Illinois. - I sent this to the Springfield group and thought I would pass it along to the other Illinois Ron Paul groups in case anyone was thinking about writing in Ron's name come election time. The 2008 (Illinois) Candidate's Guide states, "A candidate for | Mark Buraglio | Apr 13, 2008 |
| golden opportunity for Ron Paulites this Tuesday - | martin johnson | Apr 7, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Delegates to the State Convention - Well, I got an email back from my Chair. He wants to know more infor about me and where I am at. I told him that I am a registered voter in Shelby Co (should have said Republican, oh well) and he would have to be more specific what other info he want | Jodi | Mar 24, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Delegates to the State Convention - Jodi, Here's a compilation of the list on how to get a hold of your county's chair. If you can find out how many open slots there are in Shelby County, let me know. I have some people I know over there that may be able to attend (some of the peopl | Matthew Niemerg | Mar 21, 2008 |
Re: [ronpaul-1129] Delegates to the State Convention - OMG, are you kidding?! How can I find out in my county
(Shelby)!
Jodi
--- Matthew Niemerg wrote:
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I just recently contacted the County Chair in Coles
County inquiring about local GOP m
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Jodi | Mar 21, 2008 |
| Delegates to the State Convention - I just recently contacted the County Chair in Coles County inquiring about local GOP meetings and whether or not Delegate seats were still available. Good news! There are still about 8 or 10 open slots (he didn't know off the top of his head). There wi | Matthew Niemerg | Mar 21, 2008 |
| Fwd: [ronpaul-1043] Fwd: [ronpaul-48] WE CAN WIN THE NOMINATION!!!!! - | martin johnson | Feb 6, 2008 |
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Re: [ronpaul-1129] Canvassing in Danville - No, I can't either due to the weather and I have to
study for a test anyway.
--- Matthew Niemerg wrote:
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I received this e-mail from a student who goes to
Purdue University. The Stu
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Jodi | Feb 1, 2008 |
| Canvassing in Danville - I received this e-mail from a student who goes to Purdue University. The Students for Paul chapter there are going to be canvassing in Danville, Saturday, Feb. 2. Here is the e-mail that was sent. -------- Hi, | Matthew Niemerg | Feb 1, 2008 |
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Meeting details changed: The Charleston/Mattoon Ron Paul February Meetup - I've updated this meeting. For more details, see the full listing: http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1129/calendar/7058900/ There is a mock debate held by the EIU Republicans and the Colleg
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Matthew Niemerg | Jan 30, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-305] Ron Paul Superbowl Ad in Champaign - They've collected only $10,000 so far. We need at least $100,000 to place the ads in all the currently reserved spots, including Champaign,IL. Tomorrow, Monday, Jan 28 at noon is the deadline to get all the spots. Remember, viewers m | martin johnson | Jan 27, 2008 |
| Obama information urls - Ammo to combat Obama Robert Johnson <[address removed]> wrote: From: Robert Johnson <[address removed]& | martin johnson | Jan 24, 2008 |
| Canvassing tool - I was worried that the slim jim alone, would not be enough infor to get someone to vote on Feb 5, so I designed the attached document. I plan to staple it and a rubber band to a slim jim and put on door knobs. Bar | martin johnson | Jan 21, 2008 |
| New Event: Educating the College Kids - Announcing a new event for The Charleston/Mattoon Ron Paul Meetup Group! What: Educating the College Kids When: Friday, January 11, 1:00 PM Where: On the Quad near Coleman / Taylor. Who should come: Anyone whose | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 9, 2008 |
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Fwd: Moving on... (from TeaParty07.com) - Just in case you're not aware... read the following.
Pete Grant
Note: forwarded message attached.
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Be a better friend, newshound, and
know-it-all w
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Pete Grant | Jan 6, 2008 |
| Hey everyone - Just wanted to say hi and make sure everyone is signed up for a precinct captain on the campaigns website. I sent an automatically generated email to this mailing list address but I don't think it went through because it thought it was spam. A | Travis | Jan 6, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] New Event: Precinct door-to-door - I think most of these issues will be discussed at the meetup on Monday, but it's fine to talk about this now. First off, as much as the name of the meetup is the Charleston/Mattoon meetup, we can really only focus on one. Now, this is a big issue I | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - Matt: I ordered some slim jims just yesterday but they won't be in for a little while. My wife says she'd be glad to go door-to-door with my sister and maybe 1 or 2 others during the day, but we need some materials. How do we get our hands on some | Pete Grant | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] New Event: Precinct door-to-door - I think that this is a good start. We need to think about how we want to do this. Do we want to go out in pairs? Are we covering Charleston only (& what parts) or do we want to divide up and take Mattoon as well? We need to get a map of Charleston & M | Pete Grant | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - As far as getting an 'official' group for Paul on campus, that is out of the question. I tried at the beginning of the year and came up against the road block that an official RSO needs to be a continuous group (and not just there for a single electio | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - Having been out with Matt today, I would agree that sign waving at least alerts people that Ron Paul is a presidential candidate. That being said, sign waving could be a little more specific that just waving "Ron Paul President 2008" signs. Since Prim | Pete Grant | Jan 5, 2008 |
| New Event: Precinct door-to-door - Announcing a new event for The Charleston/Mattoon Ron Paul Meetup Group! What: Precinct door-to-door When: Saturday, January 12, 1:00 PM Where: (A location for this event hasn't been chosen yet) Who should come: | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - Well, right now, I think we're in the phase where we need to the conventional door-to-door knocking. We only have 1 more month until the primary (Feb. 5). The problem with door to door knocking you either need to do it at night, or really, a Saturday | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - Why not have one 'planned' for this coming Saturday afternoon (somewhere theres plenty of parking)...and in between then and now, you can do the little two or three people type things? Heck, I can go out here by hwy 16 | Tom Martin | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - Well, we have a lot of people who are signed up for our group from out of town, and then one of our active members just recently moved to North Carolina, and I also don't schedule the events in a timely manner so people can't make the time. Now, the C | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - That really stinks. Doesn't the Charleston group susposely have 12 or so members? It looks to me like they're like most others...all talk. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Niemerg" | Tom Martin | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - 2. Pete Grant and I (Matt Niemerg). We're trying to see if we can grab more people to come out tomorrow. Matt On Jan 5, 2008 6:10 PM, Tom Martin wrote: > How many were there today? > > > > ----- Original Message --- | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - How many were there today? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Niemerg" To: Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving | Tom Martin | Jan 5, 2008 |
| New Event: Sign Waving - Announcing a new event for The Charleston/Mattoon Ron Paul Meetup Group! What: Sign Waving When: Sunday, January 6, 2:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Who should come: Any and all freedom loving pe | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - Hey Tom, Sorry about that. It was a last minute change, I know, my apologies. Anyway, we're going to be out there again tomorrow at 2:00 (same place, right in front of Old Main), if you wanna come out. Matt On Jan 5, 2008 2:08 PM, Tom Martin | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] Event details changed: Sign Waving - | Tom Martin | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Event details changed: Sign Waving - I've updated this event. I just changed it to 2:00 as I have a family event back in Effingham and won't be able to make it up til 2:00. When: Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM Where: Lincoln and 6th Lincoln and 6th Cha | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] New Event: Sign Waving - | Brian Lewis | Jan 4, 2008 |
| New Event: Sign Waving - Announcing a new event for The Charleston/Mattoon Ron Paul Meetup Group! What: Sign Waving When: Saturday, January 5, 1:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Who should come: Come one, come all. Let's | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 3, 2008 |
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Re: [ronpaul-1129] Ring4Ron - Great Grassroots Idea - Sounds interesting. Reminds me of the Call 4 Paul
effort here:
http://call4paul.chipin.com/operation-call-4-paul
Pete Grant
--- Matthew Niemerg wrote:
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Hey guys,
I'm in the
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Pete Grant | Jan 3, 2008 |
| Ring4Ron - Great Grassroots Idea - Hey guys, I'm in the RonPaulRadio chat a lot. It's where all the uber-geeks hang out that are for Paul, or the ones who just have way too much time on their hand. Anyway, one of the guys who frequents there has a great idea for doing an autom | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 3, 2008 |
| Campaign HQ Request - I came across this request on the Daily Paul. "Ron Paul needs you in his campaign's database for purposes related to securing ballot signatures and get-out-the-vote efforts. Please immediately sign up at the campaign's website at | Matthew Niemerg | Jan 1, 2008 |
| sign wave in Effingham Thursday - | Brian Lewis | Jan 1, 2008 |
| Exhaustive list of Illinois Ron Paul Meetups???? - Does anyone know to get an exhaustive list of Ron Paul Meetups in Illinois? If so, please show me how! I've tried googling 'ron paul' meetup illinois but that is a lot of work and has no guarantee of finding them all. | martin johnson | Dec 22, 2007 |
| Interview with Ron Paul on The Daily Reckoning - This financial newsletter has been years ahead of its time, in particular about sound money policies. The authors names can be found at FEC.gov as donors to Ron Paul, and here they've actually included an i | martin johnson | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Tom - | Tom Martin | Dec 18, 2007 |
| Great RP Interview - David <[address removed]> wrote: From: David [address removed] This is on | martin johnson | Dec 18, 2007 |
| Davenport IA on 12/15 - | Brian Lewis | Dec 9, 2007 |
| New Central Illinois Forum for Paul Supporters - Hey everyone, There's a new website up that is being used for collaborating with other Central Illinois Meetup groups without some of the limitations of Meetup. Check out the forum at : | Matthew Niemerg | Dec 9, 2007 |
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Yard Signs, window signs, buttons, bumper stickers, letter stickers have arrived!!!!!!!! - Marty 398-4585 Go Ron Paul!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BB3NrSpRGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfdB5OzlyQ http://www.indecision2008.com/blog.jhtml?c=vc&videoId=87974 http://infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_candidat
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martin johnson | Dec 8, 2007 |
| Best website name to encourage people to look up Ron Paul - We (Champaign MeetUp-305) are tring to come up with an image or two, and a tiny bit of text, that a viewer will have no trouble remembering, and which will encourage the viewer to view a video s | martin johnson | Dec 4, 2007 |
| 29-Nov-2007 Meeting Minutes for RonPaul-305 - Present: Barry H, Brian L, Scott S, Marty J We talked about what tools we had and how we might use them to make Ron Paul converts. I had hoped that the 'issue voting' sites, at which you fill out your stand on iss | martin johnson | Dec 2, 2007 |
| poll by the issues only - Recently I visited a web site that had a poll by the issues only, and after voting on each of you issues, it would tell you which candidate most satisfied your choices. It also mentioned that most peopled were actually Ron Paulers, | martin johnson | Nov 28, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 signature count update as of 11pm Nov 27 (GREAT NEWS!) - My records show, that as of Nov 27, 11:00 pm, we have: total delegates mailed 1297 total Ron Paul mailed 898 Fortunately, RP HQ hired a couple professional petitioners who went | martin johnson | Nov 28, 2007 |
| Ron Paul ad in the Pantagraph? or Billboard? - We in Champaign are looking at a billboard on 1st and Springfield St. It costs $500 per month. Its about 1/4 the area of one you might see on the Interstates. It has been unrented for as long as I can remember. I've also spott | martin johnson | Nov 27, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 delegate signature total update as of Nov 26 11:30 pm - As of Nov 26 at 11:30 pm, we have the following DISTRICT 15 totals: delegate signatures mailed 1247 Ron Paul signatures mailed 898 We need another 153 to get to our first goal of 1350 signatures. | martin johnson | Nov 26, 2007 |
| Meetup Tomorrow - Hey everyone, This is just a reminder that we're going to have a meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 7:00, at Jackson Ave. Coffee. Hope to see you guys there. Matt Niemerg | Matthew Niemerg | Nov 26, 2007 |
| Nov 25 DISTRICT 15 delegate signature count update - as of Nov 25 total delegates mailed 1149 Ron Paul mailed 801 Not many came in since Nov 20, the last update. In f | martin johnson | Nov 25, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 delegate signature count update for Nov 20 - 3 persons reported a total of 45 more delegate sigs and 30 more RonPaul sigs today. Nov 20 total delegates mailed 1085 | martin johnson | Nov 20, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 signature update - As of 10pm Nov 19, reported MAILed signatures for delegates totaled 1040, and for Ron Paul, 771. If anyone has more Ron Paul sigs, please send them in ASAP and report your counts as usual, to me. 310 more delegate sigs, will | martin johnson | Nov 19, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 signature update - Thru Nov 15, I have had 881 reported MAILed delegate signatures. No reports of mailed signatures were filed Nov 16, or Nov 17. Today, Nov 19, as of 12 noon, I've received reports for 109 MAILed delegate sigs, so far. | martin johnson | Nov 19, 2007 |
| Event details changed: The Charleston/Mattoon Ron Paul December Meetup - Hey everyone, Sorry about not getting the meeting set up soon enough last time. I figure we can meet the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Unless we want to meet beforehand. I'm not going back to visit my parents (in the Effingham Area) until Tues | Matthew Niemerg | Nov 16, 2007 |
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Chicago Tribune has GREAT article on Ron Paul; See Tues Nov 13 in Tempo - Here's the source http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/11/ron_paul_probably_a_risk_he_co.html but
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martin johnson | Nov 16, 2007 |
| Maybe we shouldn't stop collecting Ron Paul signatures-- his name helps ! - Both Phil and Elizabeth suggest continuing to collect Ron Paul signatures mostly because its a lot easier to sell Ron Paul than any of our delegates. I've noticed as time passed, I was more and more likely to get enthus | martin johnson | Nov 15, 2007 |
| Border's 'Top Tier Book Display' doesn't have Ron Paul's book - This is from Elizabeth: I chastised the Borders management today on account of their having books by the various "top tier" candidates on a prominent display, while &n | martin johnson | Nov 14, 2007 |
| Stop collecting RON PAUL sigs-- collect delegate signatures only!! - Well Jason has recieved about 4500 Ron Paul signatures, so if we all send in what we've already collected, he will have the required 5000 for Illinois. Yeah! Keep those delegate signatures coming though. We are over | martin johnson | Nov 14, 2007 |
| !!RECOUNT!! DISTRICT 15 signature counts as of Nov 12, Monday - Good news! I undercounted slightly in last nights DISTRICT 15 report. (I"ve got to get more sleep) Here are the totals with more detail: 479 delegates mailed Nov 5 &nb | martin johnson | Nov 13, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 signature counts as of Nov 12, Monday - 553 delegates mailed 262 delegates unmailed ------- 865 total delegate signatures 436 RP mailed 256 RP unmailed ------ 692 total RP signatures We almost made the first milestone of 888-- 23 short. The | martin johnson | Nov 12, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 counts; perliminary total as of 9:30 am - This is preliminary. I will send out the actual total as of 8pm tonight, around 9 pm. As of 9:30 am, Monday Nov 12, with less than half of our active petitioners reporting in, we have 780 delegate sig | martin johnson | Nov 12, 2007 |
| If you haven't signed the 2 RP petitions---- - Please find a local petitioner and sign the 2 petitions. Call me at 217-398-4585, if you don't know where to find one. And PLEASE consider getting at least one petition filled out this week-- we are near the end, and we are short!!!&nb | martin johnson | Nov 12, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 petition signature count reports due tomorrow Monday! - Ignore this if you've already reported. (Jen, Phil, Susan ) All petitioners, please, report your counts SINCE last Monday. delegate sigs mailed_____________ RP sigs mailed_____________ delegate sigs not yet mailed_____ | martin johnson | Nov 11, 2007 |
| DISTRICT 15 signature totals as of 10pm Nov 5 - To all our Decatur, Charleston, Bloomington and Champaign MeetUp group members and other petitioners: Some people who I am pretty sure have collected some signatures didn't respond. Out of 24 known persons who have petitions to get signed | martin johnson | Nov 6, 2007 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1043] Signature Progress for District 15 !!CLARIFICATION!! - I need these four counts for all of DISTRICT 15, so that I can track how we are doing. I would like your TOTALS as of today, Monday Nov 5. Then next Monday, I would like the counts for the signatures collected from | martin johnson | Nov 5, 2007 |
| Signature Progress for District 15 !!CLARIFICATION!! - Clarification: I need just the counts! not any other detail. So just send four numbers. Sorry about the ambiguity Marty martin johnson <[address removed]> wrote: | martin johnson | Nov 4, 2007 |
| Signature Progress for District 15 - To keep track of our progress, I'm asking ALL petitioners for DISTRICT 15, to email me, [address removed], a report every Monday that answers the following 4 questions: Delegate Signatures notarized and mailed si | martin johnson | Nov 4, 2007 |
| Petitioning Expert's Conference Call Summary - This is the summary of a conference call with Dan Holman about effective petitioning, with some fleshing out by me. GENERAL FACTS 200 signatures per day is GOOD!&n | martin johnson | Nov 2, 2007 |
| Re: {Disarmed} Re: [ronpaul-1129] First Meetup - | Brian Lewis | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] First Meetup - I'm mixed on the flower thing, but certainly don't mind tossing in on it. I hope that by Tuesday, I'll have some signatures on the petitions. Going for as many as possible. If you guys are driving down Jackson Ave, look for my brick hous | Mike Gordon | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] First Meetup - Hey guys, Sounds good. 7:00, Tuesday, October 30 @ JaCs. I'll make it an event in meetup. I'll see if I can get some other students (besides myself), who will be interested in helping out. Come prepared with ideas a | Matthew Niemerg | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] First Meetup - I'm, in. 7 works fine by me. Mike Gordon Matthew Niemerg <[address removed]> wrote: We | Mike Gordon | Oct 24, 2007 |
| Re: [ronpaul-1129] First Meetup - | Brian Lewis | Oct 23, 2007 |
| First Meetup - Welcome everyone! I'm glad to see some people in the area who like Dr. Paul's message of freedom, peace, and prosperity. Meetup automatically creates a date for the first meetup, so the one that is already created doesn't have to be set in sto | Matthew Niemerg | Oct 23, 2007 |
