CNN Youtube debate – and Beach bonfires UPDATED!!!!!!!!!! DEC 1st to add pictures November 29, 2007

We headed to portsmouth to watch the CNN-Youtube debate with the Portsmouth meetup group. We got introduced to everyone and as usual, as with all Ron Paul supporters we have met everyone was awesome. As we were ordering dinner the debate started and we got some attention from the other bar patrons when we were applauding Ron taking the stage. Then all throughout the night i kept noticing people from other parts of the bar coming over to watch the debate with us. we had a great time jack bought all of us OLFD people dinner (we had the best pizza ever) and I personally thought the debate went awesome. RP made himself look great, he stood up for himself, he was passionate, and all the other guys made them selves look like complete idiots. so heres a couple of pics of us at the debate watch party

afterwards we stopped at a gas station to drop off materials to a guy that we talked to the night before who was now a hardcore RP supporter, we got him to come canvass with us saturday and gave away 3 yard signs. Then we came back here and a few of us went down to the beach and held the first annual Ron Paul Revolution Beach Bonfire heres some of the pics from that

a clam i found

General happenings November 29, 2007

We have been super busy the last few days, I haven’t had a chance to do much updating so heres the scoop.

tuesday a guy named bill called and said he had seen our video blogs online and had some gifts for us. he stopped by and brought each of us a gift certificate for a local grocery store. This was the best gift we could have gotten, feeding 10 people isn’t easy. so heres bill giving us the gifts. I will upload the video in the player on ronpaultulsa.com/NH tomorrow.

later in the evening we went to Murphys in Manchester and hung out with Ron Paul supporters and FSP members. Tuesday nights we all meet up and everyone gets together just to relax and talk about what we have been doing for the last few days. heres some pics of that as well.

this is linda, you might know some of her work… ahem the mosaic ad, founders flyers? she is super awesome and the guy next to her is Paul… he has the coolest tea party poster on his van.

Trevor lyman and jesse the manchester meetup organizer

more random pics

Not so free lobsters November 29, 2007

Charles brought home two live lobsters last night and just laid them on the floor. They were super cool, I have personally never touched a live lobster, much less one crawling on my living room floor. The kids thought they were pets and when they went into the pot they were like “where did our pets go?” So the lobster was steamed and from what I hear it was very good. I myself have a general rule about not eating anything I have petted within the last hour, so I opted out. But it was a fun experience I thought i would share. Here are some pics and you can find the video at www.ronpaultulsa.com/NH in the video player. (the fish was dead)

I am in new hampshire November 25, 2007

I have set up another blog with more info

http://tulsatonewhampshire.blogspot.com

saturday canvassing November 25, 2007

Today was our first official day of canvassing. We went to Exeter, NH and started on a list of addresses from HQ. The canvassing packets make it really easy. the addresses are mapped out in order, and the script is super easy to follow. People are really cool with strangers walking up to their doors too. We had a few people say they didn’t have time or weren’t interested in getting information but they would still answer a few questions about their voting status. The campaign has an official strategy for us to follow which makes it easy to not get wrapped up in conversations about our own opinions of RP.

The first time someone actually said “I am voting for Ron Paul” I almost didn’t know what to say, I was so excited I just wanted to yell “I am one of you!” after explaining How i had just come from Oklahoma to help with this effort he was very interested in what we were doing and said he wasn’t a “ron paul junkie” like me but he was definitely voting for him.

we had a really good response. MOST of these people are undecided, not leaning toward one or the other, with only a few ideas about ron paul. Most had heard of ron paul, and heard about NOV 5th. I was so so pleased with our results and the responses.

we got home and did some video blogging and now we are on our way to the bar at the end of the street where a band is playing. we have some of the ozzfest flyers so were going to talk to that crowd about the war, and the war on drugs.

ITS A REVOLUTION BITCHES!

Black Friday November 23, 2007

Black friday has been the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924. “Black Friday” was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, although most contemporary uses of the term refer instead to it as the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black (i.e., turning a profit).

for Ron paul supporters it means there are hundreds of freezing people standing in lines waiting to be let in to spend their fiat money on useless products, ready to be primed for the freedom message.

we left hampton at 3:30 am to drive to the nearest “shopping district” in Portsmouth.
The first place we drove by was circuit city. There were at least 150 people in line and we dove right in… This first crowd was pretty rough. Most of them were just too damn cold to be interested in anything other than being let in the front doors but we got a few good responses. We moved on to the mall and hit up the best buy crowd first.

These people were hilarious… The first guy I got to have a real conversation with says “oh no, Gialuliani is my guy. When Hunter asked him why he supported the ghoul, he couldn’t even answer, and turned the question into, well tell me something about ron paul… “IM GLAD YOU ASKED”… after explaining to this guy that Mr. 9/11 was not who he says he is and telling him why, and also why Ron Paul should be his man, I think he finally realized that maybe he hadn’t looked into it enough.

we moved on to a cold young lady who was full of questions. mostly about why the UN was bad, what Ron would do for the environment, blah blah blah…. after explaining the bigger picture to her she was primed and ready to switch from Obama to Ron.

a group of young guys were all about Ron Paul and helped create a buzz around them by screaming “Ron Paul is the MAN!!!”…it didn’t take much work after that we worked the crowd a while longer, and when on to the people standing in line at STAPLES… what people could seriously want that bad from STAPLES is beyond me (it was like 20 degrees out,

I told one guy i had drove here from Oklahoma and he was like OMG you must be freezing.. after laughing about what a puss i was for being cold, he was very interested in the fact that so few people voted in the primaries last election, because he was one of those people. I told him about November 5th and he was VERY VERY INTERESTED in that.

So we handed out plenty of materials. I wish we would have had hot chocolate, I promise we would have gained 50 new hardcore supporters.

So heres some pics of the crowd, and the sunrise pics i took on the way back home.

oooh pretty:

thanksgiving in hampton November 23, 2007

I have never in my life been woken up by the smell of food cooking, I mean i have awoke to the smells, but the smells have never woke me…til today, We arrived in New Hampshire at 8 am and after driving all night we fell asleep before our heads hit the pillow. I came down the stairs to see Laura making a homemade Thanksgiving dinner from scratch. We had everything, Turkey, sweet potatoes (the best ever) dressing, mashed potatoes, homemade rolls, homemade apple pie. The next best thing to being at your moms house for thanksgiving, is being at someone elses moms house, and we picked the right house to be. Dinner went great we have all had a lot of fun and now we are sitting around the table playing some texas hold em waiting til its time to leave for black friday.

heres our thanksgiving photos

Finally on the road November 23, 2007

The longer it took to leave Kansas city the more I couldn’t wait to get to New Hampshire. We started on the road at 9 pm expecting to arrive sometime around 10 wednesday night. of course on a 1700 mile road trip what you expect and what you get are usually two different things. I woke up somewhere in Indiana to a pop, squeal and swerving and realized a tire had blown up. We pulled over and started emptying out the packed full trunk to get the jack and donut. Lo and behold after the trunk was completely empty we found the jack, but no donut. The fuzzy memory of giving away our donut at the yard sale was swimming around in my brain while several cuss words were floating out of my mouth. So surveying our options at 4 am we had some closed looking businesses, a hotel, a truck stop and a mc donalds. Jay decided to walk up to the area and see what he could find out. He came back about 45 minutes later. He had posted a call for help message on the forums, and all we could do at this point was wait.

Its a strange experience waking up on the highway to a state trooper knocking on your window. Since it was obvious what had happened, what with a shredded tire laying next to the car, he only smiled and said, what can I do to help you guys? So he got on his phone and called a tow truck at the discount tire shop that was literally 200 yards from where our car sat on the highway. Had we known how close it was I would have carried the damn tire there to save that $75 towing charge.

Something good came out of it anyway. I spent the 30 minutes it took to change the tire talking with the shop owner about Ron Paul. First topic of conversation was about the IRS. Not much talking was needed on my part, the guy sounded like he was preaching Ron’s words himself. It didn’t take long to realize the guy was going to be a hardcore supporter when he gave us our bill for $100 and said “hell, ill just send that right back to him” pointing at the liberty cards we had put on the counter for his customers.

SOOO if anyone in Indiana needs a tire go to the discount tire shop of of I-70 about 30 minutes west of Indianapolis. talk to Jeff, hes a good guy.

After that, It was my turn to drive. I hit deadlock traffic about 5 minutes before columbus, OH that didn’t stop until we were at least 30 miles out of the city. After 2 hours in traffic not moving an inch a mile, I was ready to let Jay take over again.

around The middle of pennsylvania the fog got thick and stayed that way all the way to NH. When we passed over the Hudson River we couldnt see 2 feet in front of us and we didn’t really see much again til this afternoon. As we were driving in to Hampton the tide was up and the waves were crashing over the bridge onto the road.

All in all it was a good trip, the blowout turned out to bring RP another donator, and we made it one piece.

heres the pics i took from the road

coming into ohio

columbus, OH downtown

New england trees are awesome

deadlock traffic heading up to akron, oh

view from the porch

the house ( ill take a better one later)

so far theres 8 of us here

tattoo pic November 20, 2007

here is a pic of the tattoo i got the other night, a friend of mine is an apprentice and did this as my going away present sunday afternoon.

November 19, 2007

I got a new tattoo sunday. A lot of people are going to think Im crazy for getting a Ron Paul related tattoo, “what if he doesn’t win” they say…. But this tattoo is not about Ron Paul. This tattoo is about the message. The message of freedom, of people taking back their country as I am attempting to do now. The message of a Revolution. I have a tattoo for every significant event in my life. I think selling everything I own and going halfway across the country to spread this message is a pretty significant event. So to you nay sayers out there. This is a revolution bitches!!!!!!!

November 19, 2007

New pics of olivia in her dress

November 18th, 2007 November 19, 2007

We woke up super early this morning and had to rearrange the car. when i picked up jay in springfield he added stuff to the already full car and there was odds and ends laying everywhere. We stayed in monett, Mo for a little while, dropping off campaign materials to friends we have turned onto ron paul. We stopped at a gas station in Lamar, Mo that had presidential candidate lighters with caricatures of the “top tier” candidates on them. I asked if they had any Ron Paul lighters and the guy looked at me with that glazed over “who the hell is ron paul” look on his face, so of course we had to explain and bitch about the media being owned etc. We are now in Kansas City and we will stay the night here, leaving sometime tomorrow after we get the window fixed in the car.

ALL YOUR CANDIES ARE BELONG TO US!!!!! November 4, 2007

You have never experienced Halloween properly unless you have trick or treated with a mass mob of nearly 30 children. We were invited to celebrate the annual Halloween festivities with some of the other PTA moms and their kids. I met with the closest mom to me on the block and we walked and picked up the next closest til we had a HUGE group with us. We all had hot dogs (a tradition) and set off for trick or treating. Olivia wasn’t feeling all that well so I didn’t plan to be out long in the cold. We started walking around the neighborhoods with our children knocking on doors threatening tricks and demanding treats. Some kids would run, some would walk but i think they could have walked in a single file line and it would have not been any easier to control them. There were plenty of times during the night I wondered how appropriate it would be to hire a SWAT team to accompany our group just to keep control. Even with around 10 adults keeping control of 27 children with bags of candy threatening to hurt you if you don’t give them a piece we still could have used the extra support. HA HA nah it wasn’t that bad, the kids were all easily controlable with the threat of us eating all their candy, hell they knew we were going to get our share of it anyway

but heres the pics of course :

Meco and a the boys

Me, Meco, and Liv

OH NO MY BEST FRIEND IS A ZOMBIE!! AAAGGGGGGGHHHH!!!

Brandi, Me, and Reni

Reni, Her zombie son cory, and his zombie girlfriend Kari

Me and Liv and Allysa

Olivia showing me her costume, under protest.

Kaitlyn, aka Snow White

FINALLY a smile!!

Liv and Alyssa