Our 2nd Quarter FReepathon is Underway!

Click to donate via FR secure server ^ | April 1, 2004 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!! Are you ready for another FReepathon!?

It's time once more for us to raise the funds that are necessary to keep Free Republic on the air.

People have asked me if the $60,000 settlement with the City of Fresno means we won't have to have a fundraiser this time. Well, I wish it could be so, but, unfortunately, it's not.

First of all, we did not actually receive $60,000. After legal fees, mediation fees and other expenses directly related to the suit, we netted approximately $34,000. Of that, we distributed over $10,000 to the members of the Fresno Chapter who were in business and their businesses suffered due to the city's libel and also to the members who met with us regularly on a weekly basis. Then, due to the fact that the city was late with their press release and no media picked it up, we paid approximately $2,000 to run ads in several valley papers announcing the city's retraction.

The approximately $22,000 left over will be used in our operations. We plan to use about $4,000 to upgrade our equipment and $10,000 or more will go for taxes. I plan to use part of the balance to beef up our insurance coverage and also will look into a health insurance plan. The remainder will be used for travel and other expenses. I still hope to visit as many chapters as I possibly can over the next year or so, but obviously won't be doing so in a motor home (you had to have been there to get the inside joke). We'll be traveling in our trusty old FReepermobile van. She's an 11 year old Mercury Villager with 150,000 miles, but she's got good rubber, purrs like a kitten and is pretty good on gas.

So, as it turns out, the settlement has strengthened Free Republic and also has strengthened the conservative position in the City of Fresno. As a result of our suit, the controversial loony peacenik chair person of the Fresno City Human Relations Commission who committed the libel against us and has also caused much turmoil within the city and the city council has resigned "to pursue other interests." Also, the loony liberal President of the Fresno City Council who made some ridiculous comments belittling the suit and the settlement in the Fresno Bee was voted out of office just a couple months later.

So, as I've said before, the settlement is a win, win, win position. It's a win for Free Republic, a win for the City of Fresno, and, ultimately, a win for the taxpayers.

At any rate, we thank all of you who participate on Free Republic and support our efforts and we look forward to another exciting election cycle.

Hope to see y'all either on our road trip and or at the Free Republic George W. Bush Inaugural Ball II in January!!

Go GWB!!

[Jim Robinson]

Donations may be made by credit card or PayPal via our secure server: https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/pledge. PayPal donations should be directed to my PayPal account: jimrob@psnw.com.

Or by check or money order to:

Free Republic, LLC
P.O. Box 9771
Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you all very much!!

[dakine]

Okay, but wait until I get done PAYING all those federal and state taxes!

bump!

[eureka!]

As per usual, $20 snail mail pledge, maybe more if I can wiggle my tax bill a little bit....

[cripplecreek]

Since I found a home here I feel obligated. It wont be a lot but I'll send something.

[Constitution Day]

BUMP from a monthly donor!!
Thanks for all you do, Jim, and damn the bitter naysayers. FR is the place to be!

[Fierce Allegiance]

Im in. I promise i won't be late mailing it this time!

[jwalsh07]

Rock on bro.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bump from the only dollar a day FReeper in New Mexico!(121,000 square miles)

We can do better!

[CholeraJoe]

Bump from another monthly donor. Check the tagline for other benefits of being a monthly donor.

[Jim Robinson]

Ok, I thank you and Uncle Sam thanks you! LOL

Just in:

$10 from Never Never Land
$10 from New Jersey
$100 from Colorado
$100 from Connecticut

Also, here are a few donations that came in during the last couple days of the prior quarter:

$50 from Ohio
$100 from California
$50 from Virginia

Thank you all Very Much!!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you, eureka!

And just in:

$50 from Texas
$30 from South Carolina
$10 from Maryland
$50 from Michigan

Thank you all very much!!

[GailA]

My $20 will be in the snail mail this weekend.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you cripplecreek!

[MinuteGal]

Home, Home on FR
Where the moose and the Vike Kitties play
Where always is heard
A conservative word
So send in some bucks right away

Hey! Hey!

Leni

[Just another Joe]

Bump from another monthly donor.

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you Constitution Day!

[Howlin]

Remember last week when you couldn't sign on to FR?

Remember how that felt?

PAY TO PLAY PING!!!

[Publius]

$91 (a dollar a day for the second quarter) is on its way via tomorrow's mail.

[Our man in washington]

Two years ago, a joke I wrote entitled "72 Virginians" spread far and wide thanks to FR. In gratitude, this Virginian pledges $72.

[Howlin]

Thanks for all you do, Jim, and damn the bitter naysayers. FR is the place to be

Jim's late getting "his" Freepathon thread up.......LOL.