Posted on 09/17/2007 2:54:53 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Los Angeles. San Francisco. Seattle. Salt Lake City. These four cities enthusiastically welcomed Ron Paul during his five-day tour last week.
And what enthusiasm there was! The many fundraising events were sold out. Over $350,000.00 was contributed to the campaign.
Thousands of people attended rallies to show their support for Dr. Paul's campaign for president.
Nearly 550 people attended a lecture by Dr. Paul on the U.S. Constitution at Seattle University School of Law.
Microsoft hosted a meeting for employees to hear from Dr. Paul.
The Salt Lake County GOP Central Committee had Dr. Paul speak and answer questions.
And there were numerous radio, newspaper and television interviews throughout the five days.
Ron Paul's West Coast tour was a major success by any measure. Staff and many volunteers worked hard to make it so. But Dr. Paul worked the hardest of all as he shared his message of freedom, peace and prosperity from one city to the next.
Kent Snyder
Chairman, Ron Paul 2008
$350K is a fairly good take for a single fund-raiser for a serious candidate for US Senator. It's a seriously good haul for a House candidate.
But it would be an abysmal single-event take for a contending presidential candidate. That it took several widely-spread events to raise that amount is ... well, it's telling.
If Ron Paul wins the nomination, I’ll run through Harlem on a Saturday night dressed like a klansman.
I’m with ya, they need to put the pipe down and bogarting it. The PaulBots are caught in a NORMAL meeting and can’t find the door.
Remember, it's still early. Congressman Paul's fundraising has been pretty strong.
Hardly -- for the 2nd Quarter, and for the year, he's running a very distant 4th -- McCain has 8x more money, and Romney and Giuliani each have about 11x more. On the D side, Obama has him beat by a factor of nearly 20, and Clinton by 17x.
(Does this mean that Dr Ron now has enough Paulacks supporting him to screw in a lightbulb?)
That link doesn't show that those candidates have that many times more money. It shows they raised that much more. Remember that up to this point Congressman Paul has been very tight-fisted with his campaign funds.
In reality, the most recent reports show he has more cash on hand than McCain.
Er, yes ... that was precisely the point. Paul's pocketbook is puny by comparison, penny-pinching or not.
A $350K week ain't gonna cut it for him, if his opponents are grabbing $3.5 million over the same period ... and they are.
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