[Al B.]

Booths for $15,000 & up and I also understand individual "votes" cost $35 each. Some representative "straw poll" this is and yet the media will play it up relentlessly.

Seems like an Iowa GOP fundraising scam to me.

[Al B.]

Ping!

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Seems like an Iowa GOP fundraising scam to me.

No scam. This event has always been billed as a party fundraiser - and thinking otherwise is naive.

[Free Vulcan]

It’s never been anything but a fundraiser. No false advertising here.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Crooked straw poll PING!

[unseen1]

Pqlin will park her bus in the parking lot. and show the movie

[mnehring]

Paul folks paying people from all over the country to show up at Ames.
We want to provide Iowan Ron Paul supporters an all-expense paid trip to the Ames Straw Poll. We plan to email/mail a voucher that will admit up to 4 people to each Iowan Ron Paul supporter that we identify. The vouchers will be redeemable for tickets at bus locations or at the Hilton Coliseum in Ames. If for whatever reason a supporter can't make the event we will not be wasting tickets. By using these vouchers, every Iowan Ron Paul supporter will look to bring friends and family and we will be able to multiply our efforts. We also plan to provide bus transportation. Tickets for 5,000 supporters will cost $150,000 and transportation will cost roughly $200,000. (Note: Donating to this effort will save the campaign from spending the same amount of money to bring extra supporters to vote for Ron Paul in Ames.) We will be using John Dennis's Freedom and Prosperity PAC to accept donations and the donation page will be up very soon at rp2012.org.

[Keith in Iowa]

https://twitter.com/#!/whoradio/status/83962314751082497

@whoradio - WHO Radio

Michelle Bachman tells Iowa reporters she will participate in the GOP Straw Poll in Ames

[Liberty Valance]

[LibLieSlayer]

This looks more like a gathering of political prostitutes than Patriots... selling your vote... kinda like selling your soul... I will NEVER look upon Iowa the same again. Pitiful. It should be the COP and not the GOP... CORRUPT OLD PARTY!

LLS