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Can you tell us the status of FR's current legal situation?

Also...how are we doing bandwidth/server-wise?

I know that as Free Republic gets mentioned more in the public eye, more people will sign up.

How are we doing?
How are you doing?

How are we doing?
How are you doing?

How d'ya like me so far? (vigorously shaking your hand)

Can I reprint your tag line as a bumper sticker??

We settled the suit with the LAT/WP and all is fine on that front. We also settled the suit against eschoir and have paid about two thirds of the legal bills. We have one more year of payments left at $3,000 per month.

We have filed notice with the City of Fresno of our intent to sue for libel, defamation, etc, and they have 90 days to respond (less than 60 days left). They sent us a feeler recently regarding possible settlement and we've informed them that we are open to discussion. Have not heard back from them yet.

Our bandwidth/server situation is fine. John negotiated a new contract with our supplier at the end of last year, which brought our monthly rate significantly down.

And to bring the current state of my personal finances up to date, I still have the same house, the same mortgage, and the same beat up old '89 GMC Jimmy. We decided a couple years ago to take a trip to Texas for the NFRA convention so we bought a used van to make the trip. It's a '93 Mercury Villager that I bought out of the want ads for $5,000 from a little old lady who only drove it around town, but it runs great. We've now made two trips to Texas and have driven it all up and down the state of California to various rallies and events, etc. No problems.

Other than the van and some much need computer equipment and normal repairs and maintenance, etc, we've made no major purchases since I started FR. The last of my stock was sold to pay taxes. My savings have long been depleted.

My mortage is now down to around $165,000. I still have around $20,000 in personal debt, on which I'm making regular monthly payments, plus some current year tax liabilities (to the AFers: yes Mojo, I do pay my taxes).

And that's about it.

To sum it up, we're doing fine.

We aint rich, but, by the grace of God, we're not in the poorhouse either. And we're still happy as clowns and not complaining a bit.

Thank you all very much!!

And thank God for America and for the Liberty loving patriots who keep her free!!