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Robinson said he plans to use the settlement money to travel across the country in a motor home visiting Free Republic chapters. He will end the trip in Washington, D.C.

Looking forward to seeing you again soon, Jim! You may want to wait until it gets a little warmer before you head up here to the northeast U.S., though. :-)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

"Robinson said he plans to use the settlement money to travel across the country in a motor home visiting Free Republic chapters. He will end the trip in Washington, D.C."

Yeah, that's one of the first things the reporter asked. What are you going to do with the money? I told him we'll use it somewhere in our operation. Then he says, I heard you were gonna take a nationwide tour to visit your chapters in a motorhome. {pause} Well, I say, I'd like to do that someday, but probably won't be able to. He then asked if I was going to buy a motorhome. Nope, says I, there won't be that much left over after paying our legal expenses, taxes and other committed disbursements. He then asks, how much was the settlement? I'm sorry, I say, I signed the City's nondisclosure agreement and can't give you the number. Long story short, he already had all the answers he wanted for his story before he even called me.

But I truly would love to visit all the chapters. May not be able to do it in one grand tour, but year by year, state by state, we'll get there.

He also asked me how many chapters we have and I said, well, I don't think we have formal chapters in every state, but we do have groups of people in every state who get together for rallies and stuff.

And I explained the history of FR from the March for Justice and the Impeachment, and the SoreLoserman campaign and the FReeper protests outside Gore's mansion and in Florida and all across the coutry protesting against the Democrat takeover attempt. And then the hundreds of support our troops rallies all across the country.

And I did tell him I'd like to RENT a motorhome and take a tour zigzagging across the country visiting as many chapters as I can and end up in Washington DC. I was going to end that with "for the Free Republic George W. Bush Inaugural Ball II" but didn't get it all out before the phone call ended.

And I also told him about our Support our Troops rallies we held right here in Fresno nearly every Friday night for two years following 9/11. Also told him about Peace Fresno protesting the war right across the street from us every Friday night for two years and that they knew damned well that we were not violent people.

And I mentioned that that was the start of all this nonsense to begin with. Peace Fresno and or some of their anarchist comrades found out about our planned rally and picnic and then posted their plans to disrupt our activities over on InfoShop and IndyMedia.

And that because Peace Fresno was firmly entrenched in the HRC, they (the HRC) did this as a political attack on us and were trying to shut down our first amendment rights. He acknowledged this was true and agreed that HRC was controlled by the peacniks. I said that this was government abuse and he again agreed. But he didn't include much of this in his story.

Jim's always welcome in Florida - the weather's great here.

Looking forward to seeing you again soon, Jim! You may want to wait until it gets a little warmer before you head up here to the northeast U.S., though. :-)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!