Woo hoo!! Our Third Quarter '06 FReepathon is now Underway!!

Well, looks like we're going to be in for a great election cycle after all. With Zarqawi's death and a general round-up of terrorists, things are looking better in Iraq and the president's popularity numbers are looking up. We're also seeing some good things happening in the primaries. Apparently, things aren't quite as gloomy as the gloom and doomers have been portending.

Looking forward to not only holding our seats this Fall, but actually building on the conservative majority and continuing to rebuild the judiciary thereafter.

God bless President Bush and our troops and may the war in Iraq come to a successful conclusion soon.

By the way, received a letter from the Commonwealth of Virgina last month. Seems they are concerned that we are not registered as a charity in Virginia and are therefore not authorized to solicit for charitable contributions in the great state of Virginia.

Well, I don't know about being authorized, but I can tell you we are most definitely not a charity. We're also not a registered non-profit, nor a political PAC, nor a veterans group, nor a professional fundraising organization.

We have no corporate presence in Virginia, do not advertise in the media, do not solicit for funds over the phone or by telegraph, direct mail or even by email and we do not raise funds for any other purpose other than to fund the operations of this web site.

And we solicit only to our members (readers and participants of this site) who, when they donate, do so freely with nothing expected in return other than the hopes of seeing this conservative forum continue to operate.

We state plainly on our web site and on our donation page that donations to Free Republic are not tax deductible.

We are not a charity and do not raise funds for charitable purposes. We are organized as a Limited Liability Company (Free Republic, LLC) in California and as we are not a charity or a registered non-profit, we pay all applicable federal and state taxes on our income to the Federal Government and to the state of California and do not feel we are subject to Virginia's regulations for charitable organizations.

Hoping this will satisfy the Commonwealth of Virginia, otherwise we may have to ask the good people of Virginia to please ignore our fundraisers in the future.

Q3 2006 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$2,135.00	42	$50.83	2,855	$0.75	$1,444.56	105
2	Texas	1,225.00	28	43.75	2,548	0.48	955.00	65
3	Florida	1,075.00	22	48.86	1,388	0.77	681.11	42
4	Colorado	720.00	7	102.86	487	1.48	180.00	11
5	Alabama	513.00	7	73.29	371	1.38	243.00	13
6	New York	495.00	11	45.00	1,115	0.44	541.00	28
7	Illinois	475.00	8	59.38	729	0.65	326.50	21
8	Washington	462.00	11	42.00	700	0.66	305.00	19
9	New Jersey	405.00	9	45.00	590	0.69	230.00	12
10	Pennsylvania	385.00	13	29.62	881	0.44	286.00	23
11	Virginia	385.00	13	29.62	937	0.41	510.50	25
12	District of Columbia	365.00	1	365.00	113	3.23
13	Connecticut	325.00	4	81.25	248	1.31	30.00	3
14	Massachusetts	320.00	9	35.56	481	0.67	310.00	19
15	Missouri	270.00	6	45.00	523	0.52	195.00	14
16	Georgia	260.00	7	37.14	770	0.34	235.00	16
17	Michigan	230.00	4	57.50	620	0.37	120.00	10
18	Utah	210.00	7	30.00	149	1.41	100.00	5
19	New Hampshire	203.00	2	101.50	167	1.22	10.00	1
20	Wisconsin	185.00	6	30.83	403	0.46	115.00	9
21	Arizona	185.00	4	46.25	609	0.30	170.50	14
22	Oregon	155.00	4	38.75	366	0.42	70.00	7
23	Maryland	150.00	5	30.00	546	0.27	210.00	13
24	North Carolina	140.00	4	35.00	762	0.18	349.00	22
25	Tennessee	140.00	3	46.67	510	0.27	78.00	8
26	Arkansas	140.00	4	35.00	223	0.63	25.00	2
27	Ohio	130.00	5	26.00	775	0.17	617.25	18
28	Maine	120.00	3	40.00	154	0.78	10.00	1
29	South Korea	100.00	1	100.00	7	14.29
30	Indiana	95.00	3	31.67	458	0.21	73.00	9
31	Hawaii	75.00	2	37.50	90	0.83	20.00	3
32	Wyoming	70.00	2	35.00	44	1.59
33	South Dakota	65.00	2	32.50	58	1.12	30.00	2
34	South Carolina	60.00	2	30.00	313	0.19	105.00	8
35	Idaho	60.00	2	30.00	147	0.41	95.00	5
36	Louisiana	60.00	3	20.00	297	0.20	85.00	8
37	Kentucky	60.00	2	30.00	312	0.19	10.00	2
38	Canada	50.00	1	50.00	355	0.14	5.00	1
39	Germany	50.00	1	50.00	78	0.64
40	Montana	50.00	1	50.00	70	0.71	338.33	2
41	Kansas	30.00	2	15.00	256	0.12	50.00	5
42	New Mexico	25.00	1	25.00	148	0.17	40.00	2
43	Oklahoma	25.00	1	25.00	323	0.08	131.00	8
44	Minnesota	20.00	2	10.00	395	0.05	95.00	8
45	Mississippi	20.00	1	20.00	176	0.11	162.00	8
46	Vermont	20.00	1	20.00	50	0.40	56.00	3
47	United Kingdom	20.00	1	20.00	343	0.06	70.00	3
48	West Virginia	20.00	2	10.00	130	0.15	55.00	3
49	Nevada	20.00	1	20.00	177	0.11	40.00	2
50	China	10.00	1	10.00	28	0.36	10.00	1
	Nebraska						45.50	4
	Norway						10.00	1
	Iowa						75.00	4
	Rhode Island						35.00	2
	Armed Forces - Europe						25.00	2
	Croatia						5.00	1
	Alaska						40.00	2
Never Never Land		1,085.00	33	32.88			253.00	20
51 locations total		$13,893	317	$43.83	29,453	$0.47	$10,306.25	645

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