Third Quarter 04 FReepathon Now Underway!!

Click here to donate to FR via secure server ^ | July 1st, 2004 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Howdy everyone,

Are you ready for a FReepathon?

The state of our FR is strong!

Our big legal bill is now paid off and our budgetary requirements are now reduced. For the first time in our history, our monthly donations are now bringing in more than 50% of our quarterly budget! Thanks to our generous membership and the settlement with the City of Fresno, we now have a comfortable cash buffer and should have no problems meeting our coming tax payments and other obligations.

I've recalculated our estimated budget requirements for the remainder of the year and have posted them here:

https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/budget

We just completed the first loop of our nationwide tour and we had a great time! We traveled through eleven states in three weeks and FReeped with, met with and dined with FReepers in ten cities and from at least a dozen chapters. It's great to see all our old friends again and to meet new ones. Joining a gathering of FReepers is just like going a family reunion. Very warm and friendly and just like home. Thank you all so much for your gracious hospitality and friendship!

We hope to visit all fifty states and most of our chapters within the next year or so. We hope to visit our LA Chapter on the 1st of August to tour the Reagan Library. We hope to visit our San Diego Chapter sometime this month to welcome home the USS Ronald Reagan. We're also planning a Pacific Northwest Tour in August. In January, we're planning a trip across the South and down into Florida and then up the Eastern Coast to Washington, DC for the Free Republic George W Bush Inaugural Ball II!! Woo hoo!!

Well, with the war in Iraq all but concluded, the trial of the Butcher of Iraq about to start, and the election season heating up, I'm sure that FR is going to be THE place to be to get the very latest in news and conservative discussion in the coming months.

Thank you FReepers for making FR the premier conservative forum on the Internet!

Looking forward to the coming campaign season! Good luck to all and may the very best people be chosen to lead our great nation!

Thank God for our successes thus far in the war for freedom and may He guide us through to complete victory over tyranny and terrorism.

Thank you and may God bless you all.

Jim

[RottiBiz]

And another $50 in from Tennessee!

Thank you Tennessee!!

[ValerieUSA]

I gotta go work - good luck yall

[RottiBiz]

$25 just in from New Mexico!

Thank you New Mexico!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

That means you have enough experience to know to take the stock off first.

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, Kimmie!

[Fiddlstix]

That means you have enough experience to know to take the stock off first.

Hey! Respect your elders!
(Dang young'uns never got enough trips to th wood shed 'pears to me.)

[Jim Robinson]

And another $100 in from Oklahoma!

Thank you Oklahoma!!

[RottiBiz]

$25 just in from Alabama!!

Thank you Alabama!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'm just a young whippersnapper, wilder'n a buck.

[RottiBiz]

Woohoo!! Thank you NYTexan!!

And another $50 just in from Texas!!

Thank you TEXAS!!

[NYTexan]

Hey Val, Don't work too hard! *L*

Catch ya later.

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, deport!

[Fiddlstix]

I'm just a young whippersnapper, wilder'n a buck.

I'm right glad ya brought that up. I wuz gonna make that same observation mysef! Now, mind yer manners.

[RottiBiz]

Just in:

$20 from Texas
$50 from Texas

and

$10 from California

Thank you Texas, Texas and California!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I keep manners in a bucket for catchy crappie. No that's minners.

[RottiBiz]

And another $100 in from Oklahoma!

Thank you Oklahoma!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Heads up, Texas Freepers !:

OK, Here Ya GO!

My challenge:

I will match any donation from FReepers in New York or Texas up to $20 each, for a maximum total of $200, from now till 9 PM tonight.

May the best state win!

Well, we all know that's Texas ! :^D

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.
No, you don't HAVE to be a Texan to get on this list!

Full Texas Ping List

[Fiddlstix]

I keep manners in a bucket for catchy crappie. No that's minners.

Hmmmmm....
That's the same place I keep mine......

[RottiBiz]

   Q3 2004 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	California	$375.00	8	$46.88	2,004	$0.19	$1,444.56	99
2	Florida	312.00	6	52.00	898	0.35	528.00	37
3	Texas	285.00	6	47.50	1,744	0.16	810.00	55
4	Tennessee	225.00	3	75.00	343	0.66	43.00	6
5	Pennsylvania	220.00	3	73.33	575	0.38	260.00	18
6	Georgia	185.00	5	37.00	487	0.38	270.00	16
7	North Carolina	110.00	2	55.00	510	0.22	422.00	26
8	Maryland	110.00	2	55.00	369	0.30	299.00	15
9	New Jersey	110.00	2	55.00	371	0.30	150.00	8
10	Illinois	100.00	3	33.33	493	0.20	343.00	20
11	Wisconsin	90.00	3	30.00	268	0.34	198.00	12
12	Washington	80.00	4	20.00	487	0.16	330.00	18
13	Virginia	60.00	2	30.00	652	0.09	479.50	24
14	Arkansas	50.00	1	50.00	141	0.35	40.00	4
15	Maine	50.00	1	50.00	91	0.55	10.00	1
16	Minnesota	50.00	1	50.00	277	0.18	140.00	11
17	Oklahoma	50.00	1	50.00	214	0.23	127.00	9
18	Arizona	50.00	1	50.00	395	0.13	175.50	13
19	Massachusetts	30.00	2	15.00	296	0.10	165.00	11
20	Michigan	30.00	2	15.00	415	0.07	100.00	10
21	Idaho	20.00	1	20.00	102	0.20	35.00	1
22	New York	20.00	2	10.00	736	0.03	295.50	18
23	Netherlands	20.00	1	20.00	12	1.67
24	Indiana	10.00	1	10.00	298	0.03	65.00	6
25	Vermont	10.00	1	10.00	36	0.28	46.00	4
26	Alaska	10.00	1	10.00	89	0.11	150.00	3
27	Oregon	10.00	1	10.00	240	0.04	95.00	6
	Colorado						135.00	9
	Connecticut						35.00	3
	Mississippi						57.00	5
	Missouri						143.00	13
	Hawaii						15.00	2
	Utah						90.00	4
	Nebraska						3.00	1
	Nevada						80.00	4
	New Mexico						50.00	3
	West Virginia						30.00	2
	Wyoming						30.00	1
	District of Columbia						10.00	1
	Kenya						20.00	1
	South Korea						10.00	1
	Iowa						35.00	2
	Kansas						90.00	5
	Alabama						352.00	19
	Louisiana						60.00	6
	Ohio						567.25	18
	South Dakota						35.00	3
	South Carolina						61.00	7
	Armed Forces - Europe						15.00	1
	Armed Forces - Pacific						10.00	1
	Switzerland						10.00	1
Never Never Land		187.00	8	23.38			318.00	22
28 locations total		$2,859	74	$38.64	15,443	$0.19	$9,282.31	586

[NYTexan]

Meek, Thanks for your Ping list!

LETS GO TEXAS & NEW YORK!