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

[Fiddlstix]

Darlin' Ah've been cookin' cornbread longer than you could imagine!

Looky here CG. We're makin' progress already. It is gratifying, don't ya think?

Now Gabz all ya have to do is get to cookin' fatback and turnip greens.

[Gabz]

Ah've cooked both......didn't take to them thar turnip greens...just give me the turnips....y'all can have the greens!!!!

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, Chairman_December_19th_Society!

[RottiBiz]

   Q3 2004 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	Kuwait	$1,000.00	1	$1,000.00	6	$166.67	$
2	Texas	650.00	19	34.21	1,744	0.37	860.00	56
3	Pennsylvania	440.00	6	73.33	575	0.77	260.00	18
4	California	405.00	10	40.50	2,004	0.20	1,444.56	99
5	Florida	312.00	6	52.00	898	0.35	528.00	37
6	Georgia	285.00	6	47.50	487	0.59	280.00	16
7	Tennessee	285.00	5	57.00	343	0.83	43.00	6
8	Virginia	240.00	5	48.00	652	0.37	479.50	24
9	Minnesota	180.00	3	60.00	277	0.65	140.00	11
10	Arizona	155.00	3	51.67	395	0.39	175.50	13
11	Oklahoma	150.00	2	75.00	214	0.70	127.00	9
12	New York	145.00	4	36.25	736	0.20	295.50	18
13	Wisconsin	140.00	4	35.00	268	0.52	198.00	12
14	New Jersey	130.00	3	43.33	371	0.35	150.00	8
15	Illinois	120.00	4	30.00	493	0.24	343.00	20
16	North Carolina	110.00	2	55.00	510	0.22	422.00	26
17	Maryland	110.00	2	55.00	369	0.30	299.00	15
18	Missouri	110.00	2	55.00	367	0.30	143.00	13
19	Maine	100.00	2	50.00	91	1.10	10.00	1
20	Mississippi	100.00	1	100.00	120	0.83	157.00	6
21	Washington	85.00	5	17.00	487	0.17	335.00	19
22	Alabama	75.00	2	37.50	239	0.31	352.00	19
23	Arkansas	50.00	1	50.00	141	0.35	40.00	4
24	Michigan	40.00	3	13.33	415	0.10	100.00	10
25	Massachusetts	30.00	2	15.00	296	0.10	165.00	11
26	Indiana	30.00	2	15.00	298	0.10	65.00	6
27	Nevada	30.00	1	30.00	119	0.25	110.00	5
28	New Mexico	25.00	1	25.00	104	0.24	50.00	3
29	Delaware	25.00	1	25.00	26	0.96
30	Ohio	25.00	1	25.00	493	0.05	567.25	18
31	Idaho	20.00	1	20.00	102	0.20	35.00	1
32	Netherlands	20.00	1	20.00	12	1.67
33	United Kingdom	20.00	1	20.00	149	0.13
34	Wyoming	20.00	1	20.00	29	0.69	30.00	1
35	Utah	20.00	1	20.00	93	0.22	90.00	4
36	Hawaii	20.00	1	20.00	52	0.38	15.00	2
37	Vermont	10.00	1	10.00	36	0.28	46.00	4
38	Alaska	10.00	1	10.00	89	0.11	150.00	3
39	Oregon	10.00	1	10.00	240	0.04	95.00	6
40	Kentucky	10.00	1	10.00	192	0.05	10.00	1
41	Canada	10.00	1	10.00	206	0.05
42	Connecticut	10.00	1	10.00	196	0.05	35.00	3
	Colorado						135.00	9
	Nebraska						3.00	1
	West Virginia						30.00	2
	District of Columbia						10.00	1
	Kenya						20.00	1
	South Korea						10.00	1
	Iowa						35.00	2
	Kansas						90.00	5
	Louisiana						60.00	6
	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		327.00	16	20.44			318.00	22
43 locations total		$6,089	137	$44.45	17,834	$0.34	$9,487.31	591

[Fiddlstix]

Ah've cooked both......didn't take to them thar turnip greens...just give me the turnips....y'all can have the greens!!!!

Oh! Just when we were makin progress. This is a disappointment. Why, turnip greens is one of the finest delicacies in the whole wide world. What a setback this is.

[RottiBiz]

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[Mo1]

$9,482 per month from 590 monthly donors.

WOHOOO ... Thank you Monthly Donors

[Fiddlstix]

$9,482 per month from 590 monthly donors.

That deserves a Bump

[Mr. Silverback]

Bumpity!

[Lady Jag]

[Mo1]

Thank You December_19th_Society

[RottiBiz]

'Mornin, Mo!

Hoping to break 600 on the donors this time -- next goal is to pass $10,000 per month.

Happy Fourth to you and the family!

[Mo1]

Now Gabz all ya have to do is get to cookin' fatback and turnip greens.

What is fatback???

[RottiBiz]

Thanks, Lady Jag.

Very inspiring post -- especially for this Fourth of July weekend.

I'm enjoying all of your other posts and pics, too.

[Mo1]

Morning Rotti .. That sounds like a good goal number

we can do it .. Freepers Rock!!

Happy 4th to you and yours also .. do ya have any big plans?

We're taking it easy and sticking around home. My inlaws are coming over for dinner tomorrow and then at night will head across the street to the field and watch the fireworks go off

[Gabz]

Kiss mah grits..........

[Gabz]

Morning/Afternoon ladies!!!!!!!

Just finished making my salad and when hubby gets back from running to the store for dog food (I can't believe we forgot that last night in Wal-Mart) we're heading out.............

Needless to say I will be AWOL the rest of the day!!!!

[Lady Jag]

Thank you very much, RottiBiz!! A little encouragement goes a long way and is sincerely appreciated.

[Mo1]

Have lots of fun today ..

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Hey!Leave my cousin alone!

We are having a bar-b-que Monday and he is supplying the pig. So unless you want about 40 hungry bears after you....