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Call to action: Conservative FReeper PAC?
Feb 12, 2009 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 02/12/2009 12:35:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson

This may be a topic for our regional FReeper conventions coming up, but how many of you would be interested in forming an official conservative FReeper PAC for raising funds to help replace Dems and RINOs and to get conservatives elected?


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To: Jim Robinson

Count me in as well, Jim!


321 posted on 02/17/2009 4:44:01 PM PST by Ros42
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To: Jim Robinson

“This may be a topic for our regional FReeper conventions coming up, but how many of you would be interested in forming an official conservative FReeper PAC for raising funds to help replace Dems and RINOs and to get conservatives elected?”
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Perhaps if this PAC represents an authentic financial base, a few Freepers on this forum might have the cajones to RUN FO OFFICE. I would love for there to be a FR Caucus in the House and Senate.


322 posted on 02/17/2009 4:54:18 PM PST by awake-n-angry
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To: Jim Robinson

Keep me posted.


323 posted on 02/18/2009 5:04:00 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Count Me In!!!!
Don’t have any idea of what to do, but I’ll help in anyway that I can!


324 posted on 02/19/2009 10:00:30 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m very interested in FReePAC. Please add me to any ping list you start for it.


325 posted on 02/19/2009 2:09:27 PM PST by AmericanGirlRising (Buying carbon credits will not get me into Heaven. I am second - http://iamsecond.com/#/home/)
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To: Jim Robinson

I would.


326 posted on 02/19/2009 8:53:48 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: chicagolady

Hang in there, Rosanna, only 11 days to go until the primary!


327 posted on 02/20/2009 2:53:36 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Prayer - beyond your expectations.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s like music to my ears. I’m in.


328 posted on 02/24/2009 10:25:56 PM PST by maxter (Give today a chance. Enjoy.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Instead of forming a PAC, could we just form a study group to recommend candidates to receive private donations? If we have a PAC, we have to spend our resources doing accounting and paperwork. Ultimately, we become just one more conservative PAC collecting funds and sending money. We'll likely end up spending a great deal of money on junk mail that we'll all throw away most of the time.

A different approach would be collecting and disseminating information about conservative candidates and their needs. We could publish specific information about their stands on the issues and document words and actions that bear on how their actions match their words. Have you ever been to http://www.charitynavigator.org/ ? In some ways, we could form a conservative politician version of Charity Navigator. Individuals would then research candidates through the site and decide where to send their contributions. The site wouldn't handle any money, and not handling the money would reduce many complications. However, the site would still be a vehicle for getting money to those politicians that we want to support.

An important point in launching this kind of effort is putting integrity above our personal feelings about some candidates. My father once worked for a campaign that was not favored by the local Christian Coalition people. When this campaign responded to the Christian Coalition voter guide, the Christian Coalition people kept pretending that they never received a reply. The campaign had documented proof of having sent the reply, but the CC people wanted to publish that this campaign never responded. When the guides were published, they showed this candidate as having refused to respond. No one associated with that campaign will ever trust the Christian Coalition again. If this group ended up engaging in the same kind of tactics, we would lose credibility, and people would go elsewhere to find conservative candidates to support. If we maintained ourselves as an impartial reporter of information about candidates, people would come to us to find candidates to support. I think many people would be more likely to give money and time if they could find candidates in whom they really believed.

Bill

329 posted on 02/28/2009 9:51:18 PM PST by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: Jim Robinson

Let’s do it.


330 posted on 03/31/2009 9:48:00 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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