FReepathon: Our new Donation System is Ready to Roll!

Free Republic Donation System ^ | September 28, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Welcome to the New Free Republic Donation System!

John has programmed a great new donation system for us. It can accept credit cards or PayPay donations and will eventually also accept electronic checks. We have installed a new secure server system and have contracted with Authorize.net to do the actual credit card processing, and, of course, PayPal will process the PayPal donations through their system.

I've changed the links on our front page to link to the new program:

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

If you have bookmarks to the old system, please update to the new. The old system will be discontinued.

Take a test drive through the new system if you haven't already, and notice that it has several new features and reports available, including scoreboard, current stats, our budget and a faq. It's live now, so if you enter a donation it's for real (and thank you very much if you do).

John will continue making enhancements to the new system as we go, but the basic program is ready to go, and is live, and on the air.

We've decided to roll out our 4th quarter fundraiser with the new system on a late Saturday afternoon, as Saturday's are slow days and we might as well be gentle while breaking in the new system.

Thank you John for the new system! Great work!

Thank you BadJoe, WillaJohns, WIMom and all of the dedicated hardworking volunteers on the fundraising team who have helped us so much with these FReepathons in the past.

And thank you all for your continuing efforts! Without your dedication and hard work, FR could not stay on the air.

And thank you FReepers! Without your continued participation and financial support there would be no Free Republic!

A note to current monthly donors: We will need you to re-enter your recurring monthly donation to the new system, but please do not do it yet. Joe just processed your September donations on the 20th of September. The new system processes your donation on the day it is entered, so please wait until later in October to start your monthly on the new system. Also, please let BadJoe know via FReepmail (and please include your real name so he can match it with your credit card info in his file) after you re-enter your monthly donation so he can take you off his list. At the end of October, he will email all of those on his list who have not contacted him to remind them of the new system. Thank you very much for your continued support.

A note to prospective new monthly donors: We have included a list of our fixed monthly expenses as well as an estimate of our non-recurring expenses on our budget page of the donation system. We've also included an estimate of our current recurring monthly donations from our monthly donors. If and when the total of the recurring monthly donations ever meets our monthly expenses, there will no longer be a need for these FReepathons. It can happen someday. Thank you for considering a regular monthly contribution.

Note to all: We are looking forward to an exciting and rewarding election cycle. I know that we are not all in full agreement on this, but I sincerely believe that we have an excellent opportunity with this election to set the liberals back many years. And I also believe that winning this election in a big way for the conservatives will be the spark that allows our fight to return the Constitution to its rightful place as the Supreme Law of the Land to really get off the ground. I sincerely believe this is essential in our fight to secure our Liberty!

We hold the White House and the House of Representatives. If we re-take the majority in the Senate, it will be one of the very rare times in our history that the conservatives have held the majority control in all departments.

I see this as a gift from God. A majority means that the conservatives will chair the various committees of Congress and can set the legislative agenda. And, perhaps more importantly, a majority in the Senate will make it much more likely that President Bush's appointments will be confirmed.

This means we will be able to start replacing some of the liberal judicial activists on the bench with conservatives (don't tell Daschle & Co. that) and perhaps we will finally have a real shot at actually overturning some of the liberal bunk that has been foisted on us over the last century or so. How about overturning Roe vs Wade? With the current mood of the populace and with a conservative Senate, I think it can be done!

Remember, the liberals have controlled all or most of our government for at least 80 of the last 100 years. No wonder we are in such a mess today. This is the best opportunity we've ever had to reverse it in a big way. Kick the liberals out! Take control of the Senate and replace the liberal judiciary. This alone will set liberalism back thirty to forty years!

We must not fail to take advantage of this opportunity. Daschle and Company sense their days are numbered and are in a panic. Now is the time to redouble our efforts and throw these bums out!

I expect the volume on Free Republic to pick-up substantially as we head into the final weeks and days of the campaign season. And I expect exciting things will be happening for for all of us!

Thank you all very much!

God bless you all and may God continue to bless America!

[lodwick]

Salute and thanks so much. bttt

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, Lowelljr!

Don't worry, only screen names are shown on these threads.

[McLynnan]

Thanks for a most important ping. Question -- do I need to renew my monthly contribution to keep it in effect, or is it good into infinity?

[John Robinson]

I can answer that... Your state will be credited with your donation regardless of what you answer there. That setting should actually be titled "listed", as in the donor list. If you answer yes, you will be added to the list. If you don't answer, or answer no, you will not be added to the list.

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, dgallo51!

[lodwick]

;-) ...and we may not want to go there anymore.

I have GOT to be MIA tomorrow to get crap together for my CPA to do last year's taxes. Hopefully you guys will get this thing done before I go to Leavenworth. JL

[Molly Pitcher]

Great new system! Thanks.

[RottiBiz]

Belated thank you very much, dutchess!

[LowOiL]

Thank you John. I have enjoyed talking with you on the other side.

That ought to get a few people wondering

[John Robinson]

Thank you. And with that said, have you seen the scoreboard?

   30-Day Scoreboard   

Rank	Location	Best	Receipts	Donors	$/Donor	Freepers	$/Freeper
1	Ohio	$100.00	$100.00	1	$100.00	277	$0.36
2	Texas	100.00	100.00	1	100.00	1,068	0.09
3	Minnesota	100.00	200.00	2	100.00	152	1.32
4	Washington	100.00	105.00	2	52.50	292	0.36
5	Pennsylvania	100.00	100.00	1	100.00	353	0.28
6	Colorado	75.00	75.00	1	75.00	187	0.40
7	Wisconsin	50.00	80.00	2	40.00	165	0.48
8	Chile	50.00	50.00	1	50.00	5	10.00
9	Netherlands	50.00	50.00	1	50.00	5	10.00
10	Alabama	50.00	50.00	1	50.00	119	0.42
11	Maine	50.00	75.00	2	37.50	49	1.53
12	North Carolina	50.00	70.00	2	35.00	290	0.24
13	Oregon	50.00	50.00	1	50.00	139	0.36
14	Florida	30.00	55.00	3	18.33	542	0.10
15	Georgia	30.00	30.00	1	30.00	279	0.11
16	New York	25.00	25.00	1	25.00	383	0.07
17	Canada	20.00	20.00	1	20.00	94	0.21
18	California	20.00	20.00	1	20.00	1,109	0.02
19	Vermont	10.00	10.00	1	10.00	13	0.77
Never Never Land		50.00	50.00	1	50.00
20 locations total		$100.00	$1,315	27	$48.70	5,521	$0.24

Scoreboard ranked by single largest donation in each location. This scoreboard reflects donation activity within the past 30 days.

[brityank]

Another Where FReepers live ...

I try not to be so provincial. ;^)

[RonDog]

Welcome to the New Free Republic Donation System!

John has programmed a great new donation system for us. It can accept credit cards or PayPay donations and will eventually also accept electronic checks.
We have installed a new secure server system and have contracted with Authorize.net to do the actual credit card processing, and, of course, PayPal will process the PayPal donations through their system.

I've changed the links on our front page to link to the new program:

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

If you have bookmarks to the old system, please update to the new. The old system will be discontinued...

FReepathon BUMP!!!

[John Robinson]

Cuz you asked for it!

[blackie]

Lets' Roll !!

Fire Democrats, hire Republicans !!

GWB Is The Man !!

Snuff Saddam, NOW !!

Death To all Tyrant's !!

The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

[Molly Pitcher]

I certainly DID see that Ohio heads the list!!:-)

[Jim Robinson]

Yes, sir!

$10 from Idaho - thank you!
$50 from Oregon - thank you. Let's Roll!
$50 from North Carolina
$30 monthly from Georgia - thank you!
$25 from Maine
50 in via PayPal from Alabama

Thank you all very much!

[RottiBiz]

I believe that's your Alabama in line 10!

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, steveegg!

[LowOiL]

I believe that's your Alabama in line 10!

LOL, makes me wish I had gave an extra quarter. Ebay bidding should of taught me something.

Bummer ! !

Low OiL

[Jim Robinson]

That is for the Donor List on the Donation system. By default, all donors are anonymous. but if you would like your Screen Name to appear on the Donor List, you may so specify.
Thanks,
Jim