FReepathon: Our new Donation System is Ready to Roll! -- Thread Two

Free Republic Donation System ^ | Originally Published 9/28/02 | Jim Robinson

[Auntie Mame]

Welcome to the New Free Republic Donation System!

John has programmed a great new donation system for us. It can accept credit cards or PayPal 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!

[I_be_tc]

Bushbot Bump,again. You go, girls,

TC

[Howlin]

You can always remember that your first post at FR cost me $1.00!

Glad to have you around. And don't be so dang quiet!

[Gabz]

THAT is what I call a BUSHBOT BUMP!!!!!!!!!!

Great PIC!!!!!!!!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

BUSHBOT BUMPERS HALL OF FAME

kayak, steveegg, Amelia, Southflanknorthpawsis, justshe, Chad Fairbanks, Amelia AGAIN LOL - special case, don't ask : ), deport, Lowelljr, SuziQ, Texasforever (a/k/a Marlboro Man), Texagirl4W, Pegita, McLynnan, mtngrl@vrwc, Gabz, bentfeather, MJY1288, ThePythonicCow, Wait4Truth, Elcie30, texasbluebell, ladyinred, DebWisconsin, txrangerette, altura, rintense, ohioWfan, lsee, Spunky, DrDeb, MamaB, chnsmok, reformed_dem, Alberta's Child, dubyaismypresident, lonestar, VarmintAl, 3D-JOY, Notforprophet, 24karet, Wphile

Thanks to all of you, FreeRepublic has raised $4.25 $5.25 (I hate math - LOL) for each of your bumps!

And our afternoon Bushbot Bumpers: Mo1, Jim Robinson, rintense, Miss Marple, Howlin, twyn1, steveegg, lodwick, I_be_tc, McLynnan, Darlin', and swheats raised a similiar donation!

To those who pledged - Mo1, Chancellor Palpatine, Howlin, lodwick, Southflanknorthpawsis - THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY. (I'll mail you the damages! LOL)

THANK YOU, BUSHBOT BUMPERS!

P.S. If I missed your bump, Freepmail me or let me know here - it got busy! Apologies in advance.

[cmsgop]

BUSHBOT BUMP!!!!!!

[Gabz]

My kind of MAN!!!!!!!!!

[TLBSHOW]

As I see it all we need is 100 more Freepers to step up and send in $250.00 over the next 3 months

and we are finished with the freep a thon and on to the election and sending the rats back to the stone age.

I will pledge to send in by paypal $250.00 over the next 3 months to help give the American people a place to smash the rats and end liberalism in America Now! That place is Freerepublic. Please credit New York State with this new $250.00 Pledge. Thanks!

Ok Howlin put out the howl we need just 99 Freepers to join in and lets finish this and roll over the rats!

I feel Good already! Yahoo!

And Jim this is the #1 Site on the internet, it was and always will be. May God keep Blessing You and FR!

[Gabz]

You done did a good job FREEPER!!!!!!!!

[Jim Robinson]

And a Californian reports in for duty with a $100 donation! And that bumps California back into the number one spot!

Thank you California!!

[Gabz]

Thank you North Star State FREEPER!!!

Thank you Bay State FREEPER!!!!

[Mo1]

Am I late???

I laid down on the couch for a minute I don't know what happen

[Gabz]

I can only say

WOW!!!!!!!!!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

LOL - yeah, we're all done. I just sent you your bill. : )

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you!

And another $20 just in from Arizona with this note:

"Love Free Republic and after the NJ Supremes today we need it more than ever!"

Now more than ever is right! Take back America! Vote out the RATS!

Thank you Arizona!!

[Howlin]

Hey, I'm one of the ones covering the BushBot Bumps......LOL.....I'll see!

[Gabz]

Thank You Golden State FREEPER!!!

[Mo1]

LOL .. I'm sorry I missed the fun ... like I said I don't know what happened ..LOL

Got the bill and will chi ching in a moment

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

It was fun! And I even forgot to include my own dollar every time I mentioned the amount each bump was worth...I am a ditz! LOL (I hope I mentioned all of our pledgers often enough - that's important: Mo1, Howlin, Chancellor Palpatine, lodwick, and Southflanknorthpawsis...oh, and me. LOL) For each bump, FR raised $5.25. Thanks you guys!

And thanks for the bump, cmsgop!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Going to cha-ching myself right now.

[Howlin]

Okay, I'm on my way to pay up my share of the BushBot Bumps!