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

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[Mo1]

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:

Donate Here By Secure Server

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!

[Jim Robinson]

Howdy everyone!

Here are the donations that came in overnight and this morning:

$20 from California
$35 from Arizona
$30 from Texas
$10 from Illinois
$10 from Kentucky
$10 from Connecticut
$5 from Texas
$50 from Massachusetts
$20 from Never Never Land
$35 from Missouri
$20 from Oklahoma
$20 from Oklahoma
$50 from Illinois
$25 from Texas
$50 from Virginia
$50 from Washington
$20 from Ohio
$20 from California

Thank you FReepers!!

[Mo1]

Thanks .. but it is the Freepers that have donated that have done a great job

FREEPERS ARE THE BEST!!!

Oh shoot .. I forgot to bake a cake .. today is my daughters birthday .. BBL

[lodwick]

Would one of you gifted people help me out?

I'd like to make a donation challenge for everyone who wants the Tag Line feature re-instated, without e-mail linking, and I will match the total new monies donated to FreeRepublic, up to $500 total to get this done.

Can someone make up what tables or whatever you do, so I can do some thread bombing with this challenge? Thanks a bunch. JL

[cake_crumb]

Another sad bump.

Just called the bank...THEY have a funds transfer to PayPal shown...the %%$$#!! funds aren't available through Pay Pal!! THIS IS FRUSTRATING!!

[MeekOneGOP]

KSF this great! Little Tommy is really happy that Dicky Gephardt is giving him a thorough hands on bath!

ROFL !!

[SFBiker80814]

LORD, I PRAY FOR THE FREE LOADING FREEPERS WHO CAN'T FIND 17 CENTS PER DAY TO DONATE $5/MONTH TO FREE REPUBLIC! THEY NEED DEVINE HELP TO ENABLE THEM TO PAY THEIR WAY ON AND OFF FREE REPUBLIC!




I am shamed....so I will donate...thanks.

[Grampa Dave]

Thank you Lord for finding and delivering SFBiker80814 from his miss spent ways!

Please let Rotti Biz and Jim Robinson know how much your new pledge is for!

Thanks!

[lodwick]

Good job Biker - this is money you will never miss, and you'll never regret being a monthly donor. Good man. JL

[EdReform]

Thank You SFBiker80814!!

[William McKinley]

Something like this?

A Freeper Challenge!!!

To: Mo1; William McKinley; yall; Grampa Dave Would one of you gifted people help me out? I'd like to make a donation challenge for everyone who wants the Tag Line feature re-instated, without e-mail linking, and I will match the total new monies donated to FreeRepublic, up to $500 total to get this done. Can someone make up what tables or whatever you do, so I can do some thread bombing with this challenge? Thanks a bunch. JL 743 posted on 10/8/02 2:26 PM Eastern by lodwick

Lodwick wants people who want the "tagline" back to make a donation! He'll match the first $500 worth of donations made by people who clamor for this functionality to be returned. Make the donation, then come to the Fundraiser thread and reply to lodwick and John Robinson saying "I just donated $xxx and I want the taglines back!"

Donate Here By Secure Server

[RottiBiz]

Thanks, SFBiker, for supporting Free Republic.

One correction: if you are a monthly donor and want to be on the list, you do not have to tell me how much you donate. That's between you and the Donation site.

Your screen name and "I am a monthly donor" is all I need.

[Mo1]

Is there any way to contact PayPal to see what happen??

[Mo1]

Thank You SFBiker80814

[Mo1]

Thank You !!!
California
Arizona
Texas
Illinois

[William McKinley]

The Lodwick Freeper Tagline Challenge!
	Donate Here By Secure Server Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
Put whatever you want in here, lodwick. You know, explaining what you will match and what conditions, etc. Hit view source on this page to see the HTML

[Mo1]

Thank You !!!
Kentucky
Connecticut
Texas
Massachusetts

[Mo1]

Thank You !!!
Never Never Land
Missouri
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Illinois

[EdReform]

Stop by and say "Thank You" to Burlem! :o)

[Mo1]

Thank You !!!
Texas
Virginia
Washington

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$50 from Texas
$10 from Arizona
$5 from Colorado

Thank you Texas, Arizona and Colorado!!