Rally Round-Up

Haven't had time to update here because of preparations for New Hampshire, so here's a quick recap of last Sunday's events.

December 16 brought in $6.06 million to the Ron Paul campaign, making it the single largest one-day political fund raiser ever. In Santa Monica, California, and in Austin, Texas, thousands marched on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in support of Ron Paul. You probably didn't hear about these events—perhaps there were more newsworthy goings-on that day. We Paul supporters, however, find encouragement through being utterly convinced that it's the corporate-controlled media—the “man,” if you will—that's trying to keep a lid on the movement.

Here in Lincoln, the rally went well. After some initial confusion about whether to set up on the north steps of the Capitol versus the west steps—and much carrying of tables back and forth between the two locations, one camp was adamantly in favor of visibility from K St., the other the visualesque setting of a rally at the feet of Abe Lincoln (or as I put it disparagingly at the time: “We can't stand under Lincoln! That's not the sort of teabag we had in mind!”)

The executive decision was made for K St., since the whole point was visibility and exposing as many Nebraskans as possible to Ron Paul's popularity in the few hours before the news broke that the largest one-day fund raiser in world history had taken place for a man most Nebraskans had yet to hear about.

The turnout was not too bad considering the unpopular prospect of standing around in the twenty-two degree December chill. As a result, we only had a couple of newbies show up, but we did get lots curious looks from K Street an lots of favorable honks. (I assume that explains the honks, anyway; we didn't see any fingers thrust our direction).

It turned out to be a fun event. Spencer, Andrew and myself all gave a speech, followed by a man from Omaha named Jorge Besada (not the baseball player) who read excerpts from his book regarding (I think) history from a Hayekian perspective. Very interesting, I recommend checking it out once it's published. A number of supporters drove down from Omaha, actually, thanks to our advertising the Tuesday before when Ron Paul was in Council Bluffs. I ultimately took a head count of 42 people—43 if you count the cameraman from 10/11 News. I caught the five o'clock broadcast when I got home, and saw we got a thirty second spot before commercial break.

Corporate-controlled media!

Actually, I was pleased about it, because a win's a win, in my book.

Here are some photos.







Now, I gotta pack for New England.