Hostettler Money Blitz - April 22

[erowe1]

Supporters of John Hostettler are going to have a one-day money blitz on April 22. The campaign will have a donation graph of some kind that day that will show the level of contributions as they come in. So people will be able to see if it's a success or a dud.

We really need to make this as successful as possible by donating to the campaign online that day and by spreading the word to everyone we can who might want to support the campaign.

Any donation that day will help.

So on April 22, go here to donate:
Hostettler

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[melensdad]

I figured that once Ron Paul conveyed his libertarian blessing upon Hostettler we'd see a 1 day money bomb on the internet.

April 22 is the day.

 

[erowe1]

Here's something I wrote with Ron Paul supporters in mind. But it's also good for a general conservative audience and has some of Hostettler's record on gun rights in it.

50 Reasons for Ron Paul supporters to donate $50 to the Hostettler money bomb, April 22, helping to raise $50,000 in one day:

1) Ron Paul has endorsed John Hostettler for Senate.
2) Hostettler voted Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential primary and said he would do it again in 2012.
3) Hostettler, like Ron Paul, voted for Chuck Baldwin in the 2008 presidential election.
4) Hostettler voted against the Iraq War, and argued for that vote from the House floor in a speech that articulated a clear noninterventionist foreign policy.
5) Hostettler continued to stand up for that policy, writing a book against the Iraq war, which Ron Paul highly recommends.
6) Hostettler’s record of noninterventionist foreign policy extends back into the Clinton years as well, when he opposed intervention in Kosovo.
7) Hostettler speaks against fear mongering about Iran and the popular belligerent talk against that nation. He was also one of only 6 Republicans in 2006 to vote against a resolution “To Hold the Current Regime in Iran Accountable for Its Threatening Behavior and to Support a Transition to Democracy in Iran.”
8) Hostettler is against all foreign aid.
9) Hostettler voted against Medicare Part D. In fact, Ron Paul and John Hostettler are the only 2 Republicans to have voted against both the Iraq War and Medicare Part D.
10) Hostettler explicitly opposes all federal exercise of powers not among those enumerated in the Constitution.
11) Hostettler voted against No Child Left Behind.
12) Hostettler authored a bill to end federal income tax withholding.
13) Hostettler said while in office and continues to say that he supports total elimination of the federal income tax.
14) Hostettler sponsored bills to eliminate the Department of Education.
15) Hostettler sponsored bills to eliminate the Department of Energy.
16) Hostettler sponsored bills to eliminate the Department of Commerce.
17) Hostettler has stated publicly that he supports auditing and even abolishing the Federal Reserve.
18) One of Hostettler’s first acts in Congress was signing on as a sponsor of legislation to repeal the Brady Bill and assault weapons ban.
19) Hostettler authored a bill to facilitate reciprocity of concealed carry permits between states that respected the 10th Amendment and did not include national standards.
20) Hostettler singlehandedly shut down a deal between the Clinton administration and Smith & Wesson that would have used the power of the Executive branch to bypass the legislature and impose regulations on the ownership and sales of guns by manipulating the market for guns in its awarding of government contracts. Hostettler did this by a series of amendments introduced into appropriations bills.
21) Hostettler has demonstrated that he shares Ron Paul’s commitment to shutting down judicial activism by leading Congress to exercise its constitutionally enumerated power of making regulations and exceptions for the jurisdiction of the judicial branch. Ron Paul has done this with his We the People Act and Sanctity of Life Act, and Hostettler did it with the Public Expressions of Religion Act, which he authored and successfully got to be voted on and passed in the House of Representatives (later to be rejected by the Senate), as well as the Marriage Protection Act of 2003, and various amendments to appropriations bills over the years legislating that no funds be used in the enforcement of activist court decisions.
22) Hostettler is pro-life.
23) Hostettler supports repealing Obamacare.
24) Hostettler joins Ron Paul in supporting the use of earmarks.
25) Hostettler voted against warrantless wiretaps.
26) Hostettler voted against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
27) Hostettler opposes a national ID card.
28) Hostettler voted against every so-called free trade agreement that was brought to a vote in his tenure in Congress.
29) Hostettler sponsored a bill to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.
30) Hostettler led the fight in the immigration subcommittee of the House judiciary committee to keep the House from passing the amnesty for illegal immigrants that President Bush supported, after that bill had passed the Senate.
31) Hostettler cosponsored Ron Paul’s amendments to appropriations bills for defunding the United Nations.
32) Hostettler voted against the $52 Billion Katrina aid package.
33) Even on issues where Hostettler disagrees with Ron Paul, he always gives clear, well-thought-out, principled, Constitution-based reasons for those differences. This can be seen in his interview with the Indiana state coordinator of the Campaign for Liberty. Ron Paul expresses his own appreciation for this quality of Hostettler’s in his endorsement.
34) Hostettler has stood many times in defiance of the wishes of his own party’s leadership.
35) Hostettler is recognized by friend and foe as a champion of the Constitution.
36) In the Senate Hostettler will vote on and question judicial nominees. He will be able to bring to bear in this questioning a level of seriousness about the Constitution that no current senator has.
37) In the Senate Hostettler will be able to exercise much more influence than what just one member of the House of Representatives can exercise.
38) Hostettler refused PAC money for all 7 of his House races.
39) Hostettler would make a great ally for Rand Paul in the Senate.
40) In 2008 Ron Paul had zero endorsements from any sitting members of the House or Senate. He could have at least two endorsements of sitting senators if we elect Hostettler.
41) Hostettler is polling neck-and-neck with the GOP establishment pick, Dan Coats.
42) Hostettler polls better than every other Republican candidate against Brad Ellsworth in the general election matchup.
43) It is widely believed that the reason Coats was recruited back to Indiana to run again was out of fear of the party leaders having to deal with an uncompromising constitutional conservative like Hostettler.
44) Hostettler sponsored a bill allowing parents not to get social security numbers for their children without having to forego their tax deduction.
45) When most Republicans voted to end the government shutdown of 1996 by passing the unbalanced budget Clinton wanted them to (driven in part by the presidential aspirations of Bob Dole), Hostettler was one of only a handful of Republicans to vote against it.
46) Anti-war Republican congressman, Walter Jones says, “The president [Bush] was calling people as late as 1 or 2 in the morning to get them to vote for the Medicare prescription drug benefit, John voted his conscience first, not his party…. I admire him so much. He knows more about the Constitution than almost anyone in Congress.”
47) The timing of the Republican leaders’ recruiting of Mike Pence and then Dan Coats to run, right after a poll had shown Hostettler within the margin of error in a general election matchup against Evan Bayh, combined with the fact that every single general election poll shows Hostettler performing better than Coats against every possible Democrat opponent, suggests that those leaders were not so much interested in gaining a Republican seat in the Senate as they were in keeping it out of the hands of an independent voice like Hostettler. The RNC member who was most active in recruiting Dan Coats, Jim Bopp, was the very same one who orchestrated the last minute rules change for the Indiana Republican state convention in 2008 that was used to prevent Ron Paul supporting delegates from exercising any influence on the delegate selection process there.
48) In legislation that Hostettler supports pursuant to his staunch socially conservative beliefs, he always takes an approach that is consistent with the 10th Amendment.
49) There were only 3 Republican senators who voted against the confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. If Hostettler were in the Senate for that vote, he would have been #4.
50) There were only 17 Republican Congressmen who opposed all 5 bailouts of 2008-2009. If Hostettler were in Congress at that time, he would have been #18.

 

[Bobby]

Here's something I wrote with Ron Paul supporters in mind. But it's also good for a general conservative audience and has some of Hostettler's record on gun rights in it.

50 Reasons for Ron Paul supporters to donate $50 to the Hostettler money bomb, April 22, helping to raise $50,000 in one day:

1) Ron Paul has endorsed John Hostettler for Senate.
2) Hostettler voted Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential primary and said he would do it again in 2012.
3) Hostettler, like Ron Paul, voted for Chuck Baldwin in the 2008 presidential election.
4) Hostettler voted against the Iraq War, and argued for that vote from the House floor in a speech that articulated a clear noninterventionist foreign policy.
5) Hostettler continued to stand up for that policy, writing a book against the Iraq war, which Ron Paul highly recommends.
6) Hostettler’s record of noninterventionist foreign policy extends back into the Clinton years as well, when he opposed intervention in Kosovo.
7) Hostettler speaks against fear mongering about Iran and the popular belligerent talk against that nation. He was also one of only 6 Republicans in 2006 to vote against a resolution “To Hold the Current Regime in Iran Accountable for Its Threatening Behavior and to Support a Transition to Democracy in Iran.”
8) Hostettler is against all foreign aid.
9) Hostettler voted against Medicare Part D. In fact, Ron Paul and John Hostettler are the only 2 Republicans to have voted against both the Iraq War and Medicare Part D.
10) Hostettler explicitly opposes all federal exercise of powers not among those enumerated in the Constitution.
11) Hostettler voted against No Child Left Behind.
12) Hostettler authored a bill to end federal income tax withholding.
13) Hostettler said while in office and continues to say that he supports total elimination of the federal income tax.
14) Hostettler sponsored bills to eliminate the Department of Education.
15) Hostettler sponsored bills to eliminate the Department of Energy.
16) Hostettler sponsored bills to eliminate the Department of Commerce.
17) Hostettler has stated publicly that he supports auditing and even abolishing the Federal Reserve.
18) One of Hostettler’s first acts in Congress was signing on as a sponsor of legislation to repeal the Brady Bill and assault weapons ban.
19) Hostettler authored a bill to facilitate reciprocity of concealed carry permits between states that respected the 10th Amendment and did not include national standards.
20) Hostettler singlehandedly shut down a deal between the Clinton administration and Smith & Wesson that would have used the power of the Executive branch to bypass the legislature and impose regulations on the ownership and sales of guns by manipulating the market for guns in its awarding of government contracts. Hostettler did this by a series of amendments introduced into appropriations bills.
21) Hostettler has demonstrated that he shares Ron Paul’s commitment to shutting down judicial activism by leading Congress to exercise its constitutionally enumerated power of making regulations and exceptions for the jurisdiction of the judicial branch. Ron Paul has done this with his We the People Act and Sanctity of Life Act, and Hostettler did it with the Public Expressions of Religion Act, which he authored and successfully got to be voted on and passed in the House of Representatives (later to be rejected by the Senate), as well as the Marriage Protection Act of 2003, and various amendments to appropriations bills over the years legislating that no funds be used in the enforcement of activist court decisions.
22) Hostettler is pro-life.
23) Hostettler supports repealing Obamacare.
24) Hostettler joins Ron Paul in supporting the use of earmarks.
25) Hostettler voted against warrantless wiretaps.
26) Hostettler voted against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
27) Hostettler opposes a national ID card.
28) Hostettler voted against every so-called free trade agreement that was brought to a vote in his tenure in Congress.
29) Hostettler sponsored a bill to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.
30) Hostettler led the fight in the immigration subcommittee of the House judiciary committee to keep the House from passing the amnesty for illegal immigrants that President Bush supported, after that bill had passed the Senate.
31) Hostettler cosponsored Ron Paul’s amendments to appropriations bills for defunding the United Nations.
32) Hostettler voted against the $52 Billion Katrina aid package.
33) Even on issues where Hostettler disagrees with Ron Paul, he always gives clear, well-thought-out, principled, Constitution-based reasons for those differences. This can be seen in his interview with the Indiana state coordinator of the Campaign for Liberty. Ron Paul expresses his own appreciation for this quality of Hostettler’s in his endorsement.
34) Hostettler has stood many times in defiance of the wishes of his own party’s leadership.
35) Hostettler is recognized by friend and foe as a champion of the Constitution.
36) In the Senate Hostettler will vote on and question judicial nominees. He will be able to bring to bear in this questioning a level of seriousness about the Constitution that no current senator has.
37) In the Senate Hostettler will be able to exercise much more influence than what just one member of the House of Representatives can exercise.
38) Hostettler refused PAC money for all 7 of his House races.
39) Hostettler would make a great ally for Rand Paul in the Senate.
40) In 2008 Ron Paul had zero endorsements from any sitting members of the House or Senate. He could have at least two endorsements of sitting senators if we elect Hostettler.
41) Hostettler is polling neck-and-neck with the GOP establishment pick, Dan Coats.
42) Hostettler polls better than every other Republican candidate against Brad Ellsworth in the general election matchup.
43) It is widely believed that the reason Coats was recruited back to Indiana to run again was out of fear of the party leaders having to deal with an uncompromising constitutional conservative like Hostettler.
44) Hostettler sponsored a bill allowing parents not to get social security numbers for their children without having to forego their tax deduction.
45) When most Republicans voted to end the government shutdown of 1996 by passing the unbalanced budget Clinton wanted them to (driven in part by the presidential aspirations of Bob Dole), Hostettler was one of only a handful of Republicans to vote against it.
46) Anti-war Republican congressman, Walter Jones says, “The president [Bush] was calling people as late as 1 or 2 in the morning to get them to vote for the Medicare prescription drug benefit, John voted his conscience first, not his party…. I admire him so much. He knows more about the Constitution than almost anyone in Congress.”
47) The timing of the Republican leaders’ recruiting of Mike Pence and then Dan Coats to run, right after a poll had shown Hostettler within the margin of error in a general election matchup against Evan Bayh, combined with the fact that every single general election poll shows Hostettler performing better than Coats against every possible Democrat opponent, suggests that those leaders were not so much interested in gaining a Republican seat in the Senate as they were in keeping it out of the hands of an independent voice like Hostettler. The RNC member who was most active in recruiting Dan Coats, Jim Bopp, was the very same one who orchestrated the last minute rules change for the Indiana Republican state convention in 2008 that was used to prevent Ron Paul supporting delegates from exercising any influence on the delegate selection process there.
48) In legislation that Hostettler supports pursuant to his staunch socially conservative beliefs, he always takes an approach that is consistent with the 10th Amendment.
49) There were only 3 Republican senators who voted against the confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. If Hostettler were in the Senate for that vote, he would have been #4.
50) There were only 17 Republican Congressmen who opposed all 5 bailouts of 2008-2009. If Hostettler were in Congress at that time, he would have been #18.

It may be better to create a whole new thread titled something like "50 reasons to support Hostettler." The reason for it is that you will probably have more people click on it out of curiousity to know more about Hostettler than where it is positioned now in this thread. I would also leave out the fact that you wrote it for Ron Paul supporters(even if it is true). There are many readers on this forum who are supporting one of the other candidates. There are also still too many people who think Ron Paul supporters are a bunch of crackpots may not throughly read through your list because of it. References to Ron Paul in your numbered reasons are okay just don't mention it was written with Ron Paul supporters in mind. This way you will reach out to other people without "scaring off" new potential Hostettler voters. Just my .

 

[erowe1]

It may be better to create a whole new thread titled something like "50 reasons to support Hostettler." The reason for it is that you will probably have more people click on it out of curiousity to know more about Hostettler than where it is positioned now in this thread. I would also leave out the fact that you wrote it for Ron Paul supporters(even if it is true). There are many readers on this forum who are supporting one of the other candidates. There are also still too many people who think Ron Paul supporters are a bunch of crackpots may not throughly read through your list because of it. References to Ron Paul in your numbered reasons are okay just don't mention it was written with Ron Paul supporters in mind. This way you will reach out to other people without "scaring off" new potential Hostettler voters. Just my .

Good point. Problem is, I can't hide that I wrote it for RP supporters, without changing a bunch of it (which I could do). But that's also why I didn't give it its own thread. It was more of an aside here. Maybe I'll edit another one that fits this forum better and give that one its own thread.

 

[Bobby]

Then, I would say its fine because you make a good point too.

 

[erowe1]

Bump

 

[LCPer]

You know what? Hasn't become a sad state of affairs when a political campaign and the election of a candidate has come down to "WHO CAN RAISE THE MOST MONEY". That in itself really has nothing to say about said candidate's character or integrity. Merely their popularity. Our political process has become so corrupt because "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY". One must be very wealthy or have many very "wealthy friends" to get elected to a higher public office in this country today. Good folks of modest means haven't got a chance.

 

[erowe1]

You know what? Hasn't become a sad state of affairs when a political campaign and the election of a candidate has come down to "WHO CAN RAISE THE MOST MONEY". That in itself really has nothing to say about said candidate's character or integrity. Merely their popularity. Our political process has become so corrupt because "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY". One must be very wealthy or have many very "wealthy friends" to get elected to a higher public office in this country today. Good folks of modest means haven't got a chance.

There's definitely truth to that.

But here's a silver lining. Hostettler won 6 races for his House seat with hardly any money at all. He never accepted a dime from a PAC, and he depended almost completely on the support of his grassroots supporters.

Virtually the same thing is happening now. Yes, it's true that he needs some cash to buy air time. But so far he's spent next to nothing, and has still polled as the top candidate consistently in every single poll, with the one exception of the most recent Rasmussen poll that had him within the margin of error of the top. His success is due completely to a statewide network of grassroots supporters just itching for a chance to get a proven constitutionalist in the Senate.

To me, that's just more incentive to donate to his campaign.

 

[erowe1]

Bump. Get ready to donate. It starts at midnight tonight and goes through all day tomorrow.

 

[E5RANGER375]

+1

 

[melensdad]

You know what? Hasn't become a sad state of affairs when a political campaign and the election of a candidate has come down to "WHO CAN RAISE THE MOST MONEY"

Its not actually about the money, its required simply because without getting the word out, people have no idea who a candidate really is and what he/she actually stands for. So they need the money to buy the media. The audience who attends Town Hall meetings, Debates, and other 'events' is actually only a VERY SMALL % of the voting population.

The only way a candidate can REACH the majority of the voters is by sending out flyers in the mail, buying TV and RADIO advertising, buying NEWSPAPER advertisements, etc. Name recognition is a big deal too, and those yard signs supporting candidates are not free, nor are bumper stickers, etc.

Candidates using FACEBOOK, TWITTER, etc is a brand new thing, and again ONLY reaches those who already support the candidate or have showed interest in the candidate.

Word of mouth is great, but if you support candidate "X" and talk him up to EVERYONE you know, the odds are that you may only reach between 10 and 100 voters. Likely closer to the smaller of those two numbers.

So its just a fact that people need to know the candidate and that requires every possible way of touching them, the reality is that reaching people simply costs money. The bigger the state the more it costs.

 

[pudly]

Bump. Reminder that the money blitz is today. If you are interested in helping Hostettler move past Coats, please contribute here: Hostettler

 

[Truckerman79]

I made my donation a minutes after midnight. This is the first time I've ever donated $$ to a political campaign.

 

[erowe1]

I made my donation a minutes after midnight. This is the first time I've ever donated $$ to a political campaign.

Great job! Thanks!

 

[BloodEclipse]

Just made my donation.