Uh, Davis County is a sparsely populated rural county in southeast Iowa; Coralville is a “sister city” of Iowa City, in a very populated, east central Johnson County.

Amateurs make mistakes, that’s a given. But making mistakes and learning from them is the way you gain experience and become better at what you do. No doubt the amateurs in the Goldwater and McGovern camapaigns made their fare share of mistakes but in time they became the successful professionals of the Reagan and Clinton camapaigns respectively. If anything comes of Ron Paul’s bid for president, its the training of young campaign operatives who will stay in politics and lead a more successful camapaign in the future. You’ve got to start somewhere.

And it ain’t over yet…

Missing precinct captains?

Databases disappearing?

Nonexistent GOTV?

I want heads on platters, or at least heads quietly relocated so that their owners don’t do any more damage to the best liberty candidate ever.

He fired you.

Yours very truly,
Schvenzlerman!

“——The Iowa Campaign staff did not help the Vote Watch effort at all. They did not publish numbers on the internet, either themselves, or in cooperation with us or any other group. As far as I know, they did nothing in reality to seriously watch the vote, despite noises to the contrary.

Also, there is strong suggestion of crippling sabotage by Drew Ivers (head paid RP staff person in Iowa), as the data base for the Ron Paul supporters in Iowa somehow became “unavailable” until 4 PM in the afternoon on Jan 3, Caucus day.

That means that all day the 200+ RP volunteers couldn’t remind people to go to the Caucus. This could have cost Ron Paul 10,000 votes, as last minute reminders are critical. This is EXACTLY what saboteurs do—they delay, obstruct, pretend to be dumb, and then provide way too little, way too late. How could the data base be in just one place, instead of in multiple places if one data base corrupted or went down? Why was it available at 4 PM —but not at 8 AM?

Jim Gragg of Kansas arrived up at the Iowa Office at about 11 AM on Caucus day. He offered to help. Drew Ivers told him they had everything covered—and to just go to the party that night Who has ever heard of this in a campaign fighting for its life against great odds? I provided Jim Gragg a school location which he went to. In the caucus he attended—a few miles from headquarters, Huckabee, Thompson, Romney, and McCain had speakers—but Ron Paul did not !! And people from outside the caucus were allowed to speak. Yeah, Drew Ivers had everything “handled”, just like Jesse Benton and Don Rasmussen of the RP paid staff had everything “handled” at the Iowa Straw Poll.

Maybe some of the hot shots up there around Drew Ivers who have been obstructing the Vote Watch work for four months, and who refused to use the automated call program which Mr. Weber and Steven Vincent had offered them for months, only grudgingly approving it two weeks before the Caucus (again, too little, too late!)—maybe this “know-it-all, cower before the Iowa GOP thugs” crew around Drew Ivers can explain some of this to someone’s satisfaction. (Remember, this was the same crew that had ONE student body visit planned for Ron Paul when he landed in Iowa a few weeks before the Caucus. Thus wasting his time that day.—Again, they just can’t quite get anything critical right. Also, it is now coming out that TV advertising was lackluster and sporadic in Iowa. Someone needs to pull the FEC report eventually and see what was spent on Iowa TV and radio. ”

he continues, “If the paid staff is not going to object to the ruthless censorship and suppression the Big TV and Radio stations are using against Ron Paul, then they at least need to do saturation advertising to make Ron Paul a household name. This should have been going on since July, but even the advertising in Nov and Dec was apparantly not done properly. You can saturate an Iowa City on local Talk Radio and Local TV news for one week for about $15,000 – $20,000 or so. There were 20 major Iowa cities, but maybe not even that many media centers. Iowa was critical in so many ways. I think we’ve been “had” again by the “Cato Institute” enemy within the Ron Paul paid staff. Away with all of them in an office housecleaning! ’

I copied and pasted his email w/o his permission; it was sent to hundreds of volunteers so did not feel it was a secret.

“——The Iowa Campaign staff did not help the Vote Watch effort at all. They did not publish numbers on the internet, either themselves, or in cooperation with us or any other group. As far as I know, they did nothing in reality to seriously watch the vote, despite noises to the contrary.

Also, there is strong suggestion of crippling sabotage by Drew Ivers (head paid RP staff person in Iowa), as the data base for the Ron Paul supporters in Iowa somehow became “unavailable” until 4 PM in the afternoon on Jan 3, Caucus day.

That means that all day the 200+ RP volunteers couldn’t remind people to go to the Caucus. This could have cost Ron Paul 10,000 votes, as last minute reminders are critical. This is EXACTLY what saboteurs do—they delay, obstruct, pretend to be dumb, and then provide way too little, way too late. How could the data base be in just one place, instead of in multiple places if one data base corrupted or went down? Why was it available at 4 PM —but not at 8 AM?

Jim Gragg of Kansas arrived up at the Iowa Office at about 11 AM on Caucus day. He offered to help. Drew Ivers told him they had everything covered—and to just go to the party that night Who has ever heard of this in a campaign fighting for its life against great odds? I provided Jim Gragg a school location which he went to. In the caucus he attended—a few miles from headquarters, Huckabee, Thompson, Romney, and McCain had speakers—but Ron Paul did not !! And people from outside the caucus were allowed to speak. Yeah, Drew Ivers had everything “handled”, just like Jesse Benton and Don Rasmussen of the RP paid staff had everything “handled” at the Iowa Straw Poll.

Maybe some of the hot shots up there around Drew Ivers who have been obstructing the Vote Watch work for four months, and who refused to use the automated call program which Mr. Weber and Steven Vincent had offered them for months, only grudgingly approving it two weeks before the Caucus (again, too little, too late!)—maybe this “know-it-all, cower before the Iowa GOP thugs” crew around Drew Ivers can explain some of this to someone’s satisfaction. (Remember, this was the same crew that had ONE student body visit planned for Ron Paul when he landed in Iowa a few weeks before the Caucus. Thus wasting his time that day.—Again, they just can’t quite get anything critical right. Also, it is now coming out that TV advertising was lackluster and sporadic in Iowa. Someone needs to pull the FEC report eventually and see what was spent on Iowa TV and radio. ”

he continues, “If the paid staff is not going to object to the ruthless censorship and suppression the Big TV and Radio stations are using against Ron Paul, then they at least need to do saturation advertising to make Ron Paul a household name. This should have been going on since July, but even the advertising in Nov and Dec was apparantly not done properly. You can saturate an Iowa City on local Talk Radio and Local TV news for one week for about $15,000 – $20,000 or so. There were 20 major Iowa cities, but maybe not even that many media centers. Iowa was critical in so many ways. I think we’ve been “had” again by the “Cato Institute” enemy within the Ron Paul paid staff. Away with all of them in an office housecleaning! ’

I copied and pasted his email w/o his permission; it was sent to hundreds of volunteers so did not feel it was a secret.

Huckabee was 4th below Giuliani, with 11%.

So, that must mean that Paul had less than 10% in 5th, unless he’s behind Fred Thompson too.

This sounds amateurish that something like this could happen.

And someone shold also have never left the site for a moment if it happened at a campaign office.

Poor security.

Dirty tricks are spread throughout politics. One must always be on guard and double-triple protected.

I am so sorry for everyone’s disappoinment.