August 20, 2007

Ron Paul in the New Hampshire sky

I was reading through the Ron Paul news this morning and came across this item in a local New Hampshire paper:

HOLLIS – Sunday’s GOP barbecue fundraiser could have been dubbed “The Ron Paul Show,” based on the attention the Texas congressman received and the number of his supporters in attendance.

Paul was one of five lesser-known presidential hopefuls at the Hillsborough County Republican Committee’s annual fundraiser at Alpine Grove in Hollis. North Carolina businessman Daniel Gilbert, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, and Illinois businessman John Cox joined him.

But he was the only one who had a plane towing a banner circling the banquet hall.

In a normal campaign, the place to find out about this type of promotion would be campaign headquarters, but not in the grassroots driven open-source Ron Paul campaign. You go to the activists and then they tell you whodunit! I’d be willing to bet the Ron Paul campaign didn’t even know about the plane until they read it in the papers just as we did.
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