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Vote For Someone Else (.com)

Jay — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:28:54 +0000

Ever since it was pretty clear that Ron Paul would not be the Republican nominee, I’ve planned on voting for someone who is not John McCain or Barack Obama. I’ve learned enough over the past year and a half to realize that neither of those represents the kind of change this country needs, and in fact are exactly the same in all of the important fundamental issues that we face.

The other day, Dr. Paul held a press conference with all most of the “other” national candidates and urged voters to reject the two-party system by voting for someone else. He came together with those four candidates to agree on four principles that set them apart from the established candidates.

So, in light of that, I’ve thrown up a new site: voteforsomeoneelse.com. It’s a blog-type thing where I’ll be posting news and thoughts that will hopefully convince a few people to not vote for the status quo. Let me know your thoughts and suggestions.

Special Thanks to: The very fitting theme is by an old colleague, thanks James!

Lighting Up Lady Liberty

Jay — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:01:08 +0000

The last week of August, Dr. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign set a goal to raise half a million dollars before the end of the month and the third quarter. After about 3 days, that goal was reached and double to one million dollars. When the quarter ended, the online donations for that last week was $1.2 million and the quarter total was over $5 million! That’s really awesome, but the real interesting part is the unprecedented transparency of the funds raised.

For that challenge, they put up a flash app with a thermometer that showed the progress of the fund raising that updated in (near) real time, showing the exact total and the name and location of recent donors. Paul fans web wide were glued to their browser that week watching the amazing speed of the mercury rising.

This quarter, the campaign is continuing the openness by “letting everyone track our progress throughout the quarter – the first campaign in history to disclose immediately every cent that is raised.” But not only can you see the current total on Ron Paul’s site, in the form of “Lighting Up Lady Liberty”, but a few people are aggregating this data and making it available in the form of some neato graphs.

Update: I’ve made a Live Title generator that will display the total raised for the quarter as the bookmark title.

Ron Paul

Jay — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:17:58 +0000

I’m not trying to jump on the Ron Paul web traffic wave… No really, I promise.

Ron Paul caught my attention after the last Republican debate. I started reading up on him and watching videos of some of his speeches. Basically, he believes in the things that make this a great country, specifically the Constitution. To be honest, there are things that the government has been doing that I didn’t know went against the Constitution: the Federal Reserve, income tax, going to war without it passing both houses of Congress, etc. Why didn’t the media alert me to these things?!

But really, if we don’t have and uphold the Constitution, what do we have? Not much. I urge you to watch the debate tonight (8 pm Central on Fox News, I think) and pay attention to Dr. Paul. Until then, go to his campaign site, and search Google Video, Blog Search and Technorati for more info.