New comment on your post #1466 “Meetup Groups”
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Good idea, Bret.
Hey, happy birthday! I hope your heart is filled with as much joy as you share with the world. May this year bless you with increasing freedom, truth, and peace.
With love,
Alyssa
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New comment on your post #1466 “Meetup Groups”
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Bret,
Nice blog! It’s your birthday! Happy birthday from your family back home! We are proud of you, pilgrim! I saw a WWII vet today and looked him in the eye and said, “Thanks for freedom!” He presented a glowing smile in return. A similar message goes to you and your fellow walkers, “Thanks for standing up freedom”!
Enjoy your special day! 25, eh? We wish we could celebrate with you today, but we with you in thought and prayer!
Love,
Dad and Mom, Ryan and Abby
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New comment on your post #1232 “Edgar, WI : My First Day on the Walk”
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Walk faster Grant! Lol just kidding but you are missed here. I am proud of you. You guys are doing something great! Keep posting..I plan to post it on myspace and facebook…anything to help you guys spread the true message. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
xoxo,
Christi
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New comment on your post #1232 “Edgar, WI : My First Day on the Walk”
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Hi and welcome, Grant. So glad you sent us an update your first day! Hope to see more from you if possible. Send us some stories!
Best of luck and fun to you.
Crickett
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Yesterday I wrote about the main walking team, today I want to mention the support crew who has stepped up and done so much for us.
Tony B, The Driver. Tony is from Milwaukee and has been using his truck as a support vehicle. This man is a powerhouse character and willing to do anything to help us out, he is funny, generous, and enthusiastic. At the moment he is away because he has some important meeting to take care of, but it is telling that he crunched 5 days of meetings into 1 so as not to leave us without his valuable support.
Kris S, The Provisioner, Kris has walked 2 days with us and will join us again at the end but is doing many things to support the Rally for the Republic and has his priorities straight. I say he is the provisioner because he set us up with so many necessary things. Extra mattresses, a sound system, a coffee maker, Constitutions, a printer, and much more, we look forward to him returning.
Rachel M - The Press Agent- is well known in the r3VOLtion, she has been doing a ton of phone work for us and getting us some great press. She is doing this while doing many other things and we really appreciate her help.
Melissa H - The Twin Cities co-ordinator- Melissa has been doing a ton of work for us organizing the final days and we have quite a full schedule thanks to her efforts.
Chris R - The Videographer - has made some killer videos for us, I’m sure most of you have seen them. We are having trouble uploading vids remotely and his efforts are certainly filling in our gaps. Chris, also, has the PAC which is handling our money and help is invaluable.
Cory - The Interviewer - Cory works with Chris and is bummed not to be walking. Great guy and we wish he could join us as well.
Bridget from Shawano WI has been helping contact the towns along the way and setting u the TownHall Meetings which are the meat of this walk. She, also, made us some cool banners and had us over to her house for a night for a great dinner and long hot showers.
The r3VOLution Funding Group is an experimental fundraising effort made up of many individuals who are attempting to raise us money without using the money-bomb model, with varying levels of success they are all to be commended for stepping up to the plate.
Finally, Greg B, John Z, and Gin are taking care of websites for us. This is quite a complicated effort and they are doing a great job as well. As I mentioned we are having trouble with remote updates and look forward to getting to areas with better coverage…
We had a long hot walk today, another set for tomorrow.
I am writing from the VFW hall in Wausau, WI where we are having a town hall meeting. Big shout out to the VFW vets who have been helping us in this journey. I would, also, like to give a shout-out to the Mayor of Wausau, Jim Tibbets, who has come down to hear what we have to say and gave us a gracious introduction. We have over 25 attendees and people are filtering in. Not bad, we were a bit concerned that an article in the newspaper painted us in the wrong light and that people might think we were involved in electioneering. I believe that Nick has addressed that in his blog.
Speaking of the Nick, I am going to use this blog to talk about our core walking team. I know Rod wrote a blog yesterday that hints at a bit of tension, and while I have no intention to air our dirty laundry I will say that an effort like this is physically, and mentally, stressful in many ways and these kind of things are natural. We are a herd of catz, moving in the same direction towards a common goal. We will complete this journey stronger that we started, both physically, and mentally.
So about the team:
Steve V is the presenter and the originator of the idea. He has created a good presentation and delivers it well. He has herded many catz, and is to be commended.
Jim A is the mediator, the personnel manager who has kept those joining updated and coordinated the arrivals, he has done much more and is always willing to jump in and do what is necessary.
Rod O joined up and has been helping for weeks now, he was making phone calls before he arrived and jumped right into “whatever it takes”. Turns out he is a car buff and has become the RV wrangler. He is a strong walker, with an easy smile, and is becoming a bit of an ukulele player.
Nick R is the canvasser. His experience as a Meet Up organizer has honed his skills and is very enthusiastic about getting the word out. Not shy at all about talking to people
Bret is the youngster and the jokester. He is great about canvassing, flyering and walking. We can not believe he is carrying that big old pack, but he is young and strong and who are we to stop him. He has a great sense of humor. We tease him because we love him and represents the reason old folk like me do these things. He has no desire to be drafted into an unconstitutional war and I have no desire to see kids like him forced to go.
Cody is the artist and sign-waver. He is really good at making signs and has chalked our windows very well. He is very mellow and able to see both sides of most issues. He is a cruiser and more than willing to do, whatever
All of us are a team, none of us a perfect, bit together we have power and are out here waking people up to the true problems facing our nation. I am honored to share these miles with them and thankful for all of you who are following on and helping, however you can.
Grant and Alyssa joined today so I will update this list…
Pronounced “Shawno” - Have had some great walks. 3 days in a row the media has met us on the roadside for interviews. The buzz is building. We, also, have folks stopping to chat, either out of curiousity, or because they have heard us on the radio and read about us in the paper.Everyone is driving by waving and tooting the horn (even the sherriffs who put our pliers on their front windows). I’ve always liked the middle states people and this trip is re-inforcing that. One guy stopped in the middle of the road to ask what we are up up to, someone joked about our vagrant ways, he said, “No, what I see is real patriots - Thanks” and that is a common theme, people see that we are just what we say we are, concerned citizens, doing something about what concerns us.
Can’t say enough about the guys I am walking with. A great crew; tough, committed; sharing the laughter and the pain. Everyone has strong points and together we are stronger than we could ever be alone. Together with the those who are giving us time for ground support, we have a team that will do good regardless of obstacles…
The main thing is the meetings. Our crowd doubled between the first and second. While that cannot last, (or we would need a Target Center ourselves), it would be nice to have hundreds… People are amazed when they see the whole picture laid out, suddenly things make more sense and they are motivated.
Maybe what we are doing is bringing the red pill to the heartland
Well, we left GreenBay late yesterday after canvassing the Lambaeu Field before the Packers opener. Had a great day. Hundreds of flyers out. Was giving out the constitutions to families with children, had a good response. Many people were pumped on the game though and not that interested. All in all productive though.
We walked about 7 miles out of town and bedded down, after raising a toast with the crew, using homemade wine brought from Louisiana by Rod Owers. The entire crew is great. We woke up with a new walker waiting outside. An economics professor from Russia who is joining us for a week or so.
Everyone is holding up fine, we have a few bisters and will be watching those, but all are stoked and “pressing” on. Had some reporters come down to the roadside to get pictures and ask a few questions. Also had people stop who had heard of us and wanted to thank us for our committment.
Drove from The Twin Cities to Green Bay today. Pretty countryside and great people. Stopped in two towns and gave out flyers announcing our townhall meetings. Had great responses. In Shawano we had promised to drop some off at the VFW and AFL lodges, we drove into town and parked our convoy to get our bearings and find out exactly where we were going, (before driving these lumbering beast hither and yon searching). A gentleman must have saw me walk out to check some roadsigns because he came walking over asking if we were lost and if he could help. His name was John and he owns an ice cream stand right there on S Main St. We explained what we were looking for and in the process mentioned our mission. He looked and exclaimed, “You’re the guys who are walking ? There was an article in the paper last week about you. This is great” So while Steve and Jim went for a walk to spread the message, Rod, Kris, and I talked to John for a while. Her took a pile of fliers and pointed out another restaurant that we shoulde hit. So I took a pile and went walking over. More great folk who took a stack saying they would tape them in the windows, by the register and hand out the rest. Stoked !
Tomorrow the walk starts in earnest. We will find out exactly who shows up and what our numbers will be. At the moment we are only half a dozen. More should arrive tomorrow and over the next few days. Many who signed up had one thing, or another come up and have dropped out. Its a far cry from the hundred who originally signed up, but this is certainly more manageable and will be just as, or even more effective in the Townhall meeting aspect. We are still hoping to have a large group as we enter the Twin Cities and on the seven mile final day walk we are expecting to have hundreds, and perhaps, many more.
One point if you are planning on joining us for the final days. We talked to the cities for permits, and St Paul has some extraordinary rules in place for the RNC. We will be fine with any size group, as long as we don’t carry any type of “demonstration” signage. What we are recommending is American flags. Imagine hundreds of walkers surrounding the State Capitol as we pass by. We are, also, going to pass the MN-GOP and we hope to give them a sight to behold. I wonder if they will hold their hands on their hearts as we pass by - <chuckle>. Once we pass into Minneapolis the restrictions lift and we will be able to break out signage as we pass the Federal Reserve, on our way to Join the Liberty Parade. More on that parade later…
