Representative Ralph Watts Confirms Attendance to the ORS Launch Event
We’re pleased to announce that Iowa House Representative Ralph Watts of District 47 (Dallas County, Iowa) has confirmed attendance at our launch party.
The team at Operation Red State is honored to have Mr. Watts at the event and hope the Legislative schedule is cooperative!
Representative Linda Upmeyer Confirms for Operation Red State Launch Event on April 15
The momentum just keeps on rolling folks. With pride we’d like to announce another attendee, Representative Linda Upmeyer from Iowa District 12. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on. If you’re a conservative leader, member of Congress, or are considering a run at public office, you can’t be without Operation Red State.
See you at the event Representative Upmeyer and we can’t wait to meet you.
Iowa Representative Renee Schulte Confirms Attendance at the ORS Launch Event
Operation Red State is pleased to announce that Iowa State Representative Renee Schulte has confirmed that she will attend the ORS Launch Event on April 15, 2009 at 5:30-7:30PM at Impromptu Studio in Des Moines.
We can’t wait to meet Representative Schulte from House District 37 and welcome her into the ORS family.
Iowa State Representative Kent Sorenson Confirms Attendance at ORS Launch Event
We’re very excited to have Representative Kent Sorenson confirm his attendance at the Operation Red State Launch Event on Apirl 15 between 530PM and 730PM.
We can’t wait to open the virtual doors at 630PM that evening and give conservative candidates and campaigns the winning edge.
Mark Levin Unloads On Geithner
Are you a Conservative Leader, Republican Congressperson or Considering a Run?
On April 15 at 630PM Central Daylight Time, we’re unleashing Operation Red State’s Private Membership site.
To herald the launch, we’re holding a private ORS Launch event at our studio in Des Moines.
If you’re considering a run for office be it mayor, city council, governor or state/U.S. Congress…you will gain a serious competitive advantage by subscribing to the ORS site. We’re offering an unbelievable $97/quarter membership rate during the charter period.
We don’t just want to level the playing field for Conservatives…we intend to provide the parties and candidates with generational leap vs. their counterparts.
I realize that many of you won’t be flying your private jets into DSM International to attend the Operation Red State launch event but never fear. We’ll be announcing quite a few ways for you to see what we’re up to.
Additionally, we’re going to unveil our a la cart menu of services for candidates that will you “Stump Speechless” (HINT: Need a blog based site that’s very attractive to Google out of the box?). Sure you may have a Twitter account and a Facebook page…but our membership will guide you to a world class web strategy that will drive your campaign forward.
Do you want to:
- Organize your ground troops and volunteers with the same Collaboration software that Obama used in a few states for almost no cash?
- Learn how to create effective video and audio that builds your online brand, credibility, and message?
- Understand how to leverage Twitter to not simply “tell people what you’re doing” but to build a following, track trends, and increase your web traffic?
- Become findable on the web through organic search engine optimization?
- Leverage text message marketing so you can make special announcements, conduct polls, and alert ground troops to campaign events?
- Unleash online fund raising tools that are typically reserved for Presidential candidates for next to nothing?
The checklist above IS OperationRedState.com and this is JUST the beginning.
We can do this together. Our team is working tirelessly to produce material and provide forums that you will find invaluable for peanuts per quarter. If you subscribe during the Charter Period for $97/quarter…your price is guaranteed for the life of your subscription! After that period it WILL go up.
Let’s build a strong bench and empower every candidate with the campaign technology they need to communicate, organize, and win. Together…we can.
Orlando Tea Party, Re-Setting the Stage for Tax Day!
I’m sure most of you are aware of Tax Day Tea Parties that will be occurring nationwide on April 15th. If you aren’t sure where yours is or are interested in hosting one check here.
Orlando hosted a Saturday Tea Party and Police said it reached approximately 4,200 protesters. What were they protesting? Well here are their signs:
- “Repeal the Pork or our Bacon is Cooked”
- “Obama Lied, Liberty Died”
- “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”
- “You can’t blame Bush anymore”
- “Have Shovel, Where’s Bridge?”
They had a number of speakers covering the obvious topics, socialism, the economy, and the Bush/Obama failouts, er, bailouts that is. What really excites me about these pre-tax day tea parties is that the protestors have a purpose. One of the attendees was quoted in the Orlando Sentinel saying,
“The goal was to get people united, to let people know that they aren’t alone in their feelings on despair,”[...]“We want to speak out against the push toward socialization that we feel is taking place in our country.”
This is how America feels. Can this be ignored? No matter what the donkey bloggers say. Despite the tingling feelings Keith Olbermann & Chris Matthews get. No matter what, our country will be taken back. Government was made by the people and will be taken back by the people. You can’t stop us. This conservative grass roots movement is one that will mark history. It’s not about Democrats & Republicans. I am neither. I am American. I am conservative. I believe in something more than just Bush’s erratic spending habits and Obama’s Chicago style politics, and I think you do too. Let’s not let them be more of the same and show up to the nearest Tax Day Tea Party near you.
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Don’t Blame Capitalism, said Milton Friedman
I had this blog post emailed to me by Chris Rants, Member of the Iowa House of Representatives, District 54. I was very pleased because I always like shout outs to locals here in Iowa.
Anyway, everywhere we go, with the exception of maybe the National Review, it seems everyone is telling us why capitalism has failed us. This trend, having been lead by the liberal drive by media (yes, I know, saying liberal was rather redundant) it actually convincing Americans that it’s true. Capitalism ruining our country?? IT’S ABSURD!!!!!
Take it from Milton Friedman in the video below. See how many NBC news casters or commentators can dispute what he has to say. Capitalism didn’t ruin our economy. We did! We are the ones that spent more than could, we are the ones that tens of thousands of dollars in credit maxed out. We dug ourselves a hole many, now, can’t climb out of.
Every attack on capitalism I have heard thus far is not exclusive to capitalism. Even if some of these attacks are legitimate (though I haven’t found one that is) they are applicable to every other kind of economy and government. Capitalism works. It’s why we have the standard of living we do. Still not convinced, listen to Friedman.
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Facebook Opens Pandora’s Box
Thus far the world of Facebook has been protected in a digital box but now, the box has been opened. Imagine this: 180 million individual accounts constantly updating their status, importing RSS feeds from blogs and news outlets, sharing photos/videos, interacting through applications, and providing other content through their notes and other apps. This is Facebook in a nut-shell and until now search engines have been unable to utilize this content. Let’s just say, like many social networks, not all 180 million actively participate in Facebook. While it probably does have higher participation rates than other sites like Twitter & MySpace, let’s randomly assume only 40% of the users actually provide consistent content. This will still have a huge impact.
Facebook really is becoming the all-in-one package and now that they’re open for everyone to view we will start to see some major things happen – integration, findability, & content.
Integration:
Previously we were stuck with very limited integration between Facebook and other social networks. They allowed you to create badges and use your URL to include on blogs and profile pages but nothing that would update outside of their world. I couldn’t embed my Facebook updates on my web page or blog. I couldn’t share content from my friends with those in the outside world (being everything outside of Facebook) without copying and pasting. Immediately the developers of TweetDeck, which is a client to track Twitter updates, have now added a Facebook update feature. I can now update my Facebook from my desktop and read what everyone else is saying too. without ever going to their website.
Findability:
How many of you have tried to track down an old friend on Facebook and when you searched their name, John Smith, there were a million results and most of them didn’t even have a picture. To make it even worse, 99.9% of them were not connected to one of your networks so you either had to invite everyone of them to be your friend or just give up. I imagine most of you gave up.
Well, the solution isn’t a complete fix but it’s a start. As individuals continue to make their information public you will see your internet findability factor substantially increase. Publicizing your information is bound to become a trend on Facebook. Especially as more and more businesses and organizations utilize it. As this occurs you will see an increase in the number of friends you have through Facebook searches. Even better, search engines can now index your profiles to make them findable. If I Google my name I’m on the second page. Is the link to my blog or website? NO. It’s going to go back and forth between my LinkedIn account and Brazen Careerist account. The searching power a network like Facebook can deliver has the potential to surpass any other in a flash.
Content:
Go to all your friends on Facebook and count how many times they’ve updated what they are doing or feeling. Count how many posts they’ve put in there notes. Count how many photos and videos they’ve uploaded. I would of stopped after just one of them. Facebook is easily the most content heavy network in the world. You can now bring your content to the faces of millions.
Most users on Facebook are likely to not understand the power of content, especially video content. Even the heavy users just picked up the addiction in college or high school and can’t quit. As more and more profiles go public you will understand why they say that in 2010 the amount of information in the world will double every 6 – 8 months. Why is it my LinkedIn & Brezen Careerist profiles were the best for me? First, both are incredibly content heavy websites. Second, of all the other Steve Schultzs out there I provide more content than they do which is why I’m on page 1 or page 2 of a Google search. If today, all other Steve Schultzs publicized their Facebook accounts, I’m positive my LinkedIn & other profiles would move past page 20. Why? That’s how much content is on Facebook. The others would accidentally knock me out of there with the exception of my Facebook profile.
Why does this matter to you?
As a politician or public figure your success is based on your findability. If you aren’t on TV, in the newspaper, or online people won’t know how to extend the conversation and easily share your message with others. Thanks to Facebook and their recent changes you can drive traffic to your blog/website through social media integration. You will bring relevant content in all forms to a larger audience. Your findability factor will move you from page 100 of the Google search to page 1. If utilizing Facebook as a political tool wasn’t already obvious to you before this change, it definitely should be now because they just let it all out of the box.
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Operation Red Ride for Conservatism
There is perhaps NO other event across the fruited plains that says “Grassroots Movement” like RAGBRAI. For those of you unfamiliar, RAGBRAI is the “Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa.” Typically, 15k-20k of your closest friends ride, camp and eat their way across the great state of Iowa. Well this year is different. We won’t have Lance Armstrong again because he’s doing a slightly different ride this year called the Tour de France.
So in conjuntion with the launch of OperationRedState, we’re putting on Operation Red Ride to rally conservative citizens and Congresspeople to share ideas, build realtionships, and find new ways to connect with each other through technology.
Those of us on Operation Red Ride will be using the Twitter hashtag #ORS along with #RAGBRAI to show our support, organize, and communicate during the ride. We’ll also have a support van providing RED Gatorade for our grassroots troops at the Operation Red Ride headquarters in each overnight town. Operation Red Ride jersey’s may be available as well if we get enough interest.
If you’d like to connect, please contact us directly at info@operationredstate.com. Otherwise, until then, stay in the loop and subscribe to our email or RSS updates.
Thank you for supporting Operation Red Ride 2009.
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