Why not a PAC?

Dear Supporter,

Thank you so much so much for your support of the Ron Paul Blimp Tour! The response we have gotten is truly amazing and things are proceeding rapidly. The Ron Paul Blimp Tour begins on December 10th when the blimp launches from North Carolina, south of Virginia Beach, to begin its journey to Washington, to New York, and then to Boston. More about this route later...

We will not be forming a PAC (Political Action Committee) as discussed originally. Under a PAC donations to the blimp would count towards donations to the official campaign. For example, if a person contributed $100 towards the PAC then they would only be able to contribute $2,200 of the $2,300 maximum to the official campaign. Forming a PAC would also be a FEC legal nightmare due to regulations and restrictions.

We created a business plan that allows any US citizen to buy as much blimp as they want without having it count towards their current campaign contributions. Former chairman of the FEC, Brad Smith, one of the top U.S. election lawyers, has been retained as our lawyer. This updated legal arrangement offers the best of both worlds, no limits and virtually no regulations.

So, we formed a for profit company which allows a US citizen to "sponsor" a pre-selected political message. The key staff members will be paid a weekly salary to keep this operation running and to take care of expenses incurred along the way while they are away from their families and homes. We have a disclosure page that we will release shortly and we will link to it both on this page and the main page. The disclosure page will do it's best to account for all income and expenses and make this new company as transparent as possible.

It appears very likely that the blimp will generate more publicity value before it even launches than it will cost to operate for the entire first month. The added publicity generated by the blimp tour is expected to push the Tea Party Money Bomb beyond all previous records. We have had to upgrade our servers twice this week because they kept crashing from so many people visiting the website. We now have a server that can handle 100,000 visitors at one time, and that should be enough for now (once we have live footage of the blimp, GPS coordinates and more on the website we may have to upgrade again to handle the increase in traffic).

For every dollar you send us, you will be purchasing so many minutes of the entire blimp from us, or advertising for Ron Paul of equivalent value. (For instance we will be spending money on glitz to surround the blimp's activities and draw media attention).

Summary
We are not a PAC. We have now formed as an advertising company. We have created sponsored blimp political advertising and you are our client and a purchaser of our services. Thank you, client!