FRANK MOORE FOR PRESIDENT 2008 BLOG

On October 17, 2008

edit of the show with the segment that mentions Frank:
https://archive.org/details/onsug_day05_01_ug-limoncello_edit

Visit the website for the full show:
http://onsug.com/archives/257

it is amazing how we are touching such a wide range of people by this
campaign! this guy is a conservative, wanting to vote for ron paul. but is
voting for me because my platform is the closest to what he believes in
than any other candidate running!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Good luck in the election…

On October 17, 2008

From: T Bait
To: Frank Moore
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:28 AM
Subject: Good luck in the election…

You guys are going to win this time.

Then there’ll be no more of this…
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oxgq79PWhs

Good luck!

Frank Moore wrote:
yep, i and susan just might win this sucker! more and more people are saying they WILL vote for us!

the campaign keeps popping up!

On October 16, 2008

http://www.futureclaw.com/

today we got in the mail a copy of futureclaw.

“FUTURECLAW is a large-format (12″x15″) fashion, art, and culture quarterly magazine with distribution at newstands across the United States. The magazine was formed a year ago, in the fall of 2007, among a small group of people nestled within the Green Mountains of Vermont. The intent of the magazine is to capture the zeitgeist with an international scope. Our goal is set to document this spirit through the most obvious format: the use of lots of very big pretty pictures and the written word. The energy that exists within the creative mind enables us to create FUTURECLAW. This energy also defines 20the culture of the future.”

it’s very impressive, very thick, full of expansive art and photographs…and a 4-page spread of photos of the campaign and an interview with me! Go to page 181.

thanks, adam! btw, i live in berkeley, not austin.

Paul Escriva wrotye:
Greetings Frank,

Just finished reading the article in Furtureclaw. What a great interview and a format for your campaign that I wouldn’t have even dreamt of..but as I think about it its just another example of the magic and your charisma. I am always amazed how you “get results.” Do be careful Frankie I think you are in danger of becoming chic and trendy:)

Paul

Frank Moore wrote:
nah! i have always gotten into chic and trendy to explode it!

PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR

On October 16, 2008

we will be having a pot luck/bbque ELECTION PARTY at the BLUE HOUSE (1200 Curtis St., Berkeley, CA 94706) on tuesday, november 4, 2008.

it will start sometime after work.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Frank’s electoral vote count

frank & susan!

you have my vote in new york state!

good luck!,
gregg yeti
www.greggyeti.com
www.myspace.com/thegreggyeti

Frank Moore wrote:
we value your vote, dude! hard-core concerts at the white house!

on the campaign trail

DA BOYZ:

David the notary was soon pulling up and Corey ran down to the PH. Frank had just written his response to Margaret Porter! The experience with David was so amazing … he just soaked up the letter from Margaret and Frank’s response, and then the Apollos Academy blog … which he was responsible for! We could not have done it without his offering his notarizations for free for all of the paperwork for California and 24 other states! What a sweet guy! … and he offered his services in 2012 if Frank should decide to run again! He had been talking to people about Frank too! Frank told him about how they didn’t want to let him vote when he first went to vote, because they didn’t think that he (a straight-A student) could read!! From that to running for President! it was so amazing all of what this campaign has opened up …

Katherine was asking about more Frank Moore for President events, and Corey told her that the last one would be at the former Claremont, and she was asking if we would know how many votes Frank got … Corey would probably have to do the research to find out … a number of states just didn’t really count them individually until they reached a certain percentage of the total vote … hopefully we would be able to find out in California! He told her about D.C. in this context, and she was trying to think if she had any friends in D.C. … yes, she did! She would ask her! Her boyfriend did work on the Hillary campaign, but hey, for a friend!? She was really happy to be airing all of Frank’s presidential stuff … she said, “How often does someone in Berkeley run for President??”

Then we were packing up and heading out to the bank and Peet’s, and then off to poster by way of Hopkins to get some items to go with our free Peet’s coffees! At the bank, we gave Princess and Zazu write-in handouts, and we told Zazu that we were in the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade and how much fun it was … how everyone knew Frank from his BTV shows, etc. … Zazu said yes! She said, “Everyone watches public access!” She wondered if Suzy was there too? She said bashfully that that is her boyfriend’s favorite show. They both watch Frank’s and Suzy’s shows!

The woman at Hopkins recognized Alexi’s Frank Moore for Pres. get-up and asked if Alexi was campaigning for Frank Moore?? She said that Frank comes in there all the time, and they really like it when he comes in!

Fueled on Peet’s and bomboloni and muffins (and we tried a gorgonzola cheese twist too, which was yummy!), we headed right up to the Telegraph area, got a parking spot, finished our muffins, and then saddled up with all our paraphernalia, and hit the streets! It was a beautiful day, and lots of fun to be putting up the write-in Frank Moore/Susan Block fliers and the former-Claremont fliers too! We fliered all around People’s Park and then up and down Telegraph, up and around Durant and Bancroft, getting them inside as many places as possible too. We had a lot of run-ins with different people … There was the guy who stopped as we were putting up the fliers in front of Noah’s bagels, wondering what it was about … he said he was voting for Nader, but he took a platform to read up on Frank! Then we ran into a guy putting up fliers on the next block … he told us the scoop for keeping fliers up in Berkeley these days. He said, “It’s legal to put them up, and it’s legal for the city to take them down.” So if you want your flier to stay up for the longest period of time, you put them up after 3pm on Saturdays, and they will stay up until Monday morning.

On the next corner, we ran into another guy fliering for his own band at Blake’s that night. He was glad to meet a fellow posterer, and asked us what we were doing? He was totally wowed to hear about Frank! He thought it was great! He took stacks of write-in handouts and luver fliers to put out on the table at his show, and he gave us a handful of posters to put up on our way back down Telegraph for him. It was great to see lots of posters up on Telegraph again — reclaiming! Then this big jolly street kid came up to us, saying, “I love you guys! I love you guys!!” Taking our hands … “What are you guys doing???!” We told him what we were putting up, and he couldn’t believe it! He looked at the flier and said, genuinely, “Now that’s the kind of face I want for my President!” He left with a platform, reading it …

Then, on the next corner, there was Walter Funk, walking back from the UC Berkeley Engineering library … We always see Walter when we are postering! Doesn’t matter where we are, he comes strolling up! He said he was researching 3-D movies without glasses … he said he has been working on this for some time, and has actually put on holographic film shows around the area, in SF … not in the East Bay yet … We were telling him the latest, which he had been catching a lot of on the e-salon too. He thought it was great!

In Amoeba, the guy behind the counter taking bags knew about Frank from watching him on BTV. He wanted a platform!

We had Niman burgers at Bongo Burger, and then were on to the south Berkeley area. We had called Whole Foods to see if they carried maple sugar … they were out of it in bulk, and didn’t have it packaged. When we got down to Shattuck, Alexi went into Eastern to pick up more staples, and Corey ran into Berkeley Bowl to see if they had maple sugar. Nothing! But there was a big poster board in Berkeley Bowl, so we headed there first and got some fliers up and hit the bathroom … Then on our way out to hit some poles around the Bowl, these two guys walking past us noticed Alexi’s Frank Moore for Pres. shirt and exploded, “Hey, cool!!!” “Frank Moore for President, right on!!” We asked them how they knew about Frank, and one guy said, “Well we always watch his show on public access, and then so we checked him out online … ” We asked if they had seen Frank’s platform, and the one guy said, “Oh yeah, I am a big fan of his tax plan! 10% flat tax up to a million, and then up to 75%.!” We gave them more platforms and buttons, which they loved!

We fliered around Berkeley Bowl, and then headed straight down to the Long Haul, would poster our way back. There was a group of people inside, and we asked about leaving Frank Moore for Pres. stuff there, and the one guy near the counter said we could go ahead … he said generally electoral politics stuff doesn’t last long there … but we could try it … last time someone left some Zachary Running Wolf material there, it was taken away, but that might have been a personal thing … He knew Frank was different … he said personally he really liked it, knew that it was a whole different thing … So we stuffed a bunch of platforms and put them right up there on the counter, and then put up fliers on their board too. The guy there said that his uncle runs for President every election … he doesn’t know how he does! We asked where he lives, and he lives in South Dakota. They don’t allow write-in Presidential candidates there, so perhaps he gets himself on the ballot! He didn’t know!

Then we went down to the Nomad cafe, left a bunch of stuffed platforms there too, next to another candidates packets we saw had been left there, and then postered our way down Shattuck back to the car, just in time to get home and get to BNG before they closed!

Linda showed Corey the letter from the 5th grader in Maryland when he came down with the chips, and Corey told everyone about it when he got back … it was so moving … we all wanted to go to Maryland!!! Blowing our minds …

We saw Mikee’ s email come in with the link to the blog about not wasting your vote! It was totally mind-blowing … to see Frank included in that list, and to see other people looking at things in the same way that we do, and the possibilities that open up!

Richard Winger wrote:
All the states that have write-in filing procedures will tally the votes for the people who filed, except for evil Washington and Oregon. I am trying to get the Socialist Party presidential candidate to sue Oregon.

Frank Moore wrote:
it will be fun knowing how many votes we got!

if you know of a free lawyer, i will take on oregon and washington!

it doesn’t look like we are getting d.c.

Don’t Waste Your Vote

check this out:
http://apollosacademy.blogspot.com/2008/10/dont-waste-your-vote.html

UPDATED: Why Frank did not qualify in AZ, CO, CT, FL, IN, KY, ME, MA, MI, MO, NC, ND, OH, TN, TX & VA

Arizona:
Here we needed 10 registered voters in Arizona to be Frank’s presidential electors. We were not able to do this 1) because we had few contacts in Arizona, and 2) because the process involves each elector getting a form notarized, which makes it more challenging to get people.

Colorado:
Here by August 26, we needed 9 registered voters in Colorado to be Frank’s presidential electors. In this case, there was no notarization of elector forms required, but because we have few close contacts in Colorado, it was challenging to get people. We were able to get one person in Colorado to be an elector for Frank.

Connecticut:
Here we still could qualify, with the help of 7 registered CT voters willing to be electors, by October 21st. We have not been able to contact anyone in Connecticut who would do this. In this case, it would have involved each elector signing a simple form and sending it to us so that we could send them all in together to the Legislative & Elections Division.

Florida
Here, given more time, we may have been able to gather the people needed to qualify. All we needed were the names and addresses of 27 registered voters in Florida to complete our application, but it proved difficult to gather people in a state where we had few close contacts.

Indiana
This was a lesson for the campaign! The only reason we did not qualify in Indiana is because our paperwork was lost in the mail, and the deadline passed before we could re-send everything. After this experience, we have sent everything more securely, with delivery and signature confirmation.

Kentucky
Here we still could qualify, with the help of 8 registered voters in Kentucky willing to be electors, by October 24th. Again, as in most cases where we did not qualify, we have not been able to contact anyone in Kentucky who would be willing to lend their name to this purpose. All we would need are the names and a $50 filing fee.

Maine
Here we still could qualify, with the help of 4 registered voters, by October 30th. We have actually contacted several people willing to help us in Maine, but the combination of how close the deadline is, and how many hoops the individual electors have to go through has probably put Maine out of reach. Maine is one of a number of states that require that a number of the electors must come from different congressional districts in the state. In Maine, 1 elector must be from the 1st Congressional District, 1 must be from the 2nd Congressional District, and 2 can be “at-large”. This is the first hoop. Then, each elector must not only fill out and get a form notarized, but they must take this same form to their local registrar of voters and have their registration officially verified.

Massachusetts
Here we were not able to make contact with anyone who would have been willing to be an elector for Frank, let alone go through the prohibitive number of hoops required to qualify here. Even if Frank were a resident of Massachusetts, this process would be difficult. Not only did we need to get the names, addresses and signatures of 12 registered Mass. voters on one form, but then 12 Elector Registration Certificates (1 for each of the 12 presidential electors) had to be physically taken in by each elector to their local voter registrar’s office to be signed or stamped by the voter registrar certifying that the elector is a registered voter.

Michigan
We were very close in Michigan; we just ran out of time. A friend in Michigan was able to get us 8 registered voters’ names and addresses who were willing to be electors. We needed only 9 more to complete the paperwork for Michigan, but ran up on the early September deadline.

Missouri
We still could qualify in Missouri (we have until October 24th) but we have not been able to make any contacts in Missouri, and the process is prohibitive. The presidential and vice-presidential candidate’s forms have to be accompanied by 11 notarized “Declaration of Candidacy” forms for each of the Missouri electors. 9 of the electors must come one from each of Missouri’s 9 congressional districts, and 2 can be “at large”. Even if Frank lived in Missouri, this could be difficult to achieve.

North Carolina
North Carolina is the most difficult state to qualify as a write-in candidate for President. You have to collect 500 signatures of registered voters, separated by county, deliver these signatures to the respective county boards of elections for verification (if they were collected from different counties), and then deliver the verified signatures to the State Board of Elections in Raleigh. So Frank took it on! A friend in Wilmington, N.C. was able to get a little over 300 signatures before the deadline passed. This is a prohibitive process, and would have been completely unthinkable for us were it not for the enthusiasm of a local N.C. friend.

North Dakota
Here we were not able to make contact with any residents. We needed only 3 registered voters in North Dakota to serve as presidential electors. Each of them would have had to fill out a form and have it notarized and then send it to us.

Ohio
We had support in Ohio, but were not able to get the 20 registered voters needed to serve as presidential electors for Frank. We needed names and addresses only, so this was not the issue. The challenge here, as in many states, was making the local contacts, and finding willing people. In Ohio, we could probably have done it with more time. We had 5 electors before the deadline came up at the beginning of September.

Tennessee
Tennessee, like Missouri, Maine, Arizona and Virginia, is prohibitive for the write-in presidential candidate because they require electors to be from different congressional districts in the state. In the case of Tennessee, we needed a list of 11 electors pledged to the candidate. The list had to include electors’ names and addresses. 9 of the electors have to be one from each of Tennessee’s 9 congressional districts, and 2 could have been “at large”. The filing window for this information was between August 22 – September 15. We actually had several supporters contact Frank from Tennessee, but the above requirement was too challenging. The TN elections office actually suggested that for a Tennessee resident, it might actually be more worthwhile to get on the ballot as a presidential candidate then to try and qualify as a write-in candidate. To get on the ballot, you need to get 275 signatures, from anywhere in Tennessee. For us, either option was out of the realm of possibility.

Texas
Texas requires the presidential write-in candidate to deliver forms for 34 registered voters serving as presidential electors. So we needed people! We were not able to make enough contacts in Texas to make this possible. They make this part of it fairly easy by making the form available to be filled out online and printed out. If we had been able to get the people, there was no notarization involved, so they would have just needed to fill out a form, sign it and send it to us. The impediment was getting in contact with Texas people and getting the word out in Texas.

Virginia
Here too our impediment was in reaching people in this state, and the prohibitive nature of the write-in candidate requirements. We did not have any contacts in Virginia. But again, even with a few contacts in Virginia, the process was prohibitive as it required a form listing the names of 13 Presidential Electors. 11 of the electors had to be one from each of the 11 Congressional Districts in Virginia. The other two could have been “at large”. Again, even if Frank were in Virginia, this could have been a challenge.

a neat letter and my reply