Matching funds for pro-gun billboards from JPFO!

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ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

March 27, 2000

JPFO Wants to Give You Money -- Will You Take It??


Do you want to put the gun prohibitionists on the defensive?

Do you want to make the media froth at the mouth?

Do you want the public to reject victim disarmament?

Do you want to do these three things, and have the government
to actually help "pay" for them?

You can do it in YOUR CITY with our new matching funds program.
A highly patriotic JPFO member has made money available to help
pay for billboards featuring eye-catching JPFO artwork. You or
your local group can really make a difference ... at half the
cost!

Why Billboards?

Billboards can be the most cost-effective way to win hearts and
minds. Why? Because one picture can say a thousand words in just
a few seconds -- and the image goes directly into the brain --
hundreds and thousands of times per day. Pictures generate
emotional understanding like no other communication tool. He
who wins hearts and minds, wins the battle of ideas!

If the public develops a negative reaction to "gun control"
schemes, then the politicians will notice. Billboards can
quickly and effectively cause people to distrust and eventually
ridicule "gun control" rhetoric -- and that is exactly what we
need.

How Matching Funds Double Your Money

Here is the deal:

Committed supporters of freedom raise 50% of the cost of a
billboard, and send that to the JPFO matching funds program.
That money counts as a donation to JPFO, and is tax-deductible
for the donors. (JPFO is a 501c(3) tax-exempt educational
organization.)

JPFO will add in the other 50% of the cost, and then commission
the billboard.

Typical billboards are "30-sheet" style about 11 feet by 22 feet.
Depending upon location, they usually cost between $1,100 and
$1,500 for one month display rental. Compare that cost with a
full-page advertisement in a newspaper that can cost thousands
of dollars for just one day ... and forgotten the next day.

Have JPFO Billboards Succeeded Before?

Billboards really work. JPFO has successfully used billboards
before to raise public awareness of the issues. For example,
JPFO ran the blockbusting billboard that shows the monster
Adolf Hitler giving the Nazi salute and saying "All in favor
of 'gun control' raise your right hand." The billboard grabbed
attention worldwide because the Associated Press carried a story
about it. Even German and Israeli magazines noticed it.

The "Gun Control is Racist" billboards posted in Milwaukee's
inner city drew a strong media and public reaction -- and might
have helped convince citizens to support a Second Amendment-type
provision to be added to the state constitution. That provision
was approved by 73% of voters statewide.

JPFO urged pro-freedom activists in Missouri to use our approach
in the predominantly African-American section of St. Louis during
a referendum on concealed carry. Unfortunately, those activists
rejected our suggestion, and then spent hundreds of thousands
of dollars ... and lost.

By-pass the Media and Save Our Rights

We face the most serious national challenge to the right to keep
and bear arms that has ever appeared. The anti-self defense and
victim disarmament lobby is doing everything possible to destroy
our rights, and they have powerful mainstream media support.
You can make a huge impact to fight their effort if you take
advantage of this marvelous opportunity to DOUBLE the effect of
your pro-gun dollars.

The billboard matching fund program is easy, and it's the most
powerful way for you to fight back. Billboards by-pass the
mainstream media. Billboards speak the message all day long,
without being interrupted or cut off or censored by news
manipulators. You just can't get a better deal to influence
public opinion.

Matching Fund Program: It's Easy!

Here's all you do. By e-mail or fax, provide JPFO with:

Your name and telephone number.

The name and size of the city where you want to post the
billboard.

The location where you want to the billboard to appear.
Please provide either a street address or cross-streets
so we can find it on a map.

The company name and phone number for the billboard you
want to use. Usually the company name is featured at the
bottom of the billboard; the phone number will probably be
listed locally or as an 800 number.

How much money you think you can raise -- must be at least
50% of the billboard rental cost.

The name of a local group who might assist in fund raising.

The name of a local group or person who can be the contact
for local media.

JPFO will help you choose the best billboard graphic, and then
make it happen!

Limited Time Opportunity -- Call Now!

Please contact me at JPFO today. Even if you have only some of
the needed information, but want to pursue the program, call me
with what you have.

The matching funds won't last forever, so it is first come,
first served. To maximize the effect of the billboard campaign
and to get the best advertising value, JPFO reserves the right
to make the final decision about whether to provide the matching
funds in any given situation. JPFO will let you know its
decision before you send in the money, of course!

This matching funds opportunity may be here but a short time.
Let me hear from you as soon as possible. There is too much at
stake to delay even a day.

Yours in liberty,
Aaron Zelman

Phone: 262-673-9745
Fax: 262-673-9746

P.S.: If you're excited about the program but cannot get all
the resources and information together, you can still help.
You can send your private contribution to the matching funds
program -- just note "matching funds" on the check or when you
call with a credit card -- and JPFO will use that money to post
billboards in key cities. You still get the tax deduction --
and the money is DOUBLED! Now is the time to act, and your help
will really make a difference ... guaranteed!

See the billboard:

We also have a t-shirt: http://www.jpfo.org/triggerlocks.htm

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Phone: 262-673-9745
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Joe's Second Amendment Message Board
 
It strikes me that this would be an outstanding thing to do here in Charlotte, NC, in time for the NRA annual meeting in May. Any other North Carolinians want to pitch in? Contact me via e-mail and let's talk. (davidr6@ix.netcom.com) If we just need half of $1,500, surely we can raise the money.

I will contact JPFO today to begin inquiries.
 
nralife -

Thanks for posting this.

I called Mr. Zelman today and left a message offering my city, Des Moines, as a location for at least one billboard. The funds are already on hand. I'll repost as we progress.

What a mitzvah for the patriot who made this project possible.

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Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...

Vote for the Neal Knox 13

[This message has been edited by Slowpoke_Rodrigo (edited March 28, 2000).]
 
Mr. Zelman just returned my call; he tentatively OKed a billboard here.

I will start scouting locations this afternoon.

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Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...

Vote for the Neal Knox 13
 
Is there a way for us to start pooling the money from members of this board to put up billboards in major cities accross the country?

Los Angeles
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Atlanta
San Francisco
 
Dave and other central NC folks (ar anyone else inclined to pitch in)

I was just thinking the same thing - only RTP area was the first on my mind (until I saw your post). I seem to see a number of others from the area are active posters here (I lurk a lot more than post). In our collective area would be a good thing now for severl reasons. One of the good ones being the big attention that the MMM has gotten (at least in the triangle). I posted somewhere here, that after mmm being on the news, local paper prominant article, etc... I went to Church last Sunday and there was a flier re 3m in there!!!! I'm seriously considering joining their party for the bus ride to DC on Mother's day...

Back on topic: I could put in a couple hundred bucks or so personally, am known at least in face (and by 4473..) in several of the local gun shops, and am a member of several local gun clubs whose members might pitch in here or there. If there are a few of us willing, we might be able to capture a roving spot with one of the local bb advertising placement agencies, or pull a local one in one place or the other. I think the cost estimates in the post above are likely a little on the low side, but the most recent billboard advertising I had close contact with was in Wilmington....

The 40 / 85 or 40 rtp corridor is VERY well traveled.....

What about it guys, anyone else able to raise some funds to do this? If enough would be in, that could really drive enough cash to make some impact, I would likely be willing and able to pitch in as well.

Let me know,
Tim

[This message has been edited by TJ2 (edited March 29, 2000).]
 
TJ@ and others from the Carolinas:

I have spoken this morning with Aaron Zelman of JPFO, and he has given us the green light to raise funds for "2 or 3" billboards in Charlotte. If the estimates he has given for billboard prices are correct, that means we will need to raise $1500-2250. I am investigating today the precise cost and availability of billboards and am trying to get this effort underway as soon as possible. I would dearly love to be able to have bilboards up in time for the NRA convention here in May, but whether we can meet that timetable or not, I am determined that we get these billboards up.

For those of you who know Charlotte, my goal is to get at least one on the Brookshire Freeway that loops around downtown.

If you are interested in contributing to this effort, please contact me directly at davidr6@ix.netcom.com.
 
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