Support a Ron Paul Delegate!

My name is Brian Dougherty, I support Ron Paul, and I was elected to serve as a delegate to the Republican National Convention for Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District.  I am also an elected member of the Penn Twp. Republican Committee and am committed to furthering Ron Paul's liberty revolution in the Republican Party--we are the future!  Currently I work as a full time waiter and an off-and-on student, making it difficult to fund the high cost involved in attending the convention.  Please consider contributing $10 or $20 to my chip-in to defray the registration, travel, and hotel costs.  (Registration: $400, Mandatory Delegation Hotel: $1400)  Keep checking back to this blog for information about fundraising events.

My goals at the convention:

For the Presidential Nominee: I intend to vote for Ron Paul and to convince my fellow unbound Pennsylvania Delegates to do the same, or to at least vote for the non-Romney candidate that they originally supported on the first ballot in order to force a brokered convention.

For the Vice-Presidency: I'd like to see someone like Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Peter Schiff, or Judge Andrew Napolitano.  I will work with other delegates to oppose any potential vice presidential running mate chosen by a nominee that is not a true conservative and does not support the cause of liberty.

For the Platform: Regardless of the outcome of our battle for the nomination, we must ensure that Ron Paul's 2012 campaign has a lasting effect on the Republican Party, making it truly the party of Liberty--both civil and economic.  To that end, the influence that liberty-minded Ron Paul delegates can have on the platform, even if it is mainly symbolic, will help us in the continuing fight for the heart and soul of the party as well as assisting Republican liberty candidates in being nominated and elected in the future.  (For instance, Evan Feinberg, who recently lost his bid to unseat Tim Murphy. Solidifying our positions in the national platform will help pave the way for great liberty-advocating conservatives like Evan to have a solid future in the party.)

The main planks I would like to see included are not going to war without a congressional declaration of war, repealing the patriot act, increasing transparency in the federal reserve and supporting competing currency legislation to make monetary policy competitive, supporting phasing out the federal reserve system and returning monetary policy to the direct supervision of the congress, balancing the budget, and phasing out the federal income tax.