OK I am going to address the NFOA-PAF issues/questions, I am trying to figure out what I or any of the other PAF principals should have done. I remember thanking people that night verbally at the event, there was thank you postings made on the web as well. I know I tried to speak to as many of the 200+ people that were in attendance as possible. I know Rod and Susan also spoke with lots of people and as the auction was ending they became very busy processing gun sales or just collecting for auction items, I did not witness them but beings they are generally polite and appreciative people I would have guessed they would have said thank you at some point of the conversation.
It has been mentioned that we possibly should have sent out thank you cards, to which people? To those that bought something at the auction? To anyone that purchased tickets? Where does that end? This event after paying for the venue, food, the auction items and other miscellaneous expenses netted about $300 for the PAF to put toward candidate support. How much of that should we have spent sending out thank you cards?
That was not a lot of money raised, looking back we could have done a few things different and probably turned out as good or slightly better on the finances, but it was still a successful event. For the first time ever we got 200 people together, look at the history of the NFOA and we are normally doing good if we hit 50, and we got lots of notice from politicians, Senator Fischer contacted us and wanted to take part, Governor, Senate and legislature candidates ect. were all wanting to meet with the members here that attended. That was even bigger than expected.
I have been giving my time, and lots of it as a volunteer trying to get things done for our rights. That includes spending close to 100 hours of the time I could have been spending with my family putting that banquet together. I have been asked if we are going to do another but with the feedback here I don't know. I have been working very hard at trying to find a way to rebuild the PAF (the rest of the principals all left this spring) and was looking at taking over more of the responsibilities myself (there are legal requirements that must consistently be met) to get it going so it can make endorsements and fundraise and offer support before the general election. Is that wanted? Is there support around here for it?
I am a volunteer, giving my time and my very limited funds to try to do things the best I can.
