Dan Forest to present ReVision: NC to the Stanly County Millenium Republican Club by Dan Forest

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:33:24 -0400

Dan will speak to the Stanly Republican Millenium Club on Thursday night, May 17. The meeting begins at 6:00 pm with dinner, and the program begins at 7:00 pm.

The meeting will be at Jay's Downtowner Restaurant, 1230 E. Main Street, in Albemarle.

For more information, call Hal Weatherman at 980.395.5184 or email Hal@DanForest.com.

Thank you by Dan Forest

Sat, 12 May 2012 14:10:00 -0400

Friends,

While it is impossible to appropriately say "Thank You" in a blog post, I will give it a shot.
Thank you to the countless volunteers who have sacrificed countless hours for this campaign!
Thank you to the many people who sacrificed financially to this campaign.
Thank you to the 100's of faithful poll workers who made the final hours of the campaign as strong as the first hours.
Thank you to my friends who have been praying for us for months.
Thank you to all the supporters of our campaign who encouraged us along the way and showed their trust by voting for us yesterday.
Thank you to my campaign manager, Hal Weatherman, who is a brilliant strategist and great friend.
Thank you to my kids who have sacrificed their time with dad for the past year.
Thank you to my beautiful wife and best friend for standing by me every minute of every day - I could not and would not do this without her.
And of course, Thanks to God for the strength to keep going day after day.

I am so proud and honored to be associated with each one of you, and pleased to call you friends. Keep the faith, keep working for freedom and truth and keep running the race.

Thank You,

Dan

RNC Chair Reince Priebus visits North Carolina to open Victory Center by Dan Forest

Tue, 08 May 2012 01:18:26 -0400

Get Out and Vote! by Dan Forest

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:56:35 -0400

Dear Friends,

Tomorrow is Election Day. We have been campaigning for over a year now, so I can't help but feel a little nostalgic today as the campaign comes to the close of the primary season. So allow me please to recap all we have done and what needs to be done going into tomorrow.

First, thank you.

Thanks to everyone of you for your prayers, your work, your financial support and your selfless sacrifice of your time and energy on my behalf. I am so humbled by your support and honored that you would believe in me to the degree that you have in this campaign.

I remember when we started this campaign over a year ago. We had no name identification, no database, no money, no game plan, etc. The established political order gave us no chance. But an interesting thing happened, slowly but surely our campaign team came together and we started the process of building an old fashioned grass-roots oriented campaign. We hit the road early and started meeting the people and learning the issues. We started building a database and starting building a base from scratch. We sought financial assistance from our supporters and they met every need. And success followed.

Straw Polls:
We won 13 straw polls held throughout the campaign. While these cannot be overstated, each victory helped build momentum and credibility to our campaign at crucial junctions. Each victory showed what we were seeing on our travels throughout the state, the nucleus of a strong grass roots oriented movement that we could mobilize on election day.

RV Tour: The RV tour has been a huge success, enabling us to travel to over 45 counties over the last 35 days of the campaign. We have heard over and over during this campaign that the voters are tired of being taken for granted. We wanted to show them that we cared enough to take our message to them and do so on their turf. Many thanks to all of you in the field who made this tour so special. Great memories, great friends and a solid foundation laid for the closing days of this campaign.

Endorsements:
We have been overwhelmed by the support that has come our way in this campaign. Following are just a few of the individuals and groups that are supporting us as we approach election day:

iCaucus -

Asheville Tea PAC, Buncombe County

Blue Ridge Tea Party Patriots, Henderson, Polk, Transylvania Counties

Caldwell Tea Party, Caldwell County

CAUTION (Common Americans Uniting to Inspire Our Nation), Charlotte

Cherokee 9.12, Cherokee County

Haywood 9.12, Haywood County

Polk 9.12, Polk County

Sons of Liberty, Buncombe, Henderson Counties

Congressman Patrick McHenry

Former Catawba County Sheriff David Huffman
Congresswoman Sue Myrick

Avery County Sheriff Kevin Frye
Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid

Conservatives 4 Guilford County

Stand UP NC - Iredell

Cabarrus County Conservatives

Crystal Coast Tea Party Patriots - Carteret

Cherokee 9/12

Caldwell Republican Club

Dr. Dan Eichenbaum

Radio host Jeremiah Farmer

All three former Santorum for President NC Grassroots Coordinators

Steve Forbes
Former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot
Ed McMahan, former Vice Chairman of Little Diversified Architecture Consulting, Inc.
Phil Kuttner, CEO of Little Diversified Architecture Consulting, Inc.
Tom Smith, Director of Speedway Motor Sports
Ivan Hinricks, former Principal of HF Financial
Tim Flanagan, Principal of HF Financial
Curtis Elliott, Partner of Culp, Elliott and Carpenter PLLC
Dave Longo. President and CEO of Carolina Business Interiors
Chris Stone, CEO of Stone Agency

Herman Stone, President of Consolidated Theatres
Frank Blanchfield, Partner, Mayer Brown

Former State GOP Chairman Bill Cobey

Former State GOP Chairman Linda Daves

Former State Rep. Wil Neumann

State Rep. John Torbett
Former Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph
Former Deputy Director of the FBI, Chris Swecker

To name but a few.

Fundraising:
We have raised well over $330,000 to date in this race. Most all of it came from individuals, not Political Action Committees. This is unheard of financial support for a first time candidate running for statewide office. We said early on that we would run the race within the limits of what we raise from the people. As such, we did not lend the campaign any personal money. In comparison, two of our main opponents loaned themselves over $200,000 each respectively and the other main opponent financed the bulk of his campaign through a third party "Super Pac". We are proud of the financial support we have received and again it is a mark of a true grassroots campaign.

Recent Polls and Working the Polls:
Over the last week and a half, five polls have been released by various media organizations. We lead in two, are in second in two and in a close third in one. Either way, all the polls are saying the same thing, that we are in a statistical dead heat for the lead in this race, with the race probably headed into a run off scenario. As we have been saying for months, this race will go down to hundreds of votes between the winners and losers. We must trust the work we have done over the last year and finish strong. What can you do? Work the polls. Spend today recruiting people to work the polls tomorrow. The latest poll still shows 31% of the voters as undecided. Most people will go to the polls tomorrow not knowing for whom to vote for Lt. Governor. The poll worker you recruit will make a difference. Recruit poll workers! We have hundreds of people lined up around the state to help. Add to their numbers and less win this thing!

Thanks again for all your efforts! One more day! Go vote! And give us one more day of hard work!

Photos from the 2nd District Convention by Dan Forest

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:11:59 -0400

With Statewide Homeschol Coordinator for the Dan Forest Campaign, Carmen Ledford

With Cathy Wright

With Joan Thurmond of the Moore Republican Women

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Thank you by Dan Forest

RNC Chair Reince Priebus visits North Carolina to open Victory Center by Dan Forest

Get Out and Vote! by Dan Forest

Photos from the 2nd District Convention by Dan Forest