Dear grassroots Ron Paul supporters:

It has come to my attention that the Maine State Republican party is being flooded with calls from around the country, complaining about the results of the presidential preference poll conducted at the caucuses held around Maine last weekend. I am asking all of you to PLEASE STOP these calls and e-mails. They are hurting the Maine Ron Paul campaign and are mostly without merit.

Here are the important facts that you need to know:

· We have independently verified that Ron Paul came in a close third in the Presidential preference poll with about 18% of the vote. There is no significant discrepancy between the numbers reported by the Maine GOP and those reported by our precinct leaders.

· Nobody is sitting on any results. The reason that only 70% of precincts are reporting is that the law allows each municipality to schedule its own caucus up until March 20th of every even numbered year. Those municipalities that have not reported have not caucused yet, and might not do so at all. Since all of the big cities and towns have already caucused, the 30% that have not represent less than 10% of the potential vote.

· Ron Paul did very well in Maine, and our campaign has been treated very fairly by the Republican establishment in Maine. Ron Paul’s vote total in the preference poll was the highest we have seen in any caucus or primary so far. We also picked up many delegates. We estimate that we came in well above John McCain in the delegate count.

Please stop calling and e-mailing the Maine Republican Party. The Maine GOP has a small number of staff and they have been very fair with us. We need to maintain good relations with the party staff and leadership going into the State convention on May 2nd if we want to have a chance to elect Ron Paul delegates to the national Republican convention. Rude and disrespectful calls from Paul supporters are a reflection on the Paul campaign and they damage our chance to build on the hard work we did in Maine to win delegates at the caucuses.

Yours Sincerely,

Ken Lindell
Maine Coordinator
Ron Paul 2008 PCC