Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Talked with Phil Zeber, owner of the Rock Creek Country Store in Rock Creek, Ohio. He’s had the store for almost three years, but can’t get a bank loan because he’s just barely breaking even, … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Did a series of whistle-stops along Lake Erie in the Northeastern part of Ohio. In Conneaut, I was on WWOW’s Louie Free Show. In talking about the environment, Mr. Free said that by letting what … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Did a whistle-stop tour down Rte. 224 through the interior of Ohio yesterday, stopping in Nova, Sullivan, Lodi, Willard… At the end of Mass at a church in Willard, the parisioners (as they do every … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. *Note: WE NEED DONATIONS TO KEEP GOING RIGHT NOW! IF YOU CAN HELP, PLEASE CONSIDER IT. THANKS. (Schriner Election Committee, P.O. Box 15, Bluffton, Ohio 45817). Yesterday was just a great “backroads of Ohio” day … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. I headed south to Wapokeneta, Ohio (hometown of astronaut Neil (“One small step for man…”) Armstrong. I called the editor of the Wapokeneta newspaper when we got to our whistle-stop location downtown and said we … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Did a circle tour of Grand Lake St. Mary, the largest inland lake in Ohio. We appeared on the front pages of St. Mary’s and Celinas newspapers, then headed to Coldwater where I stumped with … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz rolls on… The Springfield, Ohio News Sun did a big feature spread on the campaign yesterday and noted I had a map of Ohio pinned to a wall in the van dotted with circles of “cities, … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. In Springfield, Ohio this morning I talked with John Polley, 18, a used tire shop manager. He walked with a limp and said his knee “was hurting bad from lifting sem-tires.” But he had no … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Gave a talk at a “Farm Festival” on Sunday at Dan and Nancy Kramer’s organic farm in Yorkshire, Ohio. I said one of the first things I’d do at the White House was tear out … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. The whirlwind tour continues to roll on down Ohio’s backroads with stops in the last two days in Wauseon, West Unity, Bryan, Ney, Sherwood, Deshler, North Baltimore… While passing out literature at a Farmer’s Market … Continue reading →