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Monthly Archives: September 2012

parliamentary pondering; middle class blues; hunger, drugs and bullets

Vote for Joe Posted on September 26, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont…  Stopped at the Spring Street Coffee House in St. Marys, Ohio.  Owner Roger Beckett said he was a “moderate” when it came to politics.  That is, he said he was basically a realist who believed … Continue reading →

foreclosures; house sharing; one giant leap… forward?

Vote for Joe Posted on September 24, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

Buckeye Back Road Tours cont…  In Wapakoneta, Ohio, I talked with a real estate appraiser who works in about a 100-mile radius around here.  He said in the aftermath of the housing bubble bursting, there is still a significant number … Continue reading →

“official footballs”; ‘buried in the air’; time-limited stimulus; words to die by; ‘waxing’ political; obesity epidemic

Vote for Joe Posted on September 21, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

I stopped at Ada, Ohio, (pop. 6,052), home of the Wilson Football Factory.  They make the “official” NFL footballs here…  While in downtown Ada, I met a woman whose husband had had a fatal heart attack during the middle of … Continue reading →

we’re all ‘sea creatures’

Vote for Joe Posted on September 19, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

I headed onto Ohio’s back roads for yet more stumping (and learning)…  My first stop was at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, where I sat in on a lecture by Sylvia Earle, and internationally known oceanographer.  Ms. Earle was … Continue reading →

Ohio stumping; Tanzania atrocity; an extremist?; dark culture; colliding cross currents…

Vote for Joe Posted on September 17, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

Some more vignettes from our recent Buckeye Back Roads Tour:  In Beaverdam, Ohio (Well, if you don’t carry Beaverdam, you’re not going to carry the country.), I put up a campaign flier at the local market.  Then at Benroth Body … Continue reading →

lower middle class; “Jane”; tour bus; McDonald’s stumping; wobbling during the DNC

Vote for Joe Posted on September 8, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

In the last couple weeks, the Repulicans and Democrats at their National Conventions have been tripping all over themselves in speeches talking about their “humble” middle class, or lower, beginnings.  Meanwhile our family, and the campaign in general, live right smack dab … Continue reading →

1950s time warp; Shazaam!; a world away…; Community Oriented Policing

Vote for Joe Posted on September 4, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

Yet more Buckeye Back Road stumping…  In Van Wert, Ohio, we stopped at old Bailey’s Restaurant downtown to put up a campaign flier.  While having coffee there, I looked up to see a man who appeared to be in his … Continue reading →

Joe the Painter; ‘About Time’; a degenerative disc; ‘…the answer is blowing in the wind.’

Vote for Joe Posted on September 1, 2012 by Joe SchrinerJanuary 16, 2013

More from our “Buckeye Back Roads” stumping…  In Cavett, Ohio (pop. a cluster of 10 houses), a guy with a paint brush in hand and paint stains on his jeans was standing in a doorway.  I approached, smiled and said:  “As … Continue reading →

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