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9/21/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 21, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 21, 2004

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 health insurance and was hesitant to get his knee checked. I told a Springfield newspaper reporter later this morning that in Grand Junction, Colorado we researched a hospital run by doctors, nurses, town people doing intakes, janitorial work, and so on… all on a volunteer basis — so people like John could get help. (It’s called the Marrilac Clinic.) Dayton’s Channel 7 News also arrived just as someone was scolding me about parking in a handicapped spot (by mistake). And you think Bush and Kerry are experiencing public relations problems… Springfield’s Paul Campbell thinks the country isn’t so much experiencing PR problems, as it is “business problems.” That is, he said, “if you had a business that was in as much debt as the U.S. Government, well…,” he threw up his hands. I then headed to South Vienna, Ohio where a guy on the street said to me: “Bravo! Fighting the big boys!” I then went to W. Jefferson where Michael Tyree, who owns a small flooring business, said he gets disconcerted at times with local people driving 40 miles round trip to Columbus to look for cheaper prices at Lowe’s. What people don’t factor into those low prices is: gas money, time wasted (that could be spent on family, community) and added pollution to the atmosphere. It was then onto Mechanicsburg, Ohio where I put up a flyer in the window of a Christian bookstore called: Heavenly Touch. And we’re hoping the campaign gets a ‘heavenly touch’ (read: loaves and fishes story) soon. But in the interum, I then drove to Urbana, Ohio where I was interviewed for the better part of an hour by a reporter there. I then went into the New Family Table Restaurant where I stumped with the customers and passed out flyers. In addition, I interviewed owner Brian Waller who said his employees consist of: his wife, step son, mother-in-law, neice… In working together, Brian said it has brought them closer together as a family — just like he used to feel with his brothers and sisters growing up on a small family farm in western Illinois. Note: In a recent Guest Column in The Advocate (Newark, Ohio), Kathleen Pipes wrote: “this year I will write in a candidate of my cholde, Mr. average Joe Schriner. And I urge you to do the same. I am voting to make a statement: “We want to take back our country.”‘

9/20/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 20, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 20, 2004

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 some of the front lawn and “put in an organic garden.” I said studies show farm chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, and the like) are creating chemical cocktails in people that are causing cancer, and other disease. I recently told Farm News Today that our agriculture platform would call for a dramatic shift back to the small family farm and things being grown naturally. In Mr. Kramer’s talk, he said national grocery chains are opening the door to mega farms and cruel treatment of animals (chickens, cattle…) on mass confinement farms. Mr. Kramer is an evangalist for the humane treatment of animals and the organic, small farm. And he has developed quite a model at his place… From Yorkshire I headed to Sidney, Ohio where I passed out literature downtown in front of the Spot Restaurant “The spot to be,” the sign says. (Not having an advance team, I took the restaurant’s word.) And it was. Afterward inside, I was greeted with a picture of President Bush waving in front of the restaurant, having gotten out of his tour bus for a moment. Close to the picture was a sign that said: George W. Bush Burger: $2.95. I asked the manager if I could hang a flyer on the bulletin board, and she said yes. But when I asked if they’d name, like, a toasted cheese sandwhich after me, well… Undaunted, I then headed to Tipp City, Ohio where I talked with Everett Hall, 64. He drives about town in a “road ready” golf cart, complete with a canvass shell and mini heater. He said he spends, at most, about $5 a month extra on electric. Later, I talked with Rick Sapolek in Huber Heights, Ohio. Sapolek’s company reconditions old golf carts and sells them for street use. He said the market would be better if towns added charging stations to, say, parking meters and created more room on the streets, and trails, for these. Our administration would push for more of this type of slower transportation (and slower speed limits)to make the roads safer for children and to cut down on pollution from burning fossil fuels.

9/18/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 18, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 18, 2004

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 in Bryan, I talked with two organic farmers who shun modern pesticides and herbicides because of their toxic affects. “Average Joe” platform point: “If we want to end cancer, we have to stop using things that cause cancer.” I then told the Bryan Times that I was running on a platform to: end pollution, make the country safe for children, and simplify the Federal Government. At John Weber’s Restaurant (their slogan: “Good Food, Mediocre Service”) in Wauseon, I sat in on a board meeting of the local Fellowship of Christian Athletes. FCA’s Rex Stump said there were 86,400 seconds in a day, and his goal is to get his athletes making the most of each moment, not just for their sports’ endeavors, but more importantly, for God. (One of the board members said he’d seen a Fox News piece about me the night before.) At Marty’s Restaurant in Ney, Ohio, owner (Who else?) Marty told me his plan for curbing unemployment would be to improve health care, for everyone. That is, he said if more seniors had affordable health care, they could retire earlier (and spend more time, say, with community service.) As they retired, it would open the door for more jobs. Made sense. Note: Tomorrow I talk at a Farm Festival in Yorkshire, Ohio.

9/16/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 16, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 16, 2004

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. I stumped with a group of regulars at the Lamplight Restaurant in Perrysville, Ohio early yesterday morning. One man had been to China recently on business and said he had been impressed with the beginnings of company privatization there, because it was moving at least a segment of the population away from dependency on government. Later in the morning, I told the Perrysburg newspaper that one our administration’s main priorities would be ending world hunger (24,000 people starve to death worldwide every day). I then went to Whitehouse, Ohio (pop. 1,000), and told a Fox News reporter that this might be “the closest we get to the ‘White House’ this Election.” Also while in Whitehouse, I got in a round table discussion at the Chickaroo Restaurant with a few of the town’s old timers and a reporter from the local newspaper. Topics ranged from taxes, to the war in Iraq, to inflated housing costs… Jim Strain, 83, told me he bought a two-bedroom ranch style home in Whitehouse for $850 in 1951. It just sold last year for: $92,000. Everybody at the table said: “Wow!” I then went up the street to meet with Whitehouse’s informal local “historian,” Darryl Bauman. Bauman, 68, said when he was a kid here movies (black & white) were a dime, the downtown was filled with all kinds of Mom & Pop shops, and Saturday nights everybody was in the downtown shopping, socializing and listening to music wafting down from the open windows of a second story dance hall. I then ‘danced’ (sorry) north to Swanton, Ohio. Enroute, Fox News called and said they were sending out a reporter and another camera man for some more footage because they had decided to make the story a feature “package” and send it to their national headquarters in New York. In Swanton, the news crew got there in time to see me slowly drive through town in the “average Joe” mobile, $3 garage sale bull horn in hand. I stopped at one point and called out to a guy cutting his grass that if I became president: “I’ll get you a union and you won’t have to do that anymore!” He laughed. I then went door-to-door on a street in Swanton and ended up in a lengthy conversation with a resident about Swanton’s school system, which is facing a looming teacher’s strike because of levy failures and pay freezes. Ironically, I was told a new high school was built not too long ago here, while an old high school, which had been totally refurbished not seven years prior — was now sitting empty. Late this evening, I drove into Delta, Ohio where I passed out some more literature and hung a flyer and a button up at the Community Market here. I had told the Fox News reporter earlier that when you don’t have the millions for advertising, flyers in small town groceries seem the way to go. (And again, we’re doing this all without paid consultants.)

9/15/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 15, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 15, 2004

Average Joe Buckey Blitz cont. The Ohio whirlwind tour rolls on… And I rolled into Haskins, Ohio (pop. 1,000) yesterday. Entering the village limits, the first thing you see is a Ohio Bicentennial sign saying Haskins is the “Birthplace of Earl W. North, an American impressionist painter.” I couldn’t help but think how refreshing it would be to someday see a sign that read: “Haskins: Birthplace of Ernie Schwartz, father, good worker and Kawanis member. I then posted “average Joe” flyers at Or’s Sunoco and the Pear Tree Hair Salon, right in the heart of the Haskins downtown. The owner, Jennifer, said she admired what I was doing and one of the customers asked for a button to give to her husband “…who is actually thinking about running for president himself in 10 years.” I gave her the button reluctantly, and smiled that current polls were indicating that I’d probably still be running in 10 years as well– “and I’m trying to discourage competition.” From Haskins, I traveled north to Waterville where I met with Chowder’s N Moor Restuarant owner, and “conservative independent,” Tom Kuran. Kuran talked about politics, and America in general, with a passion. Also, without telling him anything about my Haskins sign idea, he said he and his wife were recently watching a TV episode showing singer Britney Spears putting her hand prints in concrete on Hollywood Blvd. Kuran riled at this, saying: “Once, just once, I’d like to see an average American’s hand prints there (Hollywood Blvd.)!” I had interviewed Tom for our book Back Road to the White House 2, and afterward he gave me a campaign donation: a bowl of their “famous,” and rather unique, White Chicken Chili. And after only a couple spoonfulls — I knew who is going to cater the Inauguration.

9/14/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 14, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 14, 2004

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Liz and I sorted through more state election forms back in Bluffton, our hometown, yesterday. I then headed to Bowling Green, Ohio, for a talk to the Knights of Columbus there. I commended the group for their efforts with the youth of St. Aloysius Parish. The current projects include: a $500 repair job to the basketball back boards in the playground; support for a parish Boy Scout Troop; yearly work with the Special Olympics… And while I lauded their efforts, I did shoot from the hip on another issue. I found out last night that President Bush had addressed the National Assembly of Knights of Columbus in the last year, and when he recently came by Bowling Green on I-75 here, this chapter’s Grand Knight, Steve Wenner, went to the highway exit and waved to the Bush motorcade. Acknowledging all that, I admonished: “Yet when I came off of the exit tonight, I didn’t notice anyone out there waving to me!” They laughed. And I laughed too, sort of.

9/13/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 13, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 13, 2004

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. In Peebles, Ohio, our ‘almost First Lady,’ Liz, met with Joanne Brockhoeft. Mrs. Brockhoeft home schools her children with a quite innovative, international curriculum that exposes them to a variety of customs and cultures they might not otherwise hear about. In addition, Mrs. Brockhoeft regularly reads her children newspaper articles about contemporary affairs in other countries. On a Fox News morning show in Cleveland, I said my administration would push for a U.S. Department of Peace — with inititiatives like Mrs. Brockhoeft’s being considered in each of our homes.

We then took the Brockhoeft and Schriner children for a hike on a nearby section of the American Discovery Trail, which is the only coast-to-coast hiking trail in the country. (We would have done the whole trail, but, well… not enough potty stop locations.) From Peebles, we traveled to Franklin, Ohio, for a whistle-stop. There we passed out literature and viewed this absolutely fabulous town mural featuring local scenes from the early 1900’s. I then wrote a letter-to-the-editor of the Franklin Chronicle here that lauded the mural (not to get votes, but because I meant it). The letter also noted Liz and I are running as “concerned parents,” and one of the things we are most concerned about is mounting violence in society and it’s affect on children. And I noted Franklin Township’s: “No Abuse at Home,” a new Ohio Justice System program, seemed a step in the right direction for cutting down on the incidence of domestic violence.

9/11/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 11, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 11, 2004

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. In West Union, Ohio yesterday I met with volunteers Nancy Ames and Robert Weber at the Interfaith House. This two-story home in the heart of West Union, was donated by a Presbyterian couple 20 years ago. Funded by area churches and private donations, Interfaith House provides food, clothing, money for medication… for some 200 families a month. (According to Ms. Ames, Adams county is the 2nd poorest county in Ohio.) A front page article in West Union’s People’s Defender newspaper ran recently about our campaign. Editor Bill Lange noted we are asking many Americans to cut back on their lifestyles, so people in Adams County (and the ‘Adam’s counties’ of the Third World) can get some more solid, long term help. I then spent the afternoon washing and waxing our campaign vehicles for our final 6-week blitz of Ohio. Note: Today is the anniversary of “9/11.”

9/10/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 10, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 10, 2004

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. During Mass this morning at St. Frances de Sales Church in Newark, Ohio, the priest said that St. Peter Claver spent 38 years ministering to Black slaves. During campaign 2000, I told a Pittsburgh, Kansas newspaper that many Blacks are still “slaves” to poverty loops in the inner cities, with adults and children there dodging bullets, drugs and hunger. (We saw this first hand — as we have seen numerous times throughout the country — while doing research in a ‘gang war zone’ on the South Side of Chicago several years back.) And because of the conditions, we ask American suburbanites, and the like — through creative church outreach, mentoring programs, and so on — to roll up their sleeves and go into the inner city to help… From Newark, we headed further south. At the Coop’s Corners Store in Thornville, Ohio, (pop. 1,000), I fastened a campaign button to the bulletin board, then talked to owner John Gillogli at length about the campaign. He, in turn, told me as a local business owner he likes to sponsor youth activities. He has donated genrously to the local girl’s softball league and to a high school class that had entered a recent Tractor Pull event. Thornville has an actual: Tractor Pull Park. From Thornville we headed to South Bloomington, Ohio, where I played a sandlot baseball game with our kids, as we do often on the road. Afterward, a South Bloomfield police officer pulled up and said vice-presidential candidate John Edwards had just come through here on Rte. 23 last week, “and we were only given two hours notice.” I debated whether to reply: “Well gosh, look at us! We slipped in right under your nose.” But I didn’t. Next stop: Adams County, Ohio.

9/9/04

Vote for Joe Posted on September 9, 2004 by Joe SchrinerSeptember 9, 2004

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Traveled to Mt. Vernon, Ohio yesterday where we attended a Ohio Department of Natural Resources seminar. In an excellent presentation, ODNR officer Mike Miller said the more “diverse” the eco-system, the more stable it is. However, he said current levels of farm herbacides and pesticides are significanltly hurting wildlife populations and throwing eco-system stability off. He said, for instance, the frog population along the banks of the Kokosing River here has dropped dramatically in recent years. We then headed further south on Rte. 13, stopping at the Hufford General Store in tiny Uttica, Ohio. It has been family owned and operated for 45 years. Our platform asks people to stridently support these local “mom & pop” stores in downtown districts (decentralism) — so they aren’t run out of business by the “big box” stores.

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