And you think the Super Committee had problems… I talked last week with Tom Eckelberry who is the president of the Harrod, Ohio (pop. 400), Village Council. Harrod is one of a handful of towns that don’t assess a tax on resident … Continue reading
The “Back Road to the White House Tour” rolls on… In Ayersville, Ohio (pop. it wasn’t even listed in the Atlas), I put up a campaign flier in the Ayersville Gas Station (one pump) / Carry Out / Restaurant (one … Continue reading
Our Florida Panhandle Tour continued: In Crestview, Florida, we met with Rosa Garrett from South Korea. She married an American service man and came to the states some 25 years ago. Of the contrasts between countries, … Continue reading
We traveled to Apalachicola, Florida, where we visited a striking replica of one of the Vietnam Memorial sculptures in D.C. It was a depiction of three soldiers in the field and definitely conveys some of the intensity of war… This … Continue reading
I met with a group of Vanderbilt University students (and others) who were traveling from Tennessee to Tampa, Florida to stand in solidarity with farm workers protesting for better pay. The students are part of a Workers Dignity Project … Continue reading
Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the “Arab Revolution” gathers steam across the region. The Egyptian protesters, as with the protesters in Tunisia, had grown weary of entrenched regimes that shared the wealth with upper levels of society, while … Continue reading
In Hagerstown, Maryland, we stood in solidarity with a group protesting in front of a downtown abortion clinic there. I mentioned that this day in America there would be about 4,400 babies killed in their mothers’ wombs. In … Continue reading
In Warren, Ohio, yesterday, we went to the streets to stand in solidarity with a group of people who formed a part of the nationwide Life Chain abortion protest. (Earlier in the day, I had given a pro-life talk … Continue reading
Montana Moseying Campaign Tour cont: We stood in solidarity with a group protesting in front of an abortion clinic in Billings. (I told the Lewiston-Argus newspaper in Lewiston, Montana, several campaigns back, that as president I’d … Continue reading
Our family stood in solidarity with a group protesting abortion in front of a Planned Parenthood facility in Ft. Collins, Colorado. One of the protesters was Linda O’Brien, a former pharmacist. A Catholic, Ms. O’Brien said she decided … Continue reading