{"id":106,"date":"2004-08-25T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=100"},"modified":"2004-08-25T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T18:18:20","slug":"82304-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"8\/23\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/strong><\/em> We did a whistle-stop event on the square in Georgetown, Ohio today at noon. Just as the event started up, a stream of people showed up: for a Sheriff’s Auction. Never one to pass up a campaign opportunity, we passed out literature to the group while they were waiting to bid. I told a reporter for the local News Democrat newspaper that we had a “consistent pro-life” ethic, which meant we were against abortion, but we were also against anything else that can end life prematurely. I said this included things like: poverty, pollution, tobacco… Incidentally, Brown County here is one of the biggest tobacco producing counties in the state and this weekend is the Tobacco Festival in nearby Ripley, Ohio. While I might have lost a few votes here, maybe it got a few parents, tobacco farmers, and so on… to think twice. After the interview, News Democrat publisher Steve Triplett told me he’s heard rumors John Edwards might be coming to Georgetown as part of a southern Ohio swing because Ohio continues to look that <\/em>important to the outcome of the presidential race. (I couldn’t help but wonder: Is anyone starting to factor our campaign into all of that.) Note: Steve Triplett’s editorial the week before noted singer Linda Rondstadt had endorsed John Kerry during one of her performances and Ricky Scaggs had endorsed George Bush. After hearing this, I thought maybe we could get the accordion player we met in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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