{"id":1074,"date":"2010-09-03T02:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=514"},"modified":"2010-09-03T02:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T02:31:26","slug":"welcome-to-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"“Welcome to Welcome”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rte. 90 Run-N-Gun Tour speeds on…<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0In Worthington, Minnesota, we parked our camper\/campaign vehicle \u00a0in a Wal-Mart parking lot, right next to an auto racing dirt track. \u00a0 Talk about loud <\/em>… \u00a0 The next day at Mass, we saw a man with a t-shirt that \u00a0read \u00a0America has \u00a0now crossed the 51 million<\/em> \u00a0 abortion mark, and counting… \u00a0 We headed further east, flying right by the town of Welcome (really<\/em>, that’s its name), Minnesota. \u00a0 The city limits sign says: \u00a0 “The Friendly City!”<\/strong> \u00a0 If I’d been on \u00a0town council there, my sign proposal would have been: \u00a0 “Welcome to Welcome!”<\/strong> …We drove on to Fairmont, Minnesota, where we took the kids swimming in Budd Lake (no idea who ‘Budd’ actually is, or was). \u00a0 After swimming a bit, I found myself in a round table, or rather round beach chair, discussion with some people who’d gotten together for a family reunion. \u00a0 The topic of “the border” came up. \u00a0 I said, for one, as president I’d do everything possible to keep drug cartels out. \u00a0 And common sense would say that part of keeping drug cartels out, is reducing the demand for drugs on this side of the fence. \u00a0 On an earlier campaign tour, I interviewed a sherriff’s deputy in Las Cruces, New Mexico, who said he’s regularly in on border drug busts involving 18-wheel trucks and thousands of pounds of, say, cocaine. \u00a0 But he also works with the local DARE Program \u00a0for teenagers, to reduce the demand for drugs on this side. \u00a0 When I \u00a0talked about \u00a0this, some of the people at the beach had a rather “aha”<\/em> \u00a0 moment. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> While passing out campaign cards and stumping at the park next to Budd Lake, I told one man wearing a Minnesota Viking cap that when I became president — \u00a0I’d introduce a Bill suggesting we \u00a0change the Statue of Liberty to, that’s right, a big Viking. \u00a0 (Liz keeps telling me I’ve got to stop doing that from state to state.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rte. 90 Run-N-Gun Tour speeds on… \u00a0 \u00a0In Worthington, Minnesota, we parked our camper\/campaign vehicle \u00a0in a Wal-Mart parking lot, right next to an auto racing dirt track. \u00a0 Talk about loud … \u00a0 The next day at Mass, we …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}