{"id":1080,"date":"2010-09-11T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-09-11T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T14:57:37","slug":"common-man-common-sense-and-a-buckeye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Common man. Common sense! …and a buckeye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stopped at the Sign Shack<\/strong> in Findlay, Ohio. \u00a0 (Findlay, incidentally, is where Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger played his high schooll ball.) \u00a0 Over the years, we have had our campaign vehicle signage made almost exclusively by owner Joe Langhals at the Sign Shack. \u00a0 (When it comes to graphic design, he’s excellent.) This time around, I ordered the words: Common man. \u00a0 Common sense!<\/strong> \u00a0 And it was a ‘common sense’ conversation that I got into with \u00a0Langhals and employee Josh Unverferth while waiting for the lettering. \u00a0 These two common “working guys” were, among other things, concerned about the Federal Debt (which is now over $12 trillion). \u00a0 Josh said that wouldn’t it make sense — common sense — \u00a0to, for one, cut government expenditure until we pay off the debt. \u00a0 I said our platform called for the old-fashion concept of (If anyone remembers this…): “frugality.” \u00a0 That is when people were in debt in the old days, they actually tightened their belts <\/em>and paid it off. \u00a0 At the end of the conversation at the Sign Shack, Josh said he’d liked what he heard and offered to pass out our campaign cards at a festival in Kalida, Ohio, this weekend. \u00a0 If you don’t carry Kalida, you’re not going to carry the country. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 After leaving the Sign Shack, “Tom from Columbus” approached me in the parking lot at Arbys. \u00a0 He said he was impressed with the signage on our vehicle and added that his wife was recently back from the Glenn Beck rally in D.C. \u00a0 Tom said he would like to see change in D.C., and wished me luck. \u00a0 Noticing he was wearing an Ohio State University<\/strong> shirt, I passed on a campaign flyer to him and added: \u00a0 “When I get to D.C., one of the first things I’m going to do is have a big buckeye put on top of the Capitol Dome.” \u00a0 [I’ve gotta stop doing that. \u00a0 It’s getting to be like an addiction, or something.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stopped at the Sign Shack in Findlay, Ohio. \u00a0 (Findlay, incidentally, is where Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger played his high schooll ball.) \u00a0 Over the years, we have had our campaign vehicle signage made almost exclusively by owner Joe …<\/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-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}