{"id":1102,"date":"2010-10-12T01:48:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=540"},"modified":"2010-10-12T01:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:48:13","slug":"540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"stepping up more, and a Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keystone State Tour 2 cont…<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We stopped in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, where I walked around the downtown passing out campaign flyers. \u00a0 I ended up in a conversation with Mike Barber who said that, while he’d been an independent, he finally declared with one of the main political Parties in order to be able to vote in the primaries. \u00a0 His contention is that every voter \u00a0should be “independent” and have access to voting in any primary they so choose… \u00a0 That night we went to the Clearfield High School Homecoming football game. \u00a0 Clearfield’s mascot is the Bison and he\/she (it was hard to tell) performs with the cheerleaders. \u00a0 Quite a feat, given the costume has to be a little cumbersome… \u00a0 This night, I ended up in a conversation with a man who works at the nearby DuBois Hospital. \u00a0 He said besides the regular hospital, there is a Clinic of DuBois<\/strong> that is staffed with volunteer doctors, nurses and other citizens doing any range of other clinic duties. \u00a0 Open two days a week, the clinic provides free services (even including dental) for the “working poor,” and others, of DuBois, he said… \u00a0 Out of Clearfield the next day, we stopped at a truck stop in Milesburg, PA, where I passed out campaign cards to people getting out of mini-tour buses on their way \u00a0to Penn State’s Homecoming. \u00a0 I also approached a car load of students from Slippery Rock College. \u00a0 Two of the females were college hockey players and there was a male student from Minnesota with them as well. \u00a0 I said one of our campaign promises is to replace the Statue of Liberty with a (that’s right): Viking. \u00a0 “With a #4 jersey,” I added. \u00a0 He smiled and said I had his vote. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 A front page story in USA Today<\/em> \u00a0 said municipalities were starting to rely on citizens for some patrolling and investigative work in the midst of budget shortfalls. \u00a0 Several years ago, we researched a Citizens Patrol group in Indio, California. \u00a0 These volunteer citizens got squad cars, patrolled, but carried no guns and couldn’t make arrests. \u00a0 However, they would call in suspicious activity, etc. \u00a0 Like with the Clinic \u00a0of DuBois, maybe it’s time we all stepped up more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keystone State Tour 2 cont… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We stopped in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, where I walked around the downtown passing out campaign flyers. \u00a0 I ended up in a conversation with Mike Barber who said that, while he’d been an …<\/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-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","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=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}