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We have launched on our next tour leg… \u00a0 Our first stop was Macon, Georgia — not by design. \u00a0 We got a flat. \u00a0 At Yancey Tires, owner Bill Yancey (calloused greasy hands and a rumpled shirt that read: Bill<\/strong>) said it was, indeed, ‘time for a change’ (some simple common sense) in D.C. \u00a0 His belief: \u00a0 If you’re a lawyer, you’re not allowed to be in Congress. \u00a0 Everything has gotten too complicated, and too convoluted, he added. \u00a0 I underscored that by saying to him that the tax code book in D.C. is now a mind boggling (literally) 15,100<\/em> pages long. \u00a0 Written, in part, by (You guessed it.): lawyers… \u00a0 While at Yancey’s, I also checked the condition of our spare tire. \u00a0 It’s mounted on the back. \u00a0 When I took the cover off, I found a bird had built a nest in it over the winter — complete with five fledgling birds! \u00a0 Our Sarah took the birds onto her bed in the back of the camper and became, well, ‘mama bird.’ \u00a0 For several hours, as they perched on her hand, her arm, her shoulder… she tried to get them to eat (cracker crumbs, bread crumbs…), but they weren’t biting, so to speak. \u00a0 When we got to Tobesofkee State Park later in the afternoon, the family consensus was Sarah’s best bet was: worms. \u00a0 She proceeded to find a couple small worms and was trying, again in vain, with these. \u00a0 I mentioned that the mother bird ingests the worm then regurgitates it for their young. \u00a0 Sarah rolled her eyes and said: \u00a0 “I’m not doing that<\/em> dad!” \u00a0 Eventually we decided to take the birds out by the woods, and wouldn’t you know: they all flew off as natural as if they were, well, birds. \u00a0 An addendum:<\/strong> \u00a0 When I got back to the campaign vehicle, I turned on the radio. \u00a0 The dial happened to be on a local Christian radio station out of Macon. And the first thing I heard was this pastor talking about God “…taking care of the birds of the air.” \u00a0 (Honest.) \u00a0 Note<\/strong>: \u00a0 While at Tobesofkee, I talked with a Bibb County Sheriff (who resembled Buford Pusser, minus the big stick). \u00a0 He said the county has a Sheriff’s Department support program called REACT, which consists of 100 area citizen volunteers. \u00a0 These citizens go about town calling in infractions, help with crowd control at events, aid with water mishaps in the local lake… \u00a0 Part of our crime prevention platform<\/a> calls for a lot more citizen involvement if we really want our streets to be safer.<\/p>\n

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