{"id":120,"date":"2004-09-02T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-09-02T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T15:50:28","slug":"9204-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"9\/2\/04 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/em><\/strong> Drove through Attica, Ohio (pop. 955) yesterday and picked up a Attica Hub <\/em>newspaper that featured a story about the town considering grants to help pay for a new water tower. I, in turn, wrote an “Open Letter to the Community” (you can do that in Attica’s paper) this afternoon about a fund in Atwood, Kansas (pop. 1,500) we researched. Two Atwood residents donated $10,000 apiece some ten years ago to get the fund going. It was to be for city projects short on tax money, a local school class that might need additional supplies, the senior citizen who needed supplemental prescription drug money… Ten years after the initial seed money was donated in Atwood, the fund had a phenomenal: $967,000 (almost a million)! And in addition, a tremendous amount of things had been funded year to year in the town. I told the Attica Hub <\/em>that people gave beyond their taxes because they felt it was their civic responsibility. So there’s a little less need for bureacracy, and a little more local initiative. (Not to mention the town has grown closer.) Later this afternoon, I told a reporter from The Daily Chief Union <\/em>newspaper in Upper Sandusky, Ohio (pop. 6,533) that if someone picks up on this type of idea in Attica, it’s as if “we get one of our policies enacted long before ever getting to D.C.” And who knows how far the idea ripples out from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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