{"id":1236,"date":"2011-10-16T02:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T02:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2011-10-16T02:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T02:13:35","slug":"ada-a-bald-guy-nfl-footballs-coffee-addiction-tipping-point-not-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Ada, a bald guy, NFL footballs, coffee addiction, “tipping point” (not), trade…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaign rolls on…\u00a0 While the more high-profile candidates jockey for position on the national stage, we went to:\u00a0 Ada, Ohio (pop. 6,052), this week.\u00a0 I stumped at the Sawmill Restaurant, a small locally owned eatery in the center of town.\u00a0 It sits just adjacent to the Ada Post Office.\u00a0 And I walked out of the restaurant just in time to see a middle-age, kind of paunchy bald guy emerge from the post office with a t-shirt that read:\u00a0 “With a body like this, who needs hair!”<\/strong>\u00a0 (Is it just me, or is this t-shirt prose thing getting more and more off-the-wall?)\u00a0 Incidentally, while in Ada we learned a small Wilson Sporting Goods factory here: makes all the footballs for the NFL.\u00a0 How’s that for trivia?\u00a0 Then it was on to Lima, Ohio…\u00a0 In Lima,my daughter Sarah and I went to The Meeting Place (on Market)<\/strong> for lunch.\u00a0 And I put up a campaign flier in the front window there.\u00a0 That’s right, our answer to the multi-million dollar campaign TV ads:? Well placed fliers.\u00a0 (And we continue to do all of this without paid political consultants.)\u00a0 The Meeting Place has a rather large variety of coffee drinks and a list of 10 Things That Might Mean You’re Coffee Addicted.<\/strong>\u00a0 One of them:\u00a0 “You think sleep is only for the weak.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Note:\u00a0<\/strong> At a gas station in Ada, I put up a campaign card that reads, in part: Average Joe for President.<\/strong>\u00a0 The cashier glanced up at it and asked:\u00a0 “You’re running for president of what?”\u00a0 Apparently we haven’t reached a “tipping point,” yet.\u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> Free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama were approved this week by the House. This will open the door to way more trans-continental shipping and all the attendant global warming gases that come with that. It will also open the door to more sweat shop conditions in these other countries — so they can compete.\u00a0 So this might, in the short term, create more jobs in the U.S. because of ramped up exports, but at what long-term costs globally? I.e., common sense says we’ve got to stop being so myopic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The campaign rolls on…\u00a0 While the more high-profile candidates jockey for position on the national stage, we went to:\u00a0 Ada, Ohio (pop. 6,052), this week.\u00a0 I stumped at the Sawmill Restaurant, a small locally owned eatery in the center of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","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=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}