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Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. <\/em><\/strong> I stumped with a group of regulars at the Lamplight Restaurant in Perrysville, Ohio early yesterday morning. One man had been to China recently on business and said he had been impressed with the beginnings of company privatization there, because it was moving at least a segment of the population away from dependency on government. Later in the morning, I told the Perrysburg newspaper that one our administration’s main priorities would be ending world hunger (24,000 people starve to death worldwide every day). I then went to Whitehouse, Ohio (pop. 1,000), and told a Fox News <\/em>reporter that this might be “the closest we get to the ‘White House’ this Election.” Also while in Whitehouse, I got in a round table discussion at the Chickaroo Restaurant with a few of the town’s old timers and a reporter from the local newspaper. Topics ranged from taxes, to the war in Iraq, to inflated housing costs… Jim Strain, 83, told me he bought a two-bedroom ranch style home in Whitehouse for $850 in 1951. It just sold last year for: $92,000. Everybody at the table said: “Wow!”<\/em> I then went up the street to meet with Whitehouse’s informal local “historian,” Darryl Bauman. Bauman, 68, said when he was a kid here movies (black & white) were a dime, the downtown was filled with all kinds of Mom & Pop shops, and Saturday nights everybody was in the downtown shopping, socializing and listening to music wafting down from the open windows of a second story dance hall. I then ‘danced’ (sorry) north to Swanton, Ohio. Enroute, Fox News <\/em>called and said they were sending out a reporter and another camera man for some more footage because they had decided to make the story a feature “package” and send it to their national headquarters in New York. In Swanton, the news crew got there in time to see me slowly drive through town in the “average Joe” mobile, $3 garage sale bull horn in hand. I stopped at one point and called out to a guy cutting his grass that if I became president: “I’ll get you a union and you won’t have to do that anymore!” <\/strong> He laughed. I then went door-to-door on a street in Swanton and ended up in a lengthy conversation with a resident about Swanton’s school system, which is facing a looming teacher’s strike because of levy failures and pay freezes. Ironically, I was told a new high school was built not too long ago here, while an old high school, which had been totally refurbished not seven years prior — was now sitting empty. Late this evening, I drove into Delta, Ohio where I passed out some more literature and hung a flyer and a button up at the Community Market here. I had told the Fox News <\/em>reporter earlier that when you don’t have the millions for advertising, flyers in small town groceries seem the way to go. (And again, we’re doing this all without paid consultants.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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