{"id":1332,"date":"2012-03-17T19:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2012-03-17T19:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:21:04","slug":"consistent-life-ethic-talk-haysville-ohio-pennsylvania-turnpike-stumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Consistent Life Ethic talk; Haysville, Ohio; Pennsylvania Turnpike stumping&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up&#8230;\u00a0 This last week I gave a talk at the Consistent Life Ethic 25th Anniversary Conference just outside of D.C.\u00a0 I said that I saw abortion, global warming, world hunger, one billion people living in slums without clean water or adequate housing&#8230; all as &#8220;pro-life issues.&#8221;\u00a0 This was preaching to the choir here&#8230;\u00a0 I also did some campaigning on the way out to D.C.\u00a0 While Romney and Santorum were battling it out for <em>all<\/em> of Mississippi and Alabama, I focused on Haysville, Ohio (pop. 1,000).\u00a0 While in Haysville, I stumped with a guy named Rich on the street about the economy, then passed out some campaign cards at the local barbershop with an actual operating candy cane poll, the whole thing, and then put up a &#8220;Joe flyer&#8221; at the Route 30 Inn.\u00a0 Since my sidekick, Matt, and I were already in the Inn [notice the play on words], we decided on a couple fish sandwhich platters.\u00a0 Instead of $1,000 a plate, they were $3.95 a plate, and that included fries!\u00a0 Incidentally, a trivia note about the restaurant:\u00a0 The seats at the counter\u00a0are metal milk pails with John Deere tractor seats affixed to the top of them.\u00a0 They were actually quite comfortable, and definitely distinctive.\u00a0 (I&#8217;m obviously trying for the rural vote here.)&#8230;\u00a0 After staying at a small motel in Lisbon, Ohio,\u00a0later that evening\u00a0&#8212; 35 bucks a night and a view of\u00a0a motel sign that was missing a few bulbs &#8212; we headed further east onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike.\u00a0 We stopped at a plaza at one point, and I passed out campaign cards to people coming out.\u00a0 The great thing about Turnpike plazas is there are people from <em>all<\/em> over.\u00a0 Who needs those\u00a0millions of\u00a0Super PAC dollars in\u00a0TV advertising \u00a0money, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up&#8230;\u00a0 This last week I gave a talk at the Consistent Life Ethic 25th Anniversary Conference just outside of D.C.\u00a0 I said that I saw abortion, global warming, world hunger, one billion people living in slums without clean water <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1332\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}