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Average JoeOhio Tour cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 We went to Conneaut in the Northeast tip of Ohio. \u00a0 I gave a talk at St. Francis Cabrini Church after mass, exhorting the congregation to get more involved with Pro-life work. \u00a0 “Evil flourishes when good people do nothing,” I quoted… I then took the boys to watch part of a Conneaut High School football practice on a quite muggy morning… \u00a0 From here we went to WOWW Radio<\/em> where Marty Landon not only remembered me from the last stop here some three years ago, but he still had our button!<\/em> \u00a0 “I wrote you in (Campaign 2004),” he said. \u00a0 We assured him we were going to get on the ballot this time… From here, we did a whistle stop event on the corner of Broad St. and Rte. 20. \u00a0 Reporter Mark Todd of the Ashtabula Star Beacon<\/em> asked me what our plans were for Ohio. \u00a0 I said we wanted to win<\/em> Ohio. \u00a0 “Wouldn’t that be the feel good story of Campaign 2008,” he smiled. \u00a0 A reporter (“Pastor Trudy”) for Conneaut’s The Courrier<\/em> newsaper \u00a0 was also at the event. \u00a0 I told her our campaign hinged on common sense and gospel values… \u00a0 After the event, I took the staff (our family) to the nearby State Street Diner. \u00a0 Great food and even better stuff \u00a0on the wall. \u00a0 Between all kinds of ’50s memorabilia, was a plaque that said: \u00a0 “Teenagers! \u00a0 Tired of being hassled by your stupid parents? \u00a0 Act Now! \u00a0 Move out. \u00a0 Get a job. Pay your own bills. \u00a0 While you still know everything<\/em>.”<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The diner’s owner, Mark, \u00a0said he’d put a bumper sticker on his car “…as long as you are Pro-Life.” \u00a0 I told him I was and he immediately went to the parking lot… \u00a0 I then talked to Mike Morgan, who owns a pizza place in town. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0He said he is concerned about \u00a0mounting home heating costs and wondered if there wasn’t a way to harvest some of the \u00a0thousands of tons of fallen material on forest floors across \u00a0America. \u00a0 His ideas is to compost this and \u00a0turn it into slow burning pellets for home heating. \u00a0 (While I wouldn’t agree with this for old growth forests, because the composting of this material rejuvinates the soil; I wouldn’t be opposed to a \u00a0pilot project to harvest some (let’s say one-third) of this material from tree farms. \u00a0 Tree farms that our administration would promote nationwide to provide domestic lumber and more foilage to help curb global warming… \u00a0 Heading out of Conneaut, we stopped to \u00a0talk to an older couple \u00a0from New Hampshire who were on a tandem. \u00a0 They had just finished a 270 mile bicycle tour of an \u00a0Underground Railroad route as part of an Adventure Cycle Tour. \u00a0 On our last campaign tour, we had followed an Underground Railroad Route from Georgia to Ohio… \u00a0 We then headed into Cleveland where we stood in solidarity with the “Missionaries to the \u00a0Pre-Born.” \u00a0 They were in the middle of a tour of Ohio and stand at street corners holding tremendously graphic (and big<\/em>) signs \u00a0of close-up pictures of dismembered, aborted babies. \u00a0 Their literature says that because modern media won’t show this horrific truth, there has to be some way for the American people to see, graphically, what abortion really<\/em> is. \u00a0 One woman brushed by me as I tried to hand her some literature. \u00a0 She said: \u00a0 “It’s more complex than this.” \u00a0 What’s more complex, I believe, \u00a0is the set of sophisticated rationalizations we’ve developed to justify what is simply barbaric. \u00a0 ‘A picture(s) is worth a thousand words’ on this one. \u00a0 The event wound down about 6 p.m. after rush hour. \u00a0 Our Sarah went on with the group to protest at another site, and I took the rest of the family back to our apartment in Cleveland to update this site and take care of some household stuff… \u00a0 And another day in the life of an independent presidential candidate from Cleveland came to an end about 9:30. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I had joked (sort of) earlier in the day, that running for president was taking, oh, a little more time than we thought it would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Average JoeOhio Tour cont: \u00a0 We went to Conneaut in the Northeast tip of Ohio. \u00a0 I gave a talk at St. Francis Cabrini Church after mass, exhorting the congregation to get more involved with Pro-life work. \u00a0 “Evil flourishes …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}