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Buckeye Back Roads Tour: \u00a0<\/strong> We continue to buzz about the back roads of Ohio. \u00a0 Some vignettes from last week: \u00a0 In West Union, Ohio, St. Vincent DePaul volunteer Margo Rammel gave us a tour of her facility. \u00a0 In the background, two relatively desperate calls were recorded on the answering \u00a0machine in the background. \u00a0 They were \u00a0for help with heating bills because there were shut off threats. \u00a0 “People are in dire straights here (Adams County),” said Ms. Rammel… In Lawshe, Ohio, Clinton Beaver is struggling. \u00a0 He was on his porch when I approached with a flyer. \u00a0 Mr. Beaver said he’s been trying for some time to be “gainfully employed,” but all he’s found is some part-time work at Wilmington, Ohio’s airport. \u00a0 He said he’s currently sweating a $540 property tax bill… \u00a0 \u00a0In Wamsley, I talked with Terry and Jerry, twin brothers who both had beers in their hand. \u00a0 Straight out of the Dukes of Hazard<\/em>, one of the brothers smiled at me and said (tongue-in-cheek) that they were quite politically connected in the county. \u00a0 “We know all<\/em> the judges,” he laughed… \u00a0 Then it was on to Sweet Ridge, Ohio (pop. …if you blink), where Robert Ruggles, sitting in an old leather chair in a used car lot shack, said there’s got to be “something crooked” about presidential candidates spending millions of dollars on a job that pays only $200,000, or whatever. \u00a0 I told him we weren’t spending, oh, as much…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Roads Tour: \u00a0 We continue to buzz about the back roads of Ohio. \u00a0 Some vignettes from last week: \u00a0 In West Union, Ohio, St. Vincent DePaul volunteer Margo Rammel gave us a tour of her facility. \u00a0 …<\/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-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}