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Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 The Athens News<\/em> \u00a0 did a story on our campaign that included: \u00a0 “I recently coached an inner-city Little League Baseball team in Cleveland,” Schriner explains on \u00a0[his] website. \u00a0 “On draft day, I picked the kids who looked like they’d be picked last, first. \u00a0 And apparently I did pretty well with this because we lost almost all the games…” \u00a0 While in Athens, I also talked to Stephen Rounthwaite who is part Seminole and was protesting Columbus Day<\/em> \u00a0 in front of the Athens County Courthouse. \u00a0 Rounthwaite, a street musician, was \u00a0beating a drum next to a sign that read: \u00a0 You Support Columbus, You Support Terrorism<\/strong>. \u00a0 Our position paper<\/a> on Native American issues \u00a0reflects this as well. \u00a0 “They say Columbus ‘discovered America’ — but there were all these people living here already,” \u00a0 Rounthwaite laughed… \u00a0 Before meeting Rounthwaite, \u00a0our family \u00a0stood in solidarity with a group protesting for peace in front of the same courthouse. \u00a0 Two rather big guys, in their own \u00a0show of protest, showed \u00a0up \u00a0and held McCain\/Palin \u00a0signs just adjacent to us. \u00a0 They said they were pro-War, and not only should the U.S. be in Iraq, we should be aggressive about making sure Iran didn’t develop nuclear weapons. \u00a0 “My boxing coach used to always say: ‘Come at ’em early<\/em> \u00a0 and come at ’em<\/em> \u00a0 hard,” \u00a0 one guy said. \u00a0 I asked this guy what he would do if someone was coming at him with a gun? \u00a0 “Get a gun and fight back,” he instantly replied. \u00a0 “So what if a country like us (read: U.S.), had a lot of nuclear weapons aimed at a country like Iran? \u00a0 What would be Iran’s natural reaction?” \u00a0 I asked. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 While in Athens, I met Pastor Jeff Bartlett of the First Christian Church here. \u00a0 He had a wonderful spirit about him and told me he was trying to come up with a series of creative ways to interest college students \u00a0in getting involved with church. \u00a0 The night I met him, he was doing a cookout with a small group of students on a hibachi next to a busy sidewalk. \u00a0 He was cooking: Spam. \u00a0 I, as tactfully as possible, mentioned he might draw more students with, oh, a different type of main course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: \u00a0 The Athens News \u00a0 did a story on our campaign that included: \u00a0 “I recently coached an inner-city Little League Baseball team in Cleveland,” Schriner explains on \u00a0[his] website. \u00a0 “On draft day, I …<\/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-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}