{"id":862,"date":"2008-11-05T05:27:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-11-05T05:27:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:27:34","slug":"11408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"11\/4\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour completed:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0We ‘fought the good fight.’ \u00a0 For the past three days, we continued on through central Ohio, stumping in places like Yorkshire, Versailles, Plain City… On Election Day<\/strong> (today), we were in Columbus where we passed out campaign information at a polling place on the Ohio State University Campus. \u00a0 I also talked with Deryck Spooner who was here from D.C. pushing for the passage of Issue 2<\/em> \u00a0 here, which is about backing a Clean Ohio<\/strong> initiative. \u00a0 He is with The Nature Conservancy<\/em> \u00a0 and told me he believes climate change is real and a definite threat. \u00a0 He pointed to shifts in weather patterns, the significant melting of polar ice caps, rising sea levels… He said part of the answer is cap levels on carbon emmissions, especially among coal, electric and oil companies. \u00a0 And using a “market approach,” he said he would propose that these companies get dollar value “carbon credits,” for each pound of carbon that’s not produced… \u00a0 We, too, believe climate change is a clear and imminent \u00a0threat that needs to be addressed dramatically, and now<\/em>. \u00a0 For more…<\/a> \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 At this polling place there were some 10 Democrat volunteers passing out literature and I was told there were some 81 “staging areas” around Franklin County where volunteers were prepped and sent out to the different polling stations. \u00a0 Meanwhile, it was just myself and our family. \u00a0 \u00a0The ‘staging area’ being our small motor home up the street. \u00a0 And so it goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour completed: \u00a0 \u00a0We ‘fought the good fight.’ \u00a0 For the past three days, we continued on through central Ohio, stumping in places like Yorkshire, Versailles, Plain City… On Election Day (today), we were in Columbus where …<\/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-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}