{"id":866,"date":"2008-11-12T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=302"},"modified":"2008-11-12T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:28:58","slug":"111208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"11\/12\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple supporters have recently e-mailed asking about our campaign strategies for Election 2012. <\/strong>(By the way, I’ve already declared for 2012. \u00a0 \u00a0Listen to the short declaration speech at the top of our home \u00a0page<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/strong> \u00a0 In regard to donating<\/a> to the campaign, one man wrote: \u00a0 “People tend to want to ‘invest’ their money wisely and usually wait until they are confident enough that a candidate has a legitimate chance of winning.” \u00a0 The answer to this is two-fold.<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 First: \u00a0 People \u00a0need to \u00a0‘invest’<\/a> in us now so we can advertise and do all the other things campaigns do to raise their profiles. \u00a0 And people need to invest<\/a> in us now to help keep us in motion so we can continue touring, stumping and getting our message out to as many people on the street and in as much media as possible. \u00a0 (This is the kind of synergy that will make the campaign a national story with staying power — \u00a0especially because of the tremendous amount of time and effort we’ve already put into this to date! \u00a0 As opposed to it being a ’15-minutes of fame’ phenomena.)<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 Also, when this becomes a prominent national story, we will have a much better chance of catching on with an established Third Party. \u00a0 This is key<\/em> because it is the best chance we have of gaining ballot access from state to state across the country. \u00a0 Having said that… \u00a0 Second:<\/strong> \u00a0 When we’re on the road touring, we get a \u00a0significantly different message out. \u00a0 It is a message \u00a0that is helping change the country now<\/strong><\/em>, one town at a time. \u00a0 As an example, I recently gave a strong<\/em> pro-Life talk at a church in centeral Ohio. \u00a0 Afterward, the pastor stood up and was actually in tears. \u00a0 He apologized to the congregation for not being “bold enough”<\/strong> in his witness to stop abortion and vowed to be so in the future. \u00a0 And then this pastor and congregation members influence other pastors and congregation members. \u00a0 And then these pastors and congregation members… \u00a0 And as a result, we get part of policy enacted long before ever getting to D.C… \u00a0 A front page article in the Athens (OH) Post<\/strong><\/em> recently noted that our family has set aside a “Christ Room”<\/strong> for homeless people in our small place in Cleveland. \u00a0 So then someone in Athens sets aside a Christ Room, then someone in Louisville, Kentucky, sets aside a Christ Room, then someone in Holbrook, Arizona, sets aside a Christ Room… And before you know it, homelessness is down significantly in America and those setting up the Christ Rooms \u00a0are much more advanced \u00a0in their faith witness. \u00a0 And part of our policy on poverty gets enacted as well… A ‘winning’ candidate? \u00a0We’ve been ‘winning’ every day we’ve been on the campaign trail the past nine years and 83,000 miles<\/em>. \u00a0 But (and really<\/em> think about this), what if \u00a0a president<\/em> turned the \u00a0Lincoln Bedroom<\/strong> into a Christ Room? \u00a0 How much more of a witness would that be to the country? \u00a0 \u00a0…While traveling the 83,000 miles campaigning, parts of our message have gottten out in some 2,000 newspaper articles, close to 200 regional network TV news shows, hundreds of radio shows, many church talks, college talks… \u00a0 In other words, we’re exhaustively doing our part. \u00a0 \u00a0But we need help. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The time for cautious consideration around “investing”<\/a> in our 2012 campaign run — our last —<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0is over. \u00a0 \u00a0We ask people help \u00a0now <\/strong><\/em>in as \u00a0full a fashion as \u00a0we are undertaking it. \u00a0 \u00a0Because I believe it will take this kind of all out<\/em> \u00a0 effort if there is to be any real hope of getting to the White House. \u00a0 \u00a0 Ps<\/strong>… If you missed our \u00a0DONATION LINK<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0on this post… Also, have I mentioned we need VOLUNTEERS<\/strong><\/a>? \u00a0 \u00a0 Some references:<\/strong> “I experience Joe Schriner as a fervent pro-Life candidate willing to make great sacrifices for the moral betterment of our nation and the transformation of our society. \u00a0 He was an inpsiration to our students.”<\/strong> \u00a0 — Fr. Michael Scanlan, former president of Franciscan University. \u00a0 And… “Joe’s talk during (Sunday) Worship was spirit-led and reflected his and his family’s concern for plantet earth — as our addiction to fossil fuels pushes us ever nearer extinction. \u00a0 We need to hear his voice and God’s call.”<\/strong> \u00a0 –Rev. Lea Mahan, First United Methodist Church, Wellington, Ohio. \u00a0 \u00a0 And… \u00a0more references<\/a>… \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple supporters have recently e-mailed asking about our campaign strategies for Election 2012. (By the way, I’ve already declared for 2012. \u00a0 \u00a0Listen to the short declaration speech at the top of our home \u00a0page.) \u00a0 In regard to …<\/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-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}