Willie
On Saturday morning a group of canvassers assembled at a local park in Cuyahoga Falls and went over the procedures for our work that morning. Another old timer, Willie, and I paired up. Willie has lived in Cuyahoga Falls and Akron most of his life. As he worked for the Ohio Trucking Association, we had much in common. In a previous life I ran dump trucks.
Willie was a good introduction into much of the pain Ohio is feeling due to the financial crisis we have been going through. Most of its industry closed a long time ago as jobs were shipped out of country. The housing market has also been hard hit. Just the other day the Akron Beacon Journal reported the tragic story of a distraught 90 year-old widow, Addie Polk, shooting herself because she was unable to face immanent eviction from her home of forty hears. Fortunately, she survived. And by the next day the mortgage company was shamed into cancelling her debt.
It would seem obvious that the financial interests of the people we were talking with should be with the Democrats, but that was sometimes a tough sell. We ran into one Rush Limbaugh Ditto Head who, though recently unemployed insisted that the folks who brought us to this point of ruin were precisely the ones to get us out. Go figure.
By Sunday evening Willie and I had walked 12 hours. At least this is cheaper than joining a gym.
Willie was a good introduction into much of the pain Ohio is feeling due to the financial crisis we have been going through. Most of its industry closed a long time ago as jobs were shipped out of country. The housing market has also been hard hit. Just the other day the Akron Beacon Journal reported the tragic story of a distraught 90 year-old widow, Addie Polk, shooting herself because she was unable to face immanent eviction from her home of forty hears. Fortunately, she survived. And by the next day the mortgage company was shamed into cancelling her debt.
It would seem obvious that the financial interests of the people we were talking with should be with the Democrats, but that was sometimes a tough sell. We ran into one Rush Limbaugh Ditto Head who, though recently unemployed insisted that the folks who brought us to this point of ruin were precisely the ones to get us out. Go figure.
By Sunday evening Willie and I had walked 12 hours. At least this is cheaper than joining a gym.
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