Campaign Stops:

   1. West of I-75, north to south -- 

Montpelier, Edgerton, Bryan, Stryker, Wauseon, Ridgeville Corners, Napoleon, Defiance, Bowling Green, McComb, Ottawa, Bluffton, Delphos, Celina, Yorkshire, Russia, Versailles, Greenville, Bradford, Covington, Piqua, Cincinnati

    2. Between I-75 and I-71, north to south -- 

Port Clinton, Fremont, Fostoria, Bascom, Tiffin, Findlay,   Sycamore, Arlington, Upper Sandusky, Nevada, Bucyrus, Ashland, Mansfield, Ada,  Wyandot, Kenton, Marion, Ashley, Leonardsburg, Delaware, Xenia, Yellow Springs, Columbus

     3. Between 1-71 and I-77, north to south -- 

Cleveland, Seville, Creston, Jeromesville, Apple Creek, Kidron, Fredricksburg, Mount Hope, Berlin, Mount Vernon, Circleville, Chillicothe, Waverly, Peebles 

Ohio Tours 2005-2006

• I rolled out the "first pitch" at Xenia, Ohio's St. Brigid Church Picnic kickball game -- and a youth kicked it for a home run.  (Maybe I should have rolled out a curve ball.)
•      We attended a "Peak Oil Conference" at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  Speaker Pat Murphy, Executive Director of Community Services Inc., said:  "The fossil fuel party is over."  And he called for an immediate phasing in of much more solar and wind technology.  (Our Energy platform calls for this as well.)
•      During an interview with the Kenton (OH) Times, I said I'd recently read an article that explained as ocean temperatures rise along the coasts because of global warming, massive amounts of plankton (first level on the food chain) are dying.  This could be, oh, a problem.
•      Spencerville, Ohio's newspaper editor asked me about current shortfalls in funding for Ohio schools.  I said even if a school levy fails, wouldn't it be common sense that people who voted for the levy set up a Voluntary School Levy Fund to deposit the tax money they would have been assessed anyway?
•      I gave a talk at an organic Farm Festival in Yorkshire, Ohio.  I said If I'm a farmer pumping toxic chemicals (artificial pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers...) onto my farm, and they are causing cancer in some people -- aren't I breaking the spirit, if not the letter, of the 5th Commandment (Thou Shall Not Kill)?
•      In Sidney, Ohio, I interviewed Kevin Schmiesing of the Acton Institute.  The Institute works to bring together religious, business, academic and political leaders to help promote: just wage, just price, just working conditions...  "Employers have a (moral) responsibility above the 'logic of the market,'" Schmiesing said.