*Important:  We’re moving into the final phase of our “2008 Ohio Strategy.”  ***And we need supporters in the state, and outside, to e-mail supportive letters-to-the-editor about our campaign to as many Ohio newspapers as possible.  (Go to Ohio newspapers.)  ***Toward the end of the letter, would you please note that for a vote to count for us in Ohio, the voter must write (or type) in both: Joe Schriner / President and Dale Way / Vice-President.  And to ask poll worker for help if necessary per: how to do a “write-in.”  Note to our supporters: This is quite important to the campaign at this point and if you could write the letters sooner  than later it would help a lot.  Thanks.  (If we have a significant showing in Ohio — Remember Ohio during Campaign 2004? – it will be enough to make the campaign a national story and provide a great springboard into Campaign 2012!) –Joe   Ps.  If you’re from outside the state of Ohio, please consider the letter to be the equivalent of a “vote” for us.  As of now, we won’t be on the ballot in any states and Ohio will be the only state we’ll have “official write-in” status. Pss. For those of you in Ohio, would you also please consider putting up homemade yard signs that say:  Write in:  Joe Schriner / U.S. President    Dale Way / Vice-President 2008

Iran did some missile tests last week and, in turn, the United States ramped up it’s rhetoric against them.  We don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons capability.  Yet we have nuclear weapons aimed all over the world, including, I’m pretty sure, at: Iran.  One would have to ask: What’s up with this?  A New York Times  article said the Bush administration has refused to rule out a miliatry option to rebuke Iran… On our last tour, we went to Sunday Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Oberlin, Ohio.  The priest said Jesus’s New Testament message was consistently that we shouldn’t return violence for violence.  So given the current state of affairs in the world, “…how many of you would vote for Jesus to be president?”  He asked.  Good question. Note:  Like other campaigns, we are in need of donations to keep on: Schriner Presidential Election Committee, 2100 W. 38th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44113.  Thank you.

Our vice-presidential candidate, Dale Way, was interviewed by the South Bend (IN) Tribune last week.  In the article, Dale noted that our campaign takes projects we’ve researched across the country and promotes them on our travels elsewhere.  For instance, in Monroe, Louisiana, we researched a “Community Pharmacy” run by the St. Vincent de Paul Society.  The pharmacy is intended for low-income people.  Doctors donate some of their free samples, nursing homes donate medication after someone has died, and people in the town donate for the purchase of yet even more medication.  In speeches, in media interviews, on our blog… I talk about this concept with the hopes more and more of these Community Pharmacies start up so that, well, more and more people get help.  This is the essence of the campaign.   Note:  For more on our health care postion…

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:  We were interviewed by NBC News ABC News (both out of Toledo) last week.  The NBC reporter asked about our Green Party bumper sticker…  The reason I attempted to vie for the Green Party nomination is because I believe when it comes to ecological wisdom, social justice, peace building, decentralism… the Green Party has, by far, the best platform of any of the Parties.  Conversely, I do disagree with their pro-choice stance.  However in the other areas, it is a paradigm that’s time has come in this country.  We also appeared on the front page of the Fremont News-Messenger newspaper last week.  I told the reporter we look at global warming as a huge pro-life issue.  “No world, no life,” I said.