Dear Norm,
I've been traveling Ohio on our silver school bus that we bought on eBay and our supporters named "The Courage Express." What's it like? Well, it's a little bumpy, as school buses are, but it's one of the happiest times of this campaign.
We have mobile wi-fi on board, for one thing. And my amazing campaign staff has configured the bus like a first class section of a train with seats that face each other between table tops braced with wooden 2x2's.
When my friend Chris Stucke in Mandeville, Louisiana saw a picture of this shining silver beauty that my mother showed him, he counted the windows and declared, "That's a big bus!"
Chris is a bus driver in Louisiana who has kept a correspondence going between a school girl originally from Akron and me, so I take Chris' assessment as a supreme compliment.
More candidates should get to do what I'm doing--seeing people in their hometowns, listening to their stories and ideas and taking them to Congress with them. They've promised me after the primary that they'll bolt down a couple of recliners in the back and put speakers on the bus so we have nonstop tunes. Rick's already put together a great playlist.
As we continue our tour these next 8 days, keep a watch out for our bus, and if we're stopped, come say hi, and we'll show you how we're seeing the great people of Ohio.
Here is our schedule of bus tour stops over the next three days:
Monday, April 26 - Knox County
7:00 - 8:30 pm
* Cupcakes * Coffee * Conversation * Party
202 West Brooklyn Street, Gambier
Tuesday, April 27 - Wood County
10:45 - 11:15 am
Grounds for Thought Coffee House
174 S. Main Street, Bowling Green
Lucas County
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lucas County Courthouse Lawn
700 Adams Street, Toledo
1:30 - 2:15 pm
University of Toledo Student Union
2801 West Bancroft, Toledo
Lorain County
4:30 - 5:00 pm
The Underground Cafe
401 Broadway, Lorain
5:30 - 5:50 pm
Wilder Bowl, Oberlin College
135 West Lorain Street, Oberlin
Cuyahoga County
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Brecksville/Broadview Heights Democratic Club Meeting
One Community Drive, Brecksville
Wednesday, April 28 - Athens County
4:30 - 5:00 pm
Hocking College Energy Institute
30140 Iles Road, Logan
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Athens Community Center
701 E. State St., Athens
Thursday, April 29th - Allen County
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Allen Co. Chair's Club Meeting
2323 N. West Street, Lima
1:00 - 1:45 pm
Bluffton University
One University Drive, Bluffton
Marion County
7:45 - 9:00 pm
Turning Point Women's Shelter
330 Barks Road W., Marion
More stops will be added soon. Go to TheCourageExpress.com [1] for more information.
Hope to see you soon,
Jennifer Brunner
Ohio Secretary of State and
Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate
P.S. - Also, be sure and check out a way to help our campaign with your vote at the Blue America Senate Primaries page on ActBlue [2].
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