Obama reelection headquarters opens in county

By Tay­lor Kaser -

Last Wednes­day back­ers of Pres­i­dent Obama came to show their sup­port at the open­ing of Mor­row County’s Obama reelec­tion office located on W. High St. in Mt. Gilead.

The office will be a hub for cam­paign­ing for the incum­bent pres­i­dent, with vol­un­teers call­ing house­holds to encour­age vot­ers and plan­ning door to door calls on neighbors.

State Direc­tor for Obama for Amer­ica Greg Schultz, empha­sized the impor­tance of Ohio in this elec­tion, say­ing, that his­tor­i­cally Ohio has always been a cru­cial state to win.

Jef­frey Lehart, who is run­ning for State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Dis­trict 87 also shared his per­sonal expe­ri­ence, which included los­ing his pre­vi­ous job due to the eco­nomic cri­sis. He explained that through new edu­ca­tion ini­tia­tives, he was able to go back to school, and is now employed at Yutaka. Local vol­un­teers included, Trudy Oliver and Kevin Helman.

Oliver, a Repub­li­can voter for 50 years, felt it was impor­tant to to be involved in the elec­tion, “I feel that Pres­i­dent Obama rep­re­sent 100% of the coun­try.” She also expressed her sup­port of the new Afford­able Health­care Act.

Sus­tain­ing work­ers unions and and pro­mot­ing the mid­dle class were two impor­tant fac­tors to Helman.

Posted by Taylor Kaser on Sep 26 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.