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Published February 20, 2008 07:21 pm - A Robert Lebzelter column for Feb. 24, 2008
Feds need to build economic center here
A Robert Lebzelter column
Ohio is always a big contender in the race for president.
We are a microcosm of the whole country.
So how come some big-gun politicians don’t come visit us in Ashtabula County?
I got my hopes up when I got an e-mail from Hillary’s camp that she was visiting northeastern Ohio.
Well, northeastern Ohio to the Hillary folks is Cleveland, Massillon and Norwalk. OK, Cleveland is northeast Ohio.
But Massillon? Norwalk?
You can’t get any more northeastern Ohioish than Ashtabula County.
Come on Barack, come on Hillary. Who is needier than Ashtabula County? Who better needs words of wisdom on how to create better times?
It’s not like we get presidents or presidential contenders around here too often.
Yeah, George Bush zipped through the county in 2004, but he never strayed from Interstate 90.
Teddy Roosevelt toured the Conneaut docks, but that was a century ago. Abraham Lincoln traveled through the county in April 1865. Of course, he was dead at the time.
So we are due.
Potential future presidents should come here and pledge, if elected, to create a Federal Center for Economic Development here.
Such a center could benefit the whole country.
This federal center would study why Ashtabula County is in worse economic doldrums than the rest of the state. The results could be applied everywhere.
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