Anderson Township After-Action Report from Starship Trooper

BizzyBlog is pleased to receive this report from the Anderson Township Republican Club meeting last night from Starship Trooper:

The McEwen love fest at the Healthplex was a non-event. I took notes. About 60 people, including the CCV president Phil Burress, the Whistleblower, 23 ATRC members, Tom Brinkman and of course, Duffy Beischel. McEwen is a polished speaker who appears very knowledgeable about the workings of the federal govt. His wife, Liz, and daughter, Meredith, were there. Steve Austin …. was there with his son.

I guess I was shocked to hear Bob refer to himself as “a lifelong resident of this state,” meaning Ohio. He said the Constitution requires that a candidate for the House be 25 years old and a resident of the state he seeks to represent. Bob stumbled a bit when he said “resident.”

At another point he said, “I think the purpose of the law is to abide by them.” Well, he was trying to say that the law is to be obeyed, because it’s the law. That shocked me, too, because of what (has been) uncovered about the residency problems, the driver’s license peculiarities, and the illegal voting.

….. McEwen never mentioned the word, Virginia, once. He also never said the name, Jean Schmidt.

He said that “redistricting” got him out of Congress, and that he built a couple of businesses to support himself and wife and four kids. He said he had so little money when he was in Congress that he couldn’t afford to contribute to the congressional retirement plan. He never once mentioned Amway or Quixtar or Advantage Associates. He never breathed the word, lobbyist, not even once.

He talked about his support of the death penalty and mentioned that he wouldn’t have any trouble saying that in front of the FOP.

He endeavored to paint Jean as pro-tax, as part of the Taft tax and spend bunch, and blamed her in the same breath that he blamed the Taft Administration for moving Ohio’s tax status in the US from 30th to 3d.

He said the theme of his campaign is “More Jobs, Not More Taxes.”

Outside the healthplex there were about 9 or 10 young pups carrying signs asking Bob about his involvement lobbying for Eritrea. On the way home I stopped and praised them for being there.

Duffy made a few snide comments in his opening statement about Jean not showing up. But in general the meeting was very quiet and orderly. The deputy sheriff had nothing to do but stand and listen. Bob’s answers to Duffy’s questions received applause at least 11 times. The meeting lasted just about one hour.

….. The anti-Jean sentiments of most of the ATRC will provoke a loss of membership in my opinion. A number of folks are upset that the club is so one-way in this primary.

Thanks to Starship Trooper for the report.

I have also been told that there was a straw poll, and that McEwen won 22-1. Way to go, Bob.
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RELATED ITEM: Howard Wilkinson’s Enquirer report (”Debaters display mutual disdain — Schmidt and McEwen probe for sore spots”) on the early-evening “debate” on WLWT that preceded the Anderson Township meeting notes that, as expected, the atmosphere was quite testy. Bill Sloat at Cleveland Openers also has a post (HT OH02).