{"id":36137,"date":"2013-06-10T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36137"},"modified":"2013-06-10T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:39:43","slug":"a-day-in-small-town-indiana-with-a-democrat-i-voted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36137","title":{"rendered":"A day in small town Indiana, with a Democrat I voted for."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look, I\u2019m a conservative. Generally I prefer GOP voting records to DEM ones. But the odd thing is, I like Democrats better (personally) for some reason. I honestly don\u2019t know why that is. My favorite politician will likely always be Jim Marshall. But there are a few others like Chet Edwards, Stephanie Herseth, Mike Michaud, and Brian Baird who I always liked, often despite their actual votes. (In fact, I\u2019d be hard pressed to come up with any reason to vote for Baird other than that he came around on Iraq after talking to the troops.)<\/p>\n

So last week I got a call at work from John Gregg. Most of you won\u2019t know who he is, but any Hoosiers will remember him as the dude with the moustache that ran for Governor. Now, he lost, but it was significantly closer than most suspected. I told him when I met him that I would vote for him because he seemed such a nice guy, but I also told him that I had nothing against his opponent, Mike Pence, who is now our Governor. In fact, one time I was seated next to Mr Pence on an airplane flying from DC out here, and he was a wonderful, cerebral sort of guy. Plus, he was sitting in economy, which pleased me. Not exactly setting the world on fire with his charisma, but seemed pretty solid.
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Anyway, Mr Gregg let me know that the First Christian Church of Sandborn was having their 100th anniversary, and asked if I wanted to come down. Now, some of you may remember the search for the family of Richard Owen<\/a>. For those who don\u2019t remember that one, a Salvation Army in upstate New York found a Purple Heart citation for Sgt Richard E. Owen and wanted help returning it to his family. It took months, but we finally located a relative and returned it. But one of the things about Owen was that his Dad was the pastor at FCC of Sandborn, and they dedicated a new building there in June of 1913. The Pastor\u2019s wife was at that time 7\u00bd months with the future paratrooper who would serve with the Band of Brothers, Easy Company, 2\/506 PIR. Richard Owen would die with his boots on, when stick 66 crashed in France on D-Day.<\/p>\n

So, as part of honoring brothers who went before me, I went down to spend the day with Mr. Gregg, who is actually a member of that church. I had some coffee with Mr. Gregg\u2019s parents and friends, and enjoyed an excellent spaghetti lunch spread the church put on. I\u2019ll have more on that later, but it got me fairly philosophical about elections. Specifically, do you guys vote for the candidate who you think will vote more like you, or the one you personally like?<\/p>\n

Mr. Gregg\u2019s voting record might be a tough sell here. It\u2019s tough for me at times to reconcile it. I\u2019m fine with most of his liberal social stuff (except Planned Parenthood funding) but I support Right to Work, free trade, etc.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was watching this video of his campaign this morning, and although my GOP bona fides might take a substantial hit, I\u2019m glad I voted for him.
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