Posted on 09/20/2024 8:18:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I was born in Springfield, Ohio. My wife, Fran, and I have lived our entire lives less than 10 miles from this city.
When we were dating in high school, we would go there to see movies at the Regent or State Theater or to eat fried clams at Howard Johnson’s. I remember Fran taking the bus about eight miles from our hometown, Yellow Springs, to Springfield to shop at Wren’s Department Store. Over the years, we’ve eaten countless doughnuts from Schuler’s Bakery, worshiped at St. Raphael Catholic Church and we logged many work hours there when I represented Springfield in the U.S. House and Senate.
Springfield has a rich history of providing refuge for the oppressed and being a place of opportunity. As a stop on the Underground Railroad, the Gammon House, which still stands, was a safe haven for escaped slaves seeking freedom. And, as a stop on the Old National Road, America’s first east/west federal highway, Springfield attracted many settlers both before and after the Civil War. Immigrants from Ireland, Greece, Germany, Italy and other countries helped build the city into what it is today.
For a long time, commerce and manufacturing flourished in Springfield, which earned the title “Champion City” after the founding there of the agriculture implement giant Champion Machine Company.
But the city hit tough times in the 1980s and 1990s, falling into serious economic decline as manufacturing, rail commerce and good-paying jobs dwindled. Now, however, Springfield is having a resurgence in manufacturing and job creation. Some of that is thanks to the dramatic influx of Haitian migrants who have arrived in the city over the past three years to fill jobs.
They are there legally. They are there to work.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You know what, Gov? The people of Springfield don’t recognize it anymore, either.
DeSwine is a RINO, closet never Trumper. DeSwine is nominally better than a Democrat.
He just embarrassed himself nationally since Vivek had a town hall in Springfield and demonstrated the Governor is a LIAR.
Filthy liar. They were brought in to replace Whitey, after using up all his money.
How many Democrat Govenors are writing op eds about Comrade the Commie? Republicans are brilliant.
Dewine is terrible. Very vicious to conservatives. His yellow springs connections explain a lot of his contempt.
That is because Mike Dewine is a GOPe liar with his own Haitian charity! The other Mike in our area (GOP REP Mike Turner) is cut from the same two-faced cloth. If Civil War were to break out, they would both run pleading to the blue side.
Well he’d better tune in. He is the governor
This tool ran to the NY Times to go carry their water for them. What a despicable Assistant Democrat he is.
This is why Hogan in Maryland must be defeated. The Democrat who defeats him will never be interviewed. Hogan, like DeWine, will be the go-to GOP interview to ridicule Populism.
What we have in Springfield is the people making reports. The response is to get local Swamp filth elites to declare the reports bogus.
And the media, of course, reports the Swamp filth.
I’m the Governor of Ohio. I Don’t Recognize the Springfield That My Citizens Describe.
Just keep your pets indoors from now on.
hmmmm.....he just sent help after the debate - law enforcement etc so apparently he was asleep at the switch.
Maybe you should get your ass out more, Mr. Mayor.
Want an absolute load.
Ask the people that go to the city public meetings. How can a city that has seen ‘jobs dwindle’ all-of-a-sudden be experiencing ‘job growth’ by dumping 20,000 uneducated people into a town of 55,000?
That’s almost half the population of the town. That is insane. It’s like waking up in a foreign country - where the culture is completely different and looks nothing like American culture. Treason against its people.
The media are the enemy.
“Clark County Commissioner Melanie Flax Wilt told the News-Sun earlier Thursday that of a jail population of 199 people, two were Haitian immigrants as of last week.”
The biggest beef seems to be about Haitian drivers. DeWine controls the DMV.
Yeah I’m sure all the Haitians magically turned into regular Joe American as soon as they touched magical USA soil. What a clown
“I called Nationwide....the accident rate in Springfield has tripled”
https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1834588260753944600
some people in Springfield obviously lack driving skills:
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1833579168690479250
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