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 ...
Maybe you should get your ass out more, Mr. Governor.
“Over the years, we’ve eaten countless doughnuts from Schuler’s Bakery, worshiped at St. Raphael Catholic Church”
To live, to love, to leave a legacy...
For a second there I thought this was going to be a plagiarized Harris speech... “I grew up middle class”
He says it’s great because they are there “to fill jobs”.
So then Ohio is finished unless it is filled up with Haitians?
He goes on and on how he grew up and dated there and they loved it.
He loved it so much that he thought this town of 40,000 needed to be inundated with 20,000 or 40,000 Haitian immigrants!
Didn’t Bush do the same thing with Somalis?
In The NY Times.
There should be an army of Republicans in Ohio government publicly coming out against Dewine
They won’t. Silence is complicity
And our neighbors had beautiful lawns back then. - Gov. DeWine
DeWine, the globalist, has no credibility. Zero.
This guy is a total gaslighting douchbag. Take a look at Vivek’s townhall and Nick Johnson’s video and come to your own conclusion. It’s all to save Harris and it’s disgusting.
Dewine makes no mention of the charity he and his wife have been running in Haiti since 1998.
The evil left must be desperate about this story exploding to send this guy out as a spokesliberal.
I’d bet the Kamala campaign or Obama’s team wrote the essay.
Mike DeWine is a Republican
But he can never, ever admit what’s happening in Springfield.
If he does, then it means he didn’t take a stand and/or he’s complicit, and he loses all conservative support.
so he’s got to go against Trump and Vance and people’s lying eyes.
He’s done either way.
He says it’s great because they are there “to fill jobs”.
How many of those Haitians actually have jobs?
I am having a senior moment and have forgotten who said:
“You can be part of the solution or part of the problem”
Gov DeWine certainly seems to be part of the problem when it comes to the invasion of the United States orchestrated by the Biden/Harris regime.
And I also note that Gov DeWine went to the NEW YORK TIMES to whine.
DeWine is a Kasich-Ohio-’republican’. Always has been. He LOATHES Trump.
Really all you need to know.
Dewine runs a Charity in Haiti???? Please MORE!!
It’s a bad idea even best case
Even 20,000 boer refugees and lord knows they’d jump on it
Would still be problematic
If it were Somalis it’d be worse
Contrary to scuttlebutt Haitians are pretty amiable but just way out of place and not super brite and able to blend and so on
DeWine is a feckless, spineless coward. It he told me the sky was blue, I would go outside and check.
Mike DeWine is a Republican
^^^^^^^^^^^ MEANS NOTHING ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So is Adam Kinzinger, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Dick Cheney, et al.
PDJT needs the entire “documented or undocumented” migrant issue to stay on the front burner. Because it is a FRONT BURNER issue. This matters. 50% of a towns populated is supplanted in a couple years because our overlords think it is a good idea? Not no, but hell F*KIN& No.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.