Breakfast - Wednesday, 9/5/12 Facts Matter

It's day #3, 7:30 a.m.  We, delegates, know the drill.  The breakfasts have been tasty & healthy:  juice, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage links, pastries, fruit, & coffee.  While we enjoy breakfast. . . there are more speakers.  Just when I'm all "speeched out" Senator Sherrod Brown steps to the podium.  Now, I'm paying attention while this very hard-working legislator lists virtually every Ohio town/city that has workers involved in the auto industry.  Sen. Brown spoke of the Chevy Cruze (engine block - Defiance;  transmission from Toledo; aluminum wheels on the Cruze Eco - Alcoa in Cleveland).  Lordstown is the assembly plant location.  The above is a partial list but one understands the importance of the Auto Bailout that saved 1.1 million jobs nationwide.  Ohio has an unemployment rate 1% below the national average & Lake County is at 6.2%.

This picture of Senator Brown, his wife, Connie Schultz (Pulitzer Prize winning former P.D. columnist), & daughter, Jenn Brown, was taken at the Convention.