Editor's note: Due to coverage of the recent storm, Avon-Avon Lake Patch delayed publication of our photo gallery of Mitt Romney's campaign stop in Avon Lake.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's stop at Avon Lake High School Oct. 29 came with all the bells and whistles. It included plenty of local politicians, a former Cleveland Brown, the Ohio Lt. Governor, a state senator and plenty of sign carrying supporters.
Avon Lake council members Dan Bucci and Jennifer Fenderbosch addressed the crowd, as did Sen. Rob Portman, candidates A.J. Torres, Nan Baker and Jim Renacci, Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor and former Cleveland Brown Gary Baxter.
Avon Lake High School's Chorale, under the direction of Bill Zurkey, sang the National Anthem before Romney took the stage and energized the crowd, some of whom waited for hours on a cold, rainy day.
Avon-Avon Lake Patch live tweeted from the event.
Nicole Davis
10:50 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
I still don't understand why a campaign event was allowed to happen during school hours and interrupt the school day.
George Z
12:08 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Would you feel the same way if Obama or Biden spoke?
It had to be pretty exciting for the kids. Being at such an event in the center of such an election. You don't think this will raise their awareness about the election cycle?
Nicole Davis
12:39 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Yes, I would have felt the same if it was a campaign stop for Obama. We do not allow our teachers to convey their support for one candidate or another, yet the whole school can become part of a "Victory Rally" for one candidate? Are our children living in a bubble that they need "awareness" of this election? Have they not heard nor seen advertisements in every fashion available? I thought that the candidates night the school held was to convey awareness?
Instead our children either sat through a campaign rally or sat in the PAC watching movies for 3 hours. Lots of fair election coverage there.
Curt Fell
12:58 am on Saturday, November 3, 2012
My sentiments exactly!
Colter95
1:40 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
I only wish a campaign event like this would be held at one of my kids schools... It's a tremendous learning experience, and what an opportunity to see the current president or the future president, in Mitt Romney...
Do you think Obama is a good guy and a straight shooter? Read on, please: Obama has been an economic disaster the last four years, and this Benghazi disgrace is completely unacceptable... This country does not reward failure and dishonesty out of the White House...
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-outsourcer-overreach/
http://obamalies.net/list-of-obamas-failures
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/opinion/patti-schmidt-list-of-obama-s-failures-is-long/article_7a139146-fec2-11e1-8e81-0019bb2963f4.html
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/08/obamas-foreign-policy-failures-catalogued.php
http://www.facebook.com/notes/republican-security-council/the-top-10-obama-flip-flops-by-ari-fleischer/171275079638338
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100083104/the-u-turn-president-barack-obama-top-ten-flip-flops/
Romney/Ryan 2012
Colter95
11:40 am on Sunday, November 4, 2012
Wrong on the economy, wrong on Benghazi, and wrong on the auto bailout... The time for real change is NOW!!
http://www.policymic.com/articles/14285/obama-lies-obama-auto-bailout-did-not-rescue-detroit
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-outsourcer-overreach/
http://twitchy.com/2012/10/23/obama-lies-about-romneys-position-on-auto-bailouts-conservatives-hit-back/
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/10/26/letterman-slams-obama-auto-bailout-lie-followed-maddow-parroting-same-