Nominate Projects for my Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs
by Jennifer on 10.09.2009
Although times are hard, the future of Ohio is bright -- thanks to the spirit of innovation, creativity, and hard work that has been a beacon for Ohio and its people since the days of Thomas Edison and the light bulb, Granville Woods and the mobile railway telegraph, Josephine Cochran and the dishwasher, and of course The Wright Brothers and the airplane.
My campaign for the U.S. Senate is launching our "Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs." The history of Ohio maps a trail of innovation over time and geography that sets Ohio apart from so many other states. In times like these, when we focus on what has made our state realize progress, I am struck by the wealth that is our very people. I have often said that our diversity is our greatest strength. When it comes to ways to promote economic progress for Ohio, we need only start with our people to see our potential. My Senate candidacy is about the kind of leadership that will empower that potential to grow jobs and progress for a state that deserves so much.
Our Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs encourages Ohio's entrepreneurs and assists small businesses with big ideas by highlighting their outstanding vision and creativity. I'll be traveling across the state, promoting the work and efforts of innovators and visionaries in technology, business, health care, agriculture and education to help bring together the people and resources that make jobs and progress happen for the people of Ohio.
I urge you to nominate Ohio businesses, organizations, individuals, or institutions who offer Ohio new ways to grow jobs for the 21st century that will sustain our economy, our quality of life and our future for a strong, clean and healthy Ohio. We've established a place on our web site to accept your nominations, and I encourage you to visit the site today to nominate local projects that reflect and promote our state's history of innovation, creativity, and hard work. That's how we've always brought more jobs to Ohio.
Make no mistake, I know first-hand from traveling around the state and talking to Ohioans that our working families are hurting right now. Unemployment is going up and jobs continue to evaporate. We are experiencing the receding effects of a near economic tsunami that has been called back by quick and drastic action to quell the tide of failed economic, trade and budgeting policies. Those policies trampled the lives of many everyday Ohioans and their families. In their aftermath, we are stunned at the Wall Street greed that treated companies for which many of our families worked for years -- becoming a part of "families" and communities within those companies -- as mere bargaining chips in a poker game, leaving working families with no health care, no pensions and no sense of pride in their accomplishment. That's not the American spirit you and I know, and that's certainly not the heritage of Ohio.
My Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs means utilizing the talent, hard work, and creativity of everyday Ohioans to come together for solutions. When we take stock of what we have to offer ourselves and the nation, we gain new resolve. Ohioans have what it takes, and with leadership that's focused on public service -- doing what's right for our families, our communities, and our state and country -- we can do what we've been struggling to do for so long, to create more jobs for more Ohioans.
I'm counting on your help to help identify Ohioans you think are helping to move this state ahead with their vision and creativity. Please take a few minutes to think about and identify innovative businesses, programs or projects that you have encountered anywhere in the state, and visit our web site to nominate projects to be included in my Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs.
The online nomination form is simple and quick, and there are so many cutting edge businesses, programs and projects that are just waiting for you to nominate them. They will benefit from the publicity and promotion of being included in the Innovation Tour for Ohio Jobs and will be on my mind as I show Ohioans some of the things I want to do for my state as its next U.S. Senator. Please take a few minutes to visit the site and submit your nominations. And thanks for your help in making Ohio, the state that you and I already love and treasure, even better.