Zanesville Pair Protest Rocky, Space

In Zanesville, Ohio, Fairfield Christian Academy Football Coach Dave Daubenmire has camped outside Congressman Zack Space’s office, stating he will remain until a healthcare town hall occurs. While Daubenmire alleges unanimous community support, seventy-three year old Walter Haggard is unimpressed.[Congressman Zack Space’s Office: Zanesville, Ohio}

Walter Haggard: Coach, why’d you do this?

Dave Daubenmire: This is the fourth quarter. We’re in a war. We could lose representative government.

Walter Haggard: I felt the same way in 67.

Dave Daubenmire: You protested Vietnam?

Walter Haggard: No, the Rocky Colavito trade.

Dave Daubenmire: How can you compare the enormous debt we’re shackling our yet to be born grandchildren with to baseball?

Walter Haggard: I sat on top my garage’s roof for five months, so that my grandchildren could someday have a winning franchise.

Dave Daubenmire: This is about what’s in that dusty old constitution I read, taxation without representation. Thousands of fans went to the park after he was traded, your voice was heard. Our voices aren’t being heard.

Walter Haggard: I never went to the ballpark once, those thousands didn’t speak for me.

Dave Daubenmire: Well, I speak for thousands and thousands of people, many of which have called and said ‘Coach, you’re so brave. I’m not brave. I’m doing my duty...

Walter Haggard: And I did my duty by sitting on that roof and do you know how many times it rained? My wife was washing my raincoats twice a week.

Dave Daubenmire: How can you compare what you did with the obligation we have to sustain representative government. Zack Space represents me and if he doesn’t give this district our voices, we might as well do away with representative government. He has a moral obligation to explain to us.

Walter Haggard: I had a moral obligation to sit on that roof. You know we were a second place team when we traded Rocky and we didn’t finish above fourth in the eight years after that. They snatched away the representative we had in the outfield.

Dave Daubenmire: Didn’t Rocky Colavito come back in 65?

Walter Haggard: Yeah.

Dave Daubenmire: Why’d you sit on the roof in 67?

Walter Haggard: Because my son said he’d never let his yet to be born grandchildren root for a team that would trade away his favorite player and that to me was the ninth inning. I had to do something.

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