There are many business owners in Adams County with whom I disagree politically, and I know there are many who disagree with my political views, but I will never publicly or personally support banning those local businesses. In today’s world, supporting local business and buying local is very important.
There are a lot of environmental fools pushing to ban local businesses, as they had the audacity to advertise in the 2021 Eisenhower Dinner program for the Adams County Republican Committee.
These guys want to hurt local businesses by buying a $100 ad that was printed maybe 500 copies a year ago. Local businesses that Morrow specifically cited for boycotts recently include: Tommy’s Pizza, Hollabaugh Orchard, Dunlap’s Restaurant, Fourscore Brewery and Dobbin’s House.
I suspect that the woman who is calling for people in our area to ban these long standing and successful businesses in our area has no idea the amount of food and service each of these businesses provide to Adams County.
Each of these businesses is a big supporter of non-profit organizations in the county, all of which support school districts in the county with donations ranging from food to supplies to money.
I know the owners of all these businesses and you could not find better, more community minded, hard working, hard working employers in our area. I guess the brain child behind pushing the boycott didn’t think about or care how boycotting local businesses would affect their neighbors who are employed in these businesses.
I wish we could all be financially independent with perfect morals like Beth Farnham and not have to worry about our financial futures and live close-minded and self-righteous lives. I’m sure she’s running around shopping and eating at chain restaurants in Hanover today.
To all who care, who know and believe my political views, many people boycott the paper because of my views, but I am not as small-minded as them, or, I am glad to say, like Beth Farnham.
By the way, Beth, one of those under the cover of darkness, I’ll tell you, the secret Adams County Republican meetings I attend has a political agenda against local business to change the future of the world. It has been discussed. I think Adams County Republicans care too much about our community and neighbors to punish them for their political views.
Roger Lund and I are about as far apart as two people can be politically, but I respect his business acumen, his hard work and all his business ventures. Jake Schindel and Elle have many political and personal differences, but that doesn’t stop my wife and daughter from going to the bar on weekends for coffee or hot chocolate.
At home, boycotting a business because the business is exercising its First Amendment rights to promote their products and services borders on American-Americans and certainly crosses the line into pure stupidity. I remember the Adams County political candidate who talked about ending the boycott of businesses that advertise in local Republican publications, how did that work out for candidate Qually in November?
By the way, I wrote this column while eating lunch at Dunlap’s, now I’m headed to Hollabaugh’s for fresh fruit, I plan to grab pizza at Tommy’s tonight, and I’m taking my family to Dobbin House for dinner this weekend.
