Deep Fried Nation

by Andrew Bird

The VoteForBusiness Bandwagon to Minneapolis rolled into the New York State Fair and let me say it was like Red Bull for your retinas. They have anything and everything you could ever want to see, in vivid color.

And as in our other "Blue" State Fair, if it was edible....they deep fried it. It's not only in our cars that oil, be it vegetable or mineral, is a non-partisan national obsession.  Corn-dog please, yeah, make it a double.

We did our part to stimulate the airbrushed t-shirt and random souvenir economy -- while engaging in some intellectual property detective work (below).  Then we witnessed the greatest...thing...ever...monkeys racing dogs.

Yet even while watching the future of entertainment, we kept our eye on the ball and signed up a massive number of people who let us know what issues matter to them most.

We met Lynne, a small business owner whose husband owns and operates one of the largest real estate developing companies in the region.  The issue that weighed most on her family’s mind was local government making it difficult to develop and re-zone land.  In local elections, this affects the way her and her husband vote before any other major issue.

After the fair we are headed to Columbus, Ohio by way of Cleveland.  But first, before we leave, the entire Bandwagon Team is headed on a five mile run to work off the deep fried Oreos, funnel cake, corndogs and candy apples that we ate. And then we're getting a salad, those monkeys knew how to ride.