Vice President Mike Pence drops by for lunch

Posted on October 12, 2018

*A last minute visit from the Vice President for US Rep. Rodney Davis (PHOTO:Dave Dahl)*

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD– A crowd estimated at 250 stood in a country club ballroom for a not-quite-half-hour speech from Vice President Mike Pence Friday afternoon.

Not surprisingly in Springfield, Pence invoked the name of the Great Emancipator.

“Abraham Lincoln was asked if he thought God was on his side,” said Pence. “He said, in essence, in response, ‘I don’t concern myself so much with God is on our side as with whether we’re on God’s side.’”

And Pence urged the crowd to go vote, take a friend, and take time to pray between now and Election Day.

The visit was in support of U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville), facing a re-election challenge from Democrat Betsy Dirksen Londrigan of Springfield. She is a protege of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

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