Many of the nearly 500 Ohio delegates, alternates and guests were on the floor of the Tampa Bay Times Forum Tuesday night wearing special "Buckeye Badges,'' hand-made by Fran DeWine, the wife of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
Fran DeWine has painstakingly made the hundreds of badges for each of the last six Republican conventions.
They feature real buckeye nuts that come from the trees on the DeWine family farm near Cedarville.
"It's a lot of work, drilling through all those buckeyes,'' her husband said. "They're tough nuts."