{"id":1130,"date":"2007-11-02T23:46:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:56:03","slug":"a-wounded-man-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"A wounded man replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent the Budgeteer the letter which follows. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/articles\/index.cfm?page=comments&#038;id=21060\">It&#8217;s also on Ralph&#8217;s feedback page<\/a>. I rather like the feedback page. Quite a number of folks thought Ralph was just as bad as the dirty trickster another portion of his column criticized.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Mr. Doty first hinted at his opposition to Let Duluth Vote six or seven weeks ago I offered to meet him for a cup of coffee. Doty declined my invitation. It&#8217;s a lot easier to assassinate someone&#8217;s character if you don&#8217;t know them. <\/p>\n<p>Ralph was out of town the years I served on the School Board so I&#8217;m not surprised he has blown a trivial and humorous incident out of proportion. As for &#8220;obscenity laced?&#8221; One stray GD and it&#8217;s a lacing? I understand our current Superintendent laced at least one school board meeting himself in Faribault. It happens. I&#8217;ve always said that: &#8220;If you can&#8217;t be passionate about your children &#8211; what can you be passionate about?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little surprised that Mr. Doty would wait until the last minute in a campaign to spring such a vicious smear. I&#8217;ve been open about my suspicions about Johnson Controls for well over a month now. Everything I&#8217;ve had to say about the company I&#8217;ve put in print or online on my blog. I&#8217;m more firmly convinced of their slipperiness with regard to the Red Plan than ever. <\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the election will be known by the time this letter is published. What impact Mr. Doty&#8217;s vitriol played in the outcome will never be known. <\/p>\n<p>Harry Welty <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent the Budgeteer the letter which follows. It&#8217;s also on Ralph&#8217;s feedback page. I rather like the feedback page. Quite a number of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20960,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/20960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}