{"id":19468,"date":"2017-02-16T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19468"},"modified":"2017-02-16T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:03:52","slug":"19468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=19468","title":{"rendered":"Rascals are rascals no matter under what banner"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Buddy sent me a link<\/a> about DFLers who were taking advantage of their connections to leach off of our new Billion dollar Football Stadium. He said he was “grateful for living in a state where the political reaction to this shit (finally?) seems to reflect that it stinks.”<\/p>\n

I agree. I’d hate to live with the hypocrisy we are seeing in Washington DC. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CREDO\/videos\/10155814178245968\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I began researching one of my many quickly evaporating books in 2005. It was about the biggest political scandal in Minnesota History that I know of and which was centered in Duluth. One of the chief rascals was a fellow named Tom Kelm. Michele Kelm-Helgen is his daughter. Apparently the acorn fell close to the oak. <\/p>\n

Still, Michelle’s extravagances are a pale shadow of her Father’s exploits which are only hinted at in News stories of his Era. He was a preternaturally lucky gambler in Vegas. He escaped the law only to reincarnate as a lobbyist for the Cancer stick industry but there was one little tornado after his exit. It was called the Minnesota Massacre<\/a>. The link in the last sentence takes you to a story that puts all the focus on the BWCA controversy and none on the scandals overseen by Mr. Kelm during Governorship of Wendell Anderson. <\/p>\n

I can only hope that a politial massacre of political ne’er do wells<\/em> also ends up being reflected in national politics some day in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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