{"id":20662,"date":"2017-03-02T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=20662"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:14:41","slug":"i-write-a-pretty-good-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=20662","title":{"rendered":"I write a pretty good letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to 2009 posts in my apostraphe replacement labors. I just read my letter endorsing four candidates for the school board in 2009 that the DNT saw fit <em>not<\/em> to endorse. <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=2673&#038;action=edit\">Its pretty good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A little history: In 2009 I didn&#8217;t think I could win a seat for the school board having lost to Judy Seliga-Punyko in 2007 for the 2nd. District seat. So, in 2009 I campaigned for other candidates who were skeptical about the Red Plan. In 2009 Art Johnston, who my letter endorses, and I were barely speaking to each other. <\/p>\n<p>Another candidate I endorsed, Marci Stromgren, was so worried that I would hurt her campaign that when she saw me at a press conference she called she walked over and asked me to leave the camera range even though I had helped her to raise a few hundred dollars for campaign contributions. <\/p>\n<p>Marci and I have always had an up and down political relationship. I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AgOzrBgjErQ\">her interview of me<\/a> on youtube from a year ago which is quite cordial and informative. At this week&#8217;s school board meeting she called me out by name for suggesting at a preceding budget meeting that we needed more taxes because of a potentially ruinous fiscal future. Didn&#8217;t bother me. I have no problem with straight-talking people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to 2009 posts in my apostraphe replacement labors. I just read my letter endorsing four candidates for the school board in 2009&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662"}],"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=20662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20666,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions\/20666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}