{"id":25019,"date":"2018-05-29T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25019"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:04:46","slug":"im-still-here-no-trip-to-the-secretary-of-state-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25019","title":{"rendered":"I’m still here, no trip to the Secretary of State yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in no hurry. For technical reasons I can’t open up a campaign website any time soon. Ditto a donation page although I seem to still have an active place for people to donate to my defunct school board campaign war chest. <\/p>\n

I have been doing a little researching and thinking and came up with some provocative ads I’d like to spread around the 8th Congressional District. But not with my money. I spent enough of it already fighting the Trump haters (God bless them) who wanted to purge male genitals from all public offices. Who can blame them? I didn’t wear a pink pussy hat but I gladly marched with them last year through the skywalks of Duluth.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent my morning in France and the west coast of Africa typing French with the help of an automatic translator. One French speaker told me I was doing well. After five months! That’s how you get to Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n

I was pointed to some very cool music by my new friend from Benin who doesn’t seem to mind corresponding with a 67 year old dinosaur. He didn’t know what I meant by that.<\/p>\n

Here’s Angelique Kidjo<\/a> at Austin City Limits.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I do have a category 15<\/a> which goes back to my posts when I challenged Jim Oberstar in 2006. It was a lot of posts for very little campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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