{"id":2530,"date":"2009-08-22T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2009-08-22T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:18:16","slug":"incivility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Incivility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/media\/thumb\/jpg\/2009\/08\/14\/welty.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/media\/thumb\/jpg\/2009\/08\/14\/welty.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just looked up a link to Ralph Doty&#8217;s column today. When I got to the Budgeteer&#8217;s online site I was amused to see this picture of me. Its one a friend told me a while back makes me look sinister. For that reason I had the Budgeteer take a friendlier picture of me. Perhaps for <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.forumcomm.com\/?publisher_ID=36&#038;article_id=127805\">this story <\/a>the Budge preferred my more serious minded picture. <\/p>\n<p>For is part Ralph comments toward the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/128270\/\">his column <\/a>about an intruder accosting him at his Central High reunion to chastise him about his support of Johnson Controls. I heard about it afterward from some flummoxed Let Duluth Vote supporters who fretted that Ralph would use the occasion to further bash his critics. I don&#8217;t blame Ralph. I don&#8217;t much like it when folks follow me home (<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2477\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2496\">here<\/a>) and raise a stink either. <\/p>\n<p>Considering that Ralph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/RedChronicles\/DirtyDoty.htm\">was the first <\/a>to heap abuse by calling for a libel suit on critics of Johnson Controls I have a hard time sympathizing with him. That was two years ago. A civil debate would have been nice but a vote would have been even better. Its not surprising that the debate has grown less civil since no referendum has been permitted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked up a link to Ralph Doty&#8217;s column today. When I got to the Budgeteer&#8217;s online site I was amused to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530"}],"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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}