{"id":25706,"date":"2018-07-19T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25706"},"modified":"2018-07-20T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:17:06","slug":"jennifers-1st-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25706","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer&#8217;s Question&#8217;s A, B and C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be working on this all night. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re apparently planning a trip to France circa September.  A fair portion of your time now seems to be taken up with preparing for that trip. Other so-called &#8220;outsider&#8221; candidates, like Skip Sandman and Soren Sorensen, are spending this time pounding the pavement. They&#8217;re in it to win it, even if they know that&#8217;s a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>Why should I, Jane Q. Voter, take your candidacy seriously? Enough to donate to you?**   Is your entire candidacy intended to make a point? And, if so, couldn&#8217;t that point have been made more directly?  You had a weekly column in the Reader.  You could have spent every column telling us why Pete Stauber is a Trumpster and the wrong candidate to support.  But as a candidate, you had to give up your newspaper column&#8212;which seems like it was a very direct way to reach your audience if making a point was the idea.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are my ABC&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><strong>A- Why should I, Jane Q. Voter, take your candidacy seriously? Enough to donate to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nDear Jane, I want your vote first in the primary especially if you <strong>1.<\/strong> are an Independent or <strong>2.<\/strong> a Democrat who wants to let Pete Stauber know that you are rooting for a change in Grand Old Party even if you are planning to vote for a Democrat in the General election or <strong>3.<\/strong> a discouraged Republican fed up with the Donald Trump cess pool.<\/p>\n<p>All of these Janes can vote in Minnesota&#8217;s Republican Primary. If they did and that&#8217;s a HUGE if, I&#8217;d beat Pete Stauber. As for the donation, it will likely make Jane feel better than me. I will, however, put it to good use&#8230;&#8230;especially in the Primary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B- Is your entire candidacy intended to make a point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, but more than that its a genuine attempt to turn the huge Edmund Fitzgerald called the Republican Party away from Whitefish Bay during the gales of November. <em>For the sake of God<\/em>,  the whole Party is letting a diaper clad kindergartner turn the ship&#8217;s wheel to Vladivostok. I have a lifetime&#8217;s investment in preserving the Party of Lincoln. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/HWRepublican\/Abe%26Harry.htm\">Abe famously fought a lot of losing battles<\/a> himself so I&#8217;m in good company fighting this improbable campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C- couldn&#8217;t that point have been made more directly?  You had a weekly column in the Reader.  You could have spent every column telling us why Pete Stauber is a Trumpster and the wrong candidate to support.  But as a candidate, you had to give up your newspaper column&#8212;which seems like it was a very direct way to reach your audience if making a point was the idea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jane, Jane, Jane,<\/p>\n<p>You give my bi-weekly column in the Reader waaay too much credit. I know I have my fans but the Readership only goes out to about 35% of the voters in the Eighth District. <\/p>\n<p>Everybody in Duluth knows that when election season comes I&#8217;m like a dog who sees a bone. Until a week before filing I had given no thought to filing a protest campaign. But the continuing circus in the Oval Office and Pete&#8217;s shameless Trump support <em>and<\/em> the fear that Stauber would win in a District that gave Trump a %16 lead over Hillary was more than enough to convince me that by challenging Pete Stauber I could hobble at least one &#8220;Trumpkin.&#8221; For America&#8217;s sake that was a bone very much worth chasing &#8211; win, lose or draw. <\/p>\n<p>And if I lose the Primary I suspect that the Reader&#8217;s publisher, Bob Boone, will let me pontificate again ahead of the General election. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25718\">Click here <\/a>to go to Jennifer&#8217;s next question regarding my party affiliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be working on this all night. Stay tuned. You&#8217;re apparently planning a trip to France circa September. 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