{"id":3075,"date":"2010-06-22T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2010-06-22T10:11:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:11:57","slug":"kicking-up-a-little-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3075","title":{"rendered":"Kicking up a little dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend who has been scouring the Internet found two recent references to my campaign on the Internet with somewhat different takes on my campaign.<\/p>\n

The first reference she sent me was in the political junky’s paradise Minnesota Politics<\/a> which dismissed my campaign for among other things having a “frequent” candidate. They also quite rightly twitted my “campaign website<\/a>” which is as untended as a vacant lot and they said was hawking a hysterical sounding book “The Amazing Colossal Red Plan.” All true, although the news headlines about our public schools seem to bear out my hysteria.<\/p>\n

This appraisal as I told the person who sent it to me was not surprising as it was written by people with little knowledge of the facts on the ground.<\/p>\n

The other site<\/a> was a much more nuanced analysis by Aaron Brown who has followed my career from a distance up in Hibbing. How could I argue with this sample?:<\/p>\n

Welty is an experienced (out of respect, I’ll avoid the Ole Savoir “frequent” label) candidate for state and federal offices, but I’ve always had a soft spot for the guy even though some Duluthians keep calling him a crackpot. I think he’s more of a gadfly, a conscience for that netherworld between Democrat and Republican.<\/p>\n

In that regard it’s notable that Welty is running, I believe, for the first time as a member of the Democratic Farmer Labor Party. He started as a fiscally conservative, socially liberal Republican and then gradually through his career became an independent and, now, as he describes a “Lincoln Democrat.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And who are the Duluthians that are calling me a “crackpot?” Maybe they’re ones who thought making Duluth the only city in the state to allow its school board to impose a half billion school replacement <\/strong>plan without a public vote<\/em>, on the eve of a national financial panic based on regressive property taxes was a smart thing to do. As they say…….”It takes one to know one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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