{"id":31052,"date":"2020-06-11T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31052"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:53:05","slug":"welty4congress-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31052","title":{"rendered":"Welty4Congress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still building the website. It will be simple but there is a learning curve I&#8217;m climbing and I will link to it when I don&#8217;t find it too embarrassing. It will be the third website I&#8217;ve developed for a Congressional race. The first time I did it for Congress was 2006. Back then it was called Welty4Congress.org. I was surpised to learn that the Library of Congress took note of Congressional campaign websites and archived them. I long since let the domain name go and gave up the site but you can take a peak at it here at the Library of Congress site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/lcwaN0001003\/\">https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/lcwaN0001003\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see my irritation with the GOP on <a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.loc.gov\/all\/20061004182923\/http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\/Intro1.htm\">this page<\/a> of that website.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Delay who ransacked Democrats also profoundly changed the playing field. He broke old precedents for instance he pulled off a mid decade gerrymander of his state of Texas to replace several Democrats with Republican congressman. He was also convicted of money laundering and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/jan\/10\/tom-delay-jail-money-laundering\">sentenced to three years in prison<\/a>.  Denny Hastert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/18\/us\/dennis-hastert-released.html\">was another peach.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still building the website. It will be simple but there is a learning curve I&#8217;m climbing and I will link to it when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052"}],"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=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31056,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions\/31056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}