{"id":31213,"date":"2020-06-23T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31213"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:56:49","slug":"welcome-to-harry-weltys-congressional-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31213","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Harry Welty&#8217;s Congressional Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49946889057_d53db69fd9_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every few days I will put this post back at the beginning of the blog because each new post makes it fall farther from the front. I have one ambition at the moment. To cripple any politician joining Trump as he feasts on the corpse of the Republican Party,  once called the &#8220;<strong>Party of Lincoln<\/strong>.&#8221; I am running against a very nice former policeman, Pete Stauber, who doesn&#8217;t have the courage to say anything critical of a man who will be long remembered as having ushered in the lowest point in American History since the traitors (whose statues he is protecting) tried to break America in two. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my story:<\/p>\n<p>For years after Watergate my mission was to prove that there were good reasons that my family had been a part of the Party of Lincoln for four generations. After President Nixon it was shear stubbornness that kept me in the party. My family was full of wonderful Republicans. Although I was not one of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s fans it became easier to be a Republican after the election of the sunny and successful Reagan. I took his call for a party with &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; seriously. His successors didn&#8217;t. They purged Republican moderates and &#8220;liberals&#8221; like me out of the party until it was ripe for a would be dictator. I began letting go of the party by degrees when I ran for Congress as an Independent in 1992. I ran for the legislature as a Republican even defeating an endorsed Republican candidate in one primary but my independence was no longer welcome. In 2006 I ran one more independent campaign for Congress as as a &#8220;Unity&#8221; party candidate.<\/p>\n<p>By 2016 the Republican Party was so short of principles or principled candidates that Donald Trump had no difficulty brushing twenty straw men aside. His &#8220;What have you got to lose&#8221; salesmanship was hard to argue against. But now we know what he had to lose. For the first time since George Washington&#8217;s election one man runs America but Donald Trump no George Washington!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to replace a tick with a tiger in this campaign vote for me, Harry Welty. If you need more convincing I am a writer and have a blog full of information. Start by checking out the topics also found on this site either to the right or at the bottom if you are on a cell phone. <\/p>\n<p>I am in the process of organizing a campaign website <a href=\"https:\/\/welty4Congress.com\">www.welty4congress.com<\/a>. You might also hunt down my whimsical Facebook page <em><strong>Harry Welty Give&#8217;m Helty<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to send five dollars to someone returning a little bit of Abraham Lincoln to a once Grand Old Party you can make an online donation below. If you are wondering how serious I am two years ago I won 10% of the vote in the primary against Mr. Stauber without campaigning. I simply added my name to the ballot. Only one two things have changed since then. Donald Trump has been revealed to be little short of the Anti-christ and Congressman Stauber has proven to be his loyal lackey. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.fundhero.io\/welty4congress\">https:\/\/donate.fundhero.io\/welty4congress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.fundhero.io\/welty4congress\">DONATE to A Republican challenging a Trumplican<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This page replaces an earlier welcome page. <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31083\">Feel free to take a look at it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few days I will put this post back at the beginning of the blog because each new post makes it fall farther from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,19,133,127,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congressional-election-2020","category-harry-welty","category-pete-stauber-for-congress","category-trump-2016","category-welty-4-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=31213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31219,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31213\/revisions\/31219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}