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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 “Party of Lincoln<\/strong>.” I am running against a very nice former policeman, Pete Stauber, who doesn’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 Here’s my story:<\/p>\n 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’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 a “Big Tent” seriously. His successors didn’t. They purged Republican moderates and “liberals” like me out of the party until it was ripe for a would-be dictator. And guess what happened?<\/p>\n I began letting go of the party by degrees. I ran for Congress as an Independent in 1992. I ran for the legislature as a Republican defeating an endorsed Republican candidate in a primary but my independence was no longer welcome. In 2006 I ran another independent campaign for Congress as as a “Unity” party candidate.<\/p>\n But I am a stubborn person. It took me three defeats for the Duluth School Board before I won on the fourth time. This is my fourth campaign for Congress. The incumbent I’m challenging has refused to acknowledge my challenge <\/a>to debate the fitness of Donald Trump as our President and I am desperate to remind voters that Republicans were not always the prisoners of a carnival barker.<\/p>\n Two years ago I won 10% of the vote in the primary against Mr. Stauber without campaigning. If enough patriots vote in this year’s primary who knows. I might find Ronald Reagan’s long discarded big tent.<\/p>\n And check out www.welty4congress.com<\/a> or my Facebook page Harry Welty Give’m Helty<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n And help me spread the message on Facebook by donating so that I can contact voters beyond Duluth and Minnesota’s Iron Range.<\/p>\n https:\/\/donate.fundhero.io\/welty4congress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n