{"id":3188,"date":"2010-08-03T07:31:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:23:51","slug":"setting-the-record-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3188","title":{"rendered":"Setting the record straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to thank the writer of today’s letter<\/a> in the DNT defending Roger Reinert from my “misinformation.”<\/p>\n

First off I appreciate the mention of my blog:<\/p>\n

am writing this in response to misinformation spread by state Senate candidate Harry Welty. A posting at Welty’s lincolndemocrat.com site was completely off-base, as was Welty’s letter to the editor of Aug. 2 in response to the News Tribune’s endorsement of his opponent, Roger Reinert. Welty’s letter was headlined, “Reinert didn’t listen to voters’ views on Red Plan.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the letter I sent to the Trib, that Mr. LaFleuer criticizes, I also put the name of my blog in the original text but then I took it out again deciding that it was better to put in some facts to bolster my arguments.<\/p>\n

Mr. LaFleur offers no facts. He simply opines that I have been divisive. I suppose I have been divisive, in much the same way a rape victim that complains is a trouble maker. I didn’t start the Red Plan without a community vote and as new insights about its destructive power and the lies undergirding it come to light my blog mentions them.<\/p>\n

I’m quite prepared to be exposed for my misrepresentations. I just need a single, solitary, erroneous fact to be pointed out for to admit my mistake. Mr. LaFleur has failed to do this. <\/p>\n

He has said he has found Roger Reinert to be a good fellow to work with. Even in my ads I agree that “Roger is a nice guy.” However Roger did ignore complaints about the Red Plan. I presume this was because his powerful backers in the construction industry and trades wanted it built no questions asked. It is for that reason that my ad also says: “Sometimes nice guys should finish last.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d like to thank the writer of today’s letter in the DNT defending Roger Reinert from my “misinformation.” First off I appreciate the mention…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188"}],"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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}