{"id":3218,"date":"2010-08-09T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2010-08-09T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:04:26","slug":"ashland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"Ashland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve campaigned little for the past week. In some ways its my instinct to play a good host for my father in law. In some ways its cussedness. Although I hadn&#8217;t ever expected to run for public office again, let alone the state senate, its true that being a senator has been an ambition for most of my adult life.  So, I should have campaigned harder going down the stretch&#8230;..Right?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where my cussedness rears up its cussed head, if my last three years of fighting for a vote on the Red Plan (actually almost four) then I&#8217;ll be switched if I&#8217;ll campaign mindlessly. If the voters don&#8217;t have a pretty good idea who I am by now they shouldn&#8217;t be voting for me.<\/p>\n<p>So, today Claudia her Father and I drove to Ashland Wisconsin. It wasn&#8217;t planned. We first drove to Pattison State Park to see the falls. They were breathtaking as always. Heading off to Ashland was just a spontaneous decision we made as we climbed back in the car. We traveled across Northern Wisconsin and had a terrific lunch at an old favorite restaurant of ours, the Blue Water Grille. It was an excellent decision. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After that we kept cool in the car and drove to Bayfield and then home. It was too much time in the car but a nice drive nonetheless. My Father in law will fly out early tomorrow morning and by that time it will be to late to do any last minute campaigning. Whew!<\/p>\n<p>All the family gathered for dinner to enjoy the second supper provided by our fishing trip earlier this week. The Salmon was nice and we had a passel of ripe corn on the cob to go with it. We picked the corn up at a road side stand in Superior upon our return. Dad says he picked up too many pounds visiting us. We enjoyed every one of them that we put on him.<\/p>\n<p>I may chicken out and not post my prediction about tomorrow night&#8217;s campaign results. Even as I wrote it the thought of my critics dancing on my grave should my prediction fall flat annoyed me. Oh well, I&#8217;ll probably suck it up and post it anyway. Eating crow is good for one&#8217;s soul. (If you believe that I&#8217;ve got a high school to sell you)<\/p>\n<p>One comment I withheld last night is worth mentioning now that its effectively too late for Roger to do anything about it. Having gone to the trouble of making a television ad I was surprised last night to see it hadn&#8217;t been made part of Roger&#8217;s campaign webpage. At least I couldn&#8217;t find it. It was the first time I&#8217;ve seen the page. If you want to see it you&#8217;ll have to do a google search like I did.<\/p>\n<p>Since I haven&#8217;t put a webpage together I shouldn&#8217;t crow about this. Perhaps by now Roger has appended it to the website. If not, it seems a serious oversight for a candidate who is campaigning about his internet savvy. I&#8217;m sure that if Roger prevails tomorrow he will remedy this oversight.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Roger well tomorrow. As I&#8217;ve said he&#8217;s a nice guy. Whether, if elected, he advances much further than this in his life&#8217;s journey remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve campaigned little for the past week. In some ways its my instinct to play a good host for my father in law. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"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=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}