{"id":33745,"date":"2022-07-24T12:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33745"},"modified":"2022-07-24T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T17:38:54","slug":"now-that-ive-kept-my-apology-up-at-the-top-of-my-blog-for-a-week-back-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33745","title":{"rendered":"Now that I&#8217;ve kept my apology up at the top of my blog for a week&#8230;.back to business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago it became obvious to me that there would not be a viral moment in which Northern Minnesota would be flooded with news of my challenge to Pete Stauber. I began easing off then since the only means of sustaining me financially was with our savings which I&#8217;ve always considered my wife&#8217;s and not mine. And even the random thousand here and there would only go so far&#8230;&#8230;Then I looked at myself acting like a fury and didn&#8217;t like what I saw. Desperation drives politicians to become idiots. I would not want to win a campaign under false pretenses let alone lose one that way. I was operating as though Pete Stauber had voted against allowing four state&#8217;s to cast the legitimate votes of their electors. He didn&#8217;t &#8230;&#8230;.I was wrong to talk as though Pete Stauber had and I was stricken with guilt&#8230;..I&#8217;m a truth teller, (I tell myself and others) But I&#8217;ve stretched the truth. Damn me.<\/p>\n<p>But before the day was out I reminded myself that Congressman Stauber is every bit the coward I claimed before. He knows the election wasn&#8217;t stolen. An honest man or woman would say so&#8230;&#8230;like John McCain who was booed by his supporters election night 2008 when he told them Barack Obama was the president elect. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the sort of people Stauber ought to be setting straight:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is important to get out to as many people as possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XTneio6WPO\">pic.twitter.com\/XTneio6WPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clairecmc\/status\/1550926815987990530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pete owes it to America to acknowledge Biden&#8217;s victory. I don&#8217;t expect to hear anything from Stauber any time soon so I will pursue the goal I set out for myself from the beginning of 2022. I will do anything honest I can to make sure such a congressman no longer misrepresents the voters of Minnesota&#8217;s 8th Congressional District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago it became obvious to me that there would not be a viral moment in which Northern Minnesota would be flooded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47,133,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harry-welty","category-harrys-diary","category-pete-stauber-for-congress","category-welty-for-congress-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745","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=33745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33749,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33745\/revisions\/33749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}