{"id":34079,"date":"2022-10-20T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34079"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:39:44","slug":"if-there-was-any-doubt-i-sent-this-press-release-to-the-press-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34079","title":{"rendered":"If there was any doubt I sent this press release to the press yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate release October 18th 2022<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52427242819_8cbd9676c2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harry Welty who unsuccessfully challenged Republican Cong. Pete Stauber in the August 9th Republican primary is encouraging Minnesota\u2019s Eighth District Voters to vote for Stauber\u2019s Democrat challenger, State Senator Jen Schultz in the  General election.<\/p>\n<p>For Welty  it\u2019s a vote for Democracy not a vote for a shaky business cycle and last year\u2019s attempt to cancel the presidential election by force was a breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>Welty has applied Schultz\u2019s name to his quirky laws signs in a bid to return the Eighth District to the Democratic column in 2022. Welty who\u2019s campaign slogan is \u201cnot your usual republican\u201d also made the astonishing claim that he was a \u201cRepublican who likes Democrats.\u201d Welty explains, \u201cIf we ever want to get our nation back on track we will need more Republicans like me. The lawnsign shows Welty, a local snow sculptor celebrated for his annual sculptures, perched on one of his creations, Jabba the Hutt, in a pose many will recall Senator Bernie Sanders taking during President Biden\u2019s cold inauguration ceremony last year.<\/p>\n<p>Welty, a former Duluth School Board member and frequent candidate for public office is also a writer for the Duluth alternative Weekly, the Duluth Reader. He is releasing his column for this week\u2019s edition to the 8th District\u2019s media. It explains what Welty feels is at stake in this election:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34083\">The Welty column attached.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate release October 18th 2022 Harry Welty who unsuccessfully challenged Republican Cong. Pete Stauber in the August 9th Republican primary is encouraging Minnesota\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,133,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079"}],"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=34079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34109,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079\/revisions\/34109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}