{"id":35002,"date":"2024-06-01T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35002"},"modified":"2024-06-01T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:03:55","slug":"campaign-diary-with-74-days-to-go-to-the-august-13-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35002","title":{"rendered":"Campaign diary with 74 days to go to the August 13 primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ch\u00e8re Amie <\/p>\n<p>This is the belated report on my first day passing out lawnsigns and my bookmarks. This will be my blog post today but that is a problem. My blog keeps telling me its resources are at their limit. It means visitors will give up before reading my posts. I can create a blog for my campaign page which makes sense but I will miss lincolndemocrat which I need experts to fix.<\/p>\n<p>I knocked on many doors in my neighborhood today carrying 10 of my new signs in one hand and my bookmarks  and my campaign flyer from 2 years ago which is just as true today as it was 2 years ago. I have only had to cross out Aug 9 and put a 13 in its place as the date of the primary this year.<\/p>\n<p>I put up 20 signs and had many excellent conversations. I will have to talk less in the future because I need to put signs up faster. And I need to put them in every neighborhood before our Grandmas marathon on June 22. There will be one 2 day break when Claudia and I take our grandson to Lake Geneva Illinois tosee the explosian of cicadas that happens every 17 years. I have slways wanted to see it.<\/p>\n<p>I knew as I went door to door that I would quickly come up with an short intro. Becaus Duluth is a Biden part of the vast 8th District I quickly found those who agreed with me strongly and who were more likely to let me put a sign in their yard. This is it.<\/p>\n<p>High, I am you r neighbor Harry Welty. I make the snow sculptures every winter. I have 75 days to be Donald Trump&#8217;s worst nightmare.  What I say next depends on their reaction.As I ssid I talked to msny friendly people. Even Democrats who will vote for Jen Schultz in November let me put signs in their yards until the August 13th Primary. It is a good sign that they understand my strategy. All voters csn vote in the Republican primary for me. Now I have to get that message out to 200,000 voters.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon will be another good day to<br \/>\nDoor knock. Claudia has to write a sermon for sunday&#8217;s church service and won&#8217;t miss me. <\/p>\n<p>I even sold a book to someone who likes Trump knocking on doors. Pas mal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ch\u00e8re Amie This is the belated report on my first day passing out lawnsigns and my bookmarks. This will be my blog post today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,133,127,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002"}],"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=35002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35005,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions\/35005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}