{"id":36461,"date":"2025-06-05T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36461"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:33:57","slug":"a-good-column-to-end-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36461","title":{"rendered":"A good column to end on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36445\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36469\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite pleased with my last column for the Duluth Reader until I&#8217;m done running for the School Board this summer and fall. As my title says its a good one to end on until&#8230;.if&#8230;.I resume.<\/p>\n<p>This is the email I just sent my editor:<\/p>\n<p>Subject heading: Summer Plans<\/p>\n<p>Jim, Bob has an honest policy of not letting candidates for office write for the Reader. I  just filed for the School Board. I was fantasizing about finding donors to pay for my columns as a sort of advert but that is too much work.<\/p>\n<p>I left a message with Bob today telling him I would like to pay for this small personal ad in one of the early pages 8-11 where NYURepublican is typically found through November, To wit:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Missing Not Your Usual Republican? Harry&#8217;s on campaign holiday. Need a fix? Google him.  Paid for by Harry Welty.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Bob&#8217;s decision but I wanted you to know what was up when you didn&#8217;t get a column from me.<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s column as it appears on <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2025\/06\/05\/131610-hoisted-on-a-thousand-petards\">the Reader&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hoisted on a Thousand Petards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/131\/610\/131610\/header_1080x\/26825_screenshot_20250530_175217_gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>I wish. I wish no one was above the law. <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2025\/06\/05\/131610-hoisted-on-a-thousand-petards\">Read the rest.<\/a><br \/>\n*******<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54568493295_1a4b2255cb_w.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54349942484_f98a4e4649_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve posted 35,000 posts on <strong>\/Lincolndemocrat.com<\/strong> since 2006. To find something particular in what may be 10 million words type something in its search engine. It ain&#8217;t Google so good luck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54568216820_94aa7155ac_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nGoogle is worth a shot too. Be sure to type Harry Welty with whatever subject you are researching. Try &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=snow+sculptures+by+Harry+Welty&#038;sca_esv=9029ba9225533b3d&#038;sxsrf=AE3TifPbekbBHwX2ITvSwnEA2qkHGqZP8w%3A1749078697146&#038;ei=qdJAaP7WCNX-ptQPwsmZiAo&#038;ved=0ahUKEwi-z7Xz8diNAxVVv4kEHcJkBqEQ4dUDCBA&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=snow+sculptures+by+Harry+Welty&#038;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHnNub3cgc2N1bHB0dXJlcyBieSBIYXJyeSBXZWx0eTIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigAUjuL1C8B1j6HnABeACQAQCYAZ4BoAHcBqoBAzAuNrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCB6ACqAfCAggQABiwAxjvBcICCxAAGLADGKIEGIkFwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAgUQIRirAsICBRAhGJ8FmAMAiAYBkAYFkgcDMS42oAe0HLIHAzAuNrgHngfCBwUyLTYuMcgHLw&#038;sclient=gws-wiz-serp\">snow sculptures by Harry Welty<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54568285040_01493d4442_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSince 2001 I have written close to 400 columns off and one for the paper that can&#8217;t be bought. Type &#8220;Harry Welty&#8221; in search at their online site: <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/home\">https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81wK3HLP4sL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI wrote a book to introduce myself and raise a little income to spend in my 4th challenge to Congressman Pete Stauber. You can order it here from Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-Your-Usual-Republican-Lincoln\/dp\/B0D575CVTC\"><strong>&#8220;Not Your Usual Republican&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> If it starts selling I would happily challenge Pete a fifth time. I needed four campaigns to get elected to the Duluth School Board. Like Hillary, I persist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52143933220_c5ccc62758_w.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI have long neglected a campaign website that was put together for that 4th campaign here: <a href=\"https:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\/\">www.weltyforcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/images\/logos\/Snowbizzlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAfter being elected to the School Board I started a website called: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/\">www.snowbizz.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post I&#8217;m quite pleased with my last column for the Duluth Reader until I&#8217;m done running for the School Board this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,31,91,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461"}],"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=36461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36473,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions\/36473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}