{"id":36743,"date":"2025-08-14T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36743"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:04:42","slug":"third-place-not-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36743","title":{"rendered":"Third place, not bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36739\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36751\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have two days to sort things out before I fly with my family to Godawful hot Orlando to visit Universal Studios. I&#8217;m more anxious about the heat and humidity than the possible hurricane that might hit Florida. If it hits I will chastened but at least I have Maralago standing between it and me.<\/p>\n<p>I came in third in the Primary election. I&#8217;m not surprised. It was a small turnout it should at least double on the November 4ths general election and I have no idea how many people read this blog but at present it isn&#8217;t likely more than fifty people. A few weeks ago when I thought I would not be able to screen with the Duluth Teachers I got my dander up. As my post about the screening indicates I was there and I had a very enjoyable time eliciting smiles and laughs in sessions with people who probably knew I would never win their endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>The morning after I got some notices from Google Alerts telling me that new information had been added to Google World about me. The data turned out to be news of the election results. I take comfort knowing that I am being warned about info about me on the web.<\/p>\n<p>As part of my newfound determination to get elected I&#8217;ve decided I will request donations to my campaign. That requires a bank account and a new EIN number for Welty for School Board. The checking account requires both my EIN number, proof of my identity and the affidavit of my candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>I have at least one other EIN number. The first time I got one was for an earlier campaign for Congress, perhaps in 2006. Back then it was a mystery and for tax purposes which I only made use of last year for the first time to declare all the spending and thus business losses of trying to sell books.<\/p>\n<p>When I told Claudia that I was opening the account last night she groaned and asked why couldn&#8217;t just transfer money from the Welty For Congress Account to this one. We just painted our house, bought a car, are planning a couple plane flights for the fall at a time when our income has been roughly halved. Well, I listed some of the money I put into the congressional campaign as &#8220;loans&#8221; so I guess I could pay myself back but I don&#8217;t think there is enough in that account at the moment to do so.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will be asking for contributions to the School Board campaign and not the current donation button on my blog for a possible Congressional Campaign. I am going to set up an account at 10 this morning in an hour and a half. If I can&#8217;t get an EIN in an hour my campaign may have to wait until get back from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Harry&#8217;s Diary entry and not much more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post I have two days to sort things out before I fly with my family to Godawful hot Orlando to visit&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743"}],"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=36743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36768,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743\/revisions\/36768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}