{"id":404,"date":"2006-06-23T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:28:59","slug":"kelm-anecdote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Kelm anecdote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One man who looms large in the story of Don Boyd is Thomas Kelm a cat who always seems to have landed on his feet. The subject of numerous unflattering stories during his days as Gov. Anderson&#8217;s Chief of Staff he seems now to be the stuff of legends. Last week in his Budgeteer Column, Ralph Doty slipped in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluth.com\/placed\/index.php?story_id=221037&#038;view=text\">a little anedcote about the fellow<\/a>. A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On the day the bill was scheduled for a final vote, Gov. Wendell Anderson let loose his lobbyists, led by his chief of staff, Tom Kelm, a tall, robust man who, to folks less than 6 feet tall, looked like the giant in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jack and the Beanstalk.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He was skilled at intimidating even the toughest lawmakers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man who looms large in the story of Don Boyd is Thomas Kelm a cat who always seems to have landed on his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}