{"id":610,"date":"2006-08-24T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2006-09-01T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T03:27:06","slug":"looking-for-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Looking for allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">It occurred to me this evening that I might find some passionate supporters in the Nation&#8217;s Capitol. A Google search located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcvote.org\/about\/index.cfm\">this organization<\/a>. I sent them the following email.\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Hello,<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;m a candidate for Congress in Minnesota&#8217;s Eighth District. Thirty-five years ago I was a summer intern for one of the Congressmen on the House DC Committee. I&#8217;ve been thinking about the injustice of DC&#8217;s lack of representation in Congress ever since.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;m an out of the woodwork candidate for Congress. I\u00c2\u00a0was a thirty-five year\u00c2\u00a0Republican and I attended Democratic caucuses this year but I&#8217;m running as an independent for congress in a three-way contest. In 1992 I did the same thing and won 7% of the vote. I suspect that even if I stopped campaigning now with the low public approval of Congress I&#8217;d win 10 or 15% of the vote this election. Since 1992 my stature has risen considerably and I think there is a good chance I could win a plurality in a three way race.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\/blueprint.htm\">this page<\/a> a few days ago then decided today to see if any organizations in DC\u00c2\u00a0was out their fighting for representation. That&#8217;s how I found your site. Perhaps you would be interested in offering support to a candidate that fervently believes that DC residents should be represented at least in the House of Representatives. <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">I don&#8217;t know how well connected you are in the beltway but Minnesota is a distant and foreign place; easy for the nation&#8217;s media to ignore. Perhaps, if you have contacts, you could help remedy that. If you have the ability to direct the nation&#8217;s media in anyway to my unorthodox campaign I would appreciate it.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Take a look around the rest of my website. I think you will see that I&#8217;m just enough different from the typical candidate for Congress\u00c2\u00a0that I might successfully be able to\u00c2\u00a0raise the torch for DC representation and give the issue the attention it deserves.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Your friend and ally,<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Harry Welty<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">candidate for Congress<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Minnesota&#8217;s Eighth District<\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me this evening that I might find some passionate supporters in the Nation&#8217;s Capitol. A Google search located this organization. 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