{"id":6581,"date":"2012-03-09T10:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:38:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T01:38:34","slug":"there-will-be-a-dfl-primary-in-the-8th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6581","title":{"rendered":"There will be a DFL primary in the 8th District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/225162\/\">Three candidates at least<\/a>. Four if I file:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Congressman Rick Nolan had 1,566 votes in the Feb. 7 caucus. Jeff Anderson had 1,038 and Clark got 419. It&#8217;s likely that all three will be on the primary ballot in August.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said there are 80,000 voters to consider rather than the 3,000 votes in the caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The Clark campaign has repeatedly said it would abide by the endorsement process at the convention, but only if it was fair. With a low turnout at the caucus in February, Clark said there wasn&#8217;t enough representation through that process to adequately pick a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I intend to talk with people who are participating&#8221; in the convention, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her written announcement Thursday said she intends to reach out to voters who feel &#8220;disenfranchised and disillusioned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The stakes are too high to let politics and process override the voice of the people,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right on Tarryl! To argue otherwise would be to say that Jim Oberstar&#8217;s election in 1974 was a travesty. Although Ralph Doty did write that Jim&#8217;s running in the primary despite promising not to was dishonorable.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.com\">Welty4Congress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray! Three candidates at least. Four if I file: Former Congressman Rick Nolan had 1,566 votes in the Feb. 7 caucus. Jeff Anderson had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welty-4-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20192,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/20192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}