{"id":695,"date":"2006-09-19T07:44:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:04:56","slug":"i-approve-of-this-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"I approve of this message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Kennedy is going down. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthsuperior.com\/mld\/duluthsuperior\/news\/politics\/15550416.htm\">His latest poll numbers<\/a> put him 24 points behind Amy Klobuchar. A year ago in my last desperate hours as a moderate Republican I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=689\">Paul, now at Business North magazine<\/a>, if he would consider being my campaign manager if I challenged the Republican annointed congressman in\u00c2\u00a0the Republican\u00c2\u00a0Senate primary. Fortunately, Paul had a girl friend who would have killed him if he&#8217;d said yes which he wouldn&#8217;t have done anyway because he&#8217;s an intelligent young man.<\/p>\n<p>In my brief flirtation with the Democratic party last April, when the polls showed Kennedy and Klobuchar neck-and-neck, I wrote one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora06\/fordbell.htm\">last columns in the Reader defending Klobuchar <\/a>against her anti-war challenger in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I saw the desperate Mark Kennedy pull out a last gasp ad to save his campaign. It was a grossly silly ad calling Amy Klobuchar a hypocrite\u00c2\u00a0for her stands against big oil and pharmaceutical companies because she owns mutual funds which contain &#8220;thousands&#8221; of dollars in those investiments. &#8220;Thousands&#8221; mind you&#8230;..&#8221;thousands!!!&#8221; Now let me capticalize\u00c2\u00a0and italicize that: <em>THOUSANDS!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the ad Mark&#8217;s serious looking face popped up with an overdub of him saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m Mark Kennedy and I approve of this message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago as I was about to return from Denmark I read emails between Chris and Mel about their discovery that\u00c2\u00a0my recent radio ads didn&#8217;t pass muster with the Federal Elections Commission because I hadn&#8217;t said: &#8220;I&#8217;m Harry Welty and I approve of this message.&#8221; Because I had written and delivered\u00c2\u00a0the ad in my own voice I thought it was pretty obvious that I approved of my own message.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after the Kennedy ad,\u00c2\u00a0I can appreciate the value of this FEC prescribed language. Kennedy had to admit in his own voice that he approved of the dim-witted mud,\u00c2\u00a0that his ad was\u00c2\u00a0slinging. It revealed the lie behind his early ads which made him out to be such nice guy.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Kennedy is going down and I approve of this message.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\">Welty4Congress.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Kennedy is going down. His latest poll numbers put him 24 points behind Amy Klobuchar. A year ago in my last desperate hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}