{"id":743,"date":"2006-09-29T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:17:04","slug":"forest-lake-press-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Forest Lake Press Questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten several questionnaires from the press. I just returned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\/flpquestionnaire.htm\">one to the Forest Lake Press<\/a> which will publish it in mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my response to their final question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"4\"><em>What would you like to tell voters about your qualification as their representative in <\/em><em>Washington<\/em> <em>, <\/em><em>D.C.<\/em> <em>? Why are you the best candidate for the job?<br \/>\n<\/em><font face=\"Verdana\">As a lifelong historian of American politics\u00c2\u00a0I am fed up with its current state of polarization and paralysis. Since Jim Oberstar has been calling Rod Grams a\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiamn.com\/mdn\/index.php?sect_rank=1&#038;story_id=207065\">liar<\/a> and since Rod Grams has been calling Jim Oberstar an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoffusion.com\/groups\/CF-Community\/thread.cfm\/threadid:22304\">liberal elitist<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0I believe that I&#8217;m the best choice. I am running as in independent candidate on the &#8220;Unity Party&#8221; label. I will caucus with the Democrats but work with the many new congressman this election will usher in to put\u00c2\u00a0partisan polarization behind us.<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten several questionnaires from the press. I just returned one to the Forest Lake Press which will publish it in mid-October. Here&#8217;s my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}