Harry Welty is a Congressional Candidate running to represent Duluth, Minnesota. He's also affiliated himself with Unity08 and the Unity Movement... and it's hurting him. He could have affiliated with Minnesota's Independence Party (which has existed longer than Unity08 and had a 5% or better turnout two years ago) and if he had he'd be allowed into a televised debate on the local Duluth PBS station. But he didn't. He went to bat for us. And now, I personally feel that we need to go to bat for him.
If this is the first time you've heard about Harry Welty you can get a quick one page summary with links to his blog and his campaign website at this website:
http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/?title=Harry_Welty
Harry was been told by the Duluth News Tribune and the local public television station WDSE PBS-8 that he can't debate because he doesn't belong to a political party that fielded a candidate who won at least 5% of the vote in the previous election. 14 years ago Harry Welty ran as an *unknown* independent against the current incumbent and took 7% of the vote. Since then he's served on the Duluth School Board and been a columnist for a local paper, The Reader Weekly. *So far* that doesn't matter to the people in charge of the debates (but we're trying to change that).
The decision makers seem to care about political machinery instead of people, parties instead of candidates. It's not right. Harry deserves a chance in the debates. Please forward this email to everyone you know who might be interested. Then go to the link below and learn about emails and phone calls you can make to try to help Harry get chance in the debates:
http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/?title=Letter_Campaign_For_Harry_Welty
Thanks for taking the time to read this, thanks for taking the time to pass this on, and thanks for visiting the link above and doing something to help Harry. Please do it fast. The debates are on Friday, October 20, 2024 and after that point forwarding this or sending email won't be very useful.
(I'll be posting updates to this discussion in the comments below.)