After making the front page of the Trib today, for putting the sale of ISD 709’s albatross the Central High School property in jeopardy, an old fan wrote me an email to buck me up. You can read that after my reply to the fan which was as follows:
Aw *******,
Thanks for that but I screwed up and I have to take my lumps. Fortunately for me I can do it in pretty good humor. Heck, my blog will get a bunch of new readers. That’s fine with me. Its where folks can see the School Board through my eyes.
I’m chagrined that today’s other side of the Board is enjoying a couple hours of tsk tsk tsking. It comes just before I hope to dismantle Attorney Mary Rice. Then again when life gives you lemons…..or new readers…..I say make lemonade.
About that other side. It always changes. In 1998 a fellow Board member who was furious with me told me that she wished I’d resign from the School Board after [I had] a front page kerfuffle with the Teacher’s Union President. Three years later she thanked me gratefully when I helped her win reelection to the Board in a squeaker of an election.
Harry
The email I was responding to:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:11 AM, ********** wrote:
I too thought it was $10 mil. That number has been put out there for so long as what the Board would really accept it just seemed a given.
I worry that the Board has been given an early Christmas gift with this. A reason to remove another member who doesn’t follow the bobble heads.
Perhaps all of them who misrepresented/falsified/overlooked the financial details and socio dynamics of East/West division of the RP [Red Plan] should be held accountable? ******* was one who cocked her head to the side and talked to the public like they didn’t get it saying “sure, there would be one less hockey,baseball,band..but there would be so many intramurals to make up for this, so many more opportunities.”
But who really cares about the price? What is the big deal about the secrecy? Public won’t have any say in this anyway. They pulled a similar move with the oooh, aahh, big secrecy about the developer putting up a skyscraper in Duluth and all it turned out to be was Maurices moving down the street. Bet this will have as much excitement factor!
