Here’s a good place to start my Charter chats

My filing has gone well but it could go late into the night. If it were up to Claudia she would hire a construction dumpster and throw all my stuff away. She could probably fill it.

I’ve kept among other things all the minutes to the eight years worth of school board meetings I attended albeit by tearing them out of the half inch Board booklets that they came with. I began looking for one in particular and it comes from one of the few that I kept intact with the whole booklet.

Its from November 1997 when Frank Wanner threatened to target me for defeat in the 1999 election. I drew it and Frank’s threat on the Board booklet during the meeting. The threat came largely as a result of my support for the Edison Charter Schools. Ironically charter schools were the brainchild of a good Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich. They became a very sore point with public school teachers in Duluth. Its a good graphic introduction to the subject of charter schools which I’ll start on soon.

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty