Vic sent me two posts from Duluth’s Citizen Blog that I rarely have time to monitor. Its punch and counter punch and one of my supporters throws the last one…..for now.
From http://www.duluthcitizensblog.com/cgi-bin/blog1.cgi:
Sun Oct 21 12:12:37 2007: [Confusing ], HairyCausesConfusion M writes:
Let me point out some problems with Harry Welty’s opinion article in todays DNT http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id52709sectionOpinion
I will only point out highlights of his lengthy story of crap.
Harry states In addition to their sticker shock, theyll be furious that the building decision was taken out of their hands. Lets get over this one people, we elect officials so we don’t have to vote on everything. We elected them so drop the story that sounds so good by playing the we can’t vote line.And this statement
The board showed no more sympathy for these petitioners than Sheriff Jim Clark showed marchers for African American voting rights when he violently confronted them in Selma, Ala., in 1965.
This has no more right to be in a valid argument going after the black vote Harry? than the voodoo doll he brought to a school board meeting before.
Here is another point that is not part of the discussion They might wonder why the red plan is designed to make Duluth more segregated.Again sounds good but the job of schools is not to fight segregation. Schools should be where the people are. Want to go to a different school? Ever hear of open enrollment? Schools shoud not participate in social engineering.
And two last points based on this line
Harry Welty is a candidate for the Duluth School Board. He previously served on the board from 1995 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2004.In 8 years on the school board he contributed to this problem not solving it, eight years is enough. Can people honestly vote for an individual who claims he wants to confuse the issue?
And:
Sun Oct 21 19:52:55 2007: [Red Plan – Someone is lying, guess who?], Ben Dover writes:
HairyCausesConfusion M: You may want to include more of the truth in your further rants regarding Harry Welty. For starters, he is running for school board in large part because the current school board morons last June rammed the largest, most expensive plan down the throats of Duluthians in Minnesota history. Are you proud about that?
Check the resume of Keith Dixon and you will find that after his doings in Faribault, the school board candidates there that ran for school board ran on the platform that they would get rid of Dixon. And they did just that. And Duluth, the magnet of incompetent leadership, snapped him up in true Duluth fashion in choosing loosers for leadership. Your statement that we elect school board members to decide for us instead of us having to vote on every issue is fine if we are deciding on issues involving what are deemed normal operating expenditures, but $437,000,000.00 is not normal and therefore your statement is more ingorant than anything. What kind of a school board do we have when they were asked last month by Gary Glass if the true cost of the plan is $437,000,000.00 and none would answer, yet a gentleman from Johnson Controls stepped forward and confirmed this fact. Why did they vote on the plan if they did not know what the cost would be? Or why are they trying to hide the true cost from the taxpayers? The answer may give us a good idea as to why they do not want it to go to a vote.
I do not care if people want the red, green, blue, or pink plan, but if it is going to cost me possibly another $500.00 to $1,000.00 a year for twenty years just for the school district, I expect to vote on it. Especially because if it is accepted, it does nothing for programming and when the school board goes to the public for an excess levy as required by law in the future, after seeing how they got screwed, the taxpayers would never pass a levy and programming would suffer for many years into the future.
Just so that you know, I understand that regarding the let Duluth vote petitions, that they have gotten a better than 85% to 90% success in signing the petitions all across the city. What does that tell you about the clever work performed by Johnson Controls and their survey which apparently showed a majority of Duluthians favored their plan? Someone is lying. Guess who it is? Why is the school board afraid to put it to a vote? Simple, if the voters were told the truth about the cost, even Duluthians would reject it by a large percentage when they are told the truth about the cost as they are now being told, due in large part by people like Harry Welty.
After reading your statements, I am inclined to believe that you either work for Johnson Controls or are just part of the Duluth elitists club who could care less to see the proper progress within the school district. Duluth is a poor, poor city and getting poorer. The majority of Duluthians can not afford this project and coupled with the health care bill that they will be getting if Ness is elected, the numbers are quickly pushing closer to $1,000,000,000.00. That is ONE BILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT!
Thank you Harry Welty for bringing this to all of our attention and thank you Harry Welty, Gary Glass, Deb Anderson, and Tim Grover for participating in the recent Progressive Action forum at city hall. Where was Schraw and Punyko? I was looking forward to listening to their lame reasons on not allowing us all to vote on this lala land idea.
