I had planned to go back to my notes to reconstruct my nine objections to retaining Kevin Rupp’s firm. I outlined them at our school board’s organizational meeting last week. That would have taken a couple hours to reconstruct and I am positively thrilled to discover, upon my return from the MSBA convention (Minnesota School Boards Association), that Loren Martell has done the job for me. He’s done it better than I would have because he has the meeting taped. His Reader Weekly Column today quotes me extensively. I must say, I’m pretty damn cogent – as cogent as our attorney is ….. well, read Loren’s column for yourself.
Here’s a fragment to whet your gag reflex:
During the Rice Report meeting, Mr. Welty sent a nervous rustle through the room by making an open reference to dark scandals buried in the district’s past. To avoid sailing too far into tabloid waters, I’ll leave part of the following quote intentionally blank. Again referring to the same person (whom he blames for the months-long Johnston conflict), Welty said:
“When I was on the school board before, this person lied to cover up (——-) abuse.”
By the way, I found out yesterday afternoon that the Trib was calling MSBA staff to ask about Mr. Rupp. I presumed it was in response to my two thousand word post that morning about Mr. Rupp’s indefensible failure to prevent our Board policy on negotiations from being urinated on last March. I might have been wrong. It might have been prompted by Mr. Martell’s column.
Attorney Rupp is truly at his best when he shields the guilty and slanders the innocent. And let us not forget, well paid – by Duluth tax payers.
