For months Let Duluth Vote has been portrayed as a group of sour pusses. But our efforts to find a means of compromise have not gone unnoticed just as the unwillingness of the School Board to pay attention to the wishes of the community have been impossible for any fair minded person to miss.
These are excerpts of an email sent to the Ordean neighbors. I do not know this person and I will not reveal his/her name. It speaks volumes about how people in Duluth feel today.
At a meeting late last year at Ordean, ******** said something that sounded pretty harsh. It was something like when addressing the engineers and other planners, “From what you’ve told us and what you’ve done so far, I don’t think there is a person in this room who trusts you.” That’s a paraphrase. I was still getting acquainted with the issues, but I have measured every School District proposal with that suspicion in mind. I have usually believed people of the boomer generation (who are the people we are fighting right now) because I thought they had an ethical base instilled by that generation’s parents. Well, guess what. I no longer believe that of those people on the School Board and the dependent contractors who are playing politics in the hope of future contracts. This whole Ordean School issue has evolved into an end run and blatant deception by Dr. Dixon and his associates. Does it not smack of the same incremental lies that bailout recipients have offered up when asking for our national tax money again and again?
