Its One AM again. I’m bushed. I hardly know what I’ve written. I’ll edit this in the morning. Come on back and read it once it is readable. (Its done now)
Yup, That’s me a couple days ago and the pretty picture taken by Amanda accompanies the Trib’s Saturday paper online. The caption says:
Harry Welty waves signs promoting Let Duluth Vote at a vehicle as it passes him on Central Entrance near Central High School on Monday. Another citizens group — MoveForwardDuluth — is urging Duluth School Board members to ask hard questions of the red plan foes.(Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
Sarah Horner the story’s author left messages asking me to call her twice for this story but didn’t return my calls back to her. I don’t know if the story in the hard copy paper will be anymore in depth than this brief not but it won’t have my quotes in it.
Tomorrow a long standing committee of Let Duluth Vote will meet once again to prepare for the meeting with the School Board. We’ve been told we will have fifteen minutes to explain our Plan B. It would take that long to address each of the seven questions posed to us by Mimi Larson and her 300 supporters in Move Forward Duluth. Mimi’s press release shat that “in fairness” the same sort of hard questions that Let Duluth Vote has raised about the Red Plan should be directed at our alternative. That sounds good but since it is apparent that the District has run out the clock on any alternative its not really fair at all.
Let Duluth Vote attempted to have the School Board look at alternatives to the Red Plan a year ago. The School Board continues to authorize tens of millions of dollars for the Red Plan and has set construction dates for beginning of summer long before a referendum on any alternative plan could be brought to the public.
Furthermore, the School Board has made it clear repeatedly that it is under no obligation to honor a vote to proceed with our Plan B. A year of constant evasions and delay tactics has doomed us. The District is apparently attempting to do one or more of the following. 1. Create an opportunity to point fingers at LDV for being uncooperative or portraying our plan as halfbaked.
2. Create the illusion that it followed the law when directed by the State Attorney General to proceed with a review and comment document, 3. Give Mimi Larson and the School Board members a chance to criticize our plan.
There is nothing fair about any of this.
