I just googled myself and the second item on the pop up list was from the election four years ago: http://www.duluthbudgeteer.com/opinion/2018528-candidate-view-duluth-school-board-harry-welty
The last lines in this letter in the Budgeteer are the heart of this campaing too:
“. . . be forewarned: I’m not a shrinking violet. If you would prefer someone who will keep his mouth shut rather than speak the truth, don’t vote for me.
P.S. Vote for the levies. We’re stuck paying off the Red Plan’s half-billion-dollar debt. Even if we have to dig a little deeper we want our schools to work and our children educated.”
The majority of the School Board I was elected to (ironically full of old friends of mine) chose to turn the Board into an inquisition of a honorable but too inquisitive member with trumped up charges and wasted my first two years defending him against their dim witted persecution. Mike Miernicki will never forgive me for defending Art just as I forewarned voters I was likely to do. Here’s the letter Mike sent the Trib.
The Red Plan is fact. Paying it off is as well. Yet the Trib keeps harping on my wanting to fight it. Nonsense. Maybe the Trib wants me to stop reminding folks that they fell all over themselves boosting it and, like our administrators and old board members, utterly failed to heed the warnings of my friends in Let Duluth Vote.
But when I quote Lincoln who encouraged “malice towards none…” What do they slap on the title above my call for a reasonable future? This:
And the Trib’s conclusion in backing away from their endorsement of me four years ago is this:
“That isn’t to suggest that the other two candidates on the primary ballot for School Board At Large, incumbent Harry Welty and long-time district critic Loren Martell, don’t care. But Welty and Martell continue to embody and reinforce the divisiveness that has hampered School Board effectiveness. And they remain lingering reminders of attempts to confuse the public about district matters and the vitriol that eroded the district’s reputation, costing it students.”
This from the Newspaper that never admitted that the charges against Art Johnston were ginned up and colluded in the election of a Demagogue as President of the United States BY THEIR SILENCE AND BRAVE STANCE NOT TO CHOOSE BETWEEN A FRAUD AND A LEGITIMATE CANDIDATE. Just as they fell prey to the con artists who promised nirvana with the Red Plan they were overwhelmed by Putin’s purveyors of Trump fantasies. Now they are misreporting what I offer our community – the experience and understanding to work our way out of an annual $11 million dollar hole that the Trib helped dig for our city’s public schools.
Its the Trib that is the “lingering reminder” of Red Plan boosters incuriosity, and their own journalistic shortcomings. They also printed lots of ads for the School District when it was flush with cash to promote the Red Plan.
I look forward to getting back on the Board and working with the embarrassed Trib because as I wrote some weeks ago I expect to be reading the Trib daily until the day I die at about age 100. I have no more malice towards them than a loving parent remonstrating with a willful child.
