Speaking of the School District’s attorneys, I took the District’s recent press release to the tax payer’s attorney, Craig Hunter a little more than irritatted. I don’t know who wrote it but one piece of MISINFORMATION jumped out and stuck in my craw.
Its a series of Q’s and A’s for a dim witted press that is too clueless to ask its own questions. The press release begins by directing reporters who have questions to ask the School District’s lawyers. Then it provides those questions and answers. Its not clear if the legal analysis is coming from the District’s attorneys or its spin meisters. That depends on who the “we” is.
One Question begins with the claim that the plaintiffs, meaning me and my four budies, have not complied with the statute requiring an IOU instead of real cash to the Court. (I’m not exactly quoting verbatim there)
This assertion is then followed by the generic Q. “What does this mean?”
Well, the A. provided to the Q. relating to the issue of whether cold hard cash is good enough for the Sixth District Court has nothing to do with the previous assertion. Instead the A. says “We are very concerned that LDV and the Plaintiffs have misled the public by saying that $100,000 will buy them an injunction.
BULL TWEET! That may be a concern but the statement says that we have misled the public by guaranteeing an injunction.
I called a helluva lot of people hat-in-hand asking them to risk their hard earned money to allow us to proceed. It occurred to me when I was doing this that telling the people the truth that they could lose their money, and never get an injunction was a pretty hard sell. I could have lied through my teeth like the District has over and over to sell the Red Plan and gotten money like Everest gets snow.
(Why just the other day the District backed off its bogus promise to save taxpayers $2 plus million on energy costs with the Red Plan. Now they’re only promising $800,000 in energy savings. Boy oh Boy, those energy geniuses at JCI are really pulling their weight. Now, instead of saying we will save $2. 9 million on staff cuts the District is saying we will save $4 million over the next twenty years in staff cuts. Cutting a teacher is saving money???? I POINTED OUT TWO YEARS AGO THAT THEY CAN’T GUARANTEE A PROMISE LIKE THAT!!!! What the heck am I saying? A “promise?” A “promise?” Its more like a threat. And they can’t even make a credible threat because they can’t tell future school board’s twenty years from now not to hire teachers.)
OK, OK Harry. Put a bag over your mouth and quit hyperventilating. Just get back to that allegation that LDV has been misleading people to collect money.
All you have to do is look at the ad LDV put in most of the local papers. Here’s what we made clear before asking people to send us a donation:
“I understand: That if the taxpayer’s case is heard as scheduled through Oct. 19th, and the court issues a temporary injunction that most Red Plan construction will come to a halt, including Ordean High School, and prevent the School Board from approving additional construction.
We said “IF.”
How about the next time this school Board promises $4 million in annual “savings” over the next twenty years by cutting staff they start their promise by saying: If School Boards over the next twenty years honor our promise to cut four million dollars worth of teachers every year to pay for the Red Plan, Duluth taxpayers will save $80 million dollars.
Now that would be the honest thing to say.
