At last night’s School Board meeting during the time for public comment one spectator signed up to speak about the topic of “ethics.” He proceeded to nail Gary Glass for seeking legal counsel (Gasp) and for helping contribute to the surety bond. Chair Grover cut him off only to have Laura Condon ask if the speakers comments couldn’t be sent on to the District’s attorney’s in the continuing witch hunt against Glass.
For the record I do not understand how anyone can fault member Glass for seeking legal representation morally, ethically or politically. Same goes for contributing to a bond as the speaker claimed. On the other hand making unsupported allegations might very well be considered a breach of ethics.
Two Let Duluth Vote members hurried over after his comments and asked him where he got this information. He brushed them off by saying he got them from me, suggesting that this blog was the source.
I asked one of my supporters if she recalled me every posting such a comment and she said that if I did she didn’t see it. Then she confessed that her eyes glaze over reading my blog. So would mine. I’ve put so much in it that I ain’t going back anytime soon to check this claim. I do recall that we promised all donors anonymity which would mean that if I mentioned any one of them, other than myself,it would have been a rather remarkable breach of confidence on my part.
So, is coming to a public meeting and making unsupported claims ethical? Maybe the pot should back off calling the kettle black.
Update: I called Let Duluth Vote’s treasurer and asked her about the pot’s statement. She was at the meeting and told him he was wrong and asked him where he’d gotten that information. He told her he’d gotten it from me in the Board Room the day before at the Emergency meeting. I was at the meeting. The only other person I recall seeing there from the public was JCI’s public relations man Steve Greenfield. He sat behind me as I guffawed over the indignant letter that the School Board’s attorney’s sent the tax payer’s attorney Craig Hunter. Steve, cordial as always, seemed to know a lot more about what was going on than Board member Glass.
I’ll be happy to make a correction if I should be wrong but otherwise I’ll presume this is just one more instance of Red Plan disinformation from its supporters.
