The last two months that the School District’s lawyers have tied Let Duluth Vote up in knots raising money, converting it to bonds and dismissing our attorney while pouring out a torrent of disingenuous propaganda has come to an end. It began about the time that Dr. Dixon was perusing bids on a survey of public attitudes toward the Red Plan. My guess is that Dr. Dixon saw the survey results and realized he had to get busy discrediting the only honest folks left in town.
I don’t blame him. When the Business Community in Faribault conducted a survey and made public Dr. Dixon’s scant 37% approvals the Business Community created a little group to sell Dr. Dixon to another community. Why would Dr. Dixon want a similar survey to be released in Duluth?
For two years a few tinny voices have praised our mute school board members for their bravery, courageousness and decisiveness and proclaimed that the community stands behind them. Is that what the survey showed? Did Dr. Dixon, who was looking over the bids for the survey a couple months ago, share the results with the Board members who have followed his every dictate confident of their popularity?
Why would he bother? They’re mute after all. Oh, they can read questions out loud when the questions are written out for them. But they sure haven’t been able to ask a single serious question about the Red Plan since it was handed to them to rubber stamp. Ignorance is bliss.
