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…..I have a favor to ask Duluth voters. When you go to the polls just vote for one of the two school board candidates for whom you could cast a vote, Harry Welty. I assure you whoever else is elected, they will be fine board members. This blog, my long history with ISD 709, and my fierce courage as a truth teller in this age of Donald Trump’s undoing education, democracy, truth and the party of Lincoln all argue for your casting one vote for me. Your children will thank you.

Donald Trump is not my first sociopath or rodeo. I predicted him in 1992 but he was on the back burner until 2016. I gave up trying to be a Republican when it became apparent that Republicans like those I admired in my youth were not welcome. So, I ran for the School Board from 1989 until…..now. There was a particularly rough patch in my non school board years when Superintendent Keith Dixon entered the picture. Those were the Red Plan years when he pushed through a half billion dollar building program without allowing Duluth citizens to vote on it. After he prevailed I was going to write a book about my fight and his reign. Above you can see the book cover that led to 100 preorders. I reimbursed all the buyers when I realized I was not up to telling the story. (It would be interesting to see what an AI program could write about it based on millions of words I posted here and on my “letduluthvote.com” site from 2007 to 2012.
I was elected to the School Board again in 2013 and served until 2017 when I had the misfortune to run for reelection with two strikes against me. I’d been censured by my school board and Donald Trump’s 2016 election so traumatized (for good reason) so many women that my gender got in the way of my reelection in a surge of off year voting that didn’t do the slightest damage to President Trump. I, however, was crushed.
The story I’m about to tell is one of the reasons the majority of my school board was eager to censure me although they found a puny reason that sounded better. They said I violated an agreement to keep a land sale secret. They were correct in this. I was an idiot. In fact I voted to censure myself too.
One of the people voting for my censure was formerly an extremely able and honored school principal who was serving with me on a school board that allied itself with the successor to the Giant on my book cover.
I had the misfortune of sticking up for a fellow school board member who had made it his habit to piss off his fellow board members. I can only take a deep sigh mentioning Art Johnston’s name all these years afterward. Sticking up for him, when he was accused of assaulting our Superintendent did me no favors with the voters on my end of town who largely viewed him as crazy. I don’t blame people for finding fault with him but here’s why I stuck up for him.
His partner was a nurse in ISD 709. The Superintendent who succeeded Keith Dixon was in charge because he had faithfully done Dixon’s dirty work, rather like Vice President Vance. Like Dixon his heir apparent had lackies everywhere who were his eyes and ears and they made war on Art Johnston’s partner. One of them had once been a favorite of the beloved school principal. Art could take personal attacks but he didn’t handle his partner being harassed very well.
When I was on the School Board before Dixon my Superintendent Julio Almanza was absolutely determined to fire this employee for her interference in an investigation of her son. She was saved in part by the beloved principal who was serving on the Board with me. Here is a short recap sans names.
Her son had gotten in the habit of searching out stairwells without cameras and asking girls to give him blowjobs. One of these young women complained to school staff. His Mother attempted to suborn perjury from another staff person to get her son out of trouble. She went on to becoming the administrations attack dog and once again leveled false charges against Art Johnson calling him a racist. BTW Art was on the board of the NAACP and I attended church with the young person’s whose testimony was twisted into a pretzel.
And here’s a tidbit of context. One of the school board members I had served with at the time of the future informer attempted to suborn perjury told me in a private aside that kids in her school considered oral sex a form of birth control. Interesting but also: So What?
I’ve witnessed so many cases of men who were jerks with women I’m tempted to put them in a book. As far as I’m concerned the adults who let him off remind me of the MAGA movements shrugging off complaints against Donald Trump. “Boys will be boys” or in Trump and Epstein’s case “men will be men…..with 13 year old girls. See previous post.
