Loren Martell, still licking his wounds from losing to a clueless incumbent, offers his latest critique of the Red Plan and the Board that brought it into being. The $500 we personally gave Loren’s campaign was the best money I’ve ever donated in a political campaign…..except for the $100 donated to Obama. Sometimes the voters are better informed.
Spending half of the reserve down in a single year shows what the District will have to do to maintain its current classroom spending when they’ve spent the rest of the reserve down in a year or so.
That is an unsustainable level of deficit spending. Its obvious to me that the District has been covering up its insolvency for some time to protect the Board members and District from criticism in advance of the recent elections. Much larger cuts should have been made all along as it became apparent that there were no energy savings (thank you JCI) to be had and that the “efficiencies” in operational costs were a mirage.
I woke to an email which seems to have been riffing off my threat/promise to run for Congress. It refers to my post on City Councilor and Congressional Candidate Jeff Anderson:
I also do not believe you would be swayed by lobbyists.
This in regards to the red plan.After attending several council meetings there seemed to be the impression that a few councilors had had coffee with some red plan supporters.
Probably not in itself a bad thing, but did they ever extend that consideration to LDV?
Cuneo used their popular phrase “make a good plan into a great plan” when granting them every variance that came before the council.They also hid behind their decisions stating that they were two separate government bodies and so could not interfere in district business.
But now the city is taking the lead on the disposal of Central!
BTW Councilor Sharla Gardner is misinformed. She said Duluth was the third largest Minnesota city in a story in the DNT today. Rochester took our place a couple years ago but I don’t blame her for living in the past.
