{"id":11420,"date":"2014-08-01T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11420"},"modified":"2014-08-01T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:33:45","slug":"tragedy-as-comedy-the-auditor-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11420","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy as comedy &#8211; The Auditor Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loren Martell <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2014\/07\/31\/3816_a_few_words_about_the_state_audit\">nails it<\/a> in his description of the State Auditor&#8217;s presentation to the Duluth School Board. <\/p>\n<p>About the School Board members asking for reassurance that nothing &#8220;wrong&#8221; was done. We have lost a thousand children. Those remaining are in classes with five to ten too many children. Hell yes! Something wrong was done. You just will never know why from the State Auditor&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>I left this comment on the DuluthReader website under Loren&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sweet!  <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have described that meeting any better myself. It was annoying to have the meeting shut down as Mr. Martell describes. I only found out about the meeting after making plans to visit family in St. Louis, Missouri. To get back to Duluth in time for the 4:30 meeting I had to get my wife up at 2:30 in the morning and drive for ten and a half hours straight. <\/p>\n<p>When it became obvious that the only answers I would get from the State Auditor would be: &#8220;we have no opinion,&#8221; I was too tired to argue with the decision to shut the meeting down after a measly two hours. I&#8217;ve spent a year waiting for this report. Loren Martell, who single-handedly prompted it, has spent three years waiting for it.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t transparency. It was a whitewash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loren Martell nails it in his description of the State Auditor&#8217;s presentation to the Duluth School Board. About the School Board members asking for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,102,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}