{"id":11436,"date":"2014-08-05T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2014-08-05T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:21:19","slug":"the-board-chair-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11436","title":{"rendered":"The Board Chair suggests…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Board Chair suggests that it is usual and customary for elected officials to cover their own legal fees when it pertains to their own wrong doing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been thinking about this line from the Superintendent’s email to me for a couple hours now. Art’s “wrongdoing” seems firmly established in Chair Miernicki’s head now. <\/p>\n

It leads me to wonder if Attorney Mary Rice’s report can truly be expected to be neutral as she promised Art Johnston.<\/p>\n

It leads me to wonder why my qualification that if the investigation draws a “blank” or in other words finds no wrong doing<\/em> the Board would not quickly make financial amends to the wrongly accused Board member.<\/p>\n

It leads me to wonder at the Board Chair’s and Superintendent’s assertion of wrong doing as though it was already an established fact even though they are Art Johnston’s principal accusers.<\/p>\n

Art Johnston already has had to spring for $1,800 to cover legal fees as a result of all the mud that has been thrown his way. If you want to know who really is guilty of wrong doing I suggest that instead of Art’s house you look for traces of mud on the mud thrower’s fingernails.<\/p>\n

If you are appalled and inclined to think, like me, that this has been a travesty you can help Art out with a donation to his legal defense fund.<\/p>\n

Mail a check to: <\/p>\n

Johnson legal defense
\nPO Box 3075
\nDuluth, MN 55803<\/p>\n

What this Board ought to be investigating is how $84 million of Duluth tax payer’s dollars was spent mysteriously by Johnson Controls and other entities accepting “soft costs.” That’s $50 million more in soft costs than the original Red Plan envisioned being spent. Shame on you Art Johnston for asking such impertinent questions. So says the School Board majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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