{"id":1204,"date":"2008-05-03T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T19:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2008-05-03T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T20:36:01","slug":"senator-prettner-solon-vs-her-constituents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Senator Prettner Solon vs. Her constituents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Yvonne Prettner Solon has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/PrettnerSolon.htm\">sent a letter <\/a>asking her fellow Senators to help her prevent Duluth voters from voting on the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll reproduce the letter shortly and show you my analysis of her faulty thinking. Time and again from Let Duluth Vote&#8217;s early success finding signers of our petitions, to Red Plan opponant Gary Glass&#8217;s blow out election to the School Board to the News Tribune&#8217;s online polls vast majorities of Duluth&#8217;s voters have made clear they do not like being stripped of their right to vote on the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Even Yvonne has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.mn\/members\/member_bio_personal.php?mem_id=1061&#038;ls=85&#038;file_to_display=\/senators\/07Prettner%20Solon\/survey\/main_survey.htm\\\">has a survey about the Red Plan <\/a>on her Senate website. 58% of its respondants disagree with the Senator. Its question #12 and it reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>12.  EDUCATION: K-12 <\/p>\n<p>The Duluth School District plans to implement a long-range facilities plan to consolidate, renovate, expand and construct new buildings in the district. Under state law, the district can undertake the proposal without a vote of area citizens. Do you agree or disagree with the District&#8217;s plans?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, I agree with the District&#8217;s plans<\/p>\n<p> 69     Response Total<br \/>\n 42%   Response Percent<\/p>\n<p><strong>No, I disagree<\/p>\n<p> 95     Response Total<br \/>\n 58%  Response Percent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Total Respondents 164<\/p>\n<p>(skipped this question) 15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Yvonne Prettner Solon has just sent a letter asking her fellow Senators to help her prevent Duluth voters from voting on the Red&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"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=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}