{"id":1210,"date":"2008-05-05T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2008-05-05T20:28:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:28:05","slug":"whats-nancy-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Nancy Smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This email about Nancy Nilsen&#8217;s reply to my post is a little more aggressive than my normal blog posts. I sent it to the members of Let Duluth Vote who are rightfully bitter about losing their right to vote. But the snide comment at the end does reflect the attitude I&#8217;m adopting after a year of stonewalling by the School Board.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I stand by my post. While it is theoretically possible that the next nine successive school boards will take money out of operations to pay for the $407 million Red Plan obligation it will cost $11 million more annually to do this than is being levied now in property taxes. Taken out of our taxes that $11 million over twenty years would be 54% of the total $407 million. The current levy is 46% of the total Red Plan costs. <\/p>\n<p>And about those savings. Even Dixon only claims that there will be $5.3 million in annual savings from his building plan not $11 million. I think that two thirds of the $5.3 million figure is a fraud but lets assume its true. That still leaves the District scrambling to find $6.7 million a year to fund the Red Plan from its operations or from a gift from Bill and Melinda Gates, OR maybe other tax levies sneakily passed to pay for it. One way or another the taxpayers will pay for the Red Plan &#8211; all $407 million of it. As for the sales of buildings. Twenty years times $6.7 million equals $134 million dollars. I don&#8217;t recall anyone saying that the School District could make that kind of money by selling off its old schools. <\/p>\n<p>Nilsen must be smoking something I gave up in college.<\/p>\n<p>Harry&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email about Nancy Nilsen&#8217;s reply to my post is a little more aggressive than my normal blog posts. I sent it to the&#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\/1210"}],"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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}