{"id":1230,"date":"2008-05-14T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2008-05-14T07:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:06:40","slug":"the-bakk-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"The Bakk Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trib&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=66424&#038;section=News\">latest story <\/a>on the progress of the Jaros Bill. Its now Tom Bakk&#8217;s wording which gets rid of our chance to hold a referendum but does clip the wings of the District. It puts an arbitray cap of $125 million for borrowing on the lease levy which the Red Plan had hoped to peg at $171 million. This is one of three pots of money the District would tap to pay for the full $293 million ($407 counting interest). Dr. Dixon&#8217; new Group DDMFD &#8220;Damn Democracy, Move Forward Duluth&#8221; is lobbying furiously against it.<\/p>\n<p>Since its something of a halfway measure between our sides it will probably eventually prevail. For those who&#8217;d like to send poor Senator Bakk an opinion you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.leg.state.mn.us\/members\/member_emailform.php?mem_id=1003&#038;ls=85\">email him here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trib&#8217;s latest story on the progress of the Jaros Bill. Its now Tom Bakk&#8217;s wording which gets rid of our chance to hold&#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\/1230"}],"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=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}