{"id":12531,"date":"2015-01-06T06:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:01:48","slug":"attorney-rupp-on-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12531","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Rupp on the Hot Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s brief DNT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/3648529-johnston-tries-get-law-firm-booted-during-board-meeting\">story<\/a> on the January organizational meeting of the School Board is spare but accurate.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t record it but a friend who regularly videos meetings that the District doesn&#8217;t bother to told me she was glad she was there to record it herself. I&#8217;ll be interested in reading Loren Martell&#8217;s story after I return from a short sojourn to visit Claudia and her father in sunny Florida. When she made flight plans I told her I had some hope that the organizational meeting might include room for Art Johnston and me so I wanted to wait in town to participate. Well, I&#8217;m often prone to naivete and optimism where the Board is concerned. Things were arranged well before the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Art and I did have a chance to voice our displeasure with the attorney for the District Kevin Rupp. The allegation I leveled against Rupp for pushing the Board to throw Racism on the barn wall last June to see if it would stick comes from an unimpeachable source. I would be amazed if any Board member denied it. This was only the most disagreeable reason I cited for replacing Rupp. <\/p>\n<p>I only have a few minutes before I head to my car for a long day&#8217;s travel so I don&#8217;t have time to outline the eight or so complaints I leveled against Rupp last night. But I&#8217;ve decided to take my computer with me so I&#8217;ll pound out some exegesis while I fly from Minneapolis to Pittsburgh to Florida today. I&#8217;ve got a lot of things on my chest. They keep me up at night. I thought I crash last night after four previous nights of three or four hour night&#8217;s sleep. No such luck. I probably won&#8217;t be able to sleep any better in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Chair Judy Seliga-Punyko who can barely conceal her disdain for Art Johnston, its a two way street, may not be able to elevate the mood of next year&#8217;s Board meetings over the clumsy parliamentary performance of her predecessor Mr. Miernicki. It won&#8217;t help that Art Johnston will continue on as a Board member until perhaps April before she can get the revenge she is so clearly eager to exact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s brief DNT story on the January organizational meeting of the School Board is spare but accurate. I didn&#8217;t record it but a friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531"}],"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=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21232,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}