{"id":12646,"date":"2015-01-16T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T02:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12646"},"modified":"2017-02-24T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T01:47:30","slug":"rupp-si-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12646","title":{"rendered":"Rupp si daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned to go back to my notes to reconstruct my nine objections to retaining Kevin Rupp&#8217;s firm. I outlined them at our school board&#8217;s organizational meeting last week. That would have taken a couple hours to reconstruct and I am positively thrilled to discover, upon my return from the MSBA convention (Minnesota School Boards Association), that Loren Martell has done the job for me. He&#8217;s done it better than I would have because he has the meeting taped. His Reader Weekly Column today quotes me extensively. I must say, I&#8217;m pretty damn cogent &#8211; as cogent as our attorney is &#8230;.. well, read <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/15\/4655_meet_the_new_boss\">Loren&#8217;s column<\/a> for yourself. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fragment to whet your gag reflex:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the Rice Report meeting, Mr. Welty sent a nervous rustle through the room by making an open reference to dark scandals buried in the district&#8217;s past. To avoid sailing too far into tabloid waters, I&#8217;ll leave part of the following quote intentionally blank. Again referring to the same person (whom he blames for the months-long Johnston conflict), Welty said:<br \/>\n&#8220;When I was on the school board before, this person lied to cover up (&#8212;&#8212;-) abuse.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, I found out yesterday afternoon that the Trib was calling MSBA staff to ask about Mr. Rupp. I presumed it was in response to my <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12640\">two thousand word post<\/a> that morning about Mr. Rupp&#8217;s indefensible failure to prevent our Board policy on negotiations from being urinated on last March.  I might have been wrong. It might have been prompted by Mr. Martell&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Rupp is truly at his best when he shields the guilty and slanders the innocent. And let us not forget, well paid &#8211; by Duluth tax payers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned to go back to my notes to reconstruct my nine objections to retaining Kevin Rupp&#8217;s firm. I outlined them at our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646"}],"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=12646"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19798,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions\/19798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}