{"id":12708,"date":"2015-01-21T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2017-02-24T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T01:36:02","slug":"my-blog-is-a-treasure-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=12708","title":{"rendered":"My blog is a treasure chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post I did a search of my blog for mentions of Kevin Rupp. The first two mentions go back to 2009 and Let Duluth Vote&#8217;s lawsuit against the District. The <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1826\">second post<\/a> in which he made an appearance is a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Rupp&#8217;s caged bird, Attorney Mary Rice, if Art Johnston had violated any state statutes. She gave an imitation of Sgt. Schultz, &#8220;I know nothing,&#8221; and just kept pounding on the half dozen violations of school policy that &#8211; IN HER OPINION &#8211; Art violated. So what did Attorney Kevin Rupp say about the importance of our District&#8217;s policies when Art and I took the District to court for failing to bid out our half billion dollar Red Plan?<\/p>\n<p>I advise you to sit down before reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The notable thing is that [the plaintiffs] have not alleged the school district violated any law,&#8221; lawyer Kevin Rupp said. &#8220;They have only alleged the school district violated a policy. You can&#8217;t sue for violation of a policy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I may be allowed to paraphrase our esteemed counsel I&#8217;d say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The notable thing is that [the School Board] has not alleged that [Art Johnston] violated any law. They have only alleged the [Art] has violated a policy. You can&#8217;t [remove a school board member] for taking advantage of the First Amendment even if school policy frowns on free speech.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post I did a search of my blog for mentions of Kevin Rupp. The first two mentions go back to 2009&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,46,17,35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708"}],"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=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19791,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/19791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}