{"id":13102,"date":"2015-03-18T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13102"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:59:20","slug":"making-sure-an-art-johnston-cant-happen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13102","title":{"rendered":"Making sure an Art Johnston can&#8217;t happen again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Art Johnston I mean &#8211; an attempt to remove a Board member on insufficient grounds.<\/p>\n<p>I had told Art that I would go down with him again on Monday this week to lobby for the Senate File 539 that would put an end to the 1858 wording that gives School Board&#8217;s authority to vote off a dissenting member for &#8220;proper cause.&#8221; I had too much going on to accompany Art but he called with good news. This Senate Bill now has a companion House Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.leg.state.mn.us\/bills\/billnum.asp?billnumber=1962\">HF1962<\/a> to go along with it making it more possible for passage. Both bills have sponsors on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>As Art and school board members from other stricken districts circulate they are finding a receptive audience among legislators. As Senator Terri Bonoff said during her testimony last week before the Senate subcommittee on elections, she couldn&#8217;t imagine that legislators would accept a system in which a group of legislators could remove another elected representative with so little fuss and bother. Elections should be close to sacred.  So, now the law has found sponsors in the House.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether the law will pass this year and frankly I&#8217;m a too preoccupied in Duluth with ISD 709 and personal projects to lobby weekly at the moment. Besides, the law can be pushed next session if it fails this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Art Johnston I mean &#8211; an attempt to remove a Board member on insufficient grounds. I had told Art that I would go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,119,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102"}],"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=13102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13104,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions\/13104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}