{"id":1336,"date":"2008-07-07T22:35:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2008-07-07T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:42:44","slug":"jci-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"JCI Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=69898&#038;section=News&#038;freebie_check&#038;CFID=54444623&#038;CFTOKEN=18851836&#038;jsessionid=8830a693c3d62c7e3646\">second half <\/a>of the JCI story is a great disappointment but not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The important question isn&#8217;t whether JCI can handle the managment of the Red Plan. Rather it is should have been whether Duluth should have swallowed the worm on JCI&#8217;s hook. Oh, pardon me, whether four school board members have swallowed it for us. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of the unpleasant reputation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salesman_(1969_movie)\">Bible salesmen <\/a>who were imfamous for using people&#8217;s fear of God to sell them fancy, high priced Bibles they couldn&#8217;t afford. Prove you love God&#8230;was the sales pitch&#8230;.Kind of like Dr. Dixon&#8217;s pitch&#8230;..prove you love your children.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also reminded of companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DE1238F932A25752C1A965958260\">Prudential Insurance <\/a>also a biggie which has many reputable employees but which also scammed tens of thousands of customers with shady insurance policies. <\/p>\n<p>Other communities may have benefited from JCI&#8217;s work but not Duluth. When JCI discovered that it could sell four school board members without bothering with a referendum it realized that the sky was the limit. <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the story the Trib covered. Oh well, When the operational levy fails this November there will be plenty of opportunities for hind sight. I hear its 20 &#8211; 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second half of the JCI story is a great disappointment but not a surprise. The important question isn&#8217;t whether JCI can handle the&#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\/1336"}],"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=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}