{"id":1364,"date":"2008-07-31T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2017-03-03T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T05:00:03","slug":"are-red-plan-supporters-turning-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Are Red Plan supporters turning tail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that David Ross, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, wrote nary a word about the Red Plan in his most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=22627&#038;section=columnists&#038;columnist=David%20Ross&#038;freebie_check&#038;CFID=63032786&#038;CFTOKEN=47175041&#038;jsessionid=88303b996dce804974b1\">Budgeteer column<\/a>. His Budgeteer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthbudgeteer.com\/columnists\/index.cfm?page=archive&#038;columnist=David Ross\">&#8220;archives&#8221;<\/a> are full of fullsome praise for the Red Plan but he omitted any mention of the plan in last weekend&#8217;s round of boosterism. The closest he got was a general comment about our reputation for having good schools:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Duluth&#8217;s fascinating history and heritage as a hard-working industrial town is now coupled with a growing reputation as a place of innovation and opportunity in the areas of education, health care, aviation, business and technology.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but wonder if even the Red Plan&#8217;s most ardent former boosters are having second thoughts or are cowed by the increasingly sullen attitude about the Red Plan from voters who incorrectly feel impotent to change it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that David Ross, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, wrote nary a word about the Red Plan in&#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\/1364"}],"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=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20904,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/20904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}