{"id":13681,"date":"2015-05-24T04:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T09:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:27:24","slug":"loren-martells-wrap-up-of-the-board-vs-the-lone-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13681","title":{"rendered":"Loren Martell&#8217;s wrap up of the Board vs the &#8220;Lone Ranger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its a good <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2015\/05\/21\/5303_all_settled_now\">summation<\/a>. A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The feisty little guy stands up against the big powerful establishment and kicks their butts! Is this a great country, or what?<\/p>\n<p>Going into Federal Court was a brilliant legal strategy on the part of the Lone Ranger&#8217;s attorneys. Up until that point, the masked marauder had been essentially riding the rails to his ouster. Everything was stacked up in favor of his accusers. They had pulled in a biased investigator recommended by Kevin Rupp, the district&#8217;s chief attorney. Rupp was closely aligned with administration, and district administration has for years been in lockstep with the school board majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of my grievances is that at no time during the last seven months have I been given any information by our Superintendent or Board related to our attorney&#8217;s work. I suppose the simple reason for this is that I gave our attorney&#8217;s reasoning for proceeding with caution on Art Johnston&#8217;s removal to the Duluth News Tribune. That was the night Mary Rice made her presentation to the School Board. To me that&#8217;s more a sign of how much the insiders have to hide than a justifiable denial of information to an elected member of the School Board. I suppose it doesn&#8217;t help that I have made constant light of Mr. Rupp&#8217;s expensive and incompetent handling of our school board&#8217;s grade-school-like squabbles. <\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that the Rupp and Ratwik firms maneuvering to take over the Johnston mess reminded me of two seagulls fighting over a french fry? Well, it turned out that the Ratwik firm wasn&#8217;t able to improve on Rupp&#8217;s work. My hunch is that the whole charade was called off by the Insurance Company after their poor rep had to sit through Judge Davis&#8217;s skewering of the District&#8217;s position. The insurers probably made it clear that they had already thrown enough money down the Ratwik hole. That&#8217;s what Art&#8217;s attorneys think too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its a good summation. A sample: The feisty little guy stands up against the big powerful establishment and kicks their butts! Is this a&#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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681"}],"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=13681"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19683,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13681\/revisions\/19683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}