{"id":1407,"date":"2008-08-21T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2008-08-21T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T19:54:28","slug":"more-online-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"More online poll results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many folks seem to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/Online%20Polls.htm\">the decisions <\/a>of this School Board.<\/p>\n<p>Its cluelessness is best demonstrated by the back-handed compliment Bevan S (an enthusiastic supporter of the School Board) gave me in today&#8217;s Trib online comment section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My loss [in]the election was caused by my friend Harry Welty. To his credit, he created quite a coalition of folks. He managed to bring together the 30% of Duluthians who would be against any expenditure for schools, with the 30% of Duluthians who were against the closing of Central High school, and were willing to keep it open at any cost.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I told a friend, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What he&#8217;s saying is that I cleverly helped organize the vast majority of voters, 60%, to thwart the will of the minority. Well, Duh!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way Bevan&#8217;s &#8220;at any cost&#8221; comment is a riot coming from a guy willing to spend $293 million to rebuild perfectly good schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many folks seem to support the decisions of this School Board. Its cluelessness is best demonstrated by the back-handed compliment Bevan S (an&#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\/1407"}],"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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}