{"id":1479,"date":"2008-09-19T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2008-09-19T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T20:00:57","slug":"using-the-districts-email-to-politic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Using the District&#8217;s email to politic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DFT President Frank Wanner has reportedly sent an email to all teachers telling them to vote for the maximum levy. I believe that this a clear use of District facilities to play politics. Of course, in the day of the &#8220;yellow rag&#8221; as the administrators fondly called the teacher union&#8217;s newsletter Frank could have done the same thing and that was distributed to teachers on the school district&#8217;s time and premises.<\/p>\n<p>Like many others Frank is beginning to panic at the prospect of the levy failing and causing a catastrophe. Frank sat on the original LRFP group that gave us the Red Plan.  He signed off on the Red Plan but he also reportedly attended very few meetings. It&#8217;s a little late for him to start paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>What a change of heart where operational levies are concerned. In 1997 when we pushed a levy to buy new books for libraries, new computers, a down payment for Public School Stadium repairs and elementary specialists Frank refused to endorse it at all. He wanted the money in the paychecks of teachers instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFT President Frank Wanner has reportedly sent an email to all teachers telling them to vote for the maximum levy. I believe that&#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\/1479"}],"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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}