{"id":1630,"date":"2009-01-13T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2009-01-13T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T14:53:32","slug":"water-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Water Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I talked to WDIO reporter Katie Nordeen after her interviews were over last night she told me that Tim Grover, my old friend and Nancy Nilsen&#8217;s replacement as School Board Chair, told her our letter was mistaken. For instance, the Board hadn&#8217;t taken levy money to pay for the building of the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago Tim, in his anti-tax incarnation, made me put a gun to my head when I equivocated about opposing possible tax increases. He was a stickler for telling the truth. I am at a loss to understand how he can repeat the same drivel Nancy Nilsen spouts.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s my poorly drawn visual metaphor depicting the School District&#8217;s operating money as water in a bowl. Its low and the District wants more (for the classroom it says). It makes a promise to spend all the newly raised taxes in the classroom. Then, after the water level has risen (By the voters passing the operations levy) the Board borrows $5 million of it leaving less for classrooms. It borrows the classroom money to help finance the building of the Red Plan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/images\/Metaphor13.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/images\/Metaphor13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I talked to WDIO reporter Katie Nordeen after her interviews were over last night she told me that Tim Grover, my old friend&#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\/1630"}],"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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}