{"id":1716,"date":"2009-02-08T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T04:22:29","slug":"give-the-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"GIVE THE MONEY BACK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was headed to a sleigh ride with my family when Katie Nordeen from WDIO called. She read the post on <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1714\">Tim&#8217;s shenanigans <\/a>and wanted to do a story. I gave her a great many sound bites but there is never any telling how a story will be treated.<\/p>\n<p>Katie played it straightforward with no favorites. There were some new tidbits. Tim claimed on air that Plan B has already cost the District $50,000. They haven&#8217;t published those figures but I expect its all legal expenses fighting Plan B. <\/p>\n<p>The $250,000 they say it will cost them is not all for preparation of Plan B. Some of it is to prepare a legal defense of the District against Let Duluth Vote.<\/p>\n<p>Nice to know they are prepared. Of course, as I predicted its being used to show how we are draining the District of precious resources at a tough time. <\/p>\n<p>To that I simply say: You guys lied. You said you wouldn&#8217;t take classroom money authorized by the fall levy to use on the Red Plan. Then, after the levy passed you &#8220;borrowed&#8221; five million in operations money just for the Red Plan. Even if Let Duluth Vote costs you an unanticipated $250,000 that plus the $4.5 million you claim to be short could all be covered by returning the $5 million you borrowed for the Red Plan. I say: GIVE THE MONEY BACK! <em><strong>LIARS<\/strong>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was headed to a sleigh ride with my family when Katie Nordeen from WDIO called. She read the post on Tim&#8217;s shenanigans and&#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\/1716"}],"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=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}