{"id":1767,"date":"2009-02-25T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:53:36","slug":"lipstick-on-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick on a pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/rlmorel\/.Public\/lipstickpig.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/rlmorel\/.Public\/lipstickpig.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt last night&#8217;s School Board meeting the unpopular school board tried to put lay the blame for their piggy on Let Duluth Vote. They voted to spend a quarter of a million to develop a Plan B review and comment. Its a grossly inflated price that includes $50,000 that has already been spent fighting to avoid a referendum. Only Gary Glass voted against it. As he said the Board is attempting &#8220;to put lipstick on a pig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/113267\/\">Trib story<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why they are talking about spending all this money on a review and comment document when we don&#8217;t even know what plan the public wants yet,&#8221; said Brenda Anderson, a spokeswoman for Let Duluth Vote.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson said state law allows the district to hold a special election on the plan before fully developing it for approval by the Department of Education. <\/p>\n<p>Glass echoed those comments before voting against spending money to develop the plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last night&#8217;s School Board meeting the unpopular school board tried to put lay the blame for their piggy on Let Duluth Vote. They&#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\/1767"}],"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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20815,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/20815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}