{"id":1822,"date":"2009-03-13T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2009-03-13T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T14:56:03","slug":"weltyglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"Welty\/Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralph Doty was not content with his first attempt to impugn my character a day before the last School Board election where I was a candidate and had no chance to respond. He’s at it again<\/a>. I suspect his rant today and the one he promises next week will do more to enhance my reputation. Should I decided to run yet again for the Board – to pick up the pieces from this Dixon\/JCI fiasco – I would expect to win in a landslide. Picking up those pieces will be a grim task and I’m not sure whether I’d have the pluck to tidy up the mess after a year-and-a-half fighting unscrupulous giants.<\/p>\n

I’ll have much more to say about Ralph’s column but since the Budgeteer has allowed him to bloody me yet again I’ll probably save much of that for my reply. I hope it runs along side the column in which Ralph explains how I am helping destroy Duluth.<\/p>\n

Oh, and on one score Ralph is absolutely clueless. If there are any puppets in Duluth they serve on the School Board. At our little meetings of Let Duluth Vote I am regularly second guessed, doubted and debated. When I charge ahead without checking with others I get my ears boxed by my allies. We have no rubber stamps. You should see email criticism I got a couple days ago from one of my fellow plaintiffs. I noticed it after I saw my monitor smoking.<\/p>\n

Its only the Duluth School Board that walks into Board meetings somnolescent, obedient and unquestioning. <\/p>\n

And while it is certainly fair to say pair me with Gary Glass as Ralph’s column did eight times “Welty\/Glass” to say that that I am Gary’s master is a joke. No one tells Gary what to do. Whenever he just smiles at some suggestion I’ve offered my heart sinks because I know it means he’s not listening. I’ve gotten angry at him a couple times, really angry<\/em>, and to this day he believes things, important things, with which I strongly disagree.<\/p>\n

In fact, although I’ve served on the Duluth School Board seven years longer than Gary I accord Gary some deference because he is and I am not<\/em> an elected official today. <\/p>\n

I’m mostly content to stand on my two ripostes, to Ralph from the beating he administered last year here<\/a> and especially here<\/a>. I do like anecdotes however so I’ll just ad this postscript: <\/p>\n

A couple months ago Ralph was a guest at my Church’s men’s group and made a presentation on the love of his life, old time Radio. When I correctly answered a trivia question he posed he gave me a prize. It was a CD he’d cut of an Amos and Andy show. I brought it home to give to my wife who enjoys listening to old time radio rebroadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio. The CD didn’t work. <\/p>\n

Cleverness is no remedy for ignorance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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