{"id":1844,"date":"2009-03-20T08:42:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:33:18","slug":"the-deciders-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"The Decider&#8217;s delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/media\/full\/jpg\/2009\/03\/16\/pxglass0317_one_300px.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/media\/full\/jpg\/2009\/03\/16\/pxglass0317_one_300px.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Smith <\/strong><em>aka Gary Glass <\/em><strong>Goes to the School Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of Let Duluth Vote members thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/115152\/\">this March 17th story <\/a>in the Trib was a hit job on Gary Glass. I don&#8217;t think it was the Trib&#8217;s hit. It was the Board majority&#8217;s hit. It was also a miss as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/115437\/\">this reader points out. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just read in the News Tribune School Board member Nancy Nilsen&#8217;s quote that fellow School Board member Gary Glass was elected to represent the school district. Wrong! People are elected to represent the people who are voting for them&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After Gary got elected opposing the Red Plan with a sixty percent majority Dr. Dixon spent $50,000 on a coach to teach school board members how to be a team. The coach told Gary that an uncooperative school board member could be removed by the majority. <\/p>\n<p>So far the Board has only kept Gary on the bench for a year but if they could <em>send him a get-well card  <\/em><strong>please note:<\/strong> this is PG (<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1839\">Paul Goosens<\/a>) approved terminology for <em>take out a contract on him<\/em> they&#8217;d do it in a heartbeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Smith aka Gary Glass Goes to the School Board A lot of Let Duluth Vote members thought this March 17th story in the&#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\/1844"}],"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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20794,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/20794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}