{"id":2086,"date":"2009-05-09T07:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2017-03-02T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T23:21:48","slug":"disrespect-doesnt-deserve-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2086","title":{"rendered":"Disrespect doesn&#8217;t deserve respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I commented on last week&#8217;s sermon from the Budgeteer on Respect. It came out along with the Doty column disrespecting my &#8220;hooligans&#8221; at the recent Duluth School Board meeting. I raised my children to ignore the taunts of school yard bullies and in an attempt to practice what I preached I confined <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2060\">my reply <\/a>to the blog. (Not that I&#8217;m above riposting in a letter to the editor)<\/p>\n<p>I must admit that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/119765\/group\/Budgeteer\/\">two letters<\/a> to this morning&#8217;s Budgeteer were gratifying reading.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from Derek Alexander:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Duluth School Board has disrespected the citizens of Duluth by not allowing a vote on the Red Plan in the first place &#8211; to see if it is what the majority really wants and can afford, or is willing to pay for. <\/p>\n<p>But now, I am sure, [the school board] would like some respect and civility from those who have already been disrespected. I certainly feel disrespected. <\/p>\n<p>To the Budgeteer&#8217;s &#8220;Our View&#8221; on May 3, a tenth &#8220;Tools of Civility&#8221; can and should be added: &#8220;Let people vote.&#8221;  Especially on matters that affect them the most. It is democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And an excerpt from Loren Martell who then proceeded to show he (she?) had given a lot more thought to the consequences of the Red Plan than any of the existing School Board members other than Gary Glass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just read another lecture in the media (the Budgeteer&#8217;s May 3 editorial) about how undemocratically the Red Plan&#8217;s opponents acted at the last school board meeting. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what was undemocratic about that meeting: It was a group of elected officials supposedly taking in feedback from their constituents in a sham exhibit of weighing opposing opinions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I commented on last week&#8217;s sermon from the Budgeteer on Respect. It came out along with the Doty column disrespecting my &#8220;hooligans&#8221; at 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\/2086"}],"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=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20749,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/20749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}