{"id":2177,"date":"2009-05-29T14:31:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2009-06-19T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:29:31","slug":"kaboom-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"Kaboom II (with a correction)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ordean Demolition package being bid on will commence demo work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/ordeandemolition.htm\">June 6th <\/a>and be finished 30 days later. <\/p>\n<p>Its being offered by Bossardt Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>I just reviewed the finance reports for Move Forward Duluth&#8217;s sister group Vote Yes for Schools which campaigned to pass last fall&#8217;s operational levy. Bossardt contributed $2,500. It was corporate money and strictly forbidden and Bossardt knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Its not the only corporation that made illegal contributions to Vote Yes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NOTE: This entry is in error. It turns out that corporate donations are forbidden to legislative candidates not to school levy referendum campaigns even when the corporations have a huge financial interest in the outcome. Well, I guess I can begin soliciting corporate donations myself from Commercial and Industrial property owners who have been gouged deeply by Duluth Taxes in recent years. Last year&#8217;s 56% increase in school taxes is about to get some more Red Plan taxation when another $70 million in bonds is offered this summer.<br \/>\nCool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ordean Demolition package being bid on will commence demo work on June 6th and be finished 30 days later. Its being offered by&#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\/2177"}],"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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}