{"id":2180,"date":"2009-05-30T22:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T03:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2009-05-30T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T03:19:48","slug":"disapearing-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"Disapearing $ and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the comment section on the Merrit Story in the Trib my old buddy Bevan commiserates with me for the terrible abuse I&#8217;m taking. In four days <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/121310\/group\/News\/\">only 17 comments <\/a>were generated in total. Some were friendly. Not a big deal, but thanks Bevan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken a closer look at Vote Yes&#8217;s finance reports. On Oct 23 they reported that the Duluth Teachers Union had contributed $3,000. (The DFT pointedly stiffed the campaigns for operational levies before Dr. Dixon) Perplexingly the Report for the end of the year shows the DFT having only contributed $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Its also interesting to note that as the campaign neared the election they had raised only $6,199.29. That&#8217;s when the four corporations kicked in just in time to cover $16,000 in spending. If you subtract out the $2,000 or $3,000 raised from the DFT they raised less than a tenth what regular citizens have contributed to <strong>Let Duluth Vote<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that Move Forward Duluth&#8217;s 300 email addresses all came from parents who contributed to the operational Levy Campaign. Let Duluth Vote has received donations from 2,000 people. <\/p>\n<p>Until the corporations gave last minute donations Vote Yes had very little campaign to speak of. They were lucky no one organized to oppose their levy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the comment section on the Merrit Story in the Trib my old buddy Bevan commiserates with me for the terrible abuse I&#8217;m taking&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}