{"id":2219,"date":"2009-06-07T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2009-06-07T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T19:56:01","slug":"the-great-issue-thats-irrelevant-to-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"The great issue that&#8217;s irrelevant to the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related to the previous post is the issue of what matters to the Court of public opinion. <\/p>\n<p>For our court case we are at one disadvantage. The District can legitimately claim that our case and especially a temporary injunction will cause them financial losses due to delay. It would be convenient if we could point out to the court that replacing the Red Plan with LDV&#8217;s Plan B would save far more money. We&#8217;re not talking about $5 to $40 million dollars which the District and JCI attorneys have claimed a delay could cost them. <\/p>\n<p>At a minimum the public can expect a $100 million savings if our Plan B wins approval. If a new school board gets approval for simply repairing our schools we could bring the costs down to a hundred million and save the public $200 million dollars. That would still mean $100 million of new spending or (using the 1.6 multiplier) $160 in new money circulating through Duluth. Unlike the District we can&#8217;t apply this argument in the Sixth District Court but only with the Court of public opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to the previous post is the issue of what matters to the Court of public opinion. For our court case we are at&#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\/2219"}],"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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}