{"id":22741,"date":"2017-08-24T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22741"},"modified":"2017-08-24T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T20:32:45","slug":"no-no-no-loren-martell-didnt-get-more-face-time-with-the-editors-than-i-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22741","title":{"rendered":"No, No, No, Loren Martell didn&#8217;t get more face time with the editors than I did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will not be making it easy for the people I advise on who to vote for for the Duluth School Board. At least not with the At-large candidates. Only two of the five candidates will be elected and I&#8217;m rooting for three of us &#8211; Loren Martell, Dana Krivogorsky and me. In fact, I&#8217;ve put all three of our lawnsigns on the front yard that no one will be able to see for the next month while road construction blocks our intersection. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Loren&#8217;s sign went up Loren told me I&#8217;d misreported how much time he got to spend with the News Tribune editorial board. I recalled him saying they gave him a little extra attention and since I&#8217;d spent 40 minutes with them I presumed he must have gotten a full hour. Naw, he just got the same 40 minutes I got. We both offer corrections to the other when they seem to be warranted and Loren didn&#8217;t want anyone to think he got special treatment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll mention one of the things that I told the Editorial Board when the subject of the Superintendent came up.  I told them what I always say about Mr. Gronseth, &#8220;I think he has a good grasp of what is good for kids,&#8221; or words to that affect. I also said I had no objection to his looking for other superintendent positions. I told the Editorial Board that I had given a lot of thought about how candid I wanted to be with them as I presumed I would be &#8220;on record&#8221; through the interview. I told them that this was a pretty good time for me to be diplomatic but I also told them that I figured the Superintendent and I were probably rooting for different candidates. <\/p>\n<p>Hint to voters: I&#8217;m partial to that old maxim attributed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/misattributed-quotes-2013-10\">probably incorrectly<\/a> to Albert Einstein: \u201cThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The folks I&#8217;m rooting for are all aware that the last ten year&#8217;s worth of Duluth School Boards are the ones who diverted $11 million annually from the classroom to build &#8220;21st Century&#8221; school buildings. I sorta think the folks I&#8217;m<em> not <\/em>rooting for would prefer to be cheerleaders when they are running for a management position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will not be making it easy for the people I advise on who to vote for for the Duluth School Board. At least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741"}],"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=22741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22747,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741\/revisions\/22747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}