{"id":22966,"date":"2017-09-11T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22966"},"modified":"2017-09-11T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T04:40:47","slug":"countdown-pic-56-days-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22966","title":{"rendered":"Countdown Pic – 56 Days left"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m cheating today. A funny faced cat eluded my camera so I’m using the grainy squirrel from yesterday that almost got away. He\/she was hopping down an alley with a full bagel in its mouth. Then he paused behind a Tansy as I finally got him in view. Snap.<\/p>\n

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I had many fun conversations today – some challenging. Here’s the best one:<\/p>\n

I found four workman fixing a house. I introduced myself and said I was running for……. You know the political schtick.<\/p>\n

The leader opened my letter and read it closely. As I walked on to the next house one of the guys shouted “And screw the damned Red Plan.”<\/p>\n

I shouted over my shoulder “I’m afraid that’s a done deal.”<\/p>\n

As I walked away I realized I hadn’t really captured my thoughts and competently broadcast them so I turned around and looked for the Red Plan man.<\/p>\n

When I got close I hollered: “What I should have said was that I spent four years trying to get the voters a chance to vote on the damned Red Plan. And the Duluth Trib’s editorial board won’t forgive me for it!”<\/p>\n

It was very gratifying to hear four grown men give that a lusty laugh. The Red Plan disaster isn’t their fault. Its the disaster caused by Duluth’s movers and shakers. The movers and shakers are too thinned to have an “I-told-you-so” on the School Board. <\/p>\n

The Trib, the DFL insiders, and the leaders of the Public Employee’s Union all want cheerleaders who will make our schools the best in the nation<\/em>…….but with no plan on how to go about doing this with millions cannibalized from classrooms to pay for the Red Plan……even while the future cheerleaders brag about Myers-Wilkins’ STEM program ………………which was recently scrapped<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Money trouble I presume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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