{"id":2399,"date":"2009-07-20T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2009-07-20T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T03:44:19","slug":"interestinger-and-interestinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"Interestinger and interestinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh gosh, I hate when I write seven paragraphs and then accidentally delete them. <\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s an abridged version of what I just lost.<\/p>\n<p>The School Board is attempting a new legal scheme for shaking the taxpayers off their tail. They called a special meeting under &#8220;emergency&#8221; powers that their well paid attorneys alerted them to. Instead of a three day wait which would have given me the great fun of answering their deposition they met the day before and canceled my deposition. <\/p>\n<p>The subject of the meeting was the defense attorney&#8217;s request to the Sixth District Court that it remove the taxpayer&#8217;s attorney, our sainted Craig Hunter, from the case for unethical conduct &#8211; specifically for representing a client who was part of a school board whose own attorney&#8217;s he was opposing in court. They argue that Attorney Craig Hunter used &#8220;privileged information&#8221; from the School Board attorneys against the School Board since Mr. Hunter represents one Board member who opposed the majority.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of the meeting was to give the Board an excuse to kick Gary Glass off the Board for not agreeing with them and being a general pain in the neck by insisting that the voters should have a say in the future of the School District.<\/p>\n<p>I seated myself in the Board room at noon along with the members of the press who had been alerted and JCI&#8217;s PR man Steve Greenfield. I read the letter of complaint sent to our attorney and chuckled at many of the howlers I read in it. This was a good one: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Gary Glass&#8217;] status as a school board member have given him access to information that plaintiffs have exploited to their advantage, allowing them to circumvent the discovery process.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In two months since our attorney requested Discovery of the Sixth District Court the District&#8217;s attorneys have managed to find excuses not to provide this public data. Yet I, the principal antagonist of the District in Court provided over a thousand emails that they probably had no right to and which I realized they would use to impeach the motives of Gary Glass and others.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the District&#8217;s attorneys claim that Gary Glass has violated the attorney client privilege of School Board members. When? He&#8217;s never met with them. They have sent him no private communications. Perhaps this could be a sore point at some future date but today, in the closed meeting with his grim reaper colleagues, was the first time he&#8217;s seen the school board&#8217;s attorneys in private. Now he may, <em>MAY<\/em>, have to keep the School District&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s advice to himself. <\/p>\n<p>What terrible things that Gary wrote to me did the District&#8217;s attorneys reveal to the judge? He was offering his analysis of the taxpayer&#8217;s legal position. Ironically, he was expressing disatisfaction that the Ttxpayer&#8217;s attorney wasn&#8217;t following his legal thinking. Here&#8217;s a civic&#8217;s question. Doe a person like Gary Glass lose his or her constitutional right to freedom of speech by being elected to public office? Apparently, according to the District&#8217;s lawyers Gary has. Another set of attorney&#8217;s for the District don&#8217;t think the people of Duluth should be able to exercise the same right to vote as other Minnesotans either. They are being paid a quarter of a million tax payers dollars to propound this manure. Watch out for the spray when their hammer comes down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh gosh, I hate when I write seven paragraphs and then accidentally delete them. 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