{"id":25438,"date":"2018-06-25T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25438"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:35:33","slug":"a-couple-years-ago-i-voted-against-extending-the-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25438","title":{"rendered":"Two years ago I voted against extending the contract&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.. of the Superintendent of the Duluth Schools. <\/p>\n<p>Last year he pulled out all the stops (although he attempted to do this without drawing attention to it) to make sure I wasn&#8217;t reelected.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He earned himself the most supportive School Board imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>His top administrators, real gems, are abandoning the District like rats on a sinking ship.<\/p>\n<p>Now his District is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4464419-duluth-school-board-faces-budget-deadline\">a truly unprecedented and calamitous fiscal disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He won. The children and the city lost.<\/p>\n<p>By helping retire me from the School Board the Superintendent gave me a chance to file for Congress to face yet another unprecedented disaster of public confidence. This time it is a loss of faith in the nation. In the Republican primary its either me, a man who has said publicly that President Donald Trump is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/2018\/06\/04\/welty-former-school-board-member-running-for-8th-district\/\">loathsome<\/a> or Pete Stauber who his making a cozy campaign nest out of lint in Donald Trump&#8217;s pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about America is that we can still tell the truth or lie like a rug so long as we are not sworn under oath to tell the truth and no one will send us to jail&#8230;&#8230;..if we are white. Then again, maybe there is something not so great about that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/20045436_1408374772582197_3933928109161346804_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&#038;oh=8daf71042c6b8476235c1147cd8ebaf7&#038;oe=5BAFBF46\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/welty-2-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.. of the Superintendent of the Duluth Schools. Last year he pulled out all the stops (although he attempted to do this without drawing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,17,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-congress","category-duluth-schools","category-pete-stauber-for-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438","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=25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25446,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions\/25446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}