{"id":26618,"date":"2018-12-05T18:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26618"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:41:00","slug":"26618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=26618","title":{"rendered":"I have church to go to. I&#8217;ll edit this later re: George Bush and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Harry&#8217;s Diary post didn&#8217;t start out with a title drawing attention to my dawdling over posts. But its a good reminder to my eight loyal readers that I don&#8217;t always consider my posts finished even at first posting&#8230;&#8230;and here&#8217;s a pic of the cookies we decorated for shut ins at Glen Avon Presbyterian last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4890\/32334712208_2f2ce7b803_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I watched the funeral for President George H W Bush this afternoon. Last night I watched, for the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/bush\/\">the two-hour American Experience program about George Bush<\/a>. It is at least ten years old. I learned some new things most of which softened me up toward the man I wouldn&#8217;t vote for in 1992. <\/p>\n<p>Although I voted for George and Ron in 1984 George lost my support initially when he joined the Reagan campaign as the VP candidate. In 1980 I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to vote for a Democrat so I voted for Independent candidate John Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>My principle grievance is simple. As Reagan&#8217;s successors turned their back on Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;big tent,&#8221; George Bush could only succeed by being complicit in the new GOP regime&#8217;s marginalization of moderates like me and like George Bush had once been. Where has the party of Lincoln gone? <\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this during my ongoing process of reorganizing my office files today. In a folder labeled &#8220;Crazy Republicans&#8221; was this newspaper clipping: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-threats-poll\/republicans-see-obama-as-more-imminent-threat-than-putin-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN0MQ0AV20150330\">Reuter&#8217;s story.<\/a> 30 percent of Republicans considered Obama a worse threat than Russia. Holy S&#8217;moley!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that the Clintons and Trump did not shake hands when Donald made his sulky appearance at George Bush&#8217;s funeral. I don&#8217;t blame them. He led cheers of &#8220;Lock her up.&#8221; at his rallies. That&#8217;s close to the equivalent of saying &#8220;F*** America&#8221; considering that over half of the votes went for Hilary Clinton in 2016. <em>Think of that<\/em> &#8211; Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Republicans&#8221; wanted to jail the American that half of America voted for for President.  Is it any wonder that Hillary&#8217;s supporters are licking their lips at the prospect that the President who led that cheer might himself face a life behind bars? Would Pence pardon him? I wonder. It cost Jerry Ford the Presidency in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Although winnowing my voluminous files has been my primary activity for the past few weeks I managed to crank out a new column for tomorrow&#8217;s Reader. Its called <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2018\/12\/06\/15313_100_pints_of_blood\">100 pints of blood<\/a>.  I also applied to renew my substitute teaching license. Returning to the classroom, even as a sub, has intrigued me for the past twenty years. I chatted with 709&#8217;s Human Resource Director for a summary of how to go about doing it. It turned out to be pretty simple.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items I reorganized yesterday were the documents from my legal challenge to the District in 2009 &#8220;<strong>Welty et al&#8221;<\/strong> vs. the Duluth School District and Johnson Controls. I rediscovered one of our attorney&#8217;s discoveries which greatly amused me.<\/p>\n<p>The current School Board&#8217;s attorney, Kevin Rupp, had a hand in that case defending the Board against me and four other plaintiffs.  <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1821&#038;action=edit\"> In the Trib he claimed <\/a>that a school district could not be sued for violating its own policies. Here&#8217;s what the plaintiffs attorney, <a href=\"https:\/\/pview.findlaw.com\/view\/3185195_1\">Craig Hunter<\/a>, discovered:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4827\/44389653520_e07888030b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This only amplifies my frustration at not having been successful in severing our School board&#8217;s ties with Rupp&#8217;s firm when I served on the School Board. <strong>NOTE: Readers of this blog will find ample examples of my jaundiced view of <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=Rupp\">Mr. Rupp&#8217;s legacy in this blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And while our lawsuit fell apart for reasons pinned to Mr. Hunter he had the District scared witless while single-handedly fighting off dozens of attorneys for three top legal firms. I found Craig a sensible and honorable man. 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