{"id":2703,"date":"2009-10-28T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2017-03-02T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:48:02","slug":"mimi-has-a-lot-of-explaining-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Mimi has a lot of explaining to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samples from the latest group email sent out by Mimi Larson to her Red Plan supporters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since the announcement was made last Friday that the Minnesota Department of Education has accepted Let Duluth Vote&#8217;s Plan B as educationally and economically advisable, I have received calls and emails wondering what this means.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No kidding!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It means that the non-binding referendum election will probably occur.  I say &#8220;probably&#8221; because who knows what will happen next in this crazy debate.  But the school board has no reason to stop the referendum at this point. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could this mean that the District is seriously considering ignoring the Minnesota Dept. of Education? Just asking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let Duluth Vote has already moved on to their next confusing, chaotic step.  Harry Welty&#8217;s blog gave the blueprint for their strategy on Saturday:  &#8220;any vote on Plan B will be anticlimactic.&#8221; &#8220;I hope the new board \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 will begin working on another plan.&#8221; &#8220;I have always hated Plan B&#8221; (C&#8217;mon, Harry. Really?)  &#8220;I&#8217;d start by offering a Plan C referendum built around two high schools&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C&#8217;mon Mimi. Really? Anybody who has paid attention to School District politics in Duluth for the past decade knows I&#8217;ve pushed for two high schools forever. Just Google the &#8220;Zenith Plan&#8221; and &#8220;Harry Welty&#8221; together and you will probably find the plan I proposed ten years ago to close a high school. Ask the Central folks. They know I was ready to close their high school. As for a Plan C&#8230;&#8230;.Mimi&#8230;&#8230;.Have you failed to notice all the construction going on at our schools? Plan B was conceived long before any excavation. A new school Board will have to blend what can not be stopped in the Red Plan with whatever ratcheting back makes financial sense. If you don&#8217;t like the letter C in the alphabet come up with your own term denoting compromise. Oh, I forgot. That&#8217;s not a word in your vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>As for my googling suggestion &#8211; I just used the new search engine from Microsoft called <em><strong>Bing<\/strong><\/em>. These are the 2nd and 3rd entries from the search I just suggested.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CrisisJune My Zenith Plan vs. the Board&#8217;s Corridor Plan &#8211; a comparison. 5-22- The Duluth News &#8230; Sunday 2-25-2001 Harry Welty Out of his box A flattering column but why does Tom West &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>www.snowbizz.com\/Crisis\/crisis.htm Cached pageDuluth SchoolsZenith Plan vs. Corridor Plan &#8211; Early in 2001 I proposed a two-highschool plan &#8230; Harry Welty Teacher, Three Strikes and You&#8217;re Out (This page has not yet been created.<\/p>\n<p>www.snowbizz.com\/DuluthSchools%20Page\/ISD709.htm Cached page<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And last but not least.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next important decision will occur on Tuesday, election day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You  got that right Mimi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samples from the latest group email sent out by Mimi Larson to her Red Plan supporters: &#8220;Since the announcement was made last Friday that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703"}],"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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20651,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/20651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}