{"id":2827,"date":"2010-03-01T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:52:46","slug":"i-did-not-write-a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"I DID NOT WRITE A LETTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To seal the deal on the naming of the two high schools Dr. Dixon read the school board a letter purportedly from Mayor Ness and said the Mayor endorsed the Red Plan and thus two schools. It wasn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people complained to the Mayor, so many that Mayor Ness had to resort to a bulk email reply:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Mayor&#8217;s vehement denial.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8212; On Fri, 2\/26\/10, DNESS@duluthmn.gov <DNESS@duluthmn.gov wrote: \n \nFrom: DNESS@duluthmn.gov <DNESS@duluthmn.gov \nSubject: Re: Green Duluth \nTo: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \nDate: Friday, February 26, 2010, 12:53 PM \n \nxxxxxx, \n \nThere was no endorsement.  Believe me, I was just as shocked as you to hear that Dr. Dixon read a letter from me at the school board meeting - especially since I did NOT write a letter.  I am hoping to get a tape of the meeting to find out exactly what was said and how my position was presented.  I can tell you, I am very unhappy about this. \n \nAfter scrambling to find out what has happened, I found out that what was read was a transcript of a speech that I gave at Denfeld last summer.  My message was that I didn't believe it was right to strip Denfeld of their heritage - and I still believe that to be true.  Denfeld should be known as Denfeld.  But that should not be seen, in any way, as an endorsement of the Red Plan, or an indication that I am giving up on pushing the District to maintain a presence in the center of the city. \n \nIf you think about it, the moment that you change Denfeld's name for the purpose to satisfy the Central folks, you have then given up your position to advocate for a Central High.  Right?  Why would you ever change Denfeld's name until you were giving up any hope that there will not be a Central?   Well, I'm not giving up that effort. \n \nIn fact, Kasper and I had a meeting with Dixon two weeks ago in which we promoted Red Plan Plus, voiced our concern about Western Middle, and were looking for some area to compromise with the district to benefit the central part of the city and to move off their position.  \n \nI hope that you will help me set the record straight.  \n \nDon \n \n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To seal the deal on the naming of the two high schools Dr. Dixon read the school board a letter purportedly from Mayor Ness&#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\/2827"}],"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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}