{"id":29197,"date":"2019-11-07T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29197"},"modified":"2019-11-07T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T19:23:45","slug":"after-election-analysis-hiccups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29197","title":{"rendered":"After election analysis, hiccups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember. Any candidate who tells you what he or she will do after losing an election can&#8217;t be trusted. There was Nixon with his sour plaint to the press after Kennedy beat him then Pat Brown for California Governor.&#8221;You won&#8217;t have Dick Nixon to kick around any more.&#8221; And there was me yesterday saying I&#8217;d never run again or sounding a lot like it. Well, as part of my after election clean up of my garage and a ton of Oswald and Welty lawnsigns (my workroom and office remain to be tidied) I kept my lawnsigns for potential future use. Sorry Pete. <\/p>\n<p>I have been remarkably cheerful at the prospect of leaving the fate of the Duluth School District to others since the moment the first 25% of my vote returns made it painfully obvious that I was going to remain a civilian. Although I&#8217;m not yet done with the District. Like so many other things I set aside completing my training to be a substitute teacher as the last weeks of the campaign ground down. I&#8217;ll be giving that a try soon. Even if I neglect my blog I&#8217;m likely to return to that subject after I have a few subbing gigs under my belt.<\/p>\n<p>And just as I deal tit for tat to the Trib&#8217;s editors they deal tat for tit to me. Their summation of my defeat was succinct if not fully dismissive, &#8220;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another message Tuesday came from school district voters: We&#8217;re ready to put behind us, where it belongs, all the angst and pain and controversy stemming from the long-range facilities plan that resulted in new and improved Duluth school buildings. Two of the faces of the past were defeated Tuesday &#8220;Former School Board member Harry Welty lost by about a two-to-one margin to incumbent David Kirby, and longtime district critic Loren Martell received just 46.09% of the vote to retired public school teacher Paul Sandholm&#8217;s 53.91%&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I myself indicated in the previous post the voters probably were ready to see the back of me but the Red Plan&#8217;s hit on teachers will last another decade until the District finally recovers the general fund money they dedicated to those &#8220;<em>new and improved Duluth school buildings.<\/em>&#8221;  Getting rid of me will not get the teachers back.<\/p>\n<p>And a growing school district just got the approval from their voters for building bonds that eclipse the $319 million in bonding of the Red Plan. White Bear Lake with just as  many students as Duluth OK-eyed a 326 million school bond. I doubt that theirs will dive out 20% of White Bear&#8217;s Public school students.<\/p>\n<p>A sympathizer sent me a message to tell my I&#8217;m not such a bonehead. They are wrong of course. Almost all humans are boneheads.  I chalked up one more boneheaded more move this morning when I read in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Janet Kennedy was Duluth&#8217;s first elected black City Councilor. So I emailed the new Strib education reporter and corrected the story explaining that when I came to town there was a black city councilor. Then after sending that message I decided to do some checking that google seemed unable to help me with. I called the Duluth Libraries Reference desk for the first time in years. I asked them to tell me that councilors name. The call back set me straight. In 1975, the year after I moved to Duluth, Lurlene Baker was elected to the Duluth School Board. She was the black &#8220;city councilor&#8221; I had in mind. I&#8217;m surprised I&#8217;d forgotten that after making a big deal out of helping Mary Cameron get elected to the same school board. Mary was the second not first black school board member. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve written that she was our first black board member before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember. Any candidate who tells you what he or she will do after losing an election can&#8217;t be trusted. 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