{"id":3807,"date":"2011-07-18T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:36:54","slug":"thugs-for-better-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"Thugs for Better Schools I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I had coffee with a fellow I hoped to recruit for a School Board run. He&#8217;s a professional who wrote an article critical of the Red Plan&#8217;s management and the contract provisions which gave JCI big money and little incentive to do the public&#8217;s bidding.<\/p>\n<p>He now works for the City and reminded me that just after he had started work the Chamber of Commerce tried to get him fired.<\/p>\n<p>The villain in this story is a former student of mine the upbeat and charming Andy Peterson. Andy and I always got along well. He had been in my classes years ago when I taught in Proctor. I was a disaster in those years but Andy recalled me with some charity for which I was grateful.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across Andy ten years ago when he was the industrious brains and legs behind a West End business group. He recruited me to build snow sculptures in West Duluth for a few years before he started work at the Chamber which quickly put him to work in politics to strong arm politicians. I was chagrined to run across folks who had little use for him.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the lowest thing he did was go the city to ask who in the Hell had hired a Red Plan critic and encouraging them to fire the same. I don&#8217;t blame the fellow I had coffee with for deciding that running for the School Board might be a tad too nasty for his taste. He still had his job.<\/p>\n<p>By now I&#8217;ve put together quite a little catalogue of similar actions by the Red Planners. Too bad they didn&#8217;t put more of their industry into our schools but I guess that&#8217;s hard to do when presented with such a gravy train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I had coffee with a fellow I hoped to recruit for a School Board run. He&#8217;s a professional who wrote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,105,17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807"}],"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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}