{"id":3906,"date":"2011-08-15T21:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T02:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:09:50","slug":"and-how-much-of-this-info-did-jci-provide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3906","title":{"rendered":"And how much of this info did JCI provide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A better <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/206836\/group\/Opinion\/\">summation<\/a> than I&#8217;ve offered on the St. Louis County School skulduggery.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The News Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio reported on a court ruling pertaining to a bond referendum that passed with 51 percent of the vote in School District 2142 in December 2009 (&#8220;Court: St. Louis County School Board money can&#8217;t be used to campaign for referendums,&#8221; Aug. 3). If you traveled south for the winter only to return to a higher property tax bill, here&#8217;s how it happened.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Court of Appeals agreed that &#8220;the School Board intentionally distributed statements in its educational material that it knew were false. It also ruled that using taxpayer money to campaign for passage of a referendum was not authorized.&#8221; In other words School Board members used our money to trick us into voting yes on a referendum so they could take more of our money.<\/p>\n<p>There is more to a quality education than just the location and condition of facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Melnotte<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A better summation than I&#8217;ve offered on the St. Louis County School skulduggery. The News Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio reported on a court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,102,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-jci","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20369,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/20369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}