{"id":5576,"date":"2012-01-27T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2012-01-27T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T22:54:15","slug":"professional-obfuscators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5576","title":{"rendered":"Snake oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My snakey post on JCI elicited an email with this reminder of the wind project JCI almost sold the Duluth School District about the time of the Red Plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was at the SB mtg when JCI tried to sell Duluth on joining the wind farm venture.<br \/>\nOne of the skeptical members said &#8220;there is no free lunch&#8221;<br \/>\nOne said she wanted more information.<br \/>\nAnd AW was ready to sign that night.<\/p>\n<p>What is most interesting in this blurb from Rochester is that the reference to the complicated financial plan.<br \/>\nThat seems to be JCI&#8217;s specialty.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It came with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windaction.org\/opinions\/14027\">this link<\/a> from a 2008 Rochester Post Bulletin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Almost from day one, the funding mechanism for the wind farm has been puzzling to the point of being inexplicable, as have Johnson Controls&#8217; claims that the district would likely make a little money while incurring no financial risk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its almost like Johnson Controls is the Milwaukee gift to America&#8217;s schools that Governor Walker is the Madison gift to Wisconsin&#8217;s schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My snakey post on JCI elicited an email with this reminder of the wind project JCI almost sold the Duluth School District about the&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-jci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","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=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}