{"id":9706,"date":"2013-09-20T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:30:14","slug":"the-edison-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9706","title":{"rendered":"The Edison Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We candidates got about seven minutes to answer seven questions. I&#8217;m just grateful that the two quotes from me in the DNT story don&#8217;t make me sound too stupid. <\/p>\n<p>I was amazed that the potential selling of Central to Edison would come to dominate the coverage of the story. I thought my suggestion that such a possibility might be made palatable with some sort of agreed upon cap was positively brilliant. I just wish there had been mention of my call to our hosts the Chamber of Commerce to support the levy. I told them that after their unqualified support of the half billion Red Plan they really ought to support a levy. Otherwise it would be like investing in a huge store and then not hiring the staff to sell merchandise. I told them I was sure their good business sense would lead them to my conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. And a rumor recently reached me that our District was offered $8 million for Central but turned it down. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/278388\/\">the DNT story<\/a>. I&#8217;m still looking for the video of the whole extravaganza that they promised to put online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We candidates got about seven minutes to answer seven questions. I&#8217;m just grateful that the two quotes from me in the DNT story don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706"}],"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=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}