[Vision2020] clearing the Courtney waters

[keely emerinemix]

Well, there must be a reason for my having spent part of a Sunday morning 
checking out Dale Courtney's blog, and here it is:

He lambastes me for having said during the bond campaign that MSD was 
prohibited by law from
using M & O budget monies for capital building and/or significant remodels, 
and then points out that the high school's north annex roof will be replaced 
this summer.

The obvious implication is that I lied during the campaign or just didn't 
know what I was talking about, and that I further compounded my evil ways by 
voting Tuesday night to accept the low bid for replacement of the annex 
roof.

Wrong again, Dale.  But then, you knew that.

"M & O budget" refers to -- hold on to your coffee, everyone -- "Maintenance 
and Operations."  Replacing a roof on part of an existing building is 
MAINTENANCE.  It maintains the integrity of the building; it is not a 
remodel, and it certainly isn't new construction.  It is exactly the use 
intended by our maintenance budget, which, while tight, is being used 
correctly in this example and throughout the district.  No matter what kind 
of budget trimming Wenders would like to see, the District can't use M & O 
monies to build new buildings or significantly remodel existing ones.  He 
knows that; the blog boys are counting on the ignorance of their reading 
audience.

It seems a safe bet.

Dale and his partner in defamation, Jack Wenders, can crow all they want to 
about the horror of public schools, but they are not free to lie to their 
readers about the District and about me.  (And he even spelled my name wrong 
-- it's "K E E L Y," Dale -- which is amazing, given the number of times 
he's lied about me in print).  I'm coming to the end of my tenure as a 
trustee, and I'm proud of the work I've done.  Dale and I will no doubt 
engage in argument in the future, although he's evidently not brave enough 
to challenge me directly, evincing a cowardice that even my perennial critic 
Donovan Arnold won't stoop to.  Donovan may think I'm scum, but he says it 
to me via Vision, and for that he gets a point in my book.  But however Dale 
gets his jollies blogging hours a day about all manner of things, usually 
cribbed from other sources, he won't find that it goes unchallenged when he 
lies about me or the District.  That goes beyond covenant lying, Dale, and 
isn't remotely clever enough to qualify as "Trinitarian skylarking."

When all is said and done, it's just plain ol' lying, and its "neener, 
neener, neener" quality will receive a much more adult response than I 
suspect he and the boys want to handle.

Go play now, Dale -- but try to repent before your 10 a.m. worship service, 
OK?  Particularly if you're planning to take of the Cup . . .

keely

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