{"id":1305,"date":"2011-11-08T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/school-consolidation-chairman-ashley-paulk-responds-to-matt-portwood.html"},"modified":"2011-11-08T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:17:23","slug":"school-consolidation-chairman-ashley-paulk-responds-to-matt-portwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/school-consolidation-chairman-ashley-paulk-responds-to-matt-portwood.html","title":{"rendered":"School Consolidation: Chairman Ashley Paulk responds to Matt Portwood"},"content":{"rendered":"The VDT this morning left out all the best parts of last night&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6325128417\/in\/photostream\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6035\/6325128417_8fc1357fa8_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nexchange between Matt Portwood and Lowndes County Commission Chairman\nAshley Paulk.\nWe&#8217;ll have the video up shortly so you can see for yourself.\n<p>\nThe question:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Reading the news, I found that both school boards and the City Council\nhave come out with either a statement or a resoultion with their stance\non school consolidation.\nI&#8217;m just curious why there hasn&#8217;t been a statement or resolution from you,&#8221;\nsaid Portwood.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe VDT&#8217;s version of the answer:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;Look at your tax notes.\nIt says county taxes and school taxes,&#8221; replied Paulk.\nWe&#8217;re two totally different entities than the county school system.\nI don&#8217;t feel like we should be meddling in their affairs.\nI don&#8217;t think the County Commission should be weighing in on the city issue.\nCommissioners agreed that this was their stance on the matter.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nMore in a bit.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The VDT this morning left out all the best parts of last night&#8217;s exchange between Matt Portwood and Lowndes County Commission Chairman Ashley Paulk. We&#8217;ll have the video up shortly so you can see for yourself. The question: &#8220;Reading the news, I found that both school boards and the City Council have come out with [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,14,15,49,2,1105,3412,3,1106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-government","category-lcboe","category-lcc-7-november-2011","category-transparency","category-vboe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}