{"id":1459,"date":"2011-10-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/commission-votes-to-subsidize-saddle-club.html"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"commission-votes-to-subsidize-saddle-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/commission-votes-to-subsidize-saddle-club.html","title":{"rendered":"Commission votes to subsidize saddle club"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGOX9XM_ZOk\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZGOX9XM_ZOk\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nTuesday the Lowndes County Commission voted to renew a land lease contract\nwith a saddle club for I&#8217;m pretty sure they said $100 a year.\nCommissioner Powell made the motion.\nYet he said nothing at all a few minutes before and after when two\nvotes came up about routine acceptance of a\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/chip-grant-twice-ashley-paulk-broke-the-tie-lcc-27-september-2011.html\">\nCommunity HOME Investment Program (CHIP)<\/a>\ngrant to help relatively less affluent people afford housing.\nCommissioner Raines, who grandstanded about CHIP the previous\nmorning at the work session, apparently had no problem with the\nsaddle club subsidy.\nHe didn&#8217;t show up Tuesday to vote for or against either.\n<p>\nNow I have nothing against the saddle club; I know little about it. It&#8217;s the double standard that bothers me.\n<p>\nIf you have trouble hearing what is said in this video,\nthank the Commissioners for\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/news-so-good-theres-a-law-against-it.html\">the award they gave LAKE.<\/a>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGOX9XM_ZOk\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZGOX9XM_ZOk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nCommission votes to subsidize saddle club\n<br>\nRegular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 27 September 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday the Lowndes County Commission voted to renew a land lease contract with a saddle club for I&#8217;m pretty sure they said $100 a year. 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