{"id":1591,"date":"2011-08-27T09:14:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T13:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/5a-the-situation-weve-been-placed-in-robert-yost-vcc-25-august-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-08-27T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T13:14:55","slug":"5a-the-situation-weve-been-placed-in-robert-yost-vcc-25-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/5a-the-situation-weve-been-placed-in-robert-yost-vcc-25-august-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"5.a. the situation we&#8217;ve been placed in &mdash;Robert Yost @ VCC 25 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViTVq5Xnnck\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/ViTVq5Xnnck\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nCouncil Robert Yost said he didn&#8217;t like the position council was in\nof almost being required to vote one way to cover their rears from\nlitigation.\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Index.aspx?page=50\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"270\" height=\"337\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Modules\/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=598\"><\/a>\nSo of course I&#8217;ll be voting exactly how I feel it needs to be tonight, litigation or not.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe also seemed to say that he hadn&#8217;t heard anybody\nsay it was about consolidating county and city government.\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s interesting that Yost seemed to be arguing against the referendum,\nsince\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/lowndes-county-political-forum-aauw-15-sep-2009.html\">\nhe has long been on record as for school system consolidation:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/09\/lowndes-county-political-forum-aauw-15-sep-2009.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/2vmF-RRYLU0\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\n\u201cWe need one school system in this city and county,\u201d said Yost. \u201cBut sadly that isn&#8217;t the case.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s from when he was last running for Valdosta City Council back in 2009;\nyou can watch him say it on video.\nAt the time he also said the city should annex the whole county,\nbut claimed that was just a joke.\nHas something changed his mind about either of those things?\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ViTVq5Xnnck\">\nthe video from Thursday&#8217;s council meeting:<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ViTVq5Xnnck\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\n5.a. the situation we&#8217;ve been placed in &mdash;Robert Yost @ VCC 25 August 2011\n<br>\npetition, education, referendum,\n<br>\nRegular Session, Valdosta City Council (LCC),\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 25 August 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":"Council Robert Yost said he didn&#8217;t like the position council was in of almost being required to vote one way to cover their rears from litigation. 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