{"id":195,"date":"2013-01-16T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/rep-austin-scott-r-ga-08-vlcoc-2013-01-10.html"},"modified":"2013-01-16T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T15:53:59","slug":"rep-austin-scott-r-ga-08-vlcoc-2013-01-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/rep-austin-scott-r-ga-08-vlcoc-2013-01-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Austin Scott (R GA-08) @ VLCoC 2013-01-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zVVgHPSYjHE&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiHCgjImdCp95CFakXiF7ywB\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Il1Bh-ITjIs\/default.jpg\"\n><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Il1Bh-ITjIs&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHCgjImdCp95CFakXiF7ywB&amp;index=1\">\nRon Borders<\/a>\nintroduced\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/members\/austin_scott\/412417\">\nCongressman Austin Scott (R GA-08)<\/a> who\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zVVgHPSYjHE&amp;list=PLshUv86fYkiHCgjImdCp95CFakXiF7ywB\">\nmade some remarks<\/a>\non the front porch at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday 10 January 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBookended by some formulaic remarks about debt\n(without mentioning\nthat <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/10\/the-mostly-solved-deficit-problem\/?gwh=B541DB8DD6D89EF9F8581EE5D5968EE7\">\nit&#8217;s already mostly solved<\/a>),\nthe Congressman noted he is on the Committee on Armed Services.\nHe said there is no current\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/12\/chamber-of-commerce-vs-county-commission-lcc-2012-12-11.html\">\nBRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission)<\/a>,\nalthough one has been asked for.\nHe said a BRAC wouldn&#8217;t do anything for near-term debt, anyway\n(but he didn&#8217;t say anything about ending the war in Afghanistan\nor stopping funding for un-needed weapons systems as ways of saving money).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said he is the chair of a House Agriculture Subcommitee\n(Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture).\nHe said he was for research, for the agricultural extension,\nand for agricultural exports.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/01\/gretchen-lcdp-v-austin-scott-ga-08-on-wctv.html\">\nthe WCTV news report,<\/a> with responses by Gretchen Quarterman,\nChair of the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiHCgjImdCp95CFakXiF7ywB\">\na video playlist:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLshUv86fYkiHCgjImdCp95CFakXiF7ywB\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<small>\nRep. Austin Scott (R GA-08) @ VLCoC 2013-01-10\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),\nat the Chamber of Commerce, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 January 2013.\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ron Borders introduced Congressman Austin Scott (R GA-08) who made some remarks on the front porch at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday 10 January 2013. Bookended by some formulaic remarks about debt (without mentioning that it&#8217;s already mostly solved), the Congressman noted he is on the Committee on Armed Services. 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