{"id":2070,"date":"2011-05-05T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/expense-accounts-and-televised-meetings-nolen-cox-and-dan-davis-vcc-21-april-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-05-05T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:02:38","slug":"expense-accounts-and-televised-meetings-nolen-cox-and-dan-davis-vcc-21-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/expense-accounts-and-televised-meetings-nolen-cox-and-dan-davis-vcc-21-april-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Expense accounts and televised meetings &mdash;Nolen Cox and Dan Davis @ VCC 21 April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YdhT8_qy4SQ\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/YdhT8_qy4SQ\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nNolen Cox said he knows standard reporting procedures for expenses.<br \/>\nHe also doesn&#8217;t like regulations.<br \/>\nOnce again the city Attorney responded.<\/p>\n<p>\nDan Davis said he had similar concerns about the city&#8217;s travel policy.<br \/>\nHe added that he thought &#8220;these meetings should be televised&#8221;.<br \/>\nThat got a brief round of applause.<br \/>\nHm, that sounds like<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/what-will-you-do-john-s-quarterman-vcc-7-april-2011.html\">something I&#8217;ve suggested several<br \/>\ntimes to the same council.<\/a><br \/>\nSince Dan Davis and I couldn&#8217;t get much farther apart on most political issues,<br \/>\nmaybe televised meetings are an issue with bipartisan support!<\/p>\n<p>\nThey both talked about expenses for sales representatives.<br \/>\nI wonder if that&#8217;s all they think elected officials are.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YdhT8_qy4SQ\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YdhT8_qy4SQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nExpense accounts and televised meetings &mdash;Nolen Cox and Dan Davis @ VCC 21 April 2011<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 April 2011,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by George Boston Rhynes for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolen Cox said he knows standard reporting procedures for expenses. He also doesn&#8217;t like regulations. Once again the city Attorney responded. Dan Davis said he had similar concerns about the city&#8217;s travel policy. He added that he thought &#8220;these meetings should be televised&#8221;. That got a brief round of applause. Hm, that sounds like something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,14,2,22,3,54,4596],"tags":[4598,8701,7,6,8726,2671],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-government","category-politics","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vcc-21-april-2011","tag-21-april-2011","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-vcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}