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<\/a>\nOn May 12, the Valdosta Daily Times (VDT) published <\/a>\nOn May 12, the Valdosta Daily Times (VDT) published \nExpansion No Go:\nNo additional commissioners this year<\/a>.\nAbout that, John S. Quarterman sent this letter to the editor (LTE) yesterday:\n\nI see by the VDT that the current County Commission’s plan to expand\nthe commission by adding two super districts failed in the legislature\non a technicality. This pause provides useful time to see if there\nmight be a different strategy. It’s already 2010, and census data for\nredistricting should be available in spring of next year. That will\ntake a lot of the guesswork out of redistricting.\n\nWhile the voters said last year they were for commission expansion, it\nis not clear that people actually favor super districts, since no other\noption was on the ballot. Each current district has more people than\nthe total population of several nearby counties. This makes\ncommissioner elections needlessly expensive and less representative of\nthe variety within Lowndes County. It’s never been clear to me how\nadding two larger districts solves that most basic problem, when there\nare other options available.\n
\nLowndes County could use more commissioners, and the current\nCommission made a good try at that. Soon it will be the turn of a new\nCommission to try again.\n\n
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\nJohn S. Quarterman is running for County Commission, District 2.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe VDT responded:\n
\nThe editor has reviewed your letter. She did not approve your letter\nbecause as a candidate for office, we cannot run a letter to the editor\nfrom you as it is considered campaigning and we would have to give\nequal opportunities to the other candidates as well.\n<\/blockquote>\nIndeed he is, see www.JSQ4LCC.com<\/a>.\nAnd as readers of On the LAKE Front are aware, he is also one of the\nfounders of LAKE.\n\nWe understand the VDT has space constraints because it is primarily on paper.\nHowever, LAKE is online, and\nLAKE welcomes statements on this subject from any and all candidates.\nSend them in, and LAKE will post them, just like this one.\nOnline, please: no paper, no fax.\nSo lengths will be comparable, please keep it to 250 words, like a VDT LTE.\nSend a picture of yourself if you want to.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 12, the Valdosta Daily Times (VDT) published Expansion No Go: No additional commissioners this year. About that, John S. Quarterman sent this letter to the editor (LTE) yesterday: I see by the VDT that the current County Commission’s plan to expand the commission by adding two super districts failed in the legislature on […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,11,733,21,22],"tags":[3255,5761,2667,8701,548,135,8702,12,7,2900,8742],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-lake","category-media","category-planning","category-politics","tag-county-commission","tag-editor","tag-expansion","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-kay-harris","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta-daily-times","tag-vdt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-HJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","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=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}