{"id":631,"date":"2012-07-26T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/ashley-paulk-opposes-t-splost.html"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:42:30","slug":"ashley-paulk-opposes-t-splost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/ashley-paulk-opposes-t-splost.html","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Paulk opposes T-SPLOST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/07\/poor-people-and-middle-class-people-will-pay-more-and-thats-just-not-fair-gretchen-quarterman-about-t-splost-on-wctv-2012.html\"> his Tuesday T-SPLOST story<\/a> WCTV reporter Greg Gullberg noted that current Lowndes County Chairman Ashley Paulk said &quot;the Commission is not taking a stance.&quot; Indeed, but Ashley Paulk himself took a stance against T-SPLOST as far back as April 2011, when <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/t-splost-has-a-stick-ashley-paulk-of-lcc-at-lcdp-part-1.html\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"    class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b016768c82c38970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b016768c82c38970b-pi.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/t-splost-has-a-stick-ashley-paulk-of-lcc-at-lcdp-part-1.html\"> he said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think what disturbs me, is when you&#39;ve got to put something in the law that&#39;s a stick, carrot and stick, you don&#39;t do what I&#39;ve said you&#39;re going to get punished&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Right now if I had to vote for it I could not find the interest to get out there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/t-splost-executive-committee-ashley-paulk-of-lcc-at-lcdp-part-2.html\"> also said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Right now, I do not have a good or warm fuzzy feeling about this. That could change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said he&#39;d tell us if it changed. Last time I checked with him, his position had not changed.<\/p>\n<p>-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his Tuesday T-SPLOST story WCTV reporter Greg Gullberg noted that current Lowndes County Chairman Ashley Paulk said &quot;the Commission is not taking a stance.&quot; Indeed, but Ashley Paulk himself took a stance against T-SPLOST as far back as April 2011, when he said: I think what disturbs me, is when you&#39;ve got to put [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[97,14,49,88,1177,177],"tags":[2071,679,8704,8721,8701,10,8702,12,7,8734,8822,6,8748],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-economy","category-elections","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-t-splost","category-wctv","tag-2012-07-24","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-t-splost","tag-valdosta","tag-wctv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}