{"id":6866,"date":"2013-12-02T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:05:46","slug":"local-company-trashed-county-commission-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/local-company-trashed-county-commission-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Local company trashed County Commission lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DeepSouthSanitation\/posts\/634177309981291\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net\/hprofile-ak-ash3\/c22.0.86.86\/s74x74\/528262_383649531700738_1925598419_s.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nAccording to<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DeepSouthSanitation\/posts\/634177309981291\"><br \/>\nDeep South Sanitation&#8217;s facebook page today<\/a>,<br \/>\nDSS won<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/next-deep-south-sanitation-court-date-25-nov-2013.html\"><br \/>\nthe court case<\/a> brought against them by the Lowndes County Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo how much money did the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/no-contract-and-no-bids-for-county-attorney-yet-20-raise-to-300000.html\"><br \/>\nalleged County Attorney<\/a><br \/>\nspend sueing a local company to benefit ADS investors in New York City?<br \/>\nThe County Commission was very concerned recently about<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/videos-budget-splost-and-2014-planning-lcc-2013-11-14.html\"><br \/>\nhow much the Sheriff and the Coroner spent<\/a><br \/>\n(which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/maybe-county-should-check-its-work-about-other-budgets-lcc-2013-11-14.html\"><br \/>\nthe Sheriff<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/coroner-responds-to-county-commission-about-budget-lcc-2013-11-14.html\"><br \/>\nthe Coroner<\/a><br \/>\nably rebutted).<br \/>\nWhy isn&#8217;t the Commission as concerned about spending money on a<br \/>\ncompletely unnecessary lawsuit that they started?<br \/>\nWhy do they let that same attorney<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/videos-attorney-set-different-prices-commissioners-set-millage-date-lcc-2013-07-09.html\"><br \/>\nset prices for purchase orders<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/exclusive-franchise-for-solid-waste-collection-services-lcc-2012-12-11.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/waste\/2012-12-11--ads-contract\/small\/20130609_143257.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThat<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/exclusive-franchise-for-solid-waste-collection-services-lcc-2012-12-11.html\"><br \/>\nexclusive franchise<\/a> with ADS: not so exclusive anymore, is it?<\/p>\n<p>\nWill ADS sue the county, as many people rumored was the Commission&#8217;s<br \/>\ngreatest fear?<\/p>\n<p>\nWill the county now have to pay DSS&#8217;s attorney fees?<br \/>\nAs a taxpayer I don&#8217;t like the idea of wasting more of my tax dollars<br \/>\non that lawsuit, so maybe they could take it out of the fees or<br \/>\nsalaries of whoever recommended and approved that lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/maybe-county-should-check-its-work-about-other-budgets-lcc-2013-11-14.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3796\/10857190075_a1be04fbaa_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nMaybe somebody down at the county should<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/maybe-county-should-check-its-work-about-other-budgets-lcc-2013-11-14.html\"><br \/>\n&#8220;check our work&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Deep South Sanitation&#8217;s facebook page today, DSS won the court case brought against them by the Lowndes County Commission. So how much money did the alleged County Attorney spend sueing a local company to benefit ADS investors in New York City? The County Commission was very concerned recently about how much the Sheriff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,20,478,3,479],"tags":[619,773,8728,6279,8701,8702,8710,12,7,8772,8700,8773,6,618],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-law","category-solid-waste","category-transparency","category-trash","tag-ads","tag-deep-south-sanitation","tag-ethics","tag-exclusive-franchise","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-solid-waste","tag-transparency","tag-trash","tag-valdosta","tag-veolia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}