{"id":1488,"date":"2008-12-24T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2008-12-24T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T13:30:58","slug":"sansom-watch-december-24-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Sansom watch, December 24 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three new items on Ray Sansom and his job at Northwest Florida State College (all commentary):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnj.com\/article\/20081223\/OPINION\/812230301\">Sansom has no place to hide<\/a>, <i>Pennsacola News Journal<\/i> editorial Dec. 23. &#8220;You know the situation is getting critical when politicians under fire begin refusing to talk to the reporters uncovering inconvenient facts, and throw down the &#8216;partisan politics&#8217; card.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article947699.ece\">Deceit further shreds Sansom&#8217;s credibility<\/a>, <i>St. Petersburg Times<\/i> editorial Dec. 24. &#8220;What&#8217;s nauseating is Sansom&#8217;s hypocrisy and his unwillingness to candidly answer for steering college construction money to an airport hangar project sought by a friend. What&#8217;s equally disturbing is that his Republican colleagues in the Legislature are not demanding answers from the speaker who is tarnishing them all.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnj.com\/article\/20081224\/NEWS01\/812240337\/1006\/NEWS01\">Job-bliss, I-110 good, a dog&#8217;s life<\/a> (&#8220;Sansom saga&#8221; subhead). Mark O&#8217;Brien column in <i>Pensacola News Journal<\/i> Dec. 24. &#8220;[I]t&#8217;s refreshing and ironic to see South Florida people upset about what a Panhandle politician did. And so depressing to see how few leaders will stand up to Sansom and say, &#8216;This is wrong.'&#8221; First good joke from this scandal: &#8220;And what about Judy Bense, now the interim president of the University of West Florida? Her brother, Allen Bense, was House speaker a few years ago, but UWF hardly cashed in on the Sansom scale. Maybe someone should get Bense a T-shirt: &#8216;My brother was Speaker of the House and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new items on Ray Sansom and his job at Northwest Florida State College (all commentary): Sansom has no place to hide, Pennsacola News Journal editorial Dec. 23. &#8220;You know the situation is getting critical when politicians under fire begin refusing to talk to the reporters uncovering inconvenient facts, and throw down the &#8216;partisan politics&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-o0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}