{"id":1496,"date":"2008-12-27T15:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T19:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2008-12-27T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T19:38:31","slug":"sansom-watch-december-27-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Sansom watch, December 27 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent items in the news on Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and his position at Northwest Florida State College:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday, the <em>Lakeland Ledger<\/em> published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20081226\/NEWS\/812260281\/1036?Title=Sansom_s_Handsome_Pension\">Sansom&#8217;s handsome pension<\/a>, which calculated how much his state pension would rise from his new position at NWFSC Vice President if he stayed at least 5 years: $4,236 more a month than if he had just been a state legislator.<\/li>\n<li>Today, the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em> published capitol correspondent Steve Bousquet&#8217;s column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/state\/article949864.ece\">House members stay quiet as public blasts speaker<\/a>, which discusses the legislature&#8217;s code of silence, and how ordinary Floridians are reacting to that silence. He quotes Marilyn Weaver&#8217;s comments, aimed at Pinellas legislators: &#8220;Our household is so disgusted with the current Florida legislators for not speaking out and condemning what Speaker Sansom has done in enriching himself and bestowing favors to his college.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those who are curious, yes, I will continue to note any news items I find on Sansom and his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent items in the news on Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and his position at Northwest Florida State College: Yesterday, the Lakeland Ledger published Sansom&#8217;s handsome pension, which calculated how much his state pension would rise from his new position at NWFSC Vice President if he stayed at least 5 years: $4,236 more a month [&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":[11,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-higher-education","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-o8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}