{"id":830,"date":"2007-08-14T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2007-08-14T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T16:49:20","slug":"another-political-probe-centers-on-la-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Another Political Probe Centers On La Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For politicos from other parts of the country, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacosta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">La Costa Resort and Spa<\/a><\/strong> seems to be the destination of choice when traveling on the public&#8217;s dime. But lately it&#8217;s meant <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=356\" target=\"_blank\"> trouble<\/a><\/strong> for somel. In Knoxville, Tennessee they&#8217;re looking a little more deeply into it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ethics Committee, formed earlier this year as a result of state legislation aimed at cleaning up government after the Tennessee Waltz scandal, also wants <strong>Kim Bennett<\/strong>, executive director of the county pension board, to explain the <strong>La Costa<\/strong> golf trip. . . Commissioner Chairman <strong>Scott Moore<\/strong> and Commissioner <strong>Ivan Harmo<\/strong>n were among four county representatives on the trip hosted by <strong>Wilshire Associates<\/strong>, the county&#8217;s pension consultant. . . .The trip included a round of golf, which costs up to $205 per person at La Costa. The foursome&#8217;s travel was funded by the county pension board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing like letting the county pension fund pay a couple rounds at La Costa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2007\/aug\/14\/ethics-committee-wants-da-investigate-ragsdales-st\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knoxnews.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For politicos from other parts of the country, La Costa Resort and Spa seems to be the destination of choice when traveling on the public&#8217;s dime. But lately it&#8217;s meant trouble for somel. In Knoxville, Tennessee they&#8217;re looking a little more deeply into it. The Ethics Committee, formed earlier this year as a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}