{"id":10310,"date":"2014-09-18T14:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T19:04:39","slug":"thumbs-9182014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/18\/thumbs-9182014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (9\/18\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get those Thumbs! working&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Thumbs! Big Board is approaching&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Danville City Council for immediately recognizing and trying to help out Madison Whittle with his zoning snafu at Tuesday&#8217;s meeting. It&#8217;s a shame that the laws don&#8217;t give the council the chance to immediately order a fix to a bad situation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to the River District Festival for showing signs of life by (finally) announcing their headline music act. There&#8217;s signs of life there after all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s political season time. Here comes the inevitable <strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This may cause some gasps, but <strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to Halifax County Sheriff Fred Clark for endorsing and allowing his name to be used<a href=\"http:\/\/markwarnerva.com\/virginia-sheriffs-endorsing-senator-warner\/\" target=\"_blank\"> in a press release for US Senator Mark Warner<\/a>. Sheriff Fred Clark is a constitutional officer and ran as an independent. If you&#8217;re not going to run under a political party, you should stay that way through your entire term of office. The office of Halifax County Sheriff has its own internal politics already, and adding a political party preference is simply the wrong thing to do. I believe that Sheriff Fred Clark should withdraw that nomination because party politics have no business in the Halifax County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Fred Clark as a person (Not as a elected constitutional officer who ran as an independent) is welcome to make any endorsements he chooses. (Reporter&#8217;s note: Sheriff Fred Clark and Captain David Martin did not return my calls for comment on this matter.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the perfectly legal bad and sadly wrong conspiracy going on to punish Sandra Gilstrap. She&#8217;s a perfect candidate for the Danville General District Court vacant judgeship and was the leading candidate for the job&#8230; until our local Republican legislative delegation yanked their support because of her father-in-law John Gilstrap&#8217;s non-support of Frank Ruff&#8217;s &#8220;tar baby&#8221; comment. Bill Stanley &amp; Frank Ruff are now supporting Allen Dudley who lives 60 miles away. Oh yeah, Allen Dudley is the son of former delegate A.J. Dudley. This is pure nasty political payback and our state senators should be ashamed of themselves. Let me be perfectly clear. <strong>Thumbs DOWN! DOWN! and DOWN!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love political season. I also hate political season. That&#8217;s the Thumbs! for now. More coming up on SouthsideCentral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get those Thumbs! working&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumbs","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2Gi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6413,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/13\/thumbs-213-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":10310,"position":0},"title":"Thumbs! 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This Thumbs! article is dedicated to Friday's Danville City Council organizational meeting, so it's longer than a normal Thumbs! article. I'm good with that. Yeah, the same old rules if you haven't figured them out by now. UP! is good. DOWN!\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;SouthsideCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"SouthsideCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/southsidecentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/7aTEWad.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7925,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/27\/thumbs-10272013\/","url_meta":{"origin":10310,"position":4},"title":"Thumbs! (9\/27\/2013)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Fonzie may be famous for his Thumbs!, but we know how to use our Thumbs! better... Up!s are good, Down!s are bad. What have we got for this edition? 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