Candidates Forum, 7-9PM today 18 October 2012, at the



Rainwater Conference Center,
1 Meeting Place, Valdosta, GA,
organized by the



Home Builders Association of South Georgia
and

NewsTalk105.9 WVGA,
moderated by Chris Beckham.

This thing is astonishingly poorly advertised,
unless you happen to follow one of the organizing organizations.
It’s not in the VDT calendar,
it’s not on

the conference center’s calendar,
and people keep asking when and where is it.
Now you know.

Here are

videos (from three different cameras) of all the candidate presentations
of the
2 October 2012 Meet the Candidates event at VSU.
Tonight, if I understand correctly from there being a moderator, they debate.
Presumably all the same candidates will be there:

Solicitor General:
Justin Cabral (R) Incumbent
and Jason Cain (D)

Sheriff:
Chris Prine (D) Incumbent
and J.D. Yeager (R)

County Commission Chair (no incumbent):
Gretchen Quarterman (D)
and
Bill Slaughter (R)

County Commission Super District 4 (no incumbent):
John Gates (R)
and Demarcus Marshall (D)

State Senate, District 8:
Tim Golden (R) Incumbent
and Bikram Mohanty (D)

State Representative, District 174:
Ellis Black (R) Incumbent
and Teresa Lawrence (D)

State Representative, District 175:
Amy Carter (R) Incumbent
and JC Cunningham (D)

State Representative, District 177 (no incumbent):
Glenn Gregory (R)
and Dexter Sharper (D)

Probably somebody will speak for

SPLOST VII.
Will someone debate against it?

Maybe somebody will be brave enough to speak for the charter school amendment,
or, even better let’s see a debate on that bogus monstrosity that

would let an unelected Atlanta committee take our local school tax dollars
away from our public schools and give them to charter school profiteers from
out of state!

-jsq