Tag Archives: Candidates Forum

Videos: Candidates Forum, Hahira Historical Society @ Hahira 2014-04-26



Hear your potential elected officials speak for themselves,

last Saturday at the Hahira Historical Society.
These videos are presented without commentary, except for a special
prize to the candidate who spoke the longest by far,
Richard Raines, who first promised to be brief, then spoke for
14 minutes.
He made some other promises, too,
and left without listening to his opponents.

Candidates and others may use these videos as-is or they may edit,


provided they cite the source:
Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

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Here’s a table of contents by what they are running for. Continue reading →

30 Club Candidate Forum @ 30Club 2013-10-21



The candidates were almost unanimous on

SPLOST VII and

how to prevent JK situations,
but more varied on other questions.

Roy Copeland, billed as “Valdosta attorney”
(but perhaps known better to LAKE readers as VLCIA board member and former Chairman)
was the moderator,
assisted by
Valdosta Fire Chief and



Thirty Club member

J.D. Rice.
They took questions from the audience and recognized their host,

Pastor Floyd Rose of Serenity Church.
You may wonder as I do why city council candidates were answering
about graduation rates.

Matthew Woody wrote for the VDT 21 October 2013,

‘Let the games begin’.
Here’s the list of
qualified candidates.
As usual, nobody showed up from the smaller cities, although at least one Valdosta candidate,
Richard Miller,
spoke up for the smaller cities about SPLOST.


Valdosta City Council District 2

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Vote No on the charter school amendment —J.C. Cunningham for GA House District 175 @ 30Club 2012-10-22


J.C. Cunningham for Georgia House district 175 @ 30 Club 2012-10-22
J.C. Cunningham, running for statehouse district 175,
says vote No on the charter school amendment.
At the 30 Club Political Forum at Serenity Church School Monday,
he was asked about differences from his opponent, and

he answered:


Vote No on the charter school amendment —J.C. Cunningham for GA House District 175

Political Forum, 30 Club

Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 October 2012.

This amendment was put on for
one reason and one reason only,
because there are powers that did not get their way
and it was strictly for money-grubbing, for-profit charter corporations
that would further take money away from
our Department of Education.

J.C. Cunningham’s opponent, the incumbent Amy Carter,

only showed up at one of the four local candidate forums
in Lowndes County.
However, she voted both for

HR 1162 that put the referendum on the ballot
and for

HB 797 that will suck up more money per pupil for charter schools than
for public schools, taking the extra out of our local tax dollars.

We know where J.C. Cunningham for district 175 stands:
against the charter school amendment.

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Videos @ 30Club 2012-10-22



Here's

a video playlist
of the Candidate Forum last night organized by the 30 Club at Serenity Church.
Probably more commentary later; for now, in the interests of speed, just the raw videos.


Candidates Forum, 30 Club,
J.D. Rice, President

Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 October 2012.

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Another $3.5 billion nuclear cost overruns coming —David Staples @ HBA 2012-10-18



David A. Staples
running for the Georgia Public Service Commission for District 5,
talked about the ethical conflicts of the incumbents who take
almost all of their campaign contributions from people associated
with the utilities they regulate.
Then he mentioned that the new nuclear reactors Georgia Power
is building for Southern Company at Plant Vogtle
have
another $3.5 billion in cost overruns coming.

This is after

the PSC incumbents just rubberstamped the Vogtle budget in August,
and on top of the

$900 million in cost overruns we already knew about.
That $900 million was already more than 6% of the originally-projected $14 billion
total cost.
If it’s now $3.5 + $0.9 = $4.4 billion, that’s more than 31% over
the original total.
Maybe we should vote in some PSC members and legislators who will stop this nonsense.

Here’s

the video:

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4,460 have voted early in Lowndes County —Chris Beckham @ HBA 2012-10-18



Chris Beckham announced at the end of

last night’s political forum
that 4,460 people have voted in Lowndes County as of 5PM yesterday.
That’s up from
2,861 by end of Tuesday.

Here’s

the video:


4,460 have voted early in Lowndes County —Chris Beckham

Candidates Forum, The Home Builders Association of South Georgia (HBA),

Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 October 2012.

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Videos @ HBA 2012-10-18



Here are videos of last night’s

Political Forum.
The goal of this post is speed, so there’s no fancy format,
just

a video playlist
in which you can find candidates by video title or thumbnail picture.
We will probably come back later and use some of these videos in other posts.


Political Forum moderated by Chris Beckham of NewsTalk 105.9 WVGA

The Home Builders Association of South Georgia (HBA), Franklin Bailey President,

Videos by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 October 2012.

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Record early voting in Lowndes County —WCTV


2,861 Total Votes through Oct 16, 2012
A record 2,861 total votes were cast
in Lowndes County by Tuesday 16 October 2012.

Greg Gullberg

reported for WCTV yesterday,

Early Voting In Lowndes County Sets New Record,


Jessica Cooke, first-time Lowndes Voter
Georgia state officials say the pace for early voting
is slower this year than for previous presidential elections,
but as Eyewitness News reporter Greg Gullberg shows us,
you’d never know it in Lowndes County….


Wave of voters
Jessica’s not alone.
In fact, she was joined by a wave of voters of all ages
here in the first week of early voting here in Georgia.
Now they’ve actually
already set an all-time record
here in Lowndes County
for the most votes in the
first two days of a presidential election, with almost three thousand.


Deb Cox, Supervisor,

Lowndes County Board of Elections, and Gregg Gullberg of WCTV:

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Candidates Forum today @ HBA 2012-10-18

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:

Continue reading →

Videos of Candidates Forum by VLCoC last night



Videos of the Candidates Forum put on last night by the Valdosta-Lowndes County
Chamber of Commerce (VLCoC) are starting to appear in

this playlist.
The three Valdosta Mayoral candidates are there already (in order of appearance):

There’s one more candidate video to come.

Here are the videos so far:




Candidates Forum, Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce (VLCoC),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 October 2011.

Videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

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