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Valdosta Chamber Candidate Forum 2019-10-08


Meet the Candidates 2019,
organized by the Valdosta Lowndes Chamber of Commerce:
no questions from the audience, but Gretchen Quarterman videoed for LAKE
the few minutes each candidate for Valdosta Mayor, City Council, or Valdosta Board of Education held forth.
Plus

seven minutes about SPLOST, the Special Local Option Sales Tax,
the only thing voters in the unincorporated parts of Lowndes County get to vote on this election season.


Mike Gudley talks about the SPLOST referendum

Below are links to each LAKE video Gretchen took,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

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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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