Tag Archives: Rusty Griffin

It is important to give our children wings and roots. —Barbara Stratton

Received today on
CUEE radio ad helps alienate Black Crow radio host. -jsq

CUEE can attribute the source of this ad to another committee all
they want to. I know that I personally overheard Rusty Griffin telling
Myrna Ballard about the ad last Thursday night at the CUEE Education
Task Force meeting which I attended as a concerned citizen. Rusty was
very excited about the ad & said he expected it to greatly enhance their
campaign to unify the black community for consolidation. I told Sam Allen
what I heard, but neither of us knew what would be in the ad until it
aired Tuesday. Rusty said he had to get a final OK so I was hoping that
person would be smarter, but evidently not. Another thing I noticed at
the meeting where everyone but me was part of the task force only two
people out of the fifteen were from the black community. How does that
represent the diversity they preach?

I personally appreciate all the times over the past months

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How did we get here? —JC Cunningham

Received Friday. -jsq

Things really have not changed have they? There are still people out


there who believe they can force their will on the people regardless
of the circumstances. I still cannot believe that we are here.
Consolidation, Unification, where did this come from? What mind first
came up with this idea and what is the real motive behind it?

Eight months ago when I heard that Rusty Griffin and his merry band
of followers were once again trying to force unification down peoples
throats, I never thought it would catch on and would just fizzle away.
Oh, how wrong.

Over the months this consolidation issue that I thought would never gain
steam is now on the ballot and could possible pass this Nov. 8th.

I have seen this thing divide friends, families, co-workers and even

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Chamber Punts for CUEE

Received today.
Guess they’ve forgotten about

CUEE’s Kick-Off event back in March,
at which

CUEE Vice-Chairman Rusty Griffin spoke. -jsq



Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:36:40 -0400 (EDT)

From: Rusty Griffin <chamber @valdostachamber .com>

Subject: School Unification Forum: 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday

SCHOOL UNIFICATION FORUM:

Make your plans now to attend the first Vote YES public forum on school
unification, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at
the Rainwater Conference Center.

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Terry Jenkins, who served as the
Superintendent of
Troup County Schools during the unification process of LaGrange and
Troup County school systems in 1992.

Many of the same issues and rumors being discussed locally were also
debated when
LaGrange and Troup County were voting to unify their school systems. In
his presentation,
Dr. Jenkins will discuss how the school unification issue unfolded in
Troup County, its impact to improving test scores and graduation rates,
and how the decision to unify their school systems has transformed the
community for the better.