{"id":1181,"date":"2012-01-12T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/gov-deal-suspended-3-brooks-co-school-board-members.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:35:04","slug":"gov-deal-suspended-3-brooks-co-school-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/gov-deal-suspended-3-brooks-co-school-board-members.html","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Deal suspended 3 Brooks Co. School Board members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two local TV stations have an update on the Quitman 10:
\nthe governor has suspended the three who were elected to the Brooks
\nCounty School Board.
\nIf the VDT has covered this, I must have missed it.
\n(OK, I should look at
\ntoday’s paper….<\/a>)
\nThere’s also nothing about this on the
\n
\nBrooks County School Board website.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nJade Bulecza wrote for WALB yesterday,
\n
\nGovernor orders Brooks Co. School Bd. suspensions<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nSuperintendent Debra Folsom got the governor’s order Tuesday
\nsuspending the three board members.<\/p>\n

\n“This is all new territory for us,” said Folsom. “We’re consulting
\nour attorney to see what the next steps we will take to fill the
\npositions.”<\/p>\n

\nDecember 20 a review commission made up of the attorney general and
\ntwo school board members from across Georgia were appointed by the
\ngovernor to review the case.<\/p>\n

\n“They heard evidence from the prosecution and from the accused and
\nthe conclusion of that they made a determination and forwarded that
\nto the governor’s office whether to suspend or not to suspend the
\nthree school board members,” said South Georgia District Attorney
\nJoe Mulholland.<\/p>\n

\nDecember 30, the review panel unanimously made their decision.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That would be the same Joe Mulholland
\n
\nwho’s been on TV<\/a> saying things like<\/p>\n


\n“It’s pretty clear there
\nwas fraud here.”<\/p>\n

\nGabrielle Sarann, Jacquie Slater, and Matt Galka
\nwrote for WCTV yesterday,
\n
\nGov. Deal Suspends 3 Brooks Co. School Board Members<\/a><\/p>\n

\nGeorgia Governor Nathan Deal issued an executive order on Tuesday,
\nJan. 10th., suspending three Brooks County school board members.<\/p>\n

\nSchool Superintendent Debbie Folsom says she received the order
\naround 4:30 p.m. Tuesday suspending Nancy Dennard, Elizabeth Thomas,
\nand Linda Troutman.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You may wonder how Nancy Dennard’s name got in there.
\nWCTV had an update 28 November 2011:<\/p>\n

\nDistrict Attorney Joe Mulholland, a special prosecutor, says Brenda Monds
\nand Debra Dennard have now been indicted. The other 10 were charged last
\nDecember on charges related to the July 2010 primary.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I guess it’s now the Quitman 12.<\/p>\n

\nThe WALB story also says:<\/p>\n

\nThey’re all still awaiting trial.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting how the state couldn’t organize a trial within a year,
\nyet it could organize a review commission to recommend suspending
\nthe school board members.<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two local TV stations have an update on the Quitman 10: the governor has suspended the three who were elected to the Brooks County School Board. If the VDT has covered this, I must have missed it. (OK, I should look at today’s paper….) There’s also nothing about this on the Brooks County School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,15,49,8,20,1526,3,204,177],"tags":[1587,8705,1484,8701,2129,3220,8710,46,69,1586,8834,3219,605],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-education","category-elections","category-georgia","category-law","category-quitman-10","category-transparency","category-walb","category-wctv","tag-brooks-county","tag-education","tag-election","tag-georgia","tag-governor","tag-joe-mulholland","tag-law","tag-nathan-deal","tag-publicity","tag-quitman","tag-quitman-10","tag-trial","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}