{"id":1362,"date":"2011-10-21T19:29:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-chamber-hasnt-spent-any-money-on-a-consolidation-campaign-whats-this-then.html"},"modified":"2011-10-21T19:29:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T23:29:45","slug":"the-chamber-hasnt-spent-any-money-on-a-consolidation-campaign-whats-this-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-chamber-hasnt-spent-any-money-on-a-consolidation-campaign-whats-this-then.html","title":{"rendered":"The Chamber hasn&#8217;t spent any money on a consolidation campaign? What&#8217;s this, then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/education\/consolidation\/vlcocad.jpg\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/education\/consolidation\/small\/vlcocad.jpg\"><\/a>\nEtta Mims reports that Myrna Ballard told her on the telephone Thursday\na week ago that the Chamber hasn&#8217;t invested any money in\nthe school consolidation campaign.\nMyrna did admit that she spent some of her\ntime and some time of one staff member.\nEtta asked Myrna was not time money?\nAt that point Myrna stated Etta had hurt her feelings,\nand she was going to get off the phone.\n<p>\nEtta wonders why, then, do we find the glossy advertisement you see\non the right here at\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chamberorganizer.com\/valdostachamber\/docs\/October%202%20News%20Ad%20Get%20the%20FACTS.pdf\">\nhttp:\/\/ www. chamberorganizer .com\/ valdostachamber \/docs\/ October 2 News Ad Get the FACTS.pdf<\/a>,\nwhen www. chamberorganizer .com\/ valdostachamber looks like one usual place\nthe Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce puts web materials it funds?\n<p>\nWe already knew <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/10\/it-is-important-to-give-our-children-wings-and-roots-barbara-stratton.html\">Myrna Ballard advised Rusty Griffin<\/a>\nabout that notorious fake-Morgan-Freeman radio ad.\n<p>\nI wonder, if the Chamber didn&#8217;t pay for that new ad, who did?\nDitto for the radio ad.\nAnd who did Rusty Griffin have to get to sign off on it?\n<p>\nAlso, I&#8217;m still looking forward to hearing any &#8220;FACTS&#8221; from the Chamber.\nSo far every alleged &#8220;FACT&#8221; from CUEE or the Chamber about &#8220;unification&#8221; or consolidation has been readily disproved,\nand David Mullis has <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/10\/valdosta-graduation-rates.html\">compiled the real facts<\/a>.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Etta Mims reports that Myrna Ballard told her on the telephone Thursday a week ago that the Chamber hasn&#8217;t invested any money in the school consolidation campaign. 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