{"id":1813,"date":"2011-07-01T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/cuee-brags-about-9000-petition-signatures.html"},"modified":"2011-07-01T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T16:30:56","slug":"cuee-brags-about-9000-petition-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/cuee-brags-about-9000-petition-signatures.html","title":{"rendered":"CUEE brags about 9,000 petition signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting what paying people to collect petition signatures can accomplish.<br \/>\nThe CUEE press release of yesterday is<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/-once-the-investigation-is-complete-and-closed-all-documents-will-be-provided-to-you-custodian-of-re.html\">on their web pages.<\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<center><br \/>\n9,000 and Counting!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPetition Drive Hits Key Milestone In Effort to Give<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta Residents Opportunity to Vote on Unification<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPlan to Attend Saturday Event at McKey Park to Join the Movement, Sign<br \/>\nPetition<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cueeinc.com\/Media.html\"><br \/>\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"340\"\nheight=\"64\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.cueeinc.com\/imgs\/logo.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n(Valdosta, GA) The petition drive campaign giving Valdosta residents<br \/>\nthe chance to vote on school unificationreached a key milestone Friday<br \/>\nwhen it topped its goal of 9,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nThe 9,000 signatures was the target set by the Community Unification<br \/>\nfor Educational Excellence (CUEE),which launched the petition drive May<br \/>\n12 after three years of planning. The minimum number of validsignatures<br \/>\nneeded to place the issue on the November ballot is 25 percent of<br \/>\nregistered voters in Valdosta, or7,375. The target figure of 9,000<br \/>\nrepresents a 22 percent increase over the minimum required and nearly<br \/>\n31 percent of all registered voters.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad they haven&#8217;t dedicated all this organizing to something<br \/>\nthat might actually help education around here, such as<br \/>\nprison reform or preventing bright flight by squelching sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting what paying people to collect petition signatures can accomplish. The CUEE press release of yesterday is on their web pages. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 9,000 and Counting! Petition Drive Hits Key Milestone In Effort to Give Valdosta Residents Opportunity to Vote on Unification Plan to Attend Saturday Event at McKey Park to Join the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,1376,15,72,1105,21,22,1106],"tags":[3554,8829,8705,1484,8730,1486,1167],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-cuee","category-education","category-incarceration","category-lcboe","category-planning","category-politics","category-vboe","tag-bright-flight","tag-cuee","tag-education","tag-election","tag-incarceration","tag-referendum","tag-sprawl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}