{"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":"It&#8217;s interesting what paying people to collect petition signatures can accomplish.\nThe CUEE press release of yesterday is\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>\nHere&#8217;s an excerpt:\n<blockquote>\n<center>\n9,000 and Counting!\n<br>\nPetition Drive Hits Key Milestone In Effort to Give\n<br>\nValdosta Residents Opportunity to Vote on Unification\n<br>\nPlan to Attend Saturday Event at McKey Park to Join the Movement, Sign\nPetition\n<\/center>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cueeinc.com\/Media.html\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"340\"\nheight=\"64\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.cueeinc.com\/imgs\/logo.jpg\"><\/a>\n(Valdosta, GA) The petition drive campaign giving Valdosta residents\nthe chance to vote on school unificationreached a key milestone Friday\nwhen it topped its goal of 9,000 signatures.\n<p align=\"left\">\nThe 9,000 signatures was the target set by the Community Unification\nfor Educational Excellence (CUEE),which launched the petition drive May\n12 after three years of planning. The minimum number of validsignatures\nneeded to place the issue on the November ballot is 25 percent of\nregistered voters in Valdosta, or7,375. The target figure of 9,000\nrepresents a 22 percent increase over the minimum required and nearly\n31 percent of all registered voters.\n<\/blockquote>\nIt&#8217;s too bad they haven&#8217;t dedicated all this organizing to something\nthat might actually help education around here, such as\nprison reform or preventing bright flight by squelching sprawl.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_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}]}}