{"id":2335,"date":"2011-03-11T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/more-from-myrtle-beach.html"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:28:55","slug":"more-from-myrtle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/more-from-myrtle-beach.html","title":{"rendered":"More from Myrtle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorena Anderson writes in the SunNews more about Brad Lofton’s
\nnew job, including a very interesting tidbit about how he left his previous job.
\n
\nGeorgia man tapped to bring businesses, jobs to Myrtle Beach area:
\nLofton gets three-year deal to lead MB agency<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nA Georgia native with experience attracting industries and jobs to his
\nhome state has signed a three-year contract to lead the Myrtle Beach
\nRegional Economic Development Corporation.<\/p>\n

\nDoug Wendel, EDC board president, said the board voted unanimously
\nThursday afternoon to offer Brad Lofton the job. He will announce the
\nchange to his current employer, the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial
\nAuthority, on Tuesday, Wendel said.<\/p>\n

\nLofton will begin work on the Grand Strand on April 15, bringing to an
\nend the EDC’s search for a new chief executive, which began more than
\na year ago.<\/p>\n

\nThe EDC will pay Lofton about $121,000 a year to bring new industry and
\njobs to Horry County.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look what else they mentioned:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nThe biomass power-plant earned its share of vocal opponents, but Wendel
\nassured the committee that the project also had the support of many
\nenvironmental groups as well as the Environmental Protection Agency,
\nand that Lofton had handled the situation well.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is even more interesting, about Lofton’s previous job before VLCIA:<\/p>\n

\nLofton was asked to resign from the Effingham development agency in June
\n2006, according to news reports. Lofton told reporters he was surprised
\nby the ultimatum he received to resign or be fired, because he had never
\nbeen criticized by the agency’s board of directors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems the Myrtle Beach newspaper is doing more due diligence
\nthan the EDC board.
\nAnd by his own account, Lofton wasn’t just asked to resign from
\nthe Effingham job;
\n
\nhe was asked to resign immediately:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nBrad Lofton said Effingham County Industrial Development Authority
\nlawyer Mickey Kicklighter told him Tuesday to resign immediately as
\nchief executive officer or be fired.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In that SavannahNow article from 2006 he complained:<\/p>\n

\n“The board never talked to me,” Lofton, 29, said Wednesday. “Their
\nattorney came to my office Tuesday morning and said they wanted my
\nresignation. They told him to wait in the lobby while I cleaned out
\nmy office.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Local experience around here might indicate that they could have
\ntalked to him until they were blue in the face and if he didn’t
\nwant to hear it
\n
\nhe wouldn’t remember it.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nOne has to wonder: has history just repeated itself?<\/p>\n

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

Lorena Anderson writes in the SunNews more about Brad Lofton’s new job, including a very interesting tidbit about how he left his previous job. Georgia man tapped to bring businesses, jobs to Myrtle Beach area: Lofton gets three-year deal to lead MB agency: A Georgia native with experience attracting industries and jobs to his home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,48,14,2,19,20,178],"tags":[1747,4952,4953,8701,4562,8702,12,7,4561,2428,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biomass","category-code-enforcement","category-economy","category-government","category-history","category-law","category-vlcia","tag-brad-lofton","tag-effingham-county","tag-fired","tag-georgia","tag-horry-county","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-myrtle-beach","tag-south-carolina","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}