{"id":2424,"date":"2011-02-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/brad-loftons-memory-fails-him-again-and-again.html"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:00:00","slug":"brad-loftons-memory-fails-him-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/brad-loftons-memory-fails-him-again-and-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton&#8217;s memory fails him again, and again&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CyEMj5jpoD4\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/EcDvipyyrTA\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nSpeaking at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce 28 January 2011,<br \/>\nIndustrial Authority Executive Director Brad Lofton<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CyEMj5jpoD4\"><br \/>\nremarked about:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe largest solar panel array that we are aware of today in the state<br \/>\nof Georgia.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s 350 kW solar panel array that you&#8217;ll be seeing<br \/>\ncoming out of the ground February first.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcDvipyyrTA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nBrad Lofton, Executive Director of<br \/>\nthe Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nspeaking at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 January 2011.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s funny, because as readers of this blog may recall,<br \/>\non 18 January 2011<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/once-again-you-ignore-suggestions-john-s-quarterman.html\"><br \/>\nI pointed out to Lofton that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/once-again-you-ignore-suggestions-john-s-quarterman.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.brighterenergy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/usfloors-ga.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;actually Dalton, Georgia already has a 365kW solar array installed<br \/>\nand in use. That&#8217;s larger than the 350 kW array VLCIA has &#8220;about to<br \/>\nbreak ground&#8221;, and Dalton got theirs without having to take a biomass<br \/>\nplant with it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s puzzling about this is it would have been so easy to say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Now we&#8217;ve heard there&#8217;s a slightly larger solar array in Dalton,<br \/>\nGeorgia, but we&#8217;re still proud of ours, and ours can expand in<br \/>\ntwo directions.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhy act as if he didn&#8217;t know about something slightly larger?<\/p>\n<p>\nAt least this is better than his<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/brad-loftons-memory-fails-him-again.html\">previous memory failures<\/a><br \/>\nin which he claimed people hadn&#8217;t met with him when they had,<br \/>\nor <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/george-rhynes-is-not-in-favor-of-the-biomass-plant.html\"><br \/>\nclaimed that because somebody had met with them that meant<br \/>\nthey were in favor of the biomass plant.<\/a><br \/>\nHe was much more civil this time.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway, as I&#8217;ve said a number of times,<br \/>\nincluding directly to the VLCIA board,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j0IKmBDhMjc\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m in favor of the VLCIA&#8217;s solar array,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m all for making it bigger<\/a>,<br \/>\nalthough<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/were-industrial-development-mary-gooding.html\">I think there are other solar projects<br \/>\nthat could involve local businesses without<br \/>\neven needing to trade them land<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce 28 January 2011, Industrial Authority Executive Director Brad Lofton remarked about: The largest solar panel array that we are aware of today in the state of Georgia. That&#8217;s 350 kW solar panel array that you&#8217;ll be seeing coming out of the ground February first. 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