{"id":2502,"date":"2011-01-18T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/a-great-plan-brad-lofton.html"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:47:35","slug":"a-great-plan-brad-lofton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/a-great-plan-brad-lofton.html","title":{"rendered":"“a great plan!” –Brad Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton replies to my message to the VLCIA board.<\/a>\nI’ll respond in a separate post. -jsq\n
\n\n<\/a>\nTo: John S. Quarterman\n
\nFrom: Brad Lofton\n
\nDate: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:47:04 -0500\n
\nCc: [see below]<\/a>\n

\nJohn! Good morning. Always good to hear from citizens so interested in\neconomic development. I’ll be happy to forward your correspondence to\nthe other members of our board. I also appreciate your comments in\nacknowledging our recent success in the renewable energy cluster. With\na 350 Kw solar array about to break ground, and a 40 Mw biomass, no\ncommunity in Georgia has been more successful in the green, renewable\nenergy sector.\n

\nSpeaking of Dublin, their recently hired economic development director\n(a friend of mine named Cal Wray) recently requested a meeting with us\nin Valdosta this month to study our program and evaluate how we’ve been\nable to create 1,700 new jobs and nearly half a billion dollars in new\ninvestment over the past four years even in the midst of a painful\nrecession. It’s a tribute to good leadership, and a great plan!\nHave a nice day,\n

\nBL\n
\nSent from my Verizon Wireless Phone\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nCc:<\/a> “Michael G. Noll”,\n“Mary B. Gooding”,\n“Ricketts, Allan” <aricketts@industrialauthority.com>,\n“Copeland, Roy”,\n“‘John S. Quarterman'”,\n“Susan R. Wehling”,\nKay Harris\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton replies to my message to the VLCIA board. I’ll respond in a separate post. -jsq To: John S. Quarterman From: Brad Lofton Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:47:04 -0500 Cc: [see below] John! Good morning. Always good to hear from citizens so interested in economic development. I’ll be happy to forward your correspondence […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,120,23,178],"tags":[193,1747,300,969,8701,793,189,186,847,548,8702,12,7,1169,185,181,183,182,6,8726,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-renewable-energy","category-vlcia","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-brad-lofton","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-georgia","tag-industry","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-jobs","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-marketing","tag-mary-gooding","tag-norman-bennett","tag-roy-copeland","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}