The candidates were almost unanimous on
SPLOST VII and
how to prevent JK situations,
but more varied on other questions.
Roy Copeland, billed as “Valdosta attorney”
(but perhaps known better to LAKE readers as VLCIA board member and former Chairman)
was the moderator,
assisted by
Valdosta Fire Chief and
Thirty Club member
J.D. Rice.
They took questions from the audience and recognized their host,
Pastor Floyd Rose of Serenity Church.
You may wonder as I do why city council candidates were answering
about graduation rates.
Matthew Woody wrote for the VDT 21 October 2013,
‘Let the games begin’.
Here’s the list of
qualified candidates.
As usual, nobody showed up from the smaller cities, although at least one Valdosta candidate,
Richard Miller,
spoke up for the smaller cities about SPLOST.
Dennis Marks notes that VSU-TV’s rebroadcasts of the
AAUW Forum of 15 Sep 2009
will include the two-minute statements of unopposed candidates who
showed up. Those are not in the LAKE videos of the event which are already on YouTube, but pretty much everything else is.
Maybe VSU-TV will also put their videos online.
According to email from Walter Rollenhagen:
The Lowndes Co. Political Forum, or as we label it, VOTE 2009, will air on
VSU-TV cable channel 20:
By Kenny R. Bush and John S. Quarterman, with videos by Gretchen Quarterman.
On Sept 15, residents of Lowndes County gathered inside VSU’s Whitehead
Auditorium for a political forum concerning the upcoming 2009 General
Municipal Elections.
It was the competing Mayberrys, Hahira and Dasher,
in the shadow of the big city of
Valdosta with its council and school board.
The 100 or so people who watched learned about the candidates.
You can too, by watching the videos of each speaker
provided by LAKE on YouTube.
Perhaps VSU can also be encouraged to release online the videos it took, which are
probably of higher quality.
Perhaps VSU can also be encouraged to release online the videos it took, which are
probably of higher quality.
The event was sponsored by the American Association of University Women
(AAUW) and moderated by Jim Peterson, chair of the Political Science
Department at VSU. Before the forum began, the audience was provided
note cards and encouraged to write questions for forum participants.
A three person committee then decided which four questions that would be asked
on stage for each set of candidates.
Valdosta City Council District 2
The forum began with the five candidates competing to be the newest councilman of Valdosta’s 2nd district.
Willie T. Head, the incumbent, is not running,
but five other people other are:
David G. DeMersseman, David L. Dempsey, Rodney R. Flucas, Deidra A. White, and Dr. L. W. Williams.
The first question of the night concerned annexing land neighboring
Valdosta and if candidates believed it to be a good idea or not.
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The candidates were almost unanimous on
SPLOST VII and
how to prevent JK situations,
but more varied on other questions.
Roy Copeland, billed as “Valdosta attorney”
(but perhaps known better to LAKE readers as VLCIA board member and former Chairman)
was the moderator,
assisted by
Valdosta Fire Chief and
Thirty Club member
J.D. Rice.
They took questions from the audience and recognized their host,
Pastor Floyd Rose of Serenity Church.
You may wonder as I do why city council candidates were answering
about graduation rates.
