Stan, Stan, He's Our Man!

(Jester and Watson Join Our Quest for Cell Tower Truth)

There is a new website / blog about events in DeKalb County Schools.  It's called "Stan Jester, Fact Checker," and is run by none-other than former School Board Member, District 1, Nancy Jester's husband Stan.  We are big fans of husband and wife teams since that is how Get the Cell Out - ATL originated and we greatly appreciate the hard work that Stan Jester is doing to help us and every other taxpayer out there who has been following the ongoing fraud and waste in our school system.  Nancy Jester was one of two board members to vote no on the cell tower proposal in 2011 and she called out the financial questions about the proposal from the beginning.  Thank you to both Stan and Nancy Jester!

Stan's website recently reported some of the details from the meeting held last month by the Northlake Community Alliance.  He transcribed some of the statement that was made during that meeting by County Commissioner Stan Watson, who is also on our "favorites" list for his contribution and input into the cell tower issue and for his stand against unsupported cities that are a ruse for taking over the power and budgets of our county officials who have been willing, so far, to protect the rights of the citizens in DeKalb from the unlawful siting of cell towers  too close to homes, schools or other structures.  

Here's the quote from Stan Watson as posted by Stan Jester:  

Cell TowersDeKalb County Commissioner, Stan Watson, was there to provide a cell tower update.  “It is being reviewed right now by our legal department.  And we want to make sure that we address the item of the cell towers in such a way that we could be responsible to the legalities of the cell tower.  We’re trying to treat it just like a special land use plan right now, SLUP, to make sure that we’re in complete compliance legally to make sure that it works.  So, right now, it has been tabled, Tom.  And we’re actually looking at it in our legal department.  It should come out this summer and we’ll be happy to come back and report what we’re going to do with it.  But, right now, we have it in our legal department to make sure that we can do it as a legal department and as a county.”

Stan Watson also has a web page.  It's not dedicated to deciphering school news, however.  He is actually running for re-election in Super District 7 which includes the Eastern half of DeKalb County.  His website says that he is in favor of an open and honest government.  Let's hope he means that because we are counting on him to let the public know the status of the cell tower permit application for Lakeside High School, which will trigger all remaining contracts if it is deemed to be permissible by the Legal Department for the county. 

So, we have two Stans looking out for the rights of DeKalb citizens, Stan Jester (Fact Checker) and Stan Watson (County Commissioner).  Thank you to them both for putting the truth in front of the taxpayers and trusting them to be able to handle it.  

We have added links to both the websites on our Links Page, in the right-hand column of our home page.

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