Cross Roads News
Dear Editor,
Please consider implementing a local version of PolitiFact, Truth-O-Meter Pants on Fire and make Jay Cunningham its first recipient for DeKalb County.
Why? The quote Jay Cunningham gave your paper was a blatant lie. I am extremely disappointed that he would mislead the public on such an issue that affects our quality of life particularly in Central and South DeKalb. Jay Cunningham and the Board of Education members who voted for these cell towers overlooked the harm this would cause our children.
Jay Cunningham was quoted in the July 16 issue of CrossRoadsNews saying that he didn’t hear anything from the community against cell towers on our school grounds. There is never a statement that is further from the truth.
On June 6, 2011, we emailed the entire DeKalb Board of Education information that detailed the fact that cell towers would increase heath risks and decrease property value. We also sent the email to our local state representatives in the House and Senate.
To make sure no one would have an excuse on this issue, we hand-delivered a package containing a DVD with all the information and research to include a memorandum stating our position on the issue of cell towers on school grounds. At least two parents spoke at the June 6, 2011, Board of Education meeting opposing the cell towers.
We went to Cobb County and photographed six local schools with cell towers that T-Mobile was responsible for constructing. We wanted to educate our local school board with present day pictures to demonstrate how the cell towers were placed right next to open playgrounds and stadiums where children play.
We researched the fact that the parents in Cobb County were adamantly against cell towers on their school grounds to the point that they sued the school district and tried to recall one of the members of the board. The same school board member later forced the taxpayers to pay for his lawyer’s fees when the recall failed.
We produced two PowerPoint presentations and videos and placed the videos on YouTube titled, “DeKalb Parents Against Cell Towers.” Once again, every piece of this information was placed on a DVD that was hand-delivered to the entire DeKalb Board of Education, which includes Jay Cunningham.
We also presented data to motivate our local Board of Education to implement a solution that would deliver over $30 million dollars to our school system.
We requested our local school board join our state representatives to put up a united front to stop the removal of over $100 million dollars from our school system by the state of Georgia. We questioned the rationale of seeking $30,000 from cell towers which cause increased health risks and decrease property value vs. $30 million dollars from $100 million dollars our state takes from DeKalb to redistribute to other school systems.
I want to inform the employers of this government (taxpayers and voters) that their employee (Jay Cunningham) told a bald-faced lie and needs to be publicly corrected.
Viola Davis is CEO and founder of the Stone Mountain-based Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter.
Why? The quote Jay Cunningham gave your paper was a blatant lie. I am extremely disappointed that he would mislead the public on such an issue that affects our quality of life particularly in Central and South DeKalb. Jay Cunningham and the Board of Education members who voted for these cell towers overlooked the harm this would cause our children.
Jay Cunningham was quoted in the July 16 issue of CrossRoadsNews saying that he didn’t hear anything from the community against cell towers on our school grounds. There is never a statement that is further from the truth.
On June 6, 2011, we emailed the entire DeKalb Board of Education information that detailed the fact that cell towers would increase heath risks and decrease property value. We also sent the email to our local state representatives in the House and Senate.
To make sure no one would have an excuse on this issue, we hand-delivered a package containing a DVD with all the information and research to include a memorandum stating our position on the issue of cell towers on school grounds. At least two parents spoke at the June 6, 2011, Board of Education meeting opposing the cell towers.
We went to Cobb County and photographed six local schools with cell towers that T-Mobile was responsible for constructing. We wanted to educate our local school board with present day pictures to demonstrate how the cell towers were placed right next to open playgrounds and stadiums where children play.
We researched the fact that the parents in Cobb County were adamantly against cell towers on their school grounds to the point that they sued the school district and tried to recall one of the members of the board. The same school board member later forced the taxpayers to pay for his lawyer’s fees when the recall failed.
We produced two PowerPoint presentations and videos and placed the videos on YouTube titled, “DeKalb Parents Against Cell Towers.” Once again, every piece of this information was placed on a DVD that was hand-delivered to the entire DeKalb Board of Education, which includes Jay Cunningham.
We also presented data to motivate our local Board of Education to implement a solution that would deliver over $30 million dollars to our school system.
We requested our local school board join our state representatives to put up a united front to stop the removal of over $100 million dollars from our school system by the state of Georgia. We questioned the rationale of seeking $30,000 from cell towers which cause increased health risks and decrease property value vs. $30 million dollars from $100 million dollars our state takes from DeKalb to redistribute to other school systems.
I want to inform the employers of this government (taxpayers and voters) that their employee (Jay Cunningham) told a bald-faced lie and needs to be publicly corrected.
Viola Davis is CEO and founder of the Stone Mountain-based Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter.
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