Laughing Out Loud !!! Report and commentary by Robert A. Williams

The biggest laugh so far goes to the Shelby Star article coming out today about the Auditoriums at Burns and Crest High School. The jokes are on the taxpayers and the students at Burns and Crest. The first joke was the selection of the architect firm. Holland and Hamrick renovated the auditorium at the Central Offices and when the heating and air system kicks in, you can hardly hear a word back in the audience. It’s a piece of junk of an auditorium. Holland and Hamrick should have been disqualified to start with. Now Burns and Crest will probably get pieces of junk too. If they get an auditorium at all. Only three weeks ago CCS Superintendent told the Crooked and Crazy Commissioners that the auditoriums were off the table at CCS in regard to a consolidated loan application for $34 million. A loan that has the new Health Department, the new North Shelby School and (indirectly) the James Love Elementary School put up for collateral. A joke was pulled on the School Board too. Just about two seconds after the vote to hire Holland and Hamrick as the architect, Board Member Dr. Danny Blanton stated that he wanted the work on the auditoriums started tomorrow, not on November 7, 2017-which is election day for the school board. Dr. Blanton obviously knows that the whole auditorium “thing” is a publicity stunt (since there is no money) so the incumbent school board members can get re-elected. Another hoot is such a political tactic as this works as 50,000 voters are likely to stay home on the 2017 election as they did in the 2015 election. We will see about that though as some young Turks are mulling over running against the in-crowd on the school board. Of course everybody wants equal facilities at all the county high schools. That includes swimming pools too. More on that later. BTW (by the way) the Star Reporter was not at the school board meeting and if you watch the tapes of the meeting you will see that some of the quotes used in the Star article were not made in the meeting. Obviously CCS sent this to the Star as a publicity stunt and the Star prints it as a news story. It will be interesting what the star writes in there future article as well as where they get their information.

Folks, that is enough laughter for now. The major laughter most of us in Cleveland County had when Donald J. Trump got elected as President can be repeated November 7, 2017 when Phillip Glover, Donnie Thurman, Jr. and Kathy Falls get booted off the School Board.

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