GA PBS losing donations/employees because State Senate conspiracy nut is given management position.

[Skidmore]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/24/listeners-and-employees-quit-georgia-public-broadcasting-as-mind-control-conspiracy-theorist-takes-over/

Georgia residents have begun canceling their donations to Georgia Public Broadcasting after a recent report revealed that a former Republican state senator — who believes the United Nations is planning to turn the U.S. into a communist dictatorship using mind control — is receiving a salary of $150,000 to run part of the network.

GPB announced last month that then-State Sen. Chip Rogers (R) would be heading a new initiative to tell the story of Georgia businesses on public radio, but it wasn’t until the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that his salary would be higher than Gov. Nathan Deal’s (R) that employees and Georgia residents began to express outrage.

GPB member Sandy Wood recently cut off her $20-a-month donation and received a letter from GPB Vice President Yvette Cook, who claimed that Rogers’ position would be funded with taxpayer money instead of listener contributions....

[Phentex]

1. Teabagger Rogers was also involved in the Obama Mind Control Plot...

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/georgia-senate-gets-52-minute-briefing-united-nations-takeover

I could not believe it when I heard he was going to GPB!

[trishtrash]

2. Oh the joys of living in the Peach State!

Honestly, are we supposed to feel OK about this because this idiot is being paid $150,000 by Georgia taxpayers instead of listener contributions? And, although Georgia has basically no ethics regulations, how does this even pass the smell test???

Is there any chance that at some point Georgia voters will get wise to this crap?

[GoCubsGo]

3. And, this is how they will finally kill off PBS and NPR.

If you can't kill them from outside, kill them from within, it appears.

[Laurian]

4. Chip Rogers fits the Tea Party mold perfectly. He also had a real estate

investment problem with a motel he bought with Tom Graves (now a Georgia Congressman). Last I heard, the motel was in foreclosure....another burden to the taxpayers. Corrupt cronyism is alive and well in Georgia.