Many of us questioned the timing on this weeks Pro-us rally and I believe we have found the source of the actual timing.

Link... [1]

“This school is a fraud,” Hatcher said. “They sell themselves as an accredited school and they’re deceiving people.
“I think it would be worthwhile for others to pursue refunds.”
Berrong said there “was no discussion” on whether the deputies should pay back the money or ask Columbus University for a refund. He said he “would like for them to try to obtain a lawyer to ask Columbus to do the same that they did with Tom (Hatcher).”
“I think that’s something that we can pursue,” Berrong said. “I think a letter would be relatively inexpensive to have an attorney, if we could find one,

Let me take a guess at which attorney they might use based on this story from November 2006 Link... [2]

Hatcher's letter said he has hired local attorney Craig Garrett to investigate and pursue Columbus University in an effort to recover the money paid to the unaccredited school and to "further expose their unfair and deceptive business practices. I have retained Mr. Garrett with my personal funds" rather than asking the county attorney to pursue the matter.

I don't care if you dear reader are a bleeding heart or a tax jihadist, this is just not a good use of our tax dollars. Here we are a full year later and the county still has no policy in place for tuition?

A year ago, Cunningham said work was “already under way to develop an overall policy manual” covering things including the use of county vehicles, travel, credit card use and tuition reimbursement for continuing education and training. Today, that policy is still in draft form and has not been formally adopted by the county.

The county does have a credit card use plan but no one really knows if it is followed or not.

And finally this quote in today's article

Cunningham would not comment on the additional Columbus University tuition reimbursements, telling The Daily Times it was “old news.”

Got it! The timeline is very interesting.
Laney ask the department for info on this on Nov 20, 2007.
We can assume that RL and JS met with the officials sometime after that date to get the requested info.
Monday Nov 26th the fliers for the rally were posted.
Monday Nov 26th the GOP Women met at the courthouse for their monthly gathering. One can only wonder if they were given a pep talk by any officials.
Tuesday Nov 27th was the Rally which was thought to be more anti-DailyTimes than pro anything or anyone.

You folks that really do follow those account lines and budgets, do you see anything else in there that perhaps RL and JS missed?

Word of the day- ACCOUNTABILITY