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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jul 25, 2019, 01:59 AM Jul 2019

Mississippi paid this out-of-state company $2.3M just to hang posters. Here's why.

With the help of a powerful lawmaker and lobbyists, more than $2.3 million of Mississippi taxpayer money has been funneled to a Memphis company since 2012 to hang posters in schools.

In Mississippi, posters that cost $3 to print are hung by a company that charges more than $250 apiece.

Why?

Apparently Mississippi schools cannot be trusted to properly hang posters that advocate safe driving and not using tobacco.

That's the basic premise behind SkoolAds.

Read more: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/24/mississippi-government-2-3-m-spent-memphis-poster-company/1546867001/

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Mississippi paid this out-of-state company $2.3M just to hang posters. Here's why. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2019 OP
No wonder they are at or near the bottom. secondwind Jul 2019 #1
Wonder if this company does the God posters for s Dakota schools also. Tech Jul 2019 #2
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