Remember that ridiculous statewide recycling campaign, “You Gotta Be Kidding” (no I’m not), that chided state residents into recycling by creating a bunch of fictional simpletons who didn’t recycle and then shooting down their nonsensical defenses?

Well, enter the big, fat state-run Georgia World Congress Center.  From this morning’s AJC…

Georgia World Congress Center officials are turning off lights, cutting off the air conditioning and silencing the murmur of escalators this summer in an effort to save money….“We will be a lot more frugal with electricity when parts of the buildings are not in use,” GWCC spokesman Mark Geiger said.

Glad to see that it took a $6 million deficit to convince you to conserve energy GWCC.  Let me author your own “You Gotta Be Kidding” webpage.  No, no…it’s no trouble at all.

Meet GWCC: Hideously ugly downtown resident, who has $6 million in projected debt.

Home: Up top of “The Gulch”

Occupation: Hosting hair and chicken conventions

Why I don’t recycle conserve energy:   Because I’m just a convention center with a paltry 3.9 million square feet of interior space.  What kind of difference can I make?

Yeah.  So, maybe the state wants to consider getting his own house in order before characterizing its residents as a bunch of energy-sucking yokels.