re: This guy is against the St. George incorporation

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What continues to galvanize the focus of this part of the population is the shear non-response and almost pure opposition from the downtown and inside the city limits folks which seemingly can only mean a few things...they don't think there is a problem, they value their leadership position more than what's good for the community, they don't really understand how important a great public education system really is and/or they just don't care.

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This x 1000

The only thing coming from the opponents of St. George's mouth, are negative attacks.

First they called us racists.
Then they called us unorganized.
Then they tried to call us a small group led by a few loud proponents.

Not 1 time has any BR Together turd even mentioned the actual problem and cause of the whole thing, and how to fix it. Failing schools.

Instead they are using bullying and scare tactics to try to demonize average citizens that lie in an incorporated area. We are not fleeing. We are taking the St. George area and incorporating. We are standing up to the laziness and idiocy of BR proper and forming our own city.

Just think, all of this could have been avoided if the BR school officials and city government actually gave a shite about failing education. Failing education leads to job flight, and reduces the attractiveness to businesses seeking a move to our state. High crime and stupidity does not equal job gain or higher education. But apparently, it does lead to BR city government and EBR Schools.

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I have no hate for the people in this area, far from it actually. I just find the throw away careless indifferent mentality to be as revolting as can be, and exactly why this city remains in its current condition, a mere reflection of the residents.

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Yes, because it's caring parents wanting their children to grow up in a safe neighborhood with good schools that is killing the city. Not shitty public schools, high crime, and politicians/administrators too worried about having their name on a fricking amusement park, rather than fixing the real problems of the city.

A little off topic....Anyone see the blurb about TogetherBR being part of an outside group (IAF)? Thought that was kind of weird given their name.

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No, the point is that the pattern will continue far as long as we continue to do the same things, not fix a value to things worth fighting for, and surrender at the blink of an eye. I'm saying that if you're not careful, your children's children are going to be making their last stand in some insignificant cow pasture and you're doing just that right now.

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meh. The people in St. George should invest in St. George. Baton Rouge is a lost cause.

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At present, you live to serve this ship. Row well and live. That's what we've all become because there is no real purpose to living in a place you have no ownership or identity to than to eat, shite, sleep, and back to work. One place is just like another, except when the other is newer and more shiny, then you leave for it, uncontrollably mesmerized by the glitz that in ten to twenty years gets dated and ugly, and so you keep moving in search for something new and shiny down the road. Almost never thinking that perhaps the answer is not found in the sparkle, but in you MAKING THE AREA a community you own and identify with and so love and are willing to fight for.

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You love to think for others. The community I live in is very low on the list of things that fulfills my life. And, with respect to my children, I have a responsibility to put them in the best possible environment from a safety and educational perspective.

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We used to have areas like this, and it still exists in other areas in this country, and is never that way because a diamond fell from the sky or people fell in a bed of roses. They mad it that way because of an intention to make it a permanent community they identified with.

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If you can't get the people of incorporated Baton Rouge to care enough to do something, then your point is worthless. Go preach to those who live in the city limits.

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I don't recall them sending Jesse Jackson down here when Central incorporated and its 91% white

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There is a huge difference between a small, concise, easily identifiable area with a fraction of the population of Baton Rouge setting up its own school system.

SG does not fit any of those descriptions.

another reason to vote for st. George

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Then they tried to call us a small group led by a few loud proponents

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Bug Im not hating, but out of the 100,000+ residents that live in the proposed area, you only have 9,000+/- signatures. 1 out of 10 is pretty small.

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I guess they are so frustrated and emotional that their thinking is not 100% logical

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Well when you bring in a reverend and use a Baptist church as your speaker box saying things like "The city of Baton Rouge is a dragon and it needs slaying" Then yes you are correct.

Also the good people of SG also used the parish library for a rally shouting "Shut it down!" referring to the government all the while using a government building.

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There is a huge difference between a small, concise, easily identifiable area with a fraction of the population of Baton Rouge setting up its own school system.

SG does not fit any of those descriptions.

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Good point, so I ask you, why does an area with a population of 107,000 (St George) have only 11 schools, and the city has 70 schools with a population of 230,000? Who is doing the planning here?

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Also the good people of SG also used the parish library for a rally shouting "Shut it down!" referring to the government all the while using a government building.

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I don't recall a rally with shouting like that at the library, but I do recall an opposition meeting planned at a church whereby a priest called an incorporation effort immoral and compared it to acts of adultery and abortion.