re: Yet another setback for Louisiana Education (HB269)

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The bill's biggest problem may have been its author. Nelson is not good at making friends. He is often right, but is incapable of building support for his ideas because of his abrasive nature.

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Right. Nelson is guilty of not falling in line and breaking away from the pack that's largely responsible for the shallow, antiquated, and self-destructive political processes that give Louisiana this most embarrassing reputation.

“For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend’s parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs.” Emerson

People in Louisiana don't want good government. They want pretty-good government.