Meet Baton Rouge Families First - Direct opposition to Together Baton Rouge

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When Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone formed the nonprofit organization Baton Rouge Families First in early January, he said the purpose of the group was to empower lower and middle-income families in Baton Rouge by “encouraging education reform, promoting quality jobs through proactive economic development, and supporting initiatives that strengthen the family structure.”

But BRFF’s first outreach effort was a five-minute video posted on social media that takes direct aim at the broad based community organization Together Baton Rouge, questioning the group’s motives, tactics and affiliation with the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation, a nationwide network of community organizations.

“If Together Baton Rouge truly wants to help families you would think they would be working with their ally religious leaders in educating congregants about morals, virtues, independence and family life—the bedrock of a sound society,” the video says. “Instead it seems to many Together Baton Rouge would rather divide the city using socialist, radical tactics and pushing a national agenda.”

Rispone, founder and CEO of the industrial services firm ISC Constructors, has had problems with TBR since the group’s early years. He was against the first big issue TBR pushed, the dedicated tax to fund the Capital Area Transit System.

He also took issue with TBR’s opposition to the city of St. George incorporation effort, of which he was an advocate and supporter.

“Together Baton Rouge opposed a group of parents trying to get a better education for their children,” he says. “It might have been called St. George, but it was really about giving children a better education.”

Rispone was further bothered to learn that his church, St. George Catholic Church, was a member of TBR. He says he doesn’t think his pastor or some of the congregation understand TBR or what it stands for.

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Rispone says BRFF is about more than just going after TBR, and he promises the group will support programs and policies that promote the traditional family structure, and will attack any group that does not. For now, though, only TBR is in its crosshairs.

“They are missing what is a major issue today in the U.S. and Baton Rouge—the breakup of the family,” he says. “If they really want to improve society that should be on their agenda.”

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This should be good. Together Baton Rouge is a bullshite organization ran by a bunch of black preachers and a white liberal from New Orleans. The group itself was created by a Chicago-based community organizing company founded by Saul Alinsky.

I can't wait to hear how the gang of misfits thinks BRFF is a racist group.