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What's the backstory of Garret Graves not finishing college?

Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:23 pm
Posted by FlyingTigerBo
Member since Dec 2025
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:23 pm
From his bio.

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Graves graduated from Baton Rouge's Catholic High School in 1990. He then attended the University of Alabama, Louisiana Tech, and American University.[5]


How do your parents spend all that money at Catholic and you bounce around 3 colleges and still don't graduate?

Flunked out? Drug rehab?

I also work on the Jeff Landry 2027 gubernatorial oppo research team.

AMA
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:24 pm to
Whatever it is, we’ll never know the actual truth.
Posted by Cosmo
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Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:29 pm to
Killed hookers at all 3 schools and had to move on

Allegedly
Posted by Stevo
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2004
12570 posts
Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:35 pm to
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How do your parents spend all that money at Catholic and you bounce around 3 colleges and still don't graduate?

Flunked out? Drug rehab?


Catholic is not that expensive, and there are plenty of people bright enough to graduate from college and graduate school who never did for one reason or another. Nice of you to suggest flunking out or drugs, however.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:41 pm to
Busy starting a chicken franchise? NVM that's the other Graves.
Posted by Traffic Circle
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Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:42 pm to
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I also work on the Jeff Landry 2027 gubernatorial oppo research team.


Landry kinda creates his owns problems without anyone having to research anything.
Posted by MFTPC
Member since Apr 2026
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:43 pm to
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Catholic is not that expensive


Not when he went but I think that’s really changed over the last 10 years
Posted by AlextheBodacious
Member since Oct 2020
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:44 pm to
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ow do your parents spend all that money at Catholic and you bounce around 3 colleges and still don't graduate?

You get a full time job in your desired field before you graduate. It’s pretty common.
Posted by AndyCBR
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:47 pm to
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How do your parents spend all that money at Catholic and you bounce around 3 colleges and still don't graduate?


Daddy gets you a job in politics so you can't be bothered to finish your degree?

This post was edited on 7/29/26 at 7:49 pm
Posted by el Gaucho
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 7:52 pm to
He played guitar in a band and went by “Jeff” in the 90s
Posted by TROLA
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:06 pm to
The Nexus of the reason is pretty simple. He started working in Washington got a great job with the idea of going back to school. He attended American University, which is consistent with that. And he ended up just deciding that his work and work experience was more important. A lesson that many people should learn in this country.
Posted by LSUgrad83
Denham Springs
Member since Sep 2004
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:11 pm to
El Gaucho, I upvoted because you posted a pic of one of the greatest musicians ever. I’m confused though. Do you think Garrett Graves looks like Jeff Buckley?
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:13 pm to
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The Nexus of the reason is pretty simple


Stop right there.

Those words scream “I grew up privileged, and I have no clue what it is like to not have enough to go around.”

Bonus: spouse thinks champagne glass brand matters.
Posted by el Gaucho
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:15 pm to
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I upvoted because you posted a pic of one of the greatest musicians ever. I’m confused though. Do you think Garrett Graves looks like Jeff Buckley?





theyre the same person
This post was edited on 7/29/26 at 8:17 pm
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:28 pm to
Do you really care about this?
Posted by AndyCBR
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2012
8319 posts
Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:31 pm to
quote:


The Nexus of the reason is pretty simple. He started working in Washington got a great job with the idea of going back to school. He attended American University, which is consistent with that. And he ended up just deciding that his work and work experience was more important. A lesson that many people should learn in this country.


Dude, starting a college degree, and proving you have what it takes to finish it, is one of the bare minimums for many professional careers, even today.

This is the same flawed argument for people who think they should be multimillionaires and demand 6 figure incomes straight out of high school.

Now, are you claiming Garrett is some type of savant that the world would have been deprived of his gifts in "public service" had he stayed on to finish his degree?

Bitch, please...
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
26232 posts
Posted on 7/29/26 at 8:32 pm to
Strange he hasn’t gotten an online or independent study degree by now.
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 9:39 pm to
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Dude, starting a college degree, and proving you have what it takes to finish it, is one of the bare minimums for many professional careers, even today.


Politics is a professional career? Seems like it started out as a civil service and then went straight to popularity contests that was primed to get even worse with social media.
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 9:45 pm to
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Catholic is not that expensive, and there are plenty of people bright enough to graduate from college and graduate school who never did for one reason or another. Nice of you to suggest flunking out or drugs, however.

11k a year after taxes isn’t cheap. Add another kid or 2 and you are writing 25K in checks a year. That’s why people feel like they are getting a break if their kids live at home and go to a local college.
Posted by el Gaucho
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Member since Dec 2010
59906 posts
Posted on 7/29/26 at 9:51 pm to
imagine paying all that private school money for your kid to end up a musician in new york

pull a few strings and the musician alter ego mysteriously disappears in a river and your son is working in washington
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