re: Does JBE win re-election?

JBE got right close to 47 percent. If he can't make up 3 percent he is a loser.

Meanwhile Rispone must bust sack to get a lot of Abraham voters to vote.

Edward's FTW

And u should defend ur position with well reasoned arguments , the fact that u resort to statements like u wrote suggest u lack the ability to critically think and defend ur positions rationally . Ur behavior reminds me of what is going on any many big cites where if u don’t agree with me ur the enemy , do u want to see La become what Portland and Seattle have become, I will vote for JBE as it is my Constitutional right , u vote for Rispone as that is ur right . In the future if u can’t write me in more civil tone then don’t write me at all.

I agree I said the entire 2007 and 2008 budget deals were a cluster , but given the fiscal cliffs the state got into , how that was resolved is my issue and in my view Jindal was horrible in how he solved those problems , most of which as governor he was responsible for

Have been voting since early 80s , the responses of people here an inability of people to discuss and debate civilly speaks more of u than me and is a symptom of the broader breakdown of civil discourse society wide of course a majority of people here go to church on Sunday and say amen and come here and curse and cast insults the other 6 days a week , do u really want to be that type of guy? Go ahead free country but that ain’t me

Yes that article says what he said no ability to pay instructors and adjuncts to teach undergraduate classes means Athletes would not get requisite hours to meet mandated NCAA requirements , that is not the same as saying I am shutting down football . That s explaining correctly what would happen if a budget deal was not in place to pay instructors and adjuncts who teach the Majority of undergraduate classes which ball players take, again tenure track academics do not teach undergraduates for most part and do not teach summer school at LSU , tenure track faculty lines are not impacted by the cuts , it is the non tenure track faculty who would have not been paid and thus not teach those classes

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Yes that article says what he said no ability to pay instructors and adjuncts to teach undergraduate classes means Athletes would not get requisite hours to meet mandated NCAA requirements , that is not the same as saying I am shutting down football . That s explaining correctly what would happen if a budget deal was not in place to pay instructors and adjuncts who teach the Majority of undergraduate classes which ball players take, again tenure track academics do not teach undergraduates for most part and do not teach summer school at LSU , tenure track faculty lines are not impacted by the cuts , it is the non tenure track faculty who would have not been paid and thus not teach those classes

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blah, blah, blah...if you don't vote for my tax I am shutting down football.

You don't think there was ANY other alternative??? You don't think this was maybe, maybe a bit of a hyperbolic threat to get his way rather than a neutral telling of the facts? Also known as the Washington Monument strategy

What about when he threaten to kick people of nursing homes if people didn't vote for his taxes? And actually sent out letters to people that they could be kicked out on the street?

C'mon man, open your eyes.

This race would be over if Rispone wasn't a bad candidate with nothing to stand on but Trump and dirty ads.

Edwards threatened LSU. His administration threatened 37,000 old folks with nursing home closure. He threatened students with TOPS.

He didn’t threaten the film industry, he didn’t reform the nursing home industry and he hardly looked at spending cuts. The fact is he added more spending via Medicaid Expansion which is becoming a bigger and bigger obligation.

He raised taxes to the point where we now have a surplus that exceeds the 466 million dollars that the .45 cent sales tax was supposed to bring in.

Government is here to serve the people. The government is not the end all, but everything Edwards does is judged by how fiscally sound is the government.

The good news from Edwards is the government is doing great. We run a big surplus every year, more folks are on Medicaid and we can give raises to state employees.

What he won’t say is people are leaving La., there are no more jobs than when he took office, we are 48, 49 or 50th in everything, and the economy is in the ditch.

Yes, the state government is out the ditch, but the economy is in the ditch and there are no new jobs and very little growth at a time when our competition is running laps around us.

Edwards is great for state government, it’s the people mostly who are losing. Losing of leaving.

That surplus is largely due to the change in federal tax laws and how it impacts state income tax