re: Eddie Rispone: Louisiana needs a conservative outsider as its Governor

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This is exactly what worries me about Rispone. Rispone played an instrumental role in “revamping” funding for Ed and workforce development during the Jindal years. They were BFFs. I do not want another Jindal.

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When I heard Rispone speak, he absolutely excoriated Jindal for not going far enough with his reforms, and being mostly talk. Jindal was all about created the appearance of reforms without actually fixing the problem. Rispone was talking Constitutional Convention, tort reform, public/private partnerships for infrastructure and education work requirements for medicare, a complete overhaul of Louisiana's tax system, etc.

However, his principle issue is education. Where he partnered with Jindal on was school choice, but he believed Jindal didn't go far enough. Rispone wants to get private industry involved in charter schools and community colleges so that they are tailoring their curriculum to what industry wants to hire, and so that kids are graduating already having work experience. At the college level, he seems to be open to the idea of tying TOPS to curriculum, with the idea of only providing TOPS for so many students in each major, with those numbers dictated by what employers are looking for in order to push more students into going into in-demand fields rather than the state being on the hook for unemployable liberal arts degrees.

While his approach will certainly turn off a lot of people, especially the teachers unions, I think it's interesting to see someone run with some out of the box ideas. Rispone seems interested in completely overhauling parts of our government that haven't been touched in over 40 years, or even 90 years. While I'm not sure how electable some of his ideas are, and I question whether they will result in the promised improvements, I am excited that someone is at least running on really changing the system rather than snipping around the edges.

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Madelaine Pisani @MadelainePisani
NEW: After an initial announcement on April 1 of a billboard ad-buy with “a nearly 10 foot tall photo of @EddieRispone, slightly larger than actual size,” the campaign had this one put up today. It’s on a 12-week contract and is located on interstate 10 in Port Allen

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Those are all great things that he needs to talk about and give some basic plans on what he wants to see happen.

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Yeah, I'd love for that to happen. But let's not have a higher bar for him than other candidates.

Vitter had the most detailed policy proposals by far. JBE had virtually no platform. And look what happened...

I’m on board.

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