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re: Is Eddie Rispones campaign for real?
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:35 am to BlackAdam
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:35 am to BlackAdam
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Rispone needs to start speaking to relevant issues. I don't know where he stands on anything state specific. Pro Trump tells me little.
Yep. He is running on national issues. I want to know about his plans to boost the State's economy.
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Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:35 am to LSUFanHouston
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Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:35 am to Hamma1122
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Book it
Ban bet?
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:39 am to dixiechick
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I do agree that we need to elect better people to school boards
Always the caveats.
School boards one time. Family life another. Common core next. ect.
Can't you see the system is so complicated and so rigid and so prone to the desires of the loudest whiners from year to year that it just is not manageable?
I say put the money in the pocket of the kid and let the teachers and school administrators decide how it will be spent. The only way to do that is all voucher.
Frankly I think that would scare the s*** out of many teachers and administrators because they would find themselves with complete accountability and complete responsibility. No more blaming this boogey man or that boogey man.
The people that know how to make our schools better are in the school now. Get the government off their backs and let them run the schools.
If your particular parish wants to continue to own schools let them but they get the funding the same way---from the families.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:42 am to dixiechick
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So I say yes as long as it remains under the public’s control... not business.
Who would rather the government run schools than private operators??? Only government school profiteers.
Taking our tax dollars and giving them all out as vouchers to be used wherever a family elects is Constitutional and is MUCH better than what we have now.
I don't care if local governments operate schools but they should not have monopolies on tax payer funding and they should not have the power to dictate where a public education is to be available based on where people live.
This post was edited on 8/7/19 at 11:45 am
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:50 am to I B Freeman
Government school advocates like Houston and Dixie hate this:
Is there any government program where 92% of the people involved are satisfied with the program??? I doubt Social Security has numbers that high.
Unlike other states we have a model we can expand. We should do it and do it now.
Is there any government program where 92% of the people involved are satisfied with the program??? I doubt Social Security has numbers that high.
Unlike other states we have a model we can expand. We should do it and do it now.
This post was edited on 8/7/19 at 11:52 am
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:55 am to doubleb
Here is the problem with both the Republicans right now. They don't know anything about the specifics of the state budget. Zilch.
Abraham actually said the other day (paraphrasing) "I will cut taxes, and I'll pay for it by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, not services." Great GOP talking points, no doubt. But JBE is right to challenge him by asking him specifically where those things are and what he would cut. Abraham has no answers, and he looks bad.
To the extent people are listening at this point, I can understand how people would at least think JBE sounds like he knows what he is talking about while the others do not.
Abraham actually said the other day (paraphrasing) "I will cut taxes, and I'll pay for it by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, not services." Great GOP talking points, no doubt. But JBE is right to challenge him by asking him specifically where those things are and what he would cut. Abraham has no answers, and he looks bad.
To the extent people are listening at this point, I can understand how people would at least think JBE sounds like he knows what he is talking about while the others do not.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 11:59 am to doubleb
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Neither Republican will come close to JBE. Not because JBE deserves to win, but the Republicans have terrible candidates running. JBE would be toast if he was running against a competent opponent
Time will tell, but it’s way too early to blow off Abraham and Rispone. JBE supporters want you to believe they have no chance; thus hurting their fundraising efforts and later voter turnout.
Kind of agree with both posts (except that Rispone doesn’t need fundraising).
Has the Republican Party even endorsed one of these candidates yet? I think there will be a push to get one in, but it’s not like a big name came out to run against JBE.
Rispone is an unknown who didn’t attend the recent Sheriffs’ Association or LMA functions. Abraham has little funding and is from an area with a small population. Neither can be considered strong candidates at the moment.
While posters in this echo chamber can’t see past their hate for JBE, from someone looking at this objectively, it seems like the Republican Party is kinda mailing it in this year.
I do love the hypocrisy though of the R and D system though. Nationally, no D has a platform except socialism and I hate Trump. Locally, no R has a platform except I hate JBE.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:02 pm to doubleb
I'm telling you right now, they have no chance. Both are awful candidates and its embarrassing the state can't put out anyone better.
So Louisianans will vote for the governor who's not been great but he's better then the one's before him.
So Louisianans will vote for the governor who's not been great but he's better then the one's before him.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:04 pm to dixiechick
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If we are to continue to maintain a public education system( as our constitution states) I do agree that we need to elect better people to school boards. The problem we are facing now is outside interests throwing huge amounts of $$$ into our school board races to see to it that our local boards are stripped of their constitutional powers.
I want our schools - which we are all paying tons of money for - to be great schools that are held accountable, and teach what it is the kids need to learn.
Kids who live in LA need to learn the same stuff as kids who live in NY. So I don't really care who is providing the material, especially given how poorly we have done when we produce our own material.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:07 pm to I B Freeman
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The education bureaucracy cannot stand the popularity of the 100% choice system in Orleans Parish. Families are on waiting list for vouchers. They want them
Do you know the difference between charters and vouchers?
Charters have accountability. Vouchers do not.
The charter schools in NOLA are working. The voucher program in NOLA is not.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:09 pm to dixiechick
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So I say yes as long as it remains under the public’s control... not business.
That's cute. The public in LA has no idea how to control a school system.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:11 pm to I B Freeman
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Government school advocates like Houston and Dixie hate this:
So the same people that come from poor uneducated backgrounds, and don't give AF about their education of their kids, are happy with the babysitting services provided by the voucher school?
Well good. I mean, the hell with actually learning stuff, right?
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:16 pm to Slippy
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Abraham actually said the other day (paraphrasing) "I will cut taxes, and I'll pay for it by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, not services." Great GOP talking points, no doubt. But JBE is right to challenge him by asking him specifically where those things are and what he would cut. Abraham has no answers, and he looks bad.
This is the same stuff you heat from Cameron Henry, Ray Garafolo, and all of the alleged conservatives in the state House.
When you ask them for specifics, they say "that's up to the governor".
Cutting fraud and abuse means not only a temp increase in spending (to pay for the people to catch the fraud and abuse) but it also likely snares people that support the politician.
Cutting waste is great... but one man's waste is another man's paycheck. Plenty of GOP donors get wasteful state contracts.
I've said this before and I'll say it again...
The Dems want to increase spending, and they want to tax us to pay for it.
The GOP wants to increase spending, and they want to use games and tricks to pay for it.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:16 pm to Sentrius
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Vitter, Dardenne and Angelle
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And they had less..name recognition than Rispone
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:16 pm to LSUFanHouston
quote:So, if you put the best students with the most parental support and the best teachers and the best administrators in one school it will perform above all others?
the school reforms he put in ARE working. Slowly, our schools are improving. Look at Jefferson Parish and the booming magnet schools there, for example.
Who knew.
My kids go to a booming magnet school in Alexandria. I understand the deal. But if you have not experienced the absolute lunacy of your local school district that is following state guidelines, you have no idea. Our kids have a great school, but it could be better if the process of following the state curriculum could take a back seat to something, anything....but it does not.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:19 pm to Slippy
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Abraham actually said the other day (paraphrasing) "I will cut taxes, and I'll pay for it by cutting waste, fraud and abuse, not services." Great GOP talking points, no doubt. But JBE is right to challenge him by asking him specifically where those things are and what he would cut. Abraham has no answers, and he looks bad.
Abraham is just another fake. As much as I like what he says, there is no substance.
If you are going to cut enough to make a difference it is going to hurt somewhere. He needs to say where these cuts are and how they will happen.
No different than a household that is struggling. You dont make a difference by saving 5 dollars on insurance. You make a difference by getting rid of the second car.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:28 pm to tigerfoot
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But if you have not experienced the absolute lunacy of your local school district that is following state guidelines, you have no idea. Our kids have a great school, but it could be better if the process of following the state curriculum could take a back seat to something, anything....but it does not.
Most of our schools have trouble teaching to the state curriculum. The idea of letting them go off-script is horrifying to me.
I WOULD support the best schools (maybe A schools only) having that option, though - but even then, you still have to have your kids pass iLEAP. Until someone comes up with a better idea, I'm not willing to get rid of the test.
But if you are an A school and you can prove that doing something different would lead to even better outcomes - I think you've earned that chance.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:32 pm to tigerfoot
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Abraham is just another fake.
eh - the problem is the voters in Louisiana are a bunch of socialists and you can’t win by telling them you’re going to take away their government cheese.
the best thing to do is vote for someone that will not raise taxes and slow the growth of government.
Posted on 8/7/19 at 12:33 pm to LSUFanHouston
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