re: Mall of La / BR General petition for Annexation into City

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They were actual communites, not a dispersed band of far flung suburban neighborhoods. Baton Rougeans are still Baton Rougeans, 

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Please tell me you understand the ridiculous logical fallacy behind this statement. The status quo bodyguards for some reason want to be able to claim that "st George isn't a community. They are just a collection of neighborhoods." and at the same time preach "we're better together! You're trying to divide our town!"
These are contradictory. Do not use them again.

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No they really aren't. When people say "WeAreBR" and things like that, they aren't specifically talking about the city limits. Personally I've always considered everything in the incorporated area as Baton Rouge and most others have as well. St. George was always a very small area that was a part of the larger BR

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I'd say that St. George residents can decide whether or not they are community enough to incorporate. They need the approval of people like yourself.

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As we've previously learned, there are over 5,000 "elite" magnet students from the St George area now attending EBR schools outside the SG area. Those students would be forced to leave their current schools and attend SG schools if a new SG ISD was established. The only problem is the current capacity of the existing SG schools is 5,000, which accommodates the current students easily but in now way could absorb overnight over 5,000 additional "elite" students from the EBR "elite" magnet program. No worries, though, Lionel Rainey, III says no new school taxes would be needed for a new SG ISD.

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I wonder what the effect of losing over 5,000 "elite" magnet students would be on the EBRPSS? It probably wouldn't help their NAEP ratings.

Because the EBRPSS has deliberately kept the number of schools in the St. George area below the population and bussed those kids to schools inside incorporated Baton Rouge the solution is to avoid the creation of a St. George School District. That makes a hell of a lot of sense. It's not like the EBRPSS and a new St. George School District couldn't work out an exchange arrangement beneficial to both bodies and the "elite" magnet students. With such an arrangement the capacity issue in the St. George District could be resolved with less disruption. All that is necessary is to negotiate the proper cost per student.

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All I can say is I think SG be wrong there if we didn't pay the appropriate percentage of legacy costs.

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There is not a case in the history of the world where one city just wrote a check to another city out of the goodness of their heart.

Lionel Rainey's lie about St George being paying the joint BR/SG debts was to garner support to pitch his scheme of "Saving Baton Rouge".

The St. George propaganda machine can say whatever they want, because they are not held accountable, nor will they ever be.

Norman Browning will be mayor of his own city he created.

Rainey and Hoffpauir are going to get wealthy off of the government contracts issued to start and plan the city.

Yates may just be a pawn, but he stands to gain a nice raise as fire chief of a bigger department.

Oh and this from the newest St. George cheerleader:

https://www.nola.com/news/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/05/council_members_stepping_into.html

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And increasingly, St. George supporters are rallying around council member Ryan Heck. He doesn’t make speeches, but he has been posting lengthy diatribes against the city-parish administration on Facebook. When Amoroso praised Heck at Tuesday night’s St. George meeting, Heck got applause and a standing ovation from some in the crowd.

Those comments haven’t come without controversy, though. On the St. George Facebook page Tuesday, he told a poster he would “whip your arse.”

The poster, Brandon Corley, said Heck was “using kids to justify segregation/white flight.”

Heck told Corley to “GFY” (you can guess what that acronym stands for), and said: “You insinuate that I’m a racist, you better be prepared to back up that claim, or meet me somewhere so I can whip your arse.”

Some commenters cheered Heck on, one saying “way to go Ryan,” while another said he was a “disgrace to your position showing such immaturity.” A post on the social media site Reddit linked to the conversation with the title “BR councilman Ryan Heck threatens citizen via facebook.”

Corley’s response? “Sure Ryan. Me v You. I win you step down from council?”

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I don't think many adult men would have difficulty kicking Ryan Heck's fat arse....





ETA: Does anyone know if Ryan Heck is a descendant of Wallace Heck, the concrete company owner who went to jail for bilking the parish in an illegal price fixing scheme with Ted Dunham?

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The St. George propaganda machine can say whatever they want, because they are not held accountable, nor will they ever be. 

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"propaganda machine?" seriously? It really is just a group of people that have gotten shut down at every turn trying to fix the dumpsterfire of our public schools. The is no machine. It's a group of parents, teachers, engineers and a firefighter and a whole bunch of signatures. There isn't a machine, like an entire group of worthless city employees that can be ordered by Kip or Delgado to dig up dirt or fudge numbers.
You will never win the argument that Norman, Yates, and even Bodi are dirty politicians when compared to the likes of Kip, Delgado, any of the hyphenated women on the metro council, pat Smith, and the Union thugs. Good luck.

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It really is just a group of people that have gotten shut down at every turn trying to fix the dumpsterfire of our public schools

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Jesus.Drop this line and just be honest. Everytime I ask SG supporters who use this line if they participate in School Board meetings, or if they participate in fundraisers, or the school events, or if they even know who their school board is, they balk or change directions.

It's not about the schools. It never was. Just be honest.

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We are seeing the leftist tactics of name calling to the extreme here folks.

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Leftist?


Yeah, only leftists do this.

Shall we go through your posts and see how many people you have called names?