“The teacher’s union has plenty of power. Legislators are scared spitless of them. They put Bel Edwards in office.”
You must not live in Louisiana.
Louisiana teacher earn the smallest salaries in the nation and the first measly $1,000 pay raise in eight years and teacher unions have all the power?
Jindal and the legislature passed laws that sunk their teeth into the teachers necks. The legislature raided the teacher’s retirement fund, so it is now grossly underfunded. They have no fear of teachers unions.
Unions in general have no power in Louisiana, a right to work state.
Edwards won because the voter turn out was about thirty percent.
He will not win a second term.
I am amazed that people confuse teacher unions with the Leftist teacher bureaucracy, which reigns supreme in all fifty states.
Lived here all my life, and have been active in politics for 40 years. My family goes back seven (7) generations here.
The teacher’s union and the leftist teacher bureaucracy are one and the same.
The reason the TRSL (Teacher Retirement System of Louisiana) is underfunded is the same reason all public employee systems are underfunded. Insufficient employee contributions, overly optimistic annual return projections, and basing retirement pay on the highest three years of salary.
I, too, am a life long resident of Louisiana and would not live anywhere else.
Jindal was despised by many, one my cousin who is a state retiree hated him because of something he did with their health care, so he voted for the democrat.
Vitter was too tarnished, although I did vote for him.
When I see an ad for Rispone, right after it there is an ad for Abraham. Don’t know anything about either one of them. Shame on me I’m more into national politics instead of knowing much about Local politics. But I do not listen to local news channels which makes me not know much of what is going on in the state. Gotta pay more attention.