Lafayette Parish School System provides abject lesson why Louisiana needs checkbook legislation passed immediately this special session.

Lafayette Parish School Board President Erick Kenzek

In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, founder Robert Burns demonstrates how the Lafayette Parish School System (LPSS), which was just exposed as initially engaging in a media distortion campaign entailing unauthorized “observers” attending cosmetology classes at the W. D. and Mary Baker Smith Career Academy within its system (but who did a huge mea culpa when the realization became apparent that the distortion campaign would fail miserably), is serving as an abject lesson in why Louisiana needs the checkbook legislation presently pending before the Louisiana Legislature to pass immediately!:

Burns demonstrates how the LPSS is serving as an abject lesson in the need for Louisiana’s
Checkbook Initiative
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As a result of the clearly-obstructionist email of Ms. Bernard displayed above, Sound Off Louisiana‘s Burns drafted this letter to Lafayette Parish DA Keith Stutes on February 28, 2018.

 

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After KLFY (Lafayette Channel 10), Sound Off Louisiana expose unauthorized “observers” in Lafayette public school cosmetology class, Lafayette School Board does huge mea culpa and fixes problem, but Louisiana Cosmetology Board remains clouded in secrecy in apparent cover-up of the incidents.

Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology Chairman Edwin Neill, III

 

In today’s Sound Off Louisiana feature, founder Robert Burns expands on an initial joint investigation in which he and KLFY Channel 10 in Lafayette exposed unauthorized “observers” at the W. D. and Mary Smith Career Academy in Lafayette, Louisiana.  The school, a public school within the Lafayette Parish School System, buses in students from area high schools for career instruction.  One such area of instruction is cosmetology classes, for which the lead instructor is Kevin Martin.  According to numerous sources, Martin has routinely permitted unauthorized “observers” to attend and obtain credit toward either a cosmetology teaching certificate (for which sources have indicated W. D. Smith is not authorized to offer) or cosmetology licenses for “holdover students,” which are students having already graduated high school but whom Martin is said to have invited back the next year to earn the final 500 hours needed to take the state licensing test to obtain their cosmetology licenses.  The feature follows:

 

Investigative report on Kevin Martin, lead instructor at the W. D. and Mary Smith Career Academy’s cosmetology department, permitting unauthorized “observers” (one of whom is nearly 60 years old) to sit in on his classroom instruction and earn credit toward cosmetology teaching licenses or cosmetology licenses.

 

 

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U. S. Congressman Ralph Abraham, potential rival to Gov. Edwards in 2019 Governor’s race: “Louisiana deserves better than John Bel Edwards.” Voices frustration over Edwards’ propensity to “say one thing and do another.”

U. S. Congressman Ralph Abraham

 

At the meeting of the Baton Rouge Press Club (BRPC) of Monday, February 19, 2018, U. S. Congressman Ralph Abraham, who left little to the imagination entailing him likely challenging Gov. Edwards in 2019, stated point blank, “Louisiana deserves better than Gov. John Bel Edwards,” and expressed frustration at what he cited as Gov. Edwards’ propensity to “say one thing and then do another.”  When pressed for examples by Sound Off Louisiana founder Robert Burns, Abraham didn’t mince his words in citing Edwards’ tax increases.  Video coverage of Abraham’s statements follows:

 

Abraham on his frustration of Gov. Edwards “saying one thing and doing another.”

 

Meanwhile, Abraham also expressed his sentiments entailing Gov. Edwards having taken his fight to permit transgendered people to utilize the public restroom of their choice all the way to the Louisiana Supreme Court as evidenced in the following video clip:

Abraham comments on Edwards’ Louisiana Supreme Court battle to protect transgender people’s right to use a public bathroom of their choosing.

 

Abraham’s commentary largely mirrored that of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is also a potential challenger to Gov. Edwards in 2019, and who also addressed Gov. Edwards’ battle entailing the same legal fight when he appeared before the BRPC on May 23, 2016, for which video coverage follows:

Louisiana Attorney General Landry address Gov. Edwards’ transgender fight on 5/23/16 before the BRPC.

 

In response to a question by AP reporter Melinda Delatte about “where you would cut if you won’t raise taxes,” Abraham provided highly detailed examples of what he cited as Louisiana Medicaid inefficiency he’s encountered in his own medical practice, and video of that exchange follows:

 

Abraham on Louisiana Medicaid inefficiency in his own medical practice.

CLICK HERE to see Congressman Abraham’s presentation in its entirety.

 

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