On Saturday, Please Vote, Then Go to Cookin’

Rick Santorum Hopes Conservative Voters in Central Will Turn Out For Presidential Bid

CENTRAL — Since Louisiana enacted its Presidential Primary law in 1976, Republicans have very seldom had the opportunity to go to the polls and vote for a true conservative.

This year is different.  We have Rick Santorum, an attractive former Senator with the intelligence, experience, determination, courage, and philosophy to make a great President.  He made it a point to come to Central to let us meet him and to ask for our vote — something no other Presidential candidate has ever done.

Now it’s up to us.

We can buy in to the predictable liberal media propaganda that “he can’t win” and “Romney is inevitable” and see that reality come to pass.

Or we can realize that the decision is in our hands, and that all we have to do is go to the polls and vote for Santorum.

The greatest thing going for Obama is our own confusion and lethagy.

Saturday will be a big day in Central because of Cookin’ in Central and the Presidential Primary.

Please participate in both.

Go by your precinct and vote before Cookin’ in Central gets underway at 10 a.m., or go by and vote after Cookin’ is over at 4 p.m.

Going by before Cookin’ starts is much preferable.

After Cookin’ is over, you may forget to vote, or you may be too tired to get out of the house!

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It seems almost everybody in Central wants to get Obama out of office.

It will be interesting to see how many people actually take the time and trouble to go vote.

When I see the low turnout in Central in some of these elections, I fear for our country.

We are choosing a champion to go up against Obama.

For God’s sake, take the time to vote on Saturday!

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Governor’s Education Reform Bills Need Amendments.

I have read the Governor’s three major education reform bills and am deeply concerned about how they will affect the Central Community School System in two important ways.

First of all, HB 976 provides for scholarships to be granted to low income students in failing schools.  Unfortunately, the bill allows these students to take their scholarships across district lines.  In other words, an inner city youth from a failing school can use the scholarship in the Central school system.

Right now, the bill says the acceptance of these scholarship students is up to the local superintendent.  That’s not good enough.  This is a policy decision and should be made by the elected school board after a public hearing, in which the people are allowed to come and let their voices be heard.

HB 974 should be amended to give the school board the right to approve or disapprove transfer students.

Second and even more important, HB 974 changes how school personnel would be hired at the local level.  At present, new hires are proposed by the school superintendent and then considered by the elected school board in an open, public hearing at which time the public can be heard.

HB 974 allows the superintendent alone — without a public hearing or a vote by the school board — to hire everyone in the system from a principal to a director of curriculum to the football coach.

This would effectively remove the public and their elected officials from the process.  A very bad idea indeed!  This bill should be amended to retain the present system for hiring school personnel.

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The next Central City News will be published April 12 and will include the  Health and Fitness Guide.  The deadline will be April 6.