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Cecil's deceit is that the Donkeys promised Nancy Loomatic and her cult jam to fully fund MAEP in only 2 years.

MAEP full funding is a moving target that only grows. It never stops increasing and does so annually beyond the means of taxpayers to fund it.

It will take nothing less than a massive tax increase to fully fund it whether it be this year, over 2 years, over 4 years or over the decade.

MAEP is nothing less than the mother of all unfunded mandates at the state level. There is a reason why Cecil Brown doesn't tell voters the whole truth.

Wasn't Mr. Brown chairman of the education committee in the house for the last 8 years under Speaker McCoy? One would think he could have fully funded MAEP all those years when he was in charge of the committee. Or perhaps MAEP has always been a pie-in-the-sky plan to set the education bureaucracy up for annual increases and to bash anyone with the testicular fortitude to question education funding.

2:30 and 3:14 are right. MFUM (Mississippi's Forever Unfunded Mandates) will always be an unattainable, moving target not unlike the so-called Southeast Average Teacher Pay plan. I agree (with all the due respect Kingfish demands we pay to Mr. Brown) that Cecil has had quite a long time to work on solutions and only now is concentrating on identifying problems. I wonder where he got this notion that the way to puff up Democrat ideology is to blame everything on republicans?

Thanks to Eastover, Fondren and Belhaven for helping to kill charter schools. The JPS schools are SHIT but you don't send your children there anyway.

Gee , Cecil was only one of a few Mississipians to pass the CPA exam ( all parts) the first time he took it and when it was REALLY tough.

He might actually know something about budgets and finance.

AND, he was the frat brother of many Republicans...all of whom he actively supported when he was just a working stiff.

Gee, the fact that Cecil's frat brothers live within the realm of 1% of Mississippi's AGIs renders him as out-of-touch with the rest of the state as one can get.

Any other bullshit you want to trot out? Because frat brother Cecil is a fake to his core.

More Edu-speak.

Now that we have his social history, where did Cecil go wrong? He could have been such a smiling, happy, involved Republican.

He could have 5:11am and probably would have but for a few knee jerk Republicans in our state who were too low on the totem pole to know what the hell they were doing.

They missed, as did knee jerk Democrats, that competence, was still important to some in both parties. Of course,competence no longer matters to the majority apparently in either party.

6:06 pm,some of his frat brothers may well be in the 1%, indeed those frat brothers who are held in esteem by the GOP certainly are.

6:06pm are you really going to argue that the 1% highest annual income earners in this state are Democrats? ROFL

Cecil cares about fiscal responsibility and improving education because he cares more about Mississippi than he does about party politics. That was true on day one and it's true today and is the reason he has the support of many who otherwise vote a straight GOP ticket.

They know first hand that when they are just in their concerns, they get his help and support.

It doesn't mean he can't be mistaken or overlook an important factor or consider political realities. But, he does his homework and those who deal with him in the House, on both sides of the aisle know it. He is respected privately, if not publicly by those who actual know what goes on.

This" us vs them" mentality isn't working well anywhere.

Try debating the message rather than defaming the messenger. If the person is wrong on the facts, it's child's play.

@9:56....Cecil? Is that YOU?

We all know that Cecil reads here SFax.

This" us vs them" mentality isn't working well anywhere.

Someone needs to tell that to Cecil Brown.

The message is the messenger and visa versa. If Cecil Brown is great with budgets , finance, investments and is a cracker jack CPA and legislator in general by all reports and by all agreed - still trying to understand how that ties in with his being Education czar of senate.As good as he may be with numbers-had trouble with his words. They were not a straight answer on proven track record of teaching students to learn as Charters most often do and seemed off the subject and really a smoke screen.

It'd really be helpful if people would actually study the history of charter schools for the last 20 years gathered by those who don't have an agenda before adopting a position.

Educating our young people is in the national interest. It shouldn't be partisan but has become so.

And, IF you think YOUR party, whichever one you identify yourself with, hasn't used parents emotional investment in their children's future for political purpose, you are naive.

If you are in favor of charter schools for Mississippi, you should be able to name the communities in which charter schools improved performance and understand why they succeeded where other charter programs did not. You should know the differences in how charter schools operate and how they are managed.

Unless, you have these basic facts, you shouldn't, even if you are a politician or in the educational system, take a position. And, the absence of such models in the discussion is very telling.

Shadow, I'm 9:56 am . Unlike you I actually know Cecil and his wife and who his friends are. My husband and I are two of them and also Republicans back when the Eastland crowd ran MS.
And,we ,along with Cecil did more to make sure MS actually had a two party system than those pretending to be Republicans these days but who really want to be the new Eastland crowd.
A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.