Rick Edmonds

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My next g- guest here on the show is Rick Edmonds.

Rick Edmonds, thank you so much for coming on today.

I really appreciate it.

Good morning, man.

Yeah

... talk to you a little bit more? Anything coming up, or how they can find you?

Yeah, of course we have a simple Rick Edmonds, which is R-I-C-K E-D-M-O-N-D-S, rickedmonds.com, and they can get the general information there.

Mike in Villa Del Ray.

Rick in Broadmoor.

We'll slide you in before the break.

Rick, you're on.

All right.

Good morning.

That's just absolutely, positively not true.

All right.

So...

Rick Edmonds, Senator Rick Edmonds, State Senator Rick Edmonds, pushed a bill through a couple of years ago that provides for transparency of finances of our K-12, both public schools and charter schools.

And he gave it to the Treasury Department in Baton Rouge to actually set up a computer program where this information can be uploaded in detail, and that actually occurred.

We went live March of 2025, and every quarter we get a dump of information from these schools.

So why would anybody in their right mind run for office?

Well, that is an excellent question.

The same is being done right now as we speak with Rick Edmonds, who's running for Congress.

They've trumped up some kind of minor incident, not unlike what happened with Kavanaugh, who was, of course, inducted into the Supreme Court.

Mm-hmm.Um, you know, that's bubbled up in the sixth certainly.

Um, there's a Washington anti-tax group called Club for Growth that's supporting State Senator Blake Miguez, and it's running ads attacking fellow Republican State Senator Rick Edmonds for some votes that are basically the same as the votes Miguez has taken.

Uh-huh.

Um, now Jeff Landry, the governor, and some other powerful people are not really fans of Miguez, so their, their feelings are a little, you know, hard about this.

So last night there was a candidate forum for the sixth congressional district where the candidates were all up at the dais and they were all talking about issues of importance to the voters and Notably, uh, absent was state Senator Blake Miguez.

He's considered the co-front runner in the race along with state Senator Rick Edmonds did not give any sort of explanation as to why he wasn't there.

And there were several comments made about it.

You can read more about it.

But with regard to the legislation itself, Danielle, the enabling legislation first, in the House, it was Gabe Fermit and Michael Echols who voted for this enabling legislation, without which there would be no statutory authority for these non-disclosure agreements signed by public officials.

Over on the Senate side, Blake Maguez, Stuart Cathey, and Rick Edmonds all voted no, all voted against, uh, the enabling legislation, to their credit.

So it's important to point that out.

And, uh, you know, the enabling legislation, again, it allows these agreements to, these negotiations to be concealed for up to two years if the CEO of the company explains why and says it w- it will diminish our competitive advantage and all the rest of it if, if, if these, uh, negotiations are disclosed to the public.

So they sign it.

Now, uh, regarding the non-disclosure agreements themselves, we just talked about the legislation.

Regarding who signed an, an NDA, Rick Edmonds has signed a non-disclosure agreement.

Stuart Cathey has signed a non-disclosure agreement.