Central basic contractor Brandon Ivey describes himself as a staunch conservative who stands for Christian values, the precise to life, constitutional carry, and conventional marriage. Nonetheless, he additionally sees himself as a job creator, having created lots of of jobs in Baton Rouge and Central.
Ivey, Central Excessive Class of 1999, believes his position as former president of Baton Rouge Homebuilders Assn. and present president of Louisiana Homebuilders provides him actual life understanding that may convey jobs to the Central space and to your entire State of Louisiana.
“It’s about focusing the schooling system and younger folks on what the neighborhood wants. Proper now, now we have beneath performing colleges. But, there are such a lot of good jobs on the market ready to be crammed. In truth, now we have a scarcity of expert labor. So why aren’t our college students being educated for top paying jobs which can be accessible proper now? We want carpenters, plumbers, electrical, masonry, concrete ending.”
“I’ll work to attach schooling with the job market.”
One of many high points Ivey mentioned he’ll work on is the excessive value of insurance coverage. “It’s killing our households proper now,” he mentioned. “We have to convey down insurance coverage charges. It hurts us on a person foundation, however additionally it is damaging our enterprise local weather.”
The excessive value of auto insurance coverage is because of the truth now we have a rigged system in Louisiana, he mentioned. “We pay out double in bodily damage claims. Individuals are incentivised to drive up their medical claims as a result of that drives up judgments. We’re permitting our system to be manipulated. Insurance coverage reform will put a refund in our households’ pockets.”
Crime can also be a No. 1 concern for Brandon Ivey. “I’m pro-law enforcement. The hassle to defund the police is harmful and improper. We have to assist our police.”
“A lot of our crime downside — most likely 90 p.c — is about psychological well being and medicines. Now we have to noticeably deal with these issues, and crime will turn into a much smaller problem.”
Ivey is a gun fanatic who helps constitutional carry. He additionally strongly helps the precise to life with out exceptions. He takes a conventional view of marriage and says it ought to be between one man and one girl. He opposes CRT and needs to take politics out of the classroom. He opposes ‘woke’ radical indoctrination.
Ivey says he grew up in church. “We had a really modest upbringing. Every thing was centered round God and church. Each time the doorways opened at Victory Harvest on Flannery, we had been there! I grew up there and went to high school at Victory Academy from the first grade to the eighth grade. We used the Abeka curriculum, which was nice. Our courses averaged eight college students. It allowed our values to be nicely established. So after I went to Central Excessive within the ninth grade, I used to be capable of stand by my convictions and never be tossed round.”
After graduating from Central Excessive in 1999, he grew to become a State Farm agent. Then he had a chance to work for Hibernia Financial institution. That led to homebuilding and being a basic contractor.
“Working with a whole lot of workers, I usually have to indicate them what to do, and I allow them to know I’ll by no means ask them to do one thing that I can’t do myself and can do myself if obligatory.”
“In life, too usually we attempt to keep away from doing the onerous issues. However let me provide you with one of many key secrets and techniques of success. Do the onerous issues! Embrace the challenges. Life is about overcoming challenges. I’ve had workers make $10,000 errors. You simply overcome these obstacles and succeed anyway.”
Brandon and his spouse Andria have 5 kids. Two are at Central Excessive College, one at BRCC, one at Southeastern, and one works with Brandon in his enterprise.
As president of the Homebuilders Affiliation, he has labored with greater than 1,000 contractors and tried to study from them what works.
“Over time, I’ve realized to be an issue solver and a consensus builder. It’s by no means my manner or the freeway. Now we have to search out issues we agree on and make good issues occur.”
Brandon is endorsed by Louisiana Proper to Life and People for Prosperity and top-rated by NRA.
Ivey mentioned turnout will likely be low. “A number of votes might make a distinction on this election! So please vote early or vote on election day!”
