12-12-22
THE CITY OF CROWLEY HAS A NEW MAYOR AND POLICE CHIEF. INCUMBENT MAYOR TIM MONCEAUX WAS OUSTED FROM OFFICE BY THE CHALLENGER AND FELLOW REPUBLICAN CHAD MONCEAUX, WHO GOT FIFTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN SATURDAY’S RUNOFF ELECTION. MEANWHILE, DEMOCRAT TROY HEBERT GOT FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE BALLOTS TO DEFEAT REPUBLICAN SCOTT FOGELMAN AND BECOME CROWLEY’S NEXT POLICE CHIEF. INCUMBENT JIMMY BROUSSARD DID NOT GET ENOUGH VOTES IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION TO MAKE THE RUNOFF. MEANWHILE IN OPELOUSAS, MAYOR JULIUS ALSANDOR WON REELECTION SATURDAY. HE DEFEATED THE CHALLENGE OF CHARLEE RENAUD LEAR WITH 52 PERCENT OF THE VOTE. IN VILLE PLATTE, ALDERWOMAN CHRISTINA SAM GOT SIXTY-FOUR PERCENT TO KEEP HER SEAT. SAM WAS RE-ELECTED DESPITE AN ARREST IN NOVEMBER ON FRAUD AND FORGERY CHARGES.
THE NEW LAFAYETTE CITY COURT JUDGE IS JULES EDWARDS THE THIRD. WITH FIFTY-TWO PERCENT OF THE VOTE, EDWARDS TOOK THE JUDGE’S RACE OVER ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROYA BOUSTANY. EDWARDS REPLACES MICHELLE ODINET, WHO WAS SUSPENDED BY THE STATE SUPREME COURT WHEN RACIAL SLURS AT HER HOME WERE CAPTURED ON VIDEO THAT CAME OUT IN THE PRESS. IN ELTON, THE NEW MAYOR IS KESIA LEMOINE, AN INDEPENDENT, WHO CAPTURED FIFTY-FOUR PERCENT OF THE BALLOTS TO DEFEAT REPUBLICAN BRANDON KELLY. LEMOINE REPLACES INTERIM MAYOR AVELLA ACKLESS, WHO DIED RECENTLY AND WHOSE FUNERAL SERVICE IS TODAY.
LOUISIANA VOTERS ALSO DECIDED THE FATE OF THREE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS SATURDAY. DANIELLE JOHNSON HAS THE RESULTS.
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THE MAYOR OF IOWA WAS OUSTED IN SATURDAY’S RUNOFF ELECTION. PAUL HESSE WAS DEFEATED BY DOUGLAS NEAL WATKINS WHO GOT FIFTY-EIGHT PERCENT. THE NEW MAYOR OF WESTLAKE IS HAL MCMILLIN. THE FORMER COUNCILMAN AND CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JUROR WON OVER MICHAEL BERGERON WITH FIFTY-SIX PERCENT OF THE VOTE. THREE CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD SEATS WERE ON THE BALLOT AS WELL. INCUMBENT DESMOND WALLACE SECURED HER DISTRICT FOURTEEN SEAT, WHILE KAREN HARDY MCREYNOLDS TOOK THE DISTRICT TWO SEAT AND SHAWN BAUMGARTEN IS THE NEW DISTRICT FIFTEEN BOARD MEMBER.
THE MAYOR’S RACE IN TURKEY CREEK ENDED IN A TIE SATURDAY. BERT CAMPBELL AND VICKI CHADDRICK EACHED RECEIVED ONE HUNDRED NINE VOTES. THE VOTES WILL BE RECOUNTED INCLUDING ANY REMAINING, UNCOUNTED ABSENTEE BALLOTS. THE UNOFFICIAL TURNOUT FOR THE ELECTION WAS JUST OVER SEVENTY PERCENT.
THERE WERE NO INJURIES IN A FIRE AT THE PARK PLACE APARTMENTS ON BELLE FONTAINE DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. IT TOOK TWENTY MINUTES TO PUT OUT THE FIRE THAT CAUSED MAJOR DAMAGE TO TWO DOWNSTAIRS APARTMENTS AND SLIGHT DAMAGE TO TWO UPSTAIRS APARTMENTS. THE FIRE STARTED ON A STOVE TOP IN ONE OF THE DOWNSTAIRS UNITS WHEN POTS WERE LEFT UNATTENDED BY THE OCCUPANT. THE FIRE SPREAD TO AN ADJACENT APARTMENT.
BOTH LOUISIANA’S SENATORS ARE PUSHING FOR THE RISEE BILL TO BE ATTACHED TO BILLS THAT WOULD AUTHORIZE FUNDING FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES IN THE NEW YEAR. THE REINVESTING IN SHORELINE ECONOMIES AND ECOSYSTEMS ACT OF TWENTY-TWENTY-TWO WOULD REMOVE THE CAP ON WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAYS STATES FOR OFFSHORE ENERGY PRODUCTION IN FEDERAL WATERS. THE BILL WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED IN COMMITTEE IN JULY BUT HAS LANGUISHED ON THE CALENDAR BEHIND OTHER BILLS. IF THE RISEE BILL IS NOT ATTACHED TO SPENDING BILLS AND PASSED BY FRIDAY, IT’S BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AGAIN IN JANUARY WHEN THE NEW CONGRESS TAKES OFFICE.
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