Buddy Mincey, Jr.
| Albert Carroll "Buddy" Mincey, Jr. | |
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Louisiana State Representative for
District 71 (Livingston Parish) | |
| In office January 13, 2020 – January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | J. Rogers Pope |
|---|---|
| Succeeded by | Roger Wilder, III |
District 5 member of the
Livingston Parish School Board | |
| In office 2006–2020 | |
| Born | April 23, 1969 Denham Springs, Livingston Parish |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Michelle Farmer Mincey |
| Children | Three daughters: Morgan, Madison, and Megan Mincey |
| Residence | Denham Springs, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Denham Springs High School
Southeastern Louisiana University (Hammond) |
| Occupation | Officer of a construction company |
Albert Carroll Mincey, Jr., known as Buddy Mincey (born April 23, 1969), is a businessman from Denham Springs, Louisiana, who is an incoming Republican state representative for District 71 in Livingston Parish. In the general election held on November 16, 2019, Mincey handily defeated Lori Callais, 9,559 (77 percent) to 2,903 (23 percent).[1] In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, Mincey polled 45 percent of the vote. A resident of Denham Springs, Mincey succeeds Republican Representative J. Rogers Pope, who instead ran successfully for the state Senate.
Mincey is the son of the former Nina Linda Martin and Albert Mincey, Sr. (1943-2017), a native of Kossuth, Mississippi, a journeyman ironworker, an officer in a labor union, and from 1996 to 2011 a Democratic member of the Livingston Parish Council. He has a sister, Connie Faye Mincey White and a brother, Ricky Duane Mincey.[2]
Mincey graduated in 1987 first in his class at Denham Springs High School and then attended Southeastern Louisiana University, at which he obtained a bachelor's degree in industrial technology. He is the safety, health, and environmental director at Volks Construction Company in Prairieville, a census-designated place in Ascension Parish between Baton Rouge and Gonzales. In 2006, Mincey was elected as a Democrat to the District 5 seat on the Livingston Parish School Board. At some point after that election, he switched parties. The board will select a temporary successor pending a special election to choose Mincey's successor.[3]
Mincey said that as a legislator, he has "no agenda"[4] but expects to focus on public education, infrastructure, and flood recovery, issue normally pushed by Democrats.[3]
Mincey joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker
On January 13, 2020, Mincey was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the Fraud Squad, who voted for the Moderate Republican Clay Schexnayder of Ascension Parish, whose election as House Speaker depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two Independents, and the Republican defectors. Statewide radio commentator Moon Griffon coined the term "Fraud Squad" for the twenty-three dissidents nominally in the Republican Party.[5] In choosing Schexnayder, Mincey voted against his Livingston Parish colleague, the more conservative Sherman Mack of Albany, Louisiana.
Defeat in bid for state senator
On October 14, 2023, Mincey challenged a fellow Republican, the conservative state Representative Valarie Hodges, for the District 13 seat in the state Senate vacated by the Moderate Republican J. Rogers Pope. Hodges won the seat with 65 percent of the ballots cast to Mincey's 35 percent. [6]
References
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of state, Election Returns, November 16, 2019.
- ↑ Albert C. "Buddy" Mincey obituary in Denham Springs. sealefunderal.com. Retrieved on November 28, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 McHugh David (November 17, 2019). Mincey Takes it: Buddy Mincey, Jr., wins House Seat 71 with 77 percent of the vote; school board to elect replacement. Livingston Parish News. Retrieved on November 28, 2019.
- ↑ Drew Walker (June 22, 2019). "I Don't Have an Agenda": Buddy Mincey, Jr. holds kickoff fundraiser. Livingston Parish News.
- ↑ The Moon Griffon Show, January 23, 2020.
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.
