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Created page with "'''Richard Phillip Edmonds, Jr.''', known as '''Rick Edmonds''' (born September 1956)<ref>{[cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2277537|title=Richard Edm..."
'''Richard Phillip Edmonds, Jr.''', known as '''Rick Edmonds''' (born September 1956)<ref>{[cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2277537|title=Richard Edmonds, September 1956|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 27, 2015}}</ref> is a [[Christian]] pastor in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who is an incoming [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives]] for District 66.
Edmonds unseated the short-term incumbent Republican, Darrell Ourso, a former member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council, in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015.<ref name=bra>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/14061578-123/district-66-incumbent-darrell-ourso|title=District 66 incumbent Darrell Ourso loses seat to Family Forum Vice President|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Rebekah Allen|accessdate=November 27, 2015}]</ref> Edmonds polled 7,109 votes (52.1 percent to Ourso's 6,540 (47.9 percent).<ref>{[cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=
Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 27, 2015}]</ref> Ourso had won the position in a special election earlier in the year to fill the seat created by the resignation of Republican Hunter Greene, who was elected to a Baton Rouge family court judgeship.<ref name=bra/>
Edmonds is pastor of Bethany Church and the vice president of the [[conservative]] Louisiana Family Forum.<ref name=bra/>
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Edmonds unseated the short-term incumbent Republican, Darrell Ourso, a former member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council, in the runoff election held on November 21, 2015.<ref name=bra>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/news/14061578-123/district-66-incumbent-darrell-ourso|title=District 66 incumbent Darrell Ourso loses seat to Family Forum Vice President|date=November 21, 2015|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Rebekah Allen|accessdate=November 27, 2015}]</ref> Edmonds polled 7,109 votes (52.1 percent to Ourso's 6,540 (47.9 percent).<ref>{[cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=
Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 27, 2015}]</ref> Ourso had won the position in a special election earlier in the year to fill the seat created by the resignation of Republican Hunter Greene, who was elected to a Baton Rouge family court judgeship.<ref name=bra/>
Edmonds is pastor of Bethany Church and the vice president of the [[conservative]] Louisiana Family Forum.<ref name=bra/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edmonds, Rick}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Clergy]]