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Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican Henry Burns, a retired military officer, the owner of a cookie shop in Bossier City, and a departing two-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, originally from Shongaloo in Webster Parish. Gatti polled 14,023 votes (50.6 percent) to Burns' 13,698 (49.4 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 22, 2015}}</ref>

Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican Henry Burns, a retired military officer, the owner of a cookie shop in Bossier City, and a departing two-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, originally from Shongaloo in Webster Parish. Gatti polled 14,023 votes (50.6 percent) to Burns' 13,698 (49.4 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 22, 2015}}</ref>

In his campaign, Gatti ran as a strong intraparty critic of term-limited and failed presidential candidate [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]]. He is also a close friend of incoming [[Democratic Party |Democrat]] Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whom he met at the Louisiana State University Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]].

In his campaign, Gatti ran as a strong intraparty critic of term-limited and failed presidential candidate [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]]. He is also a close friend of incoming [[Democratic Party |Democrat]] Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whom he met at the Louisiana State University Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. Edwards campaigned at Gatti's law office in 2014.

 

Gatti graduated in 1992 from Airline High School in Bossier City. He was actually in [[Haiti]] on a mission trip at the time of his election to the state Senate.

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