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|name=Joseph Anthony "Joe" Stagni

|name=Joseph Anthony "Joe" Stagni

|birth_date=December 1963

|birth_date=December 1963

|spouse=Denise Stagni

|spouse=Denise Stagni

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]

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'''Joseph Anthony Stagni,''' known as '''Joe Stagni''' (born December 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2514812|title=Joseph Stagni, December 1963|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> is a chiropractic [[physician]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose.

'''Joseph Anthony Stagni,''' known as '''Joe Stagni''' (born December 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2514812|title=Joseph Stagni, December 1963|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> is a chiropractic [[physician]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose.

|author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=''The New Orleans Advocate''|date=March 25, 2017|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref>

|author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=''The New Orleans Advocate''|date=March 25, 2017|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref>

Stagni succeeded Republican Tom Willmott, who resigned in November 2016 to join the Kenner City Council, the same body on which Stagni was a member from 2006 to 2014, when he was term-limited.<ref name=stagnielected/>

Stagni succeeded Republican Tom Willmott, who resigned in November 2016 to join the Kenner City Council, the same body on which Stagni was a member from 2006 to 2014 until he was term-limited.<ref name=stagnielected/>

As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.<ref name=stagnielected/>

As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.<ref name=stagnielected/>

In 2011, he was caught in a sexting scandal because he sent a photograph of himself in his underwear to a Kenner city employee with whom he was having what he admitted to have been an "inappropriate" relationship. Opponent Gisela Chevalier argued in the campaign that the scandal showed Stagni's poor judgment. Stagni, however, said that he and his wife had worked out the matter.<ref name=stagnielected/>

In 2011, Stagni was caught in a sexting scandal because he sent a photograph of himself in his underwear to a Kenner city employee with whom he was having what he admitted to have been an "inappropriate" relationship. Opponent Gisela Chevalier argued in the campaign that the scandal showed Stagni's poor judgment. Stagni, however, said that he and his wife had worked out the matter.<ref name=stagnielected/>

In addition to Stagni, two other Republicans, [[Raymond Crews]] in District 8 and [[John Stefanski]] in District 92, also won special elections in 2017 to fill legislative vacancies. Crews succeeded another Republican; Stefanski followed a Democrat, Jack Montoucet, who resigned to join the administration of [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]].

In addition to Stagni, two other Republicans, [[Raymond Crews]] in District 8 and [[John Stefanski]] in District 92, also won special elections in 2017 to fill legislative vacancies. Crews succeeded another Republican; Stefanski followed a Democrat, Jack Montoucet, who resigned to join the administration of [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]].

In one of his first legislative votes, Stagni joined a group of mostly Democrats to oppose Representative Thomas G. Carmody's bill to permit, via state constitutional amendment, voters to override local officials who order the removal, dismantlement, or defacing of [[Confederate]] military monuments. The Carmody bill passed the House, 65 to 31, and heads to an uncertain future in the state Senate. The Legislative Black Caucus walked out of the House to protest passage of the bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_monument_house_vote.html#incart_river_home|title=To protect Confederate monuments, here's how Louisiana House voted|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 16, 2017|accessdate=May 16, 2017}}</ref>  

In one of his first legislative votes, Stagni joined a group of mostly Democrats to oppose Representative Thomas G. Carmody's bill to permit, via state constitutional amendment, voters to override local officials who order the removal, dismantlement, or defacing of [[Confederate]] military monuments. The Carmody bill passed the House, 65 to 31, but was killed in the state Senate. The Legislative Black Caucus walked out of the House to protest passage of the bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_monument_house_vote.html#incart_river_home|title=To protect Confederate monuments, here's how Louisiana House voted|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 16, 2017|accessdate=May 16, 2017}}</ref>  

 

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