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'''Robert Leon Maness''', known as '''Rob Maness''' (born November 14, 1961), is a retired [[colonel]] in the [[United States Air Force]] and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] and [[Tea Party]] figure in his adopted U.S. state of [[Louisiana]].<ref name=ballot>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Rob_Maness|title=Rob Maness|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=November 20, 2015}}</ref>  

'''Robert Leon Maness''', known as '''Rob Maness''' (born November 14, 1961), is a retired [[colonel]] in the [[United States Air Force]] and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] and [[Tea Party]] figure in his adopted U.S. state of [[Louisiana]].<ref name=ballot>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Rob_Maness|title=Rob Maness|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=November 20, 2015}}</ref>  

Maness is a candidate in the special election runoff scheduled for November 18, 2017, to fill the unexpired term of District 77 state Representative [[John Schroder]]. In the first round of voting on October 14, Maness led a four-candidate field with 3,126 votes (37 percent). He now faces the number-two candidate, Covington City Council member and fellow Republican Mark Wright, 2,125 (25 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns|date=October 14, 2017|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/e|title=Four candidates vying for Louisiana House seat left open by John Schroder's departure|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=September 24, 2017|author=Sara Pagones|accessdate=September 28, 2017}}</ref> Schroder instead is running for state treasurer in the same special election runoff against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Derrick Edwards, who is [[African-American]]. The treasurer's position opened when [[John Neely Kennedy]] resigned to become the state's junior [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]. A move to draft Maness for the treasurer's race developed, but he instead ran for the legislature. Had he sought the treasurer's position, Maness would have faced among others fellow Republicans John Schroder and state Senator Neil Riser of Columbia in Caldwell Parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/ColRobManessLATreasurer/|title=Draft Col. Rob Maness for Louisiana State Treasurer|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 27, 2017}}</ref> who polled 18 percent of the ballots cast in the treasurer's race.

Maness is a candidate in the special election runoff scheduled for November 18, 2017, to fill the unexpired term of District 77 state Representative [[John Schroder]]. In the first round of voting on October 14, Maness led a four-candidate field with 3,126 votes (37 percent). He now faces the number-two candidate, Covington City Council member and fellow Republican Mark Wright, 2,125 (25 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=Election Returns|date=October 14, 2017|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/e|title=Four candidates vying for Louisiana House seat left open by John Schroder's departure|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=September 24, 2017|author=Sara Pagones|accessdate=September 28, 2017}}</ref> Schroder instead is running for state treasurer in the same special election runoff against the [[African-American]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Derrick Edwards, a lawyer confined to a wheelchair after sustaining a [[football]]. The treasurer's position opened when [[John Neely Kennedy]] resigned to become the state's junior [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]. A move to draft Maness for the treasurer's race developed, but he instead ran for the legislature. Had he sought the treasurer's position, Maness would have faced among others fellow Republicans John Schroder and state Senator Neil Riser of Columbia in Caldwell Parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/ColRobManessLATreasurer/|title=Draft Col. Rob Maness for Louisiana State Treasurer|publisher=[[Facebook]]|accessdate=May 27, 2017}}</ref> who polled 18 percent of the ballots cast in the treasurer's race.

==Biography==

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