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==Mayoral tenure==

==Mayoral tenure==

===Unionization dispute===

===Unionization dispute===

Just prior to his leaving office after twenty-eight years, the lame duck Mayor Baden, without notification of three incoming city council members, met with a representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and committed to a [[collective bargaining]] agreement between the union and city employees which he wanted formulated before he left office. Never before had Baden encouraged union activity. This time he did so during business hours at City Hall. His actions led Mayor-elect Deslatte and three new city council members, Joe Bishop (later the president of the Rapides Parish Police Jury), Carol Jeukens Cunningham, and Clarence Fields, to retain Pineville attorney Jimmy Faircloth, later known as the executive counsel to then [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], to file in the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] a petition for a [temporary restraining order to stop Baden. During legal proceedings, the city was represented by Alexandria attorney Dee D. Drell, later and current United States District Court judge for the Western District of Louisiana. Baden's attorney was Christopher J. Roy, Sr., whose son, Jacques Roy, was elected in 2006 as the mayor of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. The court ordered that Baden and the three defeated city council members, Charles O'Banion, George E. Hearn, and Lemon Coleman, Jr.,<ref>[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Lemon "Billy" Coleman, Jr. (1935-2015), an educator, was the first [[African-American]] to have served on the Pineville City Council since [[Reconstruction]].  Coleman studied at the historically black Grambling State University in Grambling in Lincoln Parish and Southern University in [[Baton Rouge]]. First elected in 1974, he unseated in a majority white district the incumbent Willie George Golemon (1899-1975), who died the following year.  Golemon's daughter, Faye Christine Thrasher (1922-1982), and her second husband, Donald L. Thrasher (1930-2009), were active in veterans activities in the [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] area.</ref> halt their efforts to unionize city employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/74276370/pineville-mayor-elect-leo-deslatte-et-al-vs-mayor-fred-baden-et-al-1998|title=

Just prior to his leaving office after twenty-eight years, the lame duck Mayor Baden, without notification of three incoming city council members, met with a representative of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and committed to a [[collective bargaining]] agreement between the union and city employees which he wanted formulated before he left office. Never before had Baden encouraged union activity. This time he did so during business hours at City Hall. His actions led Mayor-elect Deslatte and three new city council members, Joe Bishop (later the president of the Rapides Parish Police Jury), Carol Jeukens Cunningham, and Clarence Fields, to retain Pineville attorney Jimmy Faircloth, later known as the executive counsel to then [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], to file in the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] a petition for a temporary restraining order to stop Baden. During legal proceedings, the city was represented by Alexandria attorney Dee D. Drell, later and current United States District Court judge for the Western District of Louisiana. Baden's attorney was Christopher J. Roy, Sr., whose son, Jacques Roy, was elected in 2006 as the mayor of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]. The court ordered that Baden and the three defeated city council members, Charles O'Banion, George E. Hearn, and Lemon Coleman, Jr.,<ref>[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Lemon "Billy" Coleman, Jr. (1935-2015), an educator, was the first [[African-American]] to have served on the Pineville City Council since [[Reconstruction]].  Coleman studied at the historically black Grambling State University in Grambling in Lincoln Parish and Southern University in [[Baton Rouge]]. First elected in 1974, he unseated in a majority white district the incumbent Willie George Golemon (1899-1975), who died the following year.  Golemon's daughter, Faye Christine Thrasher (1922-1982), and her second husband, Donald L. Thrasher (1930-2009), were active in veterans activities in the [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] area.</ref> halt their efforts to unionize city employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/74276370/pineville-mayor-elect-leo-deslatte-et-al-vs-mayor-fred-baden-et-al-1998|title=

Pineville Mayor-elect Leo Deslatte et al vs Mayor Fred Baden et al |date=1998|publisher=scribd.com|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>

Pineville Mayor-elect Leo Deslatte et al vs Mayor Fred Baden et al |date=1998|publisher=scribd.com|accessdate=July 18, 2015}}</ref>