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Senator Claitor calls himself a "constructive conservative" and "a team player with an [[Independent]] approach," and promised to work with the new senator. He invited Claitor to the governor's office to discuss upcoming legislative matters. Claitor's primary interest in the Senate has been as an advocate for LSU-related issues.<ref name=April12>{{cite web|url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/42861882.html|title=Politics for April 12, 2009|publisher=''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|accessdate=April 18, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Senator Claitor calls himself a "constructive conservative" and "a team player with an [[Independent]] approach," and promised to work with the new senator. He invited Claitor to the governor's office to discuss upcoming legislative matters. Claitor's primary interest in the Senate has been as an advocate for LSU-related issues.<ref name=April12>{{cite web|url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/42861882.html|title=Politics for April 12, 2009|publisher=''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|accessdate=April 18, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Claitor took time from his congressional race to file suit to overturn the $55,000 annual increase in retirement benefits approved by the legislature on behalf of Mike Edmonson, then the superintendent of  the Louisiana State Police and a Jindal appointee. On September 16, 2014, Judge Janice Clark of the 19th Judicial District in Baton Rouge, declared the "Edmonson Act," as it became known in the media after its passage in July 2014, unconstitutional because it impacted only two persons. The Louisiana State Police Retirement System Board offered no rebuttal to the suit Claitor filed, and the provision of the law impacting Edmonson and a second state police employee was quickly struck down by the judge. Jindal himself said he did not know that the amendment he signed was written to impact only two persons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/edmonson_act_declared_unconsti.html|title='Edmonson Act' declared unconstitutional in state court|author=Cole Avery|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=September 16, 2014|accessdate=September 17, 2014}}</ref>​

Claitor took time from his congressional race to file suit to overturn the $55,000 annual increase in retirement benefits approved by the legislature on behalf of Mike Edmonson, then the superintendent of  the Louisiana State Police and a Jindal appointee. On September 16, 2014, Judge Janice Clark of the 19th Judicial District in Baton Rouge, declared the "Edmonson Act," as it became known in the media after its passage in July 2014, unconstitutional because it impacted only two persons. The Louisiana State Police Retirement System Board offered no rebuttal to the suit Claitor filed, and the provision of the law impacting Edmonson and a second state police employee was quickly struck down by the judge. Jindal himself said he did not know that the amendment he signed was written to impact only two persons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/edmonson_act_declared_unconsti.html|title='Edmonson Act' declared unconstitutional in state court|author=Cole Avery|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=September 16, 2014|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref>​

On September 19, 2014, Claitor, Lenar Whitney, Paul Dietzel, and two other Republican congressional candidates, Garret Graves and Trey Thomas, all received the "Outstanding Family Advocate Award" from the Louisiana Family Forum.<ref>"End of Week: Victory achieves lifetime award!", Louisiana Family Forum, September 19, 2004.</ref>

On September 19, 2014, Claitor, Lenar Whitney, Paul Dietzel, and two other Republican congressional candidates, Garret Graves and Trey Thomas, all received the "Outstanding Family Advocate Award" from the Louisiana Family Forum.<ref>"End of Week: Victory achieves lifetime award!", Louisiana Family Forum, September 19, 2004.</ref>