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==Political life==
==Political life==
Cloud finished the Senate race with 22,293 votes (63 percent) and defeated two Democratic candidate, both outgoing state representatives, Robert Allen Johnson (born 1975), an [[attorney]] from Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, and Harvey Bernard LeBas, a pharmacist from Ville Platte. Johnson received 8,370 (24 percent); LeBas, 4,646 (13 percent). There was a 52 percent turnout of registered voters.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
Cloud finished the Senate race with 22,293 votes (63 percent) and defeated two Democratic candidate, both outgoing state representatives, Robert Allen Johnson (born 1975), an [[attorney]] from Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, and Harvey Bernard LeBas, a pharmacist from Ville Platte. Johnson received 8,370 (24 percent); LeBas, 4,646 (13 percent). There was a 52 percent turnout of registered voters. Accompanying Cloud's victory was the election of a Republican businessman, [[Daryl Deshotel]], to succeed Johnson in the state House.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
From 2011 to 2019, she was a two-term [[mayor]] of [[rural]] Turkey Creek in Evangeline Parish. She was from 2011 to 2018 the president of the Evangeline Parish Tax Commission. She ran for mayor after state auditors found irregularities in the finances of the village. Though small in population, Turkey Creek owns a large utility system that furnishes water to thousands of customer sin northern Evangeline Parish. The mayor is also the director of operations and finance for the utility system. In this capacity, Mayor Cloud became experienced in dealing with the state agencies, the departments of Health and Hospitals and Environmental Quality.<ref name=aboutheather/> On February 21, 2015, Cloud was reelected mayor, 53 to 45 percent over a No Party opponent, Bert K. Campbell. Turnout in the race was 78.3 percent of registered voters.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 21, 2015.</ref>
From 2011 to 2019, she was a two-term [[mayor]] of [[rural]] Turkey Creek in Evangeline Parish. She was from 2011 to 2018 the president of the Evangeline Parish Tax Commission. She ran for mayor after state auditors found irregularities in the finances of the village. Though small in population, Turkey Creek owns a large utility system that furnishes water to thousands of customer sin northern Evangeline Parish. The mayor is also the director of operations and finance for the utility system. In this capacity, Mayor Cloud became experienced in dealing with the state agencies, the departments of Health and Hospitals and Environmental Quality.<ref name=aboutheather/> On February 21, 2015, Cloud was reelected mayor, 53 to 45 percent over a No Party opponent, Bert K. Campbell. Turnout in the race was 78.3 percent of registered voters.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, February 21, 2015.</ref>