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===Election as Speaker===
===Election as Speaker===
To win the Speaker's office, Schexnayder won the support of 37 Democrats and more than 20 Moderate Republicans. How the Independents in the legislature voted has not been disclosed. His opponent, [[Sherman Mack]], backed by conservatives, polled 45 votes. Mack was the choice of the Republican caucus and had been expected to win the race for Speaker. Though he is a Moderate Republican, Schexnayder said that he will support tort reform, which was blocked in the previous legislative sessions, to the consternation to conservative lawmakers.
To win the Speaker's office, Schexnayder won the support of 37 Democrats and more than 20 Moderate Republicans. How the Independents in the legislature voted has not been disclosed. His opponent, [[Sherman Mack]], backed by conservatives, polled 45 votes. Mack was the choice of the Republican caucus and had been expected to win the race for Speaker. Though he is a Moderate Republican, Schexnayder said that he will support tort reform, which was blocked in the previous legislative sessions, to the consternation to conservative lawmakers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_c49bd7fc-361c-11ea-bfcb-e37c0c069e39.html|title=Clay Schexnayder wins Louisiana House Speaker after push from Democrats|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Sam Karlin|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_c49bd7fc-361c-11ea-bfcb-e37c0c069e39.html|title=Clay Schexnayder wins Louisiana House Speaker after push from Democrats|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Sam Karlin|accessdate=January 13, 2020}}</ref>
Schexnayder's assembled coalition is similar to that in [[Texas]] from 2009 to 2019, when Moderate Republican [[Joe Straus]] of [[San Antonio]] won the Speakership based on the support of Democrats and several dozen Moderate Republicans. Stauss, a devotee of the late [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]], blocked conservatives at nearly every turn in the Texas House..
Schexnayder's assembled coalition is similar to that in [[Texas]] from 2009 to 2019, when Moderate Republican [[Joe Straus]] of [[San Antonio]] won the Speakership based on the support of Democrats and several dozen Moderate Republicans. Stauss, a devotee of the late [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Tower]], blocked conservatives at nearly every turn in the Texas House..