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==Political life==
==Political life==
Even before it was clear that Bishop would run unopposed for the House seat, the candidate drew the endorsement of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, a statewide trade association founded by the late [[Ed Steimel]].
Even before it was clear that Bishop would run unopposed for the House seat, the candidate drew the endorsement of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, a statewide trade association founded by the late [[Ed Steimel]]. Bishop also held the support of the [[Tea Party movement]], which endorsed his candidacy based on Bishop's stated belief in smaller government and willingness to reduce regulations that hamper business growth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402131152/http://www.teapartyoflafayette.com/dotnetnuke/Portals/0/JDwyer/Stuart%20Bishop1%20(2).pdf#||title=The TEA Party of Lafayette endorses Mr. Stuart Bishop for District 43 State Representative|publisher=Teapartyoflafayette.com|date=August 28, 2011|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref>
Bishop also held the support of the [[Tea Party movement]], which endorsed his candidacy based on Bishop's stated belief in smaller government and the desire to reduce regulations that hamper business growth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402131152/http://www.teapartyoflafayette.com/dotnetnuke/Portals/0/JDwyer/Stuart%20Bishop1%20(2).pdf#||title=The TEA Party of Lafayette endorses Mr. Stuart Bishop for District 43 State Representative; revised title=Stuart Bishop: Your State Representative|publisher=Teapartyoflafayette.com|accessdate=September 16, 2011}}</ref>
As he took his legislative seat in the second term of Republican [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], Bishop declared that the state is moving in the right direction: "I believe that business is obviously the backbone of everything, and I'm going to be a pro-business politician by all means." Bishop is a member of the Concrete and Aggregate Association of Louisiana, the National Redi-Mix Concrete Association, Downtown Lafayette Unlimited, and the Lafayette Education Foundation.<ref name=indcom/>
As he took his legislative seat in the second term of Republican [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]], Bishop declared that the state is moving in the right direction: "I believe that business is obviously the backbone of everything, and I'm going to be a pro-business politician by all means." Bishop is a member of the Concrete and Aggregate Association of Louisiana, the National Redi-Mix Concrete Association, Downtown Lafayette Unlimited, and the Lafayette Education Foundation.<ref name=indcom/>
===Anti-littering campaign===
===Anti-littering campaign===
In April 2017, the House Education Committee approved legislation introduced by Representative Bishop, to require public schools to add litter prevention and awareness instruction for pupils in [[kindergarten]] to the fifth grade. "I grew up on Bayou Teche, and it's filthy; I live half a mile from the Vermilion River, and it's filthy. It's a travesty what we are doing to our state. I'm tired of seeing cans and bottles floating down our bayous," Bishop said in plugging for his bill.<ref name=litterlaw/> A few weeks earlier, then state parks director Robert Jocelyn Barham, a former state senator from Morehouse Parish, in testimony before a House committee echoed Bishop's stance. Barham termed Louisiana "the trashiest state in the nation. We should hang our heads in shame when [[Arkansas]] and [[Mississippi]] are cleaner than Louisiana."<ref name=litterlaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2017/04/28/trashiest-state-lawmaker-believes-kids-can-change-las-litter-culture/101018884/|title=Trashiest state? Lawmaker believes kids can change La.'s litter culture|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=April 28, 2017|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref>
In April 2017, the House Education Committee approved legislation introduced by Representative Bishop, to require public schools to add litter prevention and awareness instruction for pupils in [[kindergarten]] to the fifth grade. "I grew up on Bayou Teche, and it's filthy; I live half a mile from the Vermilion River, and it's filthy. It's a travesty what we are doing to our state. I'm tired of seeing cans and bottles floating down our bayous," Bishop said in plugging for his bill.<ref name=litterlaw/> A few weeks earlier, then state parks director Robert Jocelyn Barham, a former state senator from Morehouse Parish, in testimony before a House committee echoed Bishop's stance. Barham termed Louisiana "the trashiest state in the nation. We should hang our heads in shame when [[Arkansas]] and [[Mississippi]] are cleaner than Louisiana."<ref name=litterlaw>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2017/04/28/trashiest-state-lawmaker-believes-kids-can-change-las-litter-culture/101018884/|title=Trashiest state? Lawmaker believes kids can change La.'s litter culture|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|date=April 28, 2017|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref>
===Fistfight with colleague===
===Fistfight with colleague===