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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Brett Frank Geymann
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br> District 35 (Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes)
|term_start=January 2004
|term_end=January 11, 2016
|preceded=[[Vic Stelly]]
|succeeded=[[Stephen Dwight]]
|birth_date=December 8, 1961
|birth_place=[[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], USA
|spouse=Kimberly Ann Geymann (married 1986)
|children=Tyler Andrew Geymann<br>
Nicholas Brett "Nick" Geymann<br>
Kathy E. Geymann
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|religion=[[Christian]]
|alma_mater=South Beauregard High School
McNeese State University}}
'''Brett Frank Geymann''' (born December 8, 1961) is a [[business]]man from his native [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party |Republican]] former state representative for District 35 in Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes.
==Background==
As a child, Geymann moved with his family to neighboring Beauregard Parish and graduated from South Beauregard High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20110413150750/http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/members.asp?ID=35|title=Representative Brett F. Geymann (Republican)|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|date=April 13, 2011|accessdate=February 2, 2020|}}</ref>
Geymann holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from McNeese State University in Lake Charles and owns a small business.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnet.congress.org/congressorg/bio/id/141522|title=Rep. Brett Geymann|publisher=dnet.congress.org|accessdate=July 7, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> He and his wife, Kimberly Ann Geymann (born 1965), married in 1986 and have three children, Tyler Andrew Geymann (born 1987), a business owner, Nicholas Brett "Nick" Geymann (born 1991), a financial advisor, and Kathy E. "Katy" Geymann (born 1994), a teacher at East Beauregard High School.<ref name=beauregard>{{cite web|url=https://www.beauregarddailynews.net/news/20190628/brett-geymann-announces-bid-for-senate-district-30|title=Brett Geymann announces bid for Senate District 30|publisher=''Beauregard Daily News''|date=June 28, 2019|accessdate=February 2, 2020}}</ref>
==Political life==
In 2003, the [[conservative]] Geymann was elected to the state House to succeed the retiring Republican-turned-[[Independent]] [[Vic Stelly]], author of the Stelly Plan, a since overturned [[sales tax]]/state income tax transfer arrangement. Geymann initially won the House seat with nearly 54 percent of the vote over two [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] challengers.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 4, 2003.</ref>
Geymann was reelected to his second full state House term in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024 |publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=February 2, 2020}}</ref> He sat on the House Appropriations and Budget committees as well as the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/35640/brett-geymann#.VWdkKc9Viko|title=Brett Geymann's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=May 28, 2015}}</ref> He also served on the Commission on Streamlining Government, headed by his then state Senate colleague [[Jack Donahue]] and including Geymann's frequent legislative ally, [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|Jim Morris]] of north Caddo Parish, a Republican-turned-[[Independent voter|Independent]], who left the legislature in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/2009/2436.pdf|title=Commission on Streamlining Government|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=July 7, 2011}}</ref>
===Legislative record===
In 2008, Geymann introduced House Resolution No. 7 to request that the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries study the issue of escaped crawfish.<ref name=crawfish>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20080405/NEWS/804050302/|title=Crawfish on the loose in Legislature|publisher=''Lafourche Parish Daily Comet''|date=April 5, 2008|accessdate=July 7, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> The accumulation of excess water often forces crawfish from the ponds where they are being cultivated into neighboring ditches. Geymann compared the problem to that of meandering livestock in drier areas. The resolution called upon the department to report to the legislature on the extent of the problem and to propose any necessary laws.<ref name=crawfish/>
In the spring of 2011, Geymann, part of the "Fiscal Hawks" contingent in the legislature, introduced House Resolution 27, a measure intended to halt the state from using one-time money, such as cash from the sale of prisons, to underwrite ongoing government operations. The practice is common in state government though long opposed by most conservatives. The change, known as the Geymann Rule, requires a two-thirds vote to pass state budget bills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/05/house_rules_change_complicates.html|author=Jan Moller|title=House rules change complicates budget picture|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 23, 2011|accessdate=July 7, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>
Geymann was rated in 2010, 2013, and 2014 as 100 percent favorable by the conservative Louisiana Family Forum; the organization scored him 88 percent in 2011. Louisiana [[Right to Life]] rated him 100 percent for each year that he was a legislator. The Louisiana Association of Educators rated him 75 and 83 percent favorable in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, founded in 1976 by [[Ed Steimel]], ranked Geymann 61 percent cumulatively in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, the National Federation of Independent Business scored him 83 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/35640/brett-geymann#.VWdfwc9Vikoidate/evaluations/93726/chris-hazel#.VWYqV_lViko|title=Brett Geymann's Ratings and Endorsements|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=February 2, 2020}}</ref>
In 2014, Geymann co-sponsored the requirement that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges near their clinics; the bill was approved by the full House, 88-5. In 2014, he did not vote on the matter of extending the time for implementation of the [[Common Core]] State Standards Initiative but subsequently emerged as the leading legislative critic of Common Core and the policies of departing state Education Superintendent [[John White]], whose Common Core stance was supported by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.<ref name=beauregard/> Geymann voted to prohibit the transportation of dogs in the beds of pick-up trucks while traveling on [[interstate highway]]s; the measure passed the House, 53-34.<ref name=voting records/>
Geymann voted against the requirement that companies must give notice when they engage in hydraulic [[fracking]]; the measure failed, 19-73. He voted against the repeal of the anti-sodomy laws; the repeal failed, 22-67. He did not vote on the issue of authorizing surrogacy contracts. He did not vote as well on the matter of reducing the penalties for the possession of [[marijuana]], which passed the House, 54-38. He did not vote on establishing lifetime concealed carry gun permits but supported concealed-carry privileges in restaurants that sell alcoholic beverages. He voted against making information about permit holders a matter of public record. In 2010, he voted to permit handguns for protection in churches. He voted in 2013 against an increase in judicial pay and opposed the removal of the mandatory retirement age for judges.<ref name=votingrecords/>
In 2012, Geymann voted to ban the use of telephones while driving; the measure passed the House, 68-29. He voted to reduce the number of hours that polling locations remain open; Louisiana has traditionally had 14-hour polling days. He voted for the requirement for drug testing of certain welfare recipients, which passed the House, 65 to 26. He opposed changes in the teacher tenure law. In 2011, Geymann voted against a permanent tax on cigarettes and supported the establishment of a commission to consider ways to remove the state income tax. He voted against the anti-[[bullying]] measure which proponents claimed would address the problem of harassment by pupils against each other in public schools; the measure failed 43-54. He did not vote on providing parole eligibility to elderly inmates.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/35640/brett-geymann#.VWdg_c9Viko
|title=Brett Geymann's Voting Records|publisher=Project Vote Smart|date=February 3, 2020}}</ref>
Geymann was term-limited and ineligible to have sought another term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on for October 24, 2015. He was succeeded by the unopposed Republican candidate, [[Stephen Dwight]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from Lake Charles who entered his second term in office in 2020.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://winwithjmc.com/archives/6832?ct=t(9_11_2015)|title=Decision 2015: The end of candidate qualifying|date=September 10, 2015|publisher=JMC Enterprises|accessdate=September 12, 2015; no longer on-line}}</ref>
===Two failed political comeback attempts===
Geymann was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat in the [[primary]] election held on November 8, 2016, in conjunction with the presidential election between [[Donald Trump]] and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]. The position was then held by Republican Charles Boustany, a retired [[Lafayette]] [[physician]], who ran instead, unsuccessfully, for the [[United States Senate]] for the seat vacated by Republican [[David Vitter]]. Geymann's principal opponents were Moderate Republican Scott Angelle, a former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from Breaux Bridge and [[Clay Higgins]], a conservative and a Crime Stoppers reporter known for his attacks on the criminal element. In the December runoff contest, Higgins handily defeated Angelle to claim the House seat and sailed to an easy reelection in 2018 despite a bevy of Democrat opponents.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 2018.</ref>
Geymann failed in a second bid for a political comeback In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. In the race for the District 30 seat in the state Senate, Republican [[Mike Reese]] polled 14,625 votes (51 percent) and won the seat outright over Geymann, who received 6,296 votes (22 percent), and a departing Democratic state Representative, James K. Armes, III, who drew 5,973 votes (21 percent). A fourth candidate, Republican Renee Hoffpauir-Klann, held the remaining 1,935 votes (7 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.
Geymann is an occasional [[radio]] [[talk show]] substitute host for the [[Lafayette]]-based [[Moon Griffon|Moon Griffon Show]].'' Griffon actively campaigned for Geymann in the 2019 state Senate election.
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Pro-Life}}
[[Category:Christians]]
|name=Brett Frank Geymann
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br> District 35 (Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes)
|term_start=January 2004
|term_end=January 11, 2016
|preceded=[[Vic Stelly]]
|succeeded=[[Stephen Dwight]]
|birth_date=December 8, 1961
|birth_place=[[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], USA
|spouse=Kimberly Ann Geymann (married 1986)
|children=Tyler Andrew Geymann<br>
Nicholas Brett "Nick" Geymann<br>
Kathy E. Geymann
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=[[Business]]man
|religion=[[Christian]]
|alma_mater=South Beauregard High School
McNeese State University}}
'''Brett Frank Geymann''' (born December 8, 1961) is a [[business]]man from his native [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party |Republican]] former state representative for District 35 in Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes.
==Background==
As a child, Geymann moved with his family to neighboring Beauregard Parish and graduated from South Beauregard High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20110413150750/http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/members.asp?ID=35|title=Representative Brett F. Geymann (Republican)|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|date=April 13, 2011|accessdate=February 2, 2020|}}</ref>
Geymann holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from McNeese State University in Lake Charles and owns a small business.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnet.congress.org/congressorg/bio/id/141522|title=Rep. Brett Geymann|publisher=dnet.congress.org|accessdate=July 7, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> He and his wife, Kimberly Ann Geymann (born 1965), married in 1986 and have three children, Tyler Andrew Geymann (born 1987), a business owner, Nicholas Brett "Nick" Geymann (born 1991), a financial advisor, and Kathy E. "Katy" Geymann (born 1994), a teacher at East Beauregard High School.<ref name=beauregard>{{cite web|url=https://www.beauregarddailynews.net/news/20190628/brett-geymann-announces-bid-for-senate-district-30|title=Brett Geymann announces bid for Senate District 30|publisher=''Beauregard Daily News''|date=June 28, 2019|accessdate=February 2, 2020}}</ref>
==Political life==
In 2003, the [[conservative]] Geymann was elected to the state House to succeed the retiring Republican-turned-[[Independent]] [[Vic Stelly]], author of the Stelly Plan, a since overturned [[sales tax]]/state income tax transfer arrangement. Geymann initially won the House seat with nearly 54 percent of the vote over two [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] challengers.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 4, 2003.</ref>
Geymann was reelected to his second full state House term in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024 |publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=February 2, 2020}}</ref> He sat on the House Appropriations and Budget committees as well as the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/35640/brett-geymann#.VWdkKc9Viko|title=Brett Geymann's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=May 28, 2015}}</ref> He also served on the Commission on Streamlining Government, headed by his then state Senate colleague [[Jack Donahue]] and including Geymann's frequent legislative ally, [[Jim Morris (Louisiana Politician)|Jim Morris]] of north Caddo Parish, a Republican-turned-[[Independent voter|Independent]], who left the legislature in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/2009/2436.pdf|title=Commission on Streamlining Government|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=July 7, 2011}}</ref>
===Legislative record===
In 2008, Geymann introduced House Resolution No. 7 to request that the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries study the issue of escaped crawfish.<ref name=crawfish>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20080405/NEWS/804050302/|title=Crawfish on the loose in Legislature|publisher=''Lafourche Parish Daily Comet''|date=April 5, 2008|accessdate=July 7, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> The accumulation of excess water often forces crawfish from the ponds where they are being cultivated into neighboring ditches. Geymann compared the problem to that of meandering livestock in drier areas. The resolution called upon the department to report to the legislature on the extent of the problem and to propose any necessary laws.<ref name=crawfish/>
In the spring of 2011, Geymann, part of the "Fiscal Hawks" contingent in the legislature, introduced House Resolution 27, a measure intended to halt the state from using one-time money, such as cash from the sale of prisons, to underwrite ongoing government operations. The practice is common in state government though long opposed by most conservatives. The change, known as the Geymann Rule, requires a two-thirds vote to pass state budget bills.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/05/house_rules_change_complicates.html|author=Jan Moller|title=House rules change complicates budget picture|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 23, 2011|accessdate=July 7, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>
Geymann was rated in 2010, 2013, and 2014 as 100 percent favorable by the conservative Louisiana Family Forum; the organization scored him 88 percent in 2011. Louisiana [[Right to Life]] rated him 100 percent for each year that he was a legislator. The Louisiana Association of Educators rated him 75 and 83 percent favorable in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, founded in 1976 by [[Ed Steimel]], ranked Geymann 61 percent cumulatively in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, the National Federation of Independent Business scored him 83 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/35640/brett-geymann#.VWdfwc9Vikoidate/evaluations/93726/chris-hazel#.VWYqV_lViko|title=Brett Geymann's Ratings and Endorsements|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=February 2, 2020}}</ref>
In 2014, Geymann co-sponsored the requirement that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges near their clinics; the bill was approved by the full House, 88-5. In 2014, he did not vote on the matter of extending the time for implementation of the [[Common Core]] State Standards Initiative but subsequently emerged as the leading legislative critic of Common Core and the policies of departing state Education Superintendent [[John White]], whose Common Core stance was supported by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.<ref name=beauregard/> Geymann voted to prohibit the transportation of dogs in the beds of pick-up trucks while traveling on [[interstate highway]]s; the measure passed the House, 53-34.<ref name=voting records/>
Geymann voted against the requirement that companies must give notice when they engage in hydraulic [[fracking]]; the measure failed, 19-73. He voted against the repeal of the anti-sodomy laws; the repeal failed, 22-67. He did not vote on the issue of authorizing surrogacy contracts. He did not vote as well on the matter of reducing the penalties for the possession of [[marijuana]], which passed the House, 54-38. He did not vote on establishing lifetime concealed carry gun permits but supported concealed-carry privileges in restaurants that sell alcoholic beverages. He voted against making information about permit holders a matter of public record. In 2010, he voted to permit handguns for protection in churches. He voted in 2013 against an increase in judicial pay and opposed the removal of the mandatory retirement age for judges.<ref name=votingrecords/>
In 2012, Geymann voted to ban the use of telephones while driving; the measure passed the House, 68-29. He voted to reduce the number of hours that polling locations remain open; Louisiana has traditionally had 14-hour polling days. He voted for the requirement for drug testing of certain welfare recipients, which passed the House, 65 to 26. He opposed changes in the teacher tenure law. In 2011, Geymann voted against a permanent tax on cigarettes and supported the establishment of a commission to consider ways to remove the state income tax. He voted against the anti-[[bullying]] measure which proponents claimed would address the problem of harassment by pupils against each other in public schools; the measure failed 43-54. He did not vote on providing parole eligibility to elderly inmates.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/35640/brett-geymann#.VWdg_c9Viko
|title=Brett Geymann's Voting Records|publisher=Project Vote Smart|date=February 3, 2020}}</ref>
Geymann was term-limited and ineligible to have sought another term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on for October 24, 2015. He was succeeded by the unopposed Republican candidate, [[Stephen Dwight]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from Lake Charles who entered his second term in office in 2020.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://winwithjmc.com/archives/6832?ct=t(9_11_2015)|title=Decision 2015: The end of candidate qualifying|date=September 10, 2015|publisher=JMC Enterprises|accessdate=September 12, 2015; no longer on-line}}</ref>
===Two failed political comeback attempts===
Geymann was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat in the [[primary]] election held on November 8, 2016, in conjunction with the presidential election between [[Donald Trump]] and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]. The position was then held by Republican Charles Boustany, a retired [[Lafayette]] [[physician]], who ran instead, unsuccessfully, for the [[United States Senate]] for the seat vacated by Republican [[David Vitter]]. Geymann's principal opponents were Moderate Republican Scott Angelle, a former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from Breaux Bridge and [[Clay Higgins]], a conservative and a Crime Stoppers reporter known for his attacks on the criminal element. In the December runoff contest, Higgins handily defeated Angelle to claim the House seat and sailed to an easy reelection in 2018 despite a bevy of Democrat opponents.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 2018.</ref>
Geymann failed in a second bid for a political comeback In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. In the race for the District 30 seat in the state Senate, Republican [[Mike Reese]] polled 14,625 votes (51 percent) and won the seat outright over Geymann, who received 6,296 votes (22 percent), and a departing Democratic state Representative, James K. Armes, III, who drew 5,973 votes (21 percent). A fourth candidate, Republican Renee Hoffpauir-Klann, held the remaining 1,935 votes (7 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.
Geymann is an occasional [[radio]] [[talk show]] substitute host for the [[Lafayette]]-based [[Moon Griffon|Moon Griffon Show]].'' Griffon actively campaigned for Geymann in the 2019 state Senate election.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Geymann, Brett}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Pro-Life}}
[[Category:Christians]]