Block, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect, rollback
57,799
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Created page with "{{Infobox officeholder | name=Timothy Patrick "Timmy" Teepell | office=Chief of Staff to Governor Bobby Jindal | term_start=2008 | term_end=2011 | prece..."
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Timothy Patrick "Timmy" Teepell
| office=Chief of Staff to [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]]
| term_start=2008
| term_end=2011
| preceded2=Andy Kopplin (under [[Kathleen Babineaux Blanco]])
| succeeded2=Stephen Waguespack
| occupation=Political consultant
| birth_date=February 15, 1975
| birth_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], USA
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=[[Homeschooling|Homeschooled]] in Baton Rouge
| spouse=Sarah Lynn Parker Teepell
| children=Two sons and four daughters<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Thomas Francis, Sr., and Brenda McArthur Teepell
| residence=Baton Rouge, Louisiana<br>
Alexandria, [[Virginia]]}}
'''Timothy Patrick Teepell''', known as '''Timmy Teepell''' (born February 15, 1975), is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] political consultan] from [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who was chief of staff to former [[Governor]] Bobby Jindal]] during most of Jindal's first term in office. Since 2011, Teepell has operated the firm OnMessage, Inc., based in suburban [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=jindalhires>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-hires-relatives-of-former-chief-of-staff/|title=Jindal hires relatives of former chief of staff|date=November 28, 2011|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> Teepell was known in Jindil's first term as the governor's "alter ego".<ref name=jimbrown>{{cite web|url=http://www.wjbo.com/pages/jimbrown.html?article=11318065|author=[[James H. "Jim" Brown]]|title=Will Landrieu And Jindal Face Off in Senate Race?|date=May 23, 2013|publisher=wjbo.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
==Background==
Teepell is the second of four sons of Thomas Francis "Tommy" Teepell, Sr. (born 1951), the chief operating officer of the Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Company, and the former Brenda McArthur (also born 1951). After the eighth or tenth grade (sources vary),<ref name=meettteepell/> Teepell was [[Homeschooling|homeschooled]] His mother became an unofficial [[Lobbying|lobbyist]] for the homeschooling movement and spent considerable time at the state Capitol promoting her cause. Young Teepell had an interest in [[basketball]] and the [[Louisiana State University]] great [[Pete Maravich]].<ref name=notp/> Teepell obtained his General Educational Development]diploma and did not attend college. Instead he went directly to Washington, D. C., to work for Republican candidates, to promote [[conservative]] causes, to engage in fundraising, and to join the staff of the [[Republican National Committee]], all activities which turned into his full-time career as a political consultant.<ref name=chustmyre>{{cite web|url=http://www.225batonrouge.com/article/20071231/225BATONROUGE01/312289962|title=Chuck Hustmyre, "Timmy Teepell," December 31, 2007|publisher=225batonrouge.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
Teeple is married to the former Sarah Lynn Parker of [[Virginia]]. He has twin sons, Thomas and William, and four daughters, all named for U.S. states, Virginia, Georgia, Montana, and Tennessee.<ref name=meettteepell>{{cite web|url=http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=7623302|title=Meet Governor Jindal's Chief of Staff: Timmy Teepell, January 14, 2008|publisher=[[WAFB-TV]]|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
==Political life==
At the age of eighteen, his first job in 1993 was as an aide to [[Michael Farris]] in Purcellville in northern Virginia, a Republican who organized the [[Home School Legal Defense Association]] and Patrick Henry College. Farris ran unsuccessfully that same year for lieutenant governor, when such [[Moderate Republicans]] as then [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Warner]] refused to support him because of his conservative views. By his early twenties, Teepell had taken charge of the Madison Project, a [[political action committee]] founded by Farris that raised funds for [[Christian]] conservative candidates nationwide. He also worked in certain Virginia legislative campaigns, but the state turned heavily [[Democratic Party|Democrat]].<ref name=notp>{{cite web|url=http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/competitive_spirit_drives_jind.html|author=Stephanie Stokes|title=Competitive spirit drives Jindal's top gun|date=October 28, 2007|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
Regarding his lack of formal education, Teepell said that he fell into political organization mostly by accident:
<blockquote>
I learned a lot in the work world that I wouldn’t have learned as a [[political science]] major [including the [[work ethic]] from his parents] When [one doesn't] have a college education, [he] can't afford to fail at any job. I realized I had to work twice as hard as anyone else to be successful. ...<ref name=chustmyre/></blockquote>
Regarding his perseverance in campaigning, Teepell said in second person:
<blockquote>
It's not rocket science. To win a campaign you have to get a lot of people engaged in supporting you. Not just voters, but when you have somebody who's willing to go door-to-door in their own neighborhood telling their neighbors, asking people to vote for you. That's powerful. ... There are relationships you build in Louisiana where people put aside their partisanship and see people for who they are and build those relationships. That's something that being in D. . I always missed about Louisiana, and it's one of the reasons I wanted to come back.<ref name=notp/></blockquote>
===Managing the Jindal campaigns==
In 2003, Teepell began advising Jindal to continue in active politics after the latter's defeat in the governor's race that year by the Democrat [[Kathleen Blanco]]. He managed Jindal's election in 2004 to Louisiana's 1st congressional district for the seat vacated by [[David Vitter]], who instead became in 2005 his state's first elected Republican U.S. Senator since [[Reconstruction]]. In 2007, Teepell managed Jindal's successful gubernatorial race against the Democrats Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., and Walter Boasso, and several other opponents. He then joined Jindal as chief of staff in the first term<ref name=jindalhires/>at a salary of $165,000 annually.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisianavoice.com/2012/07/06/4995/|author=Tom Aswell|title=Timmy Teepell neglected to close out his state email account when he left the governor's office 11 months ago–or did he?|date=July 6, 2012|publisher=louisianavoice.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> The Jindal-Teepell relationship seemed unusual with Jindal being a [[Rhodes Scholar]] and Teepell having a GED.<ref name=meettteepell/>
In 2010, Teepell took a three-month leave of absence to work nationally in campaigns for the Republican Governors Association, of which Jindal became the chairman two years later. Jindal's executive counsel and later Teepeol's successor as chief of staff, Stephen Waguespack, subsequently the executive director of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, was the acting chief of staff while Teepell was away.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-chief-of-staff-back-after-gop-campaign-work/|title=Jindal chief of staff back after GOP campaign work|date=November 8, 2010|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
In 2012, Teepell, along with [[John White]], Jindal's appointee as Louisiana education superintendent who left the position in 2020, and Chas Roemer, a son of former Governor [[Buddy Roemer]] and the then president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, became involved in the promotion of Jindal's educational reform package<ref name=edanderson/> of expanded [[charter school]]s, [[education vouchers]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bobby-jindal-war-with-feds-over-school-vouchers-still-on-97281.html|title=Bobby Jindal: War with feds over school vouchers still on|date=September 24, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> and enhanced teacher evaluations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/bobby-jindal-is-governing-like-its-2016-87736_Page2.html|title=Bobby Jindal is governing like it's 2016, February 17, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
In 2011, Jindal hired one of Teepell's younger brothers, Taylor Teepell, as the governor's deputy for legislative affairs and thereafter as deputy chief of staff under Stephen Waguespack.<ref name=govstatela>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=3691|title=Governor Jindal Announces New Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Affairs Director, Intergovernmental Affairs Director|date=October 12, 2012|publisher=gov.state.la.us|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> Taylor Teepell was the director of the Louisiana Republican Party's Victory Fund in 2011 and is a former advisor to the former chairman of the Republican National Committee [[Haley Barbour]], also a former governor of [[Mississippi]].<ref name=govstatela/>
In 2011, Jindal named Matt Parker (born 1984), formerly of Virginia, and Teepell's borther-in-law as his intergovernmental affairs director and then in 2012 assigned Parker as the legislative affairs director.<ref name=govstatela/> Parker had been Jindal's 2011 campaign manager when the governor, with more than $9 million in campaign funds at his disposal,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-fundraising-report-to-show-9-2m-on-hand/|title=Jindal fundraising report to show $9.2M on hand, February 15, 2011|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] against a large field of otherwise politically unknown candidates.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Governor), October 22, 2011.</ref> In 2010, Parker had worked on the gubernatorial campaign of [[Rick Scott]] of[[ Florida]], who became the junior U.S. Senator in 2019.<ref name=jindalhires/>
In 2012, Timmy Teepell worked in the campaign of Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]], then of Louisiana's Baton Rouge-based 6th congressional district who in 2014 unseated Democrat U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kpel965.com/tags/timmy-teepell/|author=Brandon Comeaux|title=Rep. Cassidy Hires Jindal's Top Campaign Strategist for Reelection Effort|date=February 15, 2012|publisher=KPEL (AM) ([[Lafayette]])|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>In the spring of 2013, Teepeel abruptly departed the Cassidy campaign as Cassidy prepared to challenge Landrieu's bid for a fourth term.<ref name=jimbrown/>
Early in 2012, Teepell, with OnMessage Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia, correctly forecast before the Press Club of Baton Rouge that [[U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] would defeat the Republican choice, [[Mitt Romney]], a Moderate Republican former governor of [[Massachusetts]] and a current U.S. Senator from [[Utah]], by two or three percentage points but that there would be [[divided government]] with the Republican majority maintained in the U.S. House and possibly a GOP pickup of the U.S. Senate, which did not materialize.<ref name=edanderson>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/president_obamas_re-election_l.html|author=Ed Anderson|title=President Obama's re-election likely, Gov. Jindal's former aide says|date= January 31, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
In 2013, Teepell and OnMessage, Inc., worked in the campaign of state Senator (now state Representative) [[Neil Riser]] of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, in Louisiana's 5th congressional district [[special election]] to fill the seat vacated by [[Rodney Alexander]], who left Congress to join the Jindal administration as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/6863564-125/riser-claims-fec-mistaken|title=Riser claims FEC mistaken|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 14, 2013|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>On November 16, 2013, Riser was handily defeated in a runoff election with fellow Republican [[Vance McAllister]], a businessman in Ouachita Parish who previously unknown politically. According to the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]] in Baton Rouge, McAllister defeated Riser, Teepell's candidate, 54,449 (59.7 percent) to 36,837 (40.3 percent), with all 981 precincts reporting.<ref name=novreturns>{Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2013.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Teepell, Timmy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:District of Columbia]]
[[Category:Activists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Christians]]
| name=Timothy Patrick "Timmy" Teepell
| office=Chief of Staff to [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]]
| term_start=2008
| term_end=2011
| preceded2=Andy Kopplin (under [[Kathleen Babineaux Blanco]])
| succeeded2=Stephen Waguespack
| occupation=Political consultant
| birth_date=February 15, 1975
| birth_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], USA
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=[[Homeschooling|Homeschooled]] in Baton Rouge
| spouse=Sarah Lynn Parker Teepell
| children=Two sons and four daughters<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Thomas Francis, Sr., and Brenda McArthur Teepell
| residence=Baton Rouge, Louisiana<br>
Alexandria, [[Virginia]]}}
'''Timothy Patrick Teepell''', known as '''Timmy Teepell''' (born February 15, 1975), is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] political consultan] from [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who was chief of staff to former [[Governor]] Bobby Jindal]] during most of Jindal's first term in office. Since 2011, Teepell has operated the firm OnMessage, Inc., based in suburban [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=jindalhires>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-hires-relatives-of-former-chief-of-staff/|title=Jindal hires relatives of former chief of staff|date=November 28, 2011|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> Teepell was known in Jindil's first term as the governor's "alter ego".<ref name=jimbrown>{{cite web|url=http://www.wjbo.com/pages/jimbrown.html?article=11318065|author=[[James H. "Jim" Brown]]|title=Will Landrieu And Jindal Face Off in Senate Race?|date=May 23, 2013|publisher=wjbo.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
==Background==
Teepell is the second of four sons of Thomas Francis "Tommy" Teepell, Sr. (born 1951), the chief operating officer of the Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Company, and the former Brenda McArthur (also born 1951). After the eighth or tenth grade (sources vary),<ref name=meettteepell/> Teepell was [[Homeschooling|homeschooled]] His mother became an unofficial [[Lobbying|lobbyist]] for the homeschooling movement and spent considerable time at the state Capitol promoting her cause. Young Teepell had an interest in [[basketball]] and the [[Louisiana State University]] great [[Pete Maravich]].<ref name=notp/> Teepell obtained his General Educational Development]diploma and did not attend college. Instead he went directly to Washington, D. C., to work for Republican candidates, to promote [[conservative]] causes, to engage in fundraising, and to join the staff of the [[Republican National Committee]], all activities which turned into his full-time career as a political consultant.<ref name=chustmyre>{{cite web|url=http://www.225batonrouge.com/article/20071231/225BATONROUGE01/312289962|title=Chuck Hustmyre, "Timmy Teepell," December 31, 2007|publisher=225batonrouge.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
Teeple is married to the former Sarah Lynn Parker of [[Virginia]]. He has twin sons, Thomas and William, and four daughters, all named for U.S. states, Virginia, Georgia, Montana, and Tennessee.<ref name=meettteepell>{{cite web|url=http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=7623302|title=Meet Governor Jindal's Chief of Staff: Timmy Teepell, January 14, 2008|publisher=[[WAFB-TV]]|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
==Political life==
At the age of eighteen, his first job in 1993 was as an aide to [[Michael Farris]] in Purcellville in northern Virginia, a Republican who organized the [[Home School Legal Defense Association]] and Patrick Henry College. Farris ran unsuccessfully that same year for lieutenant governor, when such [[Moderate Republicans]] as then [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Warner]] refused to support him because of his conservative views. By his early twenties, Teepell had taken charge of the Madison Project, a [[political action committee]] founded by Farris that raised funds for [[Christian]] conservative candidates nationwide. He also worked in certain Virginia legislative campaigns, but the state turned heavily [[Democratic Party|Democrat]].<ref name=notp>{{cite web|url=http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/competitive_spirit_drives_jind.html|author=Stephanie Stokes|title=Competitive spirit drives Jindal's top gun|date=October 28, 2007|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
Regarding his lack of formal education, Teepell said that he fell into political organization mostly by accident:
<blockquote>
I learned a lot in the work world that I wouldn’t have learned as a [[political science]] major [including the [[work ethic]] from his parents] When [one doesn't] have a college education, [he] can't afford to fail at any job. I realized I had to work twice as hard as anyone else to be successful. ...<ref name=chustmyre/></blockquote>
Regarding his perseverance in campaigning, Teepell said in second person:
<blockquote>
It's not rocket science. To win a campaign you have to get a lot of people engaged in supporting you. Not just voters, but when you have somebody who's willing to go door-to-door in their own neighborhood telling their neighbors, asking people to vote for you. That's powerful. ... There are relationships you build in Louisiana where people put aside their partisanship and see people for who they are and build those relationships. That's something that being in D. . I always missed about Louisiana, and it's one of the reasons I wanted to come back.<ref name=notp/></blockquote>
===Managing the Jindal campaigns==
In 2003, Teepell began advising Jindal to continue in active politics after the latter's defeat in the governor's race that year by the Democrat [[Kathleen Blanco]]. He managed Jindal's election in 2004 to Louisiana's 1st congressional district for the seat vacated by [[David Vitter]], who instead became in 2005 his state's first elected Republican U.S. Senator since [[Reconstruction]]. In 2007, Teepell managed Jindal's successful gubernatorial race against the Democrats Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., and Walter Boasso, and several other opponents. He then joined Jindal as chief of staff in the first term<ref name=jindalhires/>at a salary of $165,000 annually.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisianavoice.com/2012/07/06/4995/|author=Tom Aswell|title=Timmy Teepell neglected to close out his state email account when he left the governor's office 11 months ago–or did he?|date=July 6, 2012|publisher=louisianavoice.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> The Jindal-Teepell relationship seemed unusual with Jindal being a [[Rhodes Scholar]] and Teepell having a GED.<ref name=meettteepell/>
In 2010, Teepell took a three-month leave of absence to work nationally in campaigns for the Republican Governors Association, of which Jindal became the chairman two years later. Jindal's executive counsel and later Teepeol's successor as chief of staff, Stephen Waguespack, subsequently the executive director of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, was the acting chief of staff while Teepell was away.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-chief-of-staff-back-after-gop-campaign-work/|title=Jindal chief of staff back after GOP campaign work|date=November 8, 2010|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
In 2012, Teepell, along with [[John White]], Jindal's appointee as Louisiana education superintendent who left the position in 2020, and Chas Roemer, a son of former Governor [[Buddy Roemer]] and the then president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, became involved in the promotion of Jindal's educational reform package<ref name=edanderson/> of expanded [[charter school]]s, [[education vouchers]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bobby-jindal-war-with-feds-over-school-vouchers-still-on-97281.html|title=Bobby Jindal: War with feds over school vouchers still on|date=September 24, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> and enhanced teacher evaluations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/bobby-jindal-is-governing-like-its-2016-87736_Page2.html|title=Bobby Jindal is governing like it's 2016, February 17, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
In 2011, Jindal hired one of Teepell's younger brothers, Taylor Teepell, as the governor's deputy for legislative affairs and thereafter as deputy chief of staff under Stephen Waguespack.<ref name=govstatela>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=3691|title=Governor Jindal Announces New Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Affairs Director, Intergovernmental Affairs Director|date=October 12, 2012|publisher=gov.state.la.us|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> Taylor Teepell was the director of the Louisiana Republican Party's Victory Fund in 2011 and is a former advisor to the former chairman of the Republican National Committee [[Haley Barbour]], also a former governor of [[Mississippi]].<ref name=govstatela/>
In 2011, Jindal named Matt Parker (born 1984), formerly of Virginia, and Teepell's borther-in-law as his intergovernmental affairs director and then in 2012 assigned Parker as the legislative affairs director.<ref name=govstatela/> Parker had been Jindal's 2011 campaign manager when the governor, with more than $9 million in campaign funds at his disposal,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-fundraising-report-to-show-9-2m-on-hand/|title=Jindal fundraising report to show $9.2M on hand, February 15, 2011|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] against a large field of otherwise politically unknown candidates.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Governor), October 22, 2011.</ref> In 2010, Parker had worked on the gubernatorial campaign of [[Rick Scott]] of[[ Florida]], who became the junior U.S. Senator in 2019.<ref name=jindalhires/>
In 2012, Timmy Teepell worked in the campaign of Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]], then of Louisiana's Baton Rouge-based 6th congressional district who in 2014 unseated Democrat U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kpel965.com/tags/timmy-teepell/|author=Brandon Comeaux|title=Rep. Cassidy Hires Jindal's Top Campaign Strategist for Reelection Effort|date=February 15, 2012|publisher=KPEL (AM) ([[Lafayette]])|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>In the spring of 2013, Teepeel abruptly departed the Cassidy campaign as Cassidy prepared to challenge Landrieu's bid for a fourth term.<ref name=jimbrown/>
Early in 2012, Teepell, with OnMessage Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia, correctly forecast before the Press Club of Baton Rouge that [[U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] would defeat the Republican choice, [[Mitt Romney]], a Moderate Republican former governor of [[Massachusetts]] and a current U.S. Senator from [[Utah]], by two or three percentage points but that there would be [[divided government]] with the Republican majority maintained in the U.S. House and possibly a GOP pickup of the U.S. Senate, which did not materialize.<ref name=edanderson>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/president_obamas_re-election_l.html|author=Ed Anderson|title=President Obama's re-election likely, Gov. Jindal's former aide says|date= January 31, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>
In 2013, Teepell and OnMessage, Inc., worked in the campaign of state Senator (now state Representative) [[Neil Riser]] of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, in Louisiana's 5th congressional district [[special election]] to fill the seat vacated by [[Rodney Alexander]], who left Congress to join the Jindal administration as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/6863564-125/riser-claims-fec-mistaken|title=Riser claims FEC mistaken|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 14, 2013|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>On November 16, 2013, Riser was handily defeated in a runoff election with fellow Republican [[Vance McAllister]], a businessman in Ouachita Parish who previously unknown politically. According to the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]] in Baton Rouge, McAllister defeated Riser, Teepell's candidate, 54,449 (59.7 percent) to 36,837 (40.3 percent), with all 981 precincts reporting.<ref name=novreturns>{Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2013.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Teepell, Timmy}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Virginia]]
[[Category:District of Columbia]]
[[Category:Activists]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Christians]]