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'''Raymond James Crews''' (born May 1966)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3337228|title=Raymond Crews, 71111, May 1966|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=April 19, 2018}}</ref> is a former airline [[pilot]] from [[Bossier City]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], who is the District 8 [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Bossier Parish. He has sixty Republican colleagues in the GOP-majority state House.

'''Raymond James Crews''' (born May 1966)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3337228|title=Raymond Crews, 71111, May 1966|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=April 19, 2018}}</ref> is a former airline [[pilot]] from [[Bossier City]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], who is the District 8 [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Bossier Parish.

Crews won a special runoff election held on April 29, 2017, to choose the successor to [[Mike Johnson|James Michael "Mike" Johnson]], who after less than two years in the state legislature was elected in 2016 to fill Louisiana's 4th congressional district vacated by [[John Fleming]], an unsuccessful candidate for the [[United States Senate]]. Crews defeated fellow Republican Robert Hal "Robbie" Gatti, Jr. (born March 1970), the brother of Louisiana state Senator [[Ryan Gatti]], a Bossier City lawyer who is a confidant of [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor [[John Bel Edwards]]. In a 21 percent turnout of fewer than 6,000 voters of a qualified electorate of nearly 29,000, Crews polled 3,845 votes (64 percent) to Gatti's 2,150 (36 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical |title=Election Results|date=April 29, 2017|publisher= Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 2, 2017}}</ref>

Crews won a special runoff election held on April 29, 2017, to choose the successor to [[Mike Johnson|James Michael "Mike" Johnson]], who after less than two years in the state legislature was elected in 2016 to fill Louisiana's 4th congressional district vacated by [[John Fleming]], an unsuccessful candidate for the [[United States Senate]]. Crews defeated fellow Republican Robert Hal "Robbie" Gatti, Jr. (born March 1970), the brother of Louisiana state Senator [[Ryan Gatti]], a Bossier City lawyer who is a confidant of [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor [[John Bel Edwards]]. In a 21 percent turnout of fewer than 6,000 voters of a qualified electorate of nearly 29,000, Crews polled 3,845 votes (64 percent) to Gatti's 2,150 (36 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical |title=Election Results|date=April 29, 2017|publisher= Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 2, 2017}}</ref>