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In the [[primary]] election held on October 24, 2015, Horton handily defeated a single opponent, fellow Republican Mike McHalffey (born March 1959) of the parish seat of Benton, 4,584 votes (63.8 percent) to 2,602 (36.2 percent), for the right to succeed Burns.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2015.</ref> She was relected without opposition from either party in the primary held on October 12, 2019.

In the [[primary]] election held on October 24, 2015, Horton handily defeated a single opponent, fellow Republican Mike McHalffey (born March 1959) of the parish seat of Benton, 4,584 votes (63.8 percent) to 2,602 (36.2 percent), for the right to succeed Burns.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2015.</ref> She was relected without opposition from either party in the primary held on October 12, 2019.

On June 8, 2017, Democratic [[African-American]] state Senator Karen Carter Peterson of [[New Orleans]], who was also from 2012 to 2020 the state chairman of the Louisiana Democrat Party, hurled an obscenity at Representative Horton after Horton asked a group of senators present on the House floor to stop talking so that the budget proceedings being considered could start.<ref>{{cite web|title=Civility takes backseat: 'Sit down and shut up'|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2017/06/12/shut-up/388758001/|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star''|date=June 12, 2017|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref> Peterson later apologized for her verbal attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/louisiana-senator-tells-dodie-horton-of-haughton-to-shut-the-f-up/|title=Louisiana Senator Tells Dodie Horton of Haughton to ...|publisher=KEEL [[Radio]]|date=June 9, 2017|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref>

On June 8, 2017, Democratic [[African-American]] state Senator Karen Carter Peterson of [[New Orleans]], who was also from 2012 to 2020 the state chairman of the Louisiana Democrat Party, hurled an obscenity at Representative Horton after Horton asked a group of senators present on the House floor to stop talking so that the budget proceedings being considered could start.<ref>{{cite web|title=Civility takes backseat: 'Sit down and shut up'|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2017/06/12/shut-up/388758001/|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=June 12, 2017|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref> Peterson later apologized for her verbal attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/louisiana-senator-tells-dodie-horton-of-haughton-to-shut-the-f-up/|title=Louisiana Senator Tells Dodie Horton of Haughton to ...|publisher=KEEL [[Radio]]|date=June 9, 2017|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref>

Representative Horton is strongly opposed to tax increases. In May 2019, the state House voted to roll back a sales tax hike of 0.45 percent that was scheduled to expire in 2025, but Hortman said that she is pessimistic about the tax ever being reduced because so many Republicans in the state Senate are not conservatives. "Not all Republicans are equal," she said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://710keel.com/dodie-horton-on-tax-cuts-not-all-republicans-are-equal-video/|title=Dodie Horton on Tax Cuts: Not all Republicans are equal|author=Robert J. Wright|publisher=KEEL Radio|date=May 24, 2019|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref> Louisiana  has a large contingent of white Moderate Republicans and African-American Democrats who are allied in support of Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards and are hostile to many conservative bills. There are twenty-three House members called by their critics as  the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], whose members elected the moderate [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish as the House Speaker in 2020, while conservative Republicans backed [[Sherman Mack]] of Livingston Parish east of [[Baton Rouge]].

Representative Horton is strongly opposed to tax increases. In May 2019, the state House voted to roll back a sales tax hike of 0.45 percent that was scheduled to expire in 2025, but Hortman said that she is pessimistic about the tax ever being reduced because so many Republicans in the state Senate are not conservatives. "Not all Republicans are equal," she said.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://710keel.com/dodie-horton-on-tax-cuts-not-all-republicans-are-equal-video/|title=Dodie Horton on Tax Cuts: Not all Republicans are equal|author=Robert J. Wright|publisher=KEEL Radio|date=May 24, 2019|accessdate=March 20, 2022}}</ref> Louisiana  has a large contingent of white Moderate Republicans and African-American Democrats who are allied in support of Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards and are hostile to many conservative bills. There are twenty-three House members called by their critics as  the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], whose members elected the moderate [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish as the House Speaker in 2020, while conservative Republicans backed [[Sherman Mack]] of Livingston Parish east of [[Baton Rouge]].