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===Mincey joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker===

===Mincey joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker===

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On January 13, 2020, Mincey was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two [[Independents]], and the Republican defectors. Statewide [[radio]] commentator [[Moon Griffon]] coined the term "Fraud Squad" for the twenty-three dissidents nominally in the Republican Party.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref> In choosing Schexnayder, Mincey voted against his Livingston Parish colleague, the more conservative [[Sherman Mack]] of Albany, Louisiana.

On January 13, 2020, Mincey was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two [[Independents]], and the Republican defectors. Statewide [[radio]] commentator [[Moon Griffon]] coined the term "Fraud Squad" for the twenty-three dissidents nominally in the Republican Party.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref> In choosing Schexnayder, Mincey voted against his Livingston Parish colleague, the more conservative [[Sherman Mack]] of Albany, Louisiana.

 

On October 14, 2023, Mincey challenged a fellow Republican, the conservative state Representative Valarie Hodges, for the District 13 seat in the state Senate vacated by the Moderate Republican [[J. Rogers Pope]].  

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