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From 1993 to 2000, Heine was the first parish manager for West Feliciana Parish in St. Francisville, north of Baton Rouge.<ref name=legis/><ref name=demco>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918194952/http://demco.org/keepingyoupluggedin/pressreleases/?fuseaction=detail&id=365|title="Hope and Faith: Kathy Heine Overfield's music is an inspiration to all"|date=January 5, 2009|publisher=Demco.org|accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref>​

From 1993 to 2000, Heine was the first parish manager for West Feliciana Parish in St. Francisville, north of Baton Rouge.<ref name=legis/><ref name=demco>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918194952/http://demco.org/keepingyoupluggedin/pressreleases/?fuseaction=detail&id=365|title="Hope and Faith: Kathy Heine Overfield's music is an inspiration to all"|date=January 5, 2009|publisher=Demco.org|accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref>​

Heine ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in the 1971 Democratic closed [[primary]], the last of its kind held in the state prior to adoption of the nonpartisan blanket primary. The eventual winner was former New Orleans City Council member James  E. Fitzmorris, Jr. In 1973, Heine was elected in a nonpartisan race as a delegate from East Baton Rouge Parish to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, which drafted the current charter approved by voters statewide in 1974.<ref name=legis/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kathyskeyboards.com/noteables.htm |title=Constitution drafters meet, reminisce 33 years later |publisher=''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'' |accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref>​

Heine ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in the 1971 Democratic closed [[primary]], the last of its kind held in the state prior to adoption of the nonpartisan blanket primary in 1975. The eventual winner was former New Orleans City Council member [[Jimmy Fitzmorris|James  E. Fitzmorris, Jr.]] In 1973, Heine was elected in a nonpartisan race as a delegate from East Baton Rouge Parish to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, which drafted the current charter approved by voters statewide in 1974.<ref name=legis/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kathyskeyboards.com/noteables.htm |title=Constitution drafters meet, reminisce 33 years later |publisher=''Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'' |accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref>​

In 1991, Heine forced Mike Cross, his first successor as mayor of Baker, into a [[general election]] runoff for Cross' Senate seat. Cross led with 19,650 votes (45 percent) to Heine's 13,808 (31.8 percent). Two other Democratic candidates shared the remaining 23 percent of the ballots cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical​

In 1991, Heine forced Mike Cross, his first successor as mayor of Baker, into a [[general election]] runoff for Cross' Senate seat. Cross led with 19,650 votes (45 percent) to Heine's 13,808 (31.8 percent). Two other Democratic candidates shared the remaining 23 percent of the ballots cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical​