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Revision as of 21:57, November 22, 2015
Ryan Eugene Gatti (born June 1974)[1] is an attorney from Bossier City, Louisiana, who is an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 36, which encompasses Bossier, Webster, Bienville, and Claiborne parishes. On January 11, 2016, he succeeds fellow Republican Robert Roy Adley, who was term-limited after thirteen years in office.
Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican Henry Burns, a retired military officer, the owner of a cookie shop in Bossier City, and an outgoing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, originally from Shongaloo in Webster Parish. Gatti polled 14,023 votes (50.6 percent) to Burns' 13,698 (49.4 percent).[2]
In his campaign, Gatti ran as a strong intraparty critic of term-limited and failed presidential candidate Governor Bobby Jindal. He is also a close friend of incoming Democratic Party (Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards, whom he met at the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.
References
- ↑ Ryan Gatti, June 1974. Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved on November 22, 2015.
- ↑ Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015. Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved on November 22, 2015.
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