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'''Joseph A. Stagni,''' known as '''Joe Stagni''' (born December 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2514812|title=Joseph Stagni, December 1963|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> is a chiropractic [[physician]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose. | '''Joseph A. Stagni,''' known as '''Joe Stagni''' (born December 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2514812|title=Joseph Stagni, December 1963|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> is a chiropractic [[physician]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose. | ||
| − | Stagni won the District 92 seat in a special election in the spring of 2017. | + | Stagni won the District 92 seat in a special election in the spring of 2017. In a turnout of 10 percent, Stagni polled 73 percent of the ballots cast. With 2,333 votes, he defeated fellow Republican Gisela Chevalier and Democrat Chuck Toney, who finished with 13.4 percent and 13.1 percent, respectively. Toney had stopped campaigning early in the race because of "a personal family situation" that developed after the deadline to withdraw his name from the ballot.<ref name=stagnielected>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/elections/article_07b5371c-11be-11e7-be0f-cf4c2b0036ad.html|title=Ex-Kenner councilman Joe Stagni wins state House District 92 race |
|author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=''The New Orleans Advocate''|date=March 25 2017|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> | |author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=''The New Orleans Advocate''|date=March 25 2017|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.<ref name=stagnielected/> | As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.<ref name=stagnielected/> | ||
| − | In 2011, he was caught in a | + | In 2011, he was caught in a sexting scandal because he sent a photograph of himself in his underwear to a Kenner city employee with whom he was having what he admitted to have been an "inappropriate" relationship. Chevalier argued in the campaign that the scandal showed Stagni's poor judgment. Stagni, however, said that he and his wife had worked out the matter.<ref name=stagnielected/> |
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Revision as of 01:38, May 4, 2017
Joseph A. Stagni, known as Joe Stagni (born December 1963),[1] is a chiropractic physician who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose.
Stagni won the District 92 seat in a special election in the spring of 2017. In a turnout of 10 percent, Stagni polled 73 percent of the ballots cast. With 2,333 votes, he defeated fellow Republican Gisela Chevalier and Democrat Chuck Toney, who finished with 13.4 percent and 13.1 percent, respectively. Toney had stopped campaigning early in the race because of "a personal family situation" that developed after the deadline to withdraw his name from the ballot.[2]
Stagni will complete the term of Republican Tom Willmott, who resigned in November 2016 to join the Kenner City Council, the same body on which Stagni was a member from 2006 to 2014, when he was term-limited.[2]
As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after Hurricane Katrina. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.[2]
In 2011, he was caught in a sexting scandal because he sent a photograph of himself in his underwear to a Kenner city employee with whom he was having what he admitted to have been an "inappropriate" relationship. Chevalier argued in the campaign that the scandal showed Stagni's poor judgment. Stagni, however, said that he and his wife had worked out the matter.[2]
References
- ↑ Joseph Stagni, December 1963. Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved on May 3, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ramon Antonio Vargas (March 25 2017). Ex-Kenner councilman Joe Stagni wins state House District 92 race. The New Orleans Advocate. Retrieved on May 3, 2017.