Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 25, 2015}}</ref>
Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 25, 2015}}</ref>
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Garofalo won his third term without opposition in the nonpartisan blanket primary on October 12, 2019. On January 13, 2020, he 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 [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with the Republican defectors.
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Garofalo resides with his wife, the former Joan Seibert (born June 1960), in Meraux, a census designated place in St. Bernard Parish.
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===Garofalo joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker===
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Garofalo won his third term without opposition in the nonpartisan blanket primary on October 12, 2019. On January 13, 2020, he 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 [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two [[Independent]] legislators, and the Republican defectors.
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Garofalo resides with his wife, the former Joan Seibert (born June 1960), in Meraux, a census designated place in St. Bernard Parish.