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==Public career==

==Public career==

Falsetta was the [[mayor]] of historic Donaldsonville,<ref name=findagrave/> which was from 1829 to 1831 was the Louisiana state capital. In 1981, as the newly elected mayor, Falsetta appointed a bond committee and worked to extend the Donaldsonville city limits to accommodate [[Sam Walton]]'s [[Wal-Mart]], which two years later opened a 45,000-square-foot store built outside the corporate limits. Several local merchants, a department store owner and a mortician-businessman, E. J. Ourso, the benefactor of the Ourso College of Business at [[Louisiana State University]], fought against the bonds for Wal-Mart construction. When Falsetta and Ourso appeared before the Louisiana Bond Commission, the two men nearly came to a physical confrontation until chairman [[B. B. "Sixty" Rayburn]] of Bogalusa, a member of the state Senate, admonished the two to "wait till you get back to Donaldsonville. The folks down there might enjoy it."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haF1pOaAxNwC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=Ralph+Falsetta&source=bl&ots=lTAZSDr_yM&sig=7Eu4bWZtydtIfh25eN0tp58sgOs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwCGoVChMIh-qomO_uxgIVxaGACh0VngsF#v=onepage&q=Ralph%20Falsetta&f=false|title=In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart Is Devouring the World|author=Bob Ortega ([[Wall Street Journal]])|publisher=Times Books|date=1998|pages=168–169|isbn=0-7494-3177-6|accessdate=July 22, 2015}}</ref>

Falsetta was the [[mayor]] of historic Donaldsonville,<ref name=findagrave/> which was from 1829 to 1831 was the Louisiana state capital. In 1981, as the newly elected mayor, Falsetta appointed a bond committee and worked to extend the Donaldsonville city limits to accommodate [[Sam Walton]]'s [[Wal-Mart]], which two years later opened a 45,000-square-foot store built outside the corporate limits. Several local merchants, a department store owner and a mortician-businessman, Eucharist Joseph "E. J." Ourso (1923-2005), the benefactor of the Ourso College of Business at [[Louisiana State University]], fought against the bonds for Wal-Mart construction. When Falsetta and Ourso appeared before the Louisiana Bond Commission, the two men nearly came to a physical confrontation until chairman [[B. B. "Sixty" Rayburn]] of Bogalusa, a member of the state Senate, admonished the two to "wait till you get back to Donaldsonville. The folks down there might enjoy it."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haF1pOaAxNwC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=Ralph+Falsetta&source=bl&ots=lTAZSDr_yM&sig=7Eu4bWZtydtIfh25eN0tp58sgOs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwCGoVChMIh-qomO_uxgIVxaGACh0VngsF#v=onepage&q=Ralph%20Falsetta&f=false|title=In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart Is Devouring the World|author=Bob Ortega ([[Wall Street Journal]])|publisher=Times Books|date=1998|pages=168–169|isbn=0-7494-3177-6|accessdate=July 22, 2015}}</ref>

Falsetta filled the year remaining in the state Senate term of [[Louis Lambert]], a Baton Rouge Democrat who was elected to the state Public Service Commission]<ref name=senate/> Lambert was also the unsuccessful Democratic [[governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in 1979.

Falsetta filled the year remaining in the state Senate term of [[Louis Lambert]], a Baton Rouge Democrat who was elected to the state Public Service Commission]<ref name=senate/> Lambert was also the unsuccessful Democratic [[governor|gubernatorial]] candidate in 1979.