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3 unusual facts about Ernie Alexander


Ernie Alexander

Even before Alexander announced his retirement, his successor, fellow Republican Patrick Page Cortez had already entered the race in the heavily Republican district.

He held membership in the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the National Federation of Independent Business, Better Business Bureau of Acadiana, and the Public Affairs Research Council, a nonpartisan "good government" interest group.

That year, Alexander joined more than thirty legislative colleagues in endorsing the unsuccessful gubernatorial candidacy of former House Speaker Hunt Downer of Houma, the seat of Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana.



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Page Cortez

Ernie Alexander and U.S. Representative Charles Boustany, M.D., also of Lafayette, endorsed LeBlanc.