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6 unusual facts about Page Cortez


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.

Michael J. Michot

(2) Michot worked in 2007 for the election of his former fraternity brother, Page Cortez, to the same District 43 state House seat that Michot himself held from 1996 to 2000.

Page Cortez

Boustany and LeBlanc endorsed the failed candidacy of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the American presidency.

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

In the 2007 House primary, Cortez defeated fellow Republican Patrick LeBlanc, president of the architecture firm, The LeBlanc Group, and the owner of the private-prison company LCS Corrections Services.

Stuart Bishop

He succeeded his fellow Republican, Page Cortez of Lafayette, who instead became the District 23 state senator.



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