He also voted against the Stelly Plan, a tax transfer scheme named for former Representative Vic Stelly of Calcasieu Parish.
In the campaign, some conservatives questioned Strain's legislative votes for higher taxes, including his support for the Stelly Plan (named for former State Representative Vic Stelly of Lake Charles).
Former State Representative and Louisiana Board of Regents member Vic Stelly taught and coached at Redemptorist during the early 1960s.
In recent years, recipients of Stelly's personal campaign contributions have included former State Senator Robert Barham of Oak Ridge, who ran as a Republican in 2002 for Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat, former state Senator Willie Mount, who ran unsuccessfully for Louisiana's 7th congressional district, and current Republican U.S. Representative Charles Boustany of Lafayette, who defeated Mount in 2004.
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In 2003, as his legislative career wound down, Stelly was "roasted" by the Moss Bluff Civic Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fund raiser to install a monument to former Governor Sam Houston Jones at the Jones State Park in Moss Bluff.
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