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The Tap: Friday, July 22, 2016

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #26 of The Tap, which was published on July 23, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • FILING DEADLINE: Louisiana congressional filing deadline
    • Louisiana’s deadline is the last congressional filing deadline of 2016.
    • The U.S. Senate seat currently held by David Vitter (R) is up for election in 2016. Vitter is not seeking re-election. Many candidates have already declared their intentions to seek the seat, including Reps. John Fleming (R) and Charles Boustany Jr. (R) The race is rated safely Republican in the general election.
    • There are six U.S. House districts in Louisiana. Five are held by the Republican Party, and one is held by a Democrat. There will be at least two open seats due to incumbents seeking election to the Senate. Each seat is currently rated as safe for the party that currently holds it.
    • Complete candidate lists will be available on Ballotpedia early next week.
  • Hillary Clinton announced that U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) was her vice presidential pick. In a message to supporters, she called Kaine "a man who's devoted his life to fighting for others." She will formally introduce Kaine as her running mate during a joint campaign event at Florida International University in Miami on Saturday.

State

  • Filing deadline: Louisiana
    • State executives: Louisiana’s filing deadline is the last major state executive filing deadline of the 2016 election cycle. Two seats on the Public Service Commission, the state's utilities regulatory agency, are up for election. Three of the five seats on the commission are held by Republicans. Incumbents Commissioner for District 4 Clyde Holloway (R) and Commissioner for District 3 Lambert Boissiere (D) are both eligible for re-election, though Holloway, who serves as the commission’s chair, indicated last month that his health might prevent him from seeking another term. If Holloway does not file for re-election, the race for the District 4 seat will be open and vulnerable to a Democratic pickup, which would shift partisan control of the commission. The primary elections for this office will be held on November 8, with the general taking place on December 10. Louisiana currently has a divided government.

Local

  • FILING DEADLINE: Deadline passed to run for the mayor’s office and all 12 city council seats in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mayor Kip Holden (D) is running for a U.S. House seat, leaving the office vacant for a newcomer to become mayor. The city’s primary election will be held on November 8, 2016, and the general election will be on December 10, 2016. If a candidate receives a majority vote in the primary, he or she will be declared elected as an unopposed candidate and will not be listed on the general election ballot. Baton Rouge is the second-largest city in Louisiana and the 93rd-largest city in the U.S. by population.
  • FILING DEADLINE: Deadline passed to run for local court judgeships in the state of Louisiana. The partisan primary election will be held on November 8, 2016, and the general election will be on December 10, 2016. If a candidate receives a majority vote in the primary, he or she will be declared elected as an unopposed candidate and will not be listed on the general election ballot.
  • FILING DEADLINE: Deadline passed to run for all seven seats on the Orleans Parish School Board. The district served 12,447 students during the 2013-2014 school year. The general election will be held on November 8, 2016. If a runoff election is required because no candidate wins a majority of the vote, it will be held on December 10, 2016.

Preview of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #25 of The Tap, which was published on July 16, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • FILING DEADLINE: Louisiana congressional filing deadline
    • The U.S. Senate seat currently held by David Vitter (R) is up for election in 2016. Vitter is not seeking re-election. Many candidates have already declared their intentions to seek the seat, including Reps. John Fleming (R) and Charles Boustany Jr. (R) The race is rated safely Republican in the general election.
    • There are six U.S. House districts in Louisiana. Five are held by the Republican Party, and one is held by a Democrat. There will be at least two open seats due to incumbents seeking election to the Senate. Each seat is currently rated as safe for the party that currently holds it.

State

  • Filing deadline: Louisiana
    • State judiciary: Two seats on the Louisiana Supreme Court and at least four seats on the Louisiana Courts of Appeal will be up for election on November 8, 2016. Justice Jeanette Theriot Knoll (D) will reach the mandatory retirement age this year and is therefore ineligible to run for re-election. The term of Justice Marcus Clark (R) ends on December 31. Courts of appeal judges whose terms expire in 2016 include Judge Jay Caraway (R), Second District; Judge Shannon Gremillion (D) and Judge Jimmie Peters (D), Third District; and Judge Max Tobias (D), Fourth District. Louisiana judicial elections are partisan. Seats are elected at the November 8 primary unless no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote. In those cases, the top two finishers advance to the December 10 general election. The current balance of the state supreme court is 4-3 Republican; the election of two seats could cause the balance to shift.
    • State executives: Two seats on the Louisiana Public Service Commission are up for election. The primary elections will be held on the same day as the general election for president—November 8, 2016—while the general election will take place on December 10. Three of the five seats on the commission are currently held by Republicans; Districts 3 and 4, the two up for election this year, are held by a Democrat and a Republican respectively. Louisiana currently has a divided government after the 2015 election of Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards ended a four-year Republican trifecta.

Local

  • FILING DEADLINE: Deadline to run for the mayor’s office and all 12 city council seats in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mayor Kip Holden (D) is running for a U.S. House seat, leaving the office vacant for a newcomer to become mayor. The city’s primary election will be held on November 8, 2016, and the general election will be on December 10, 2016. If a candidate receives a majority vote in the primary, he or she will be declared elected as an unopposed candidate and will not be listed on the general election ballot. Baton Rouge is the second-largest city in Louisiana and the 93rd-largest city in the U.S. by population.
  • FILING DEADLINE: Deadline to run for local court judgeships in the state of Louisiana. The partisan primary election will be held on November 8, 2016, and the general election will be on December 10, 2016. If a candidate receives a majority vote in the primary, he or she will be declared elected as an unopposed candidate and will not be listed on the general election ballot.
  • FILING DEADLINE: Deadline to run for all seven seats on the Orleans Parish School Board. The district served 12,447 students during the 2013-2014 school year. The general election will be held on November 8, 2016. If a runoff election is required because no candidate wins a majority of the vote, it will be held on December 10, 2016.



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