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Tia LeBrun
Tia LeBrun (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District. She lost in the primary on November 8, 2022.
LeBrun completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tia LeBrun earned a bachelor's degree from LSU in 2004 and a graduate degree from the University of New Orleans in 2012.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Louisiana District 3
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Louisiana District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Clay Higgins (R) | 64.3 | 144,423 |
 | Holden Hoggatt (R)  | 10.9 | 24,474 | |
 | Lessie LeBlanc (D) | 10.5 | 23,641 | |
 | Tia LeBrun (D) | 9.4 | 21,172 | |
 | Thomas Payne Jr. (R) | 1.8 | 4,012 | |
| Gloria Wiggins (Independent) | 1.4 | 3,255 | ||
 | Jake Shaheen (R) | 0.9 | 1,955 | |
| Guy McLendon (L) | 0.7 | 1,620 | ||
| Total votes: 224,552 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dustin Granger (D)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tia LeBrun completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by LeBrun's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- When you look across Southwest Louisiana, all you see are blue roofs, FEMA trailers, and families looking for answers. Hurricane Laura hit nearly two years ago and communities, no matter how big, are struggling to get the plywood out of the windows of their businesses and provide basic necessities for their residents.
- Tia believes we must broaden access to low-cost healthcare and prescription drugs. For too long, the inability to receive quality healthcare due to income and background has harmed the members of this community, and women and minorities have been disportionately affected by it. We must improve healthcare access and options for women and minorities as opposed to taking their rights to healthcare away as we are seeing in recent times.
- As an educator, Tia knows that education investments empower teachers and parents to build skills for a modernizing economy. This includes career and college readiness which should be a priority. Programs like post-high school training with minimal debt burdens for students and their families, and expansion of affordable, accessible education for all citizens of Southwest Louisiana regardless of socio-economic background is an investment into the community and into our future.
2. Social Justice. Every human should be equal and be able to live with dignity.
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Campaign website
LeBrun's campaign website stated the following:
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Healthcare Reproductive freedom is a human right. We must improve healthcare access and options for women and minorities as opposed to taking their rights to healthcare away as we are seeing in recent times. A 2019 survey found that over 11% of respondents did not have health insurance coverage. Tia believes we must broaden access to low-cost healthcare and prescription drugs. For too long, the inability to receive quality healthcare due to income and background has harmed the members of this community, and women and minorities have been disportionately affected by it. Higgins Failures: Clay Higgins wants to strip women of their rights and identity, supporting laws that refer to them as “incubators”. He also voted AGAINST the Affordable Insulin Now Act which would have capped the price of insulin for the thousands of people that need it to survive each day. Higgins voted AGAINST the Honoring our PACT Act which will help our veterans access the healthcare they need to combat conditions caused by their military service.
As an educator, Tia knows that education investments empower teachers and parents to build skills for a modernizing economy. This includes career and college readiness which should be a priority. Programs like post-high school training with minimal debt burdens for students and their families, and expansion of affordable, accessible education for all citizens of Southwest Louisiana regardless of socio-economic background is an investment into the community and into our future. Tia is dedicated to ensuring our children have the resources they need to follow their dreams. Higgins Failures: Clay Higgins voted AGAINST the American Rescue Plan Act which will make historic investments in America’s preschool through twelfth-grade schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This act would keep schools safely open, tackle learning loss, and mental health. The ARP funds include $122 billion for P-12 schools in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, $8 billion to states and school districts to meet the needs of certain student populations, over $3 billion for students with disabilities, and $800 million for children and youth experiencing homelessness.
When you look across Southwest Louisiana, all you see are blue roofs, FEMA trailers, and families looking for answers. Hurricane Laura hit nearly two years ago and communities, no matter how big, are struggling to get the plywood out of the windows of their businesses and provide basic necessities for their residents. In Congress, Tia will fight to get our communities the funding they need to get mainstreet back up and running and to get families back in their homes. She will also fight to secure federal investments in our crumbling roads and bridges. Higgins Failures: Clay Higgins voted AGAINST a bipartisan budgetary measure in Congress that would have directed funding to Southwest Louisiana for disaster recovery efforts. Local Republicans and Democrats reeled against the vote and its impact on hard-working residents. Higgins also voted AGAINST the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which will send billions of dollars to Louisiana to repair our roads. This legislation is an integral part of the disaster recovery efforts in our community and will re-energize the local economy.[2] |
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| —Tia LeBrun's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 23, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Tia LeBrun for Congress, “Key Issues,” accessed August 10, 2022
