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Mary Anne Mushatt
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Mary Anne Mushatt (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Louisiana State Senate to represent District 9. She lost in the primary on October 14, 2023.
Mushatt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2023
See also: Louisiana State Senate elections, 2023
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 Louisiana State Senate District 9
Incumbent Cameron Henry won election outright against Mary Anne Mushatt in the primary for Louisiana State Senate District 9 on October 14, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Cameron Henry (R) | 69.9 | 19,046 |
Mary Anne Mushatt (D)  | 30.1 | 8,201 | ||
| Total votes: 27,247 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Sheree Kerner (R)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Mary Anne Mushatt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mushatt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a woman, wife, and mother greatly concerned about the future of my community and my state. Our state faces tremendous challenges we must face head on with an open mind. Presently, Louisiana has the highest infant and mortality rates in the country, comparable even to those of a third world country. And our legislators refuse to address this fact with a real solution. The same with our current insurance crisis, our failing public schools, charter schools operating without any accountability for the success of their students. And it seems, their predominant response to rising crime rates in our state is to build prisons and lock up perpetrators. While I believe criminals need to be punished, but I also believe preventive measures (ie. Violence Interrupters, dispatching mental health professionals with police, and even midnight basketball courts and after school programs, and apprenticeships) not to mention raising the minimal wage to a living wage would continue and consistently reduce crime while building community.
- I stand with women in our concerns for our health, education for our children, and fair and equal pay for our work.
- I believe we need a new approach to our economy bringing new, greener industries to our state.
- Educating our children, all our children is our way to economic and social prosperity.
Women's health outcomes, economic justice -- a living wage, Earned Tax Credits, equal pay for equal work, education that both prepares our kids for the jobs of today and tomorrow to attract the jobs that will keep them in Louisiana. Support and funding for our teachers. And the environment. We have to expand our Coastal restoration Plan to account for the rise of sea levels, the increasing ferocity and frequency of storms, otherwise we will be snagged in a circle of recurring devastation, impoverishing an increasingly larger segment of our people.
My father (deceased). He was kind and fair and had a wonderful sense of humor. The young son of his best friend said that my father always treated him as a man. My father taught me to treat everyone with dignity and humanity.
My mother was one of 2 women who worked outside the home in our neighborhood. She was a teacher, with a Masters Degree and became a reading specialist. She was organized, active and pushed beyond the limits of her day in a focused, practical way, always believing in her right to be to the best of her remarkable abilities.
My political philosophy stems from a fundamental belief that we are all connected. Dr. King said an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. I truly believe this, because if we don't address problems in our communities they grow and threaten us all.
To serve the needs of his constituents, both of her district, but also her state and country. We do not exist in isolation, and in Louisiana, as much as many would like to ignore, we are part of the greater good.
I am empathetic, determined, willing to listen and do research to understand issue. I have a dry sense of humor and while I speak my mind, I am also able to hold back and let others speak so I can learn.
Addressing the needs of all her constituents. Providing as many solutions as possible, but keeping an eye on the bigger picture, not always going for the easy and/or quick fix.
A state where women are healthier, and have autonomy over their own bodies. That government is removed from our bedrooms, that our kids are being educated on the facts of this world -- scientifically and historically -- so we are fully cognizant of our strengths and weaknesses so we know where we must improve. And that we have protected our citizens from the destructive impact of our changing climate.
I recall watching the funeral cortege of President John F. Kennedy. I also recall the moon landing in 1969.
I babysat every weekday for the family of a nurse my first two years of high school. She went to work just before her 3 older children returned from school until her husband came home around 6:00. When I turned 16 I worked the front counter at Vernon Drug Store, in Vernon, CT. I had this job until I went to Fairfield University. So for 2 years. I was fortunate to work on Cape Cod during the summers of my college years.
Pride and Prejudice. Because Elizabeth Bennet is smart, witty, kind and stands up for herself. Her courage rises whenever she is intimidated. She doesn't suffer fools, but allows people to have their foibles.
Elizabeth Bennet. See above.
Now that you ask, it flew out of my head. Usually a Beatle's song.
It has been a struggle to speak my mind and beliefs in public. But I am now speaking out on what I see, both what I believe is a positive as well as a negative, to just face things and move forward.
Where all three parties -- the Governor, House of Representatives and the Senate keep the greater good of the entire state at the heart of all legislation. We have differences of region, resources and ideology, but the challenges we face as a state demand we all acknowledge the need to work together to survive, let alone thrive.
Educating our children to thrive in the face of the challenges of the future. I believe the force of climate change is an existential threat to Louisiana. Rainstorms are flooding parts of our state while drought impedes our farmers from harvesting bumper crops. And hurricanes and tropical storm are increasing in frequency and ferocity, and the entire country just endured the hottest summer on record. And Louisiana is still fighting a 2 week wildfire, while sea levels are rising threatening our coast and our Coastal Restoration Plan.
Obviously no. I have visited our State House over the last 2 regular sessions, and heard legislators ignore medical experts testifying on medical issues.
I believe a candidate must keep the needs of the greater good at the forefront of their work, but must listen to experts who have studied and challenged ideas with new information to form new solutions, because what we have been doing has not worked, and is literally killing our people. New ideas, new questions will lead to new solutions. And we need new solutions.
I believe a candidate must keep the needs of the greater good at the forefront of their work, but must listen to experts who have studied and challenged ideas with new information to form new solutions, because what we have been doing has not worked, and is literally killing our people. New ideas, new questions will lead to new solutions. And we need new solutions.
Yes. It is important to work with people who share common approaches to issues, but it is also important to meet and converse with people holding opposing views to understand the roots of their opinions to find ways to come to some sort of agreement. Find the areas where they and myself are able to bend and accommodate some needs from both sides to arrive at a new solution that works for more people.
Locally - Rep. Delisha Boyd, Rep. Mary DuBuisson and Sen. Fred Mills, all because they either sponsored legislation that bravely defended women against legislation that literally threatens women's lives. And Sen. Mills who chaired his committees impartially and efficiently.
Hearing OB/GYNs basically plead legislators for clarification of guidelines on when they may intervene when a woman presents in the ER miscarrying. Even though multiple physicians explained the need for using medical terminology in the law so doctors knew what they could treat and when rather than waiting for a woman to be bleeding out or other catastrophic medical condition, and that the law is reducing Louisiana's ability to attract new physicians, their pleas were ignored and involuntarily deferred.
Also, the transgender bills both this year and last years, the testimony was heartbreaking of the prejudice and abuse trans kids endure, and the way legislators in the Education Committee, and Health and Welfare Committee turned a deaf ear was disheartening.
Also, the transgender bills both this year and last years, the testimony was heartbreaking of the prejudice and abuse trans kids endure, and the way legislators in the Education Committee, and Health and Welfare Committee turned a deaf ear was disheartening.
I don't have a favorite.
I believe all executive power should have some oversight, within reason. I do not believe it should be ideological in nature, but rather to watch for overreach (which I know can be a grey area).
Yes. No one person or party has all the information on any situation, no matter however detailed the research. Conversations finding the pros and cons of both, or all sides is necessary to lay the foundation of understanding. Then, you can sit down and hopefully come to some sort of a consensus to make a step towards solution.
I would re-address bills governing miscarriage, clarifying medical terms and removing punishments (fines, loss of medical license and imprisonment -- at hard labor which is in the current law). I would then re-introduce legislation to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
AFL-CIO of New Orleans, the Alliance for Good Government, Independent Organization of Women, both the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee and the Jefferson Parish Democratic Executive Committee.
Education. Environmental Quality, Health and Welfare, and Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
Footnotes
Current members of the Louisiana State Senate
Leadership
Senate President:Cameron Henry
Senators
District 1
Robert Owen (R)
District 2
Ed Price (D)
District 3
Joseph Bouie (D)
District 4
Jimmy Harris (D)
District 5
Royce Duplessis (D)
District 6
Rick Edmonds (R)
District 7
Gary Carter (D)
District 8
Patrick Connick (R)
District 9
Cameron Henry (R)
District 10
Kirk Talbot (R)
District 11
Patrick McMath (R)
District 12
Beth Mizell (R)
District 13
Valarie Hodges (R)
District 14
Larry Selders (D)
District 15
Regina Barrow (D)
District 16
Franklin Foil (R)
District 17
Caleb Kleinpeter (R)
District 18
Eddie Lambert (R)
District 19
Gregory Miller (R)
District 20
Michael Fesi (R)
District 21
Robert Allain (R)
District 22
Blake Miguez (R)
District 23
Brach Myers (R)
District 24
Gerald Boudreaux (D)
District 25
Mark Abraham (R)
District 26
Bob Hensgens (R)
District 27
Jeremy Stine (R)
District 28
Heather Cloud (R)
District 29
Jay Luneau (D)
District 30
Mike Reese (R)
District 31
Alan Seabaugh (R)
District 32
Glen Womack (R)
District 33
Stewart Cathey (R)
District 34
Katrina Jackson (D)
District 35
Jay Morris (R)
District 36
Adam Bass (R)
District 37
William Wheat (R)
District 38
Thomas Pressly (R)
District 39
Sam Jenkins (D)
Republican Party (28)
Democratic Party (11)
