Gabe Firment
| Michael Gabriel "Gabe" Firment | |
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Louisiana State Representative
for District 22 (Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River, and Winn parishes) | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 13, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Terry Ralph Brown |
|---|---|
| Born | April 6, 1971 Resident of Pollock in Grant Parish |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Erica Miller Firment Parents: |
| Alma mater | Louisiana College |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Michael Gabriel Firment, known as Gabe Firment (born April 6, 1971), is the Republican state representative for District 22 in Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River, and Winn parishes in north Louisiana. The district is north of Alexandria.
With 8,796 votes (65 percent), Firment defeated a fellow Republicans, Carl Ray Lasyone (born 1951) of Colfax, who polled 4,785 votes (35 per cent). The turnout of registered voters was 55.4 percent.[1] Firment succeeds Terry Ralph Brown (born 1946), an Independent who declined to seek a third legislative term.
Firment holds a bachelor's degree in public administration from Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, across the Red River from Alexandria. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. Firment has twenty years of experience in the insurance and construction industries.[2]
He is married to the former Erica Miller, a fifth grade teacher at Pollock Elementary School. The Firments have three children enrolled in Grant Parish public schools. Firment is a member of the Pollock First Baptist Church, at which he is a deacon and a Sunday school teacher. He is also active in Gideons International, which places bibles in places of public accommodation. He has coached youth sports in Grant Parish for several years.[2]
In his campaign announcement, Firment said that the state "has been blessed with abundant natural resources and is home to the greatest people in the world, however, decades of mismanagement, corruption, and good ole boy politics have decimated our communities and forced our family members to flee to other states to make a decent living."[2]
References
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gabe Firment Announces for State Representative. Red River Parish Journal (January 15, 2019). Retrieved on December 4, 2019.
