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|name=Joseph Anthony "Joe" Stagni | |name=Joseph Anthony "Joe" Stagni | ||
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|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]] | |party=[[Republican Party|Republican]] | ||
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| − | |office=Louisiana | + | |office=Louisiana State Representative for District 92 (Jefferson Parish) |
|term_start=April 2017 | |term_start=April 2017 | ||
|preceded=Tom Wilmott | |preceded=Tom Wilmott | ||
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| − | '''Joseph Anthony Stagni,''' known as '''Joe Stagni''' (born December 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2514812|title=Joseph Stagni, December 1963|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> is a chiropractic [[physician]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose. | + | '''Joseph Anthony Stagni,''' known as '''Joe Stagni''' (born December 11, 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=2514812|title=Joseph Stagni, December 1963|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> is a chiropractic [[physician]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]]. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose. |
| − | Stagni won the District 92 seat in a special election in the spring of 2017. In a turnout of 10 percent, Stagni polled 73 percent of the ballots cast. With 2,333 votes, he defeated fellow Republican Gisela Chevalier and [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Chuck Toney, who finished with 13.4 percent and 13.1 percent, respectively. Toney had stopped campaigning early in the race because of "a personal family situation" that developed after the deadline to withdraw his name from the ballot.<ref name=stagnielected>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/elections/article_07b5371c-11be-11e7-be0f-cf4c2b0036ad.html|title=Ex-Kenner councilman Joe Stagni wins state House District 92 race | + | Stagni won the District 92 seat in a special election in the spring of 2017. In a turnout of 10 percent, Stagni polled 73 percent of the ballots cast. With 2,333 votes, he defeated fellow Republican Gisela Chevalier and [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Chuck Toney, who finished with 13.4 percent and 13.1 percent, respectively. Toney had stopped campaigning early in the race because of "a personal family situation" that developed after the deadline to withdraw his name from the ballot.<ref name=stagnielected>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/politics/elections/article_07b5371c-11be-11e7-be0f-cf4c2b0036ad.html|title=Ex-Kenner councilman Joe Stagni wins state House District 92 race|author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=''The New Orleans Advocate''|date=March 25, 2017|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> |
| − | |author=Ramon Antonio Vargas|publisher=''The New Orleans Advocate''|date=March 25, 2017|accessdate=May 3, 2017}}</ref> | ||
| − | Stagni succeeded Republican Tom Willmott, who resigned in November 2016 to join the Kenner City Council, the same body on which Stagni was a member from 2006 to 2014 | + | Stagni succeeded Republican Tom Willmott, who resigned in November 2016 to join the Kenner City Council, the same body on which Stagni was a member from 2006 to 2014, when he was term-limited.<ref name=stagnielected/> |
As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.<ref name=stagnielected/> | As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after [[Hurricane Katrina]]. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.<ref name=stagnielected/> | ||
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In addition to Stagni, two other Republicans, [[Raymond Crews]] in District 8 and [[John Stefanski]] in District 92, also won special elections in 2017 to fill legislative vacancies. Crews succeeded another Republican; Stefanski followed a Democrat, Jack Montoucet, who resigned to join the administration of [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]]. | In addition to Stagni, two other Republicans, [[Raymond Crews]] in District 8 and [[John Stefanski]] in District 92, also won special elections in 2017 to fill legislative vacancies. Crews succeeded another Republican; Stefanski followed a Democrat, Jack Montoucet, who resigned to join the administration of [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]]. | ||
| − | In one of his first legislative votes, Stagni joined a group of mostly Democrats to oppose Representative Thomas G. Carmody's bill to permit, via state constitutional amendment, voters to override local officials who order the removal, dismantlement, or defacing of [[Confederate]] military monuments. The Carmody bill passed the House, 65 to 31, but was killed in the state Senate. The Legislative Black Caucus walked out of the House to protest passage of the bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_monument_house_vote.html#incart_river_home|title=To protect Confederate monuments, here's how Louisiana House voted|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 16, 2017|accessdate=May 16, 2017}}</ref> | + | In one of his first legislative votes, Stagni joined a group of mostly Democrats to oppose Representative Thomas G. Carmody's bill to permit, via state constitutional amendment, voters to override local officials who order the removal, dismantlement, or defacing of [[Confederate]] military monuments. The Carmody bill passed the House, 65 to 31, but was killed in the state Senate when Senate President [[John Alario]], a leading [[RINO]], sent it to a hostile committee. The Legislative Black Caucus walked out of the House to protest passage of the bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/confederate_monument_house_vote.html#incart_river_home|title=To protect Confederate monuments, here's how Louisiana House voted|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=May 16, 2017|accessdate=May 16, 2017}}</ref> |
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| + | ===Stagni joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker=== | ||
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| + | On January 13, 2020, Stagni was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two [[Independent]] legislators, and the Republican defectors. Governor John Bel Edwards made contacts in the House on Schexnayder's behalf. Statewide [[radio]] commentator [[Moon Griffon]] coined the term "Fraud Squad" for the twenty-three dissidents nominally in the Republican Party.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Stagni opposes transgender sports bill=== | ||
| + | In 2022, Stagni voted to uphold Governor John Bell Edwards' veto of legislation to prohibit men from playing on women's sports teams. | ||
| + | Some conservatives have hence called for Stagni's defeat in the legislative election in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_d0a745a0-95b4-11ec-ba1d-e3da74141634.html|title= Kenner Republican bucked his party on a transgender sports bill. Some constituents want him gone.|author=Blake Patterson|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=February 24, 2022|accessdate=April 19, 2022}}</ref> | ||
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| + | On October 14, 2023, Stagni won reelection to the House, 70 to 30 percent, against another Republican candidate, Michael "Mike" Sigur.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:43, January 15, 2024
| Joseph Anthony "Joe" Stagni | |
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Louisiana State Representative for District 92 (Jefferson Parish)
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office April 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Tom Wilmott |
|---|---|
| Born | December 11, 1963 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Denise Stagni |
Joseph Anthony Stagni, known as Joe Stagni (born December 11, 1963),[1] is a chiropractic physician who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Kenner in Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans. The district also includes part of Metairie and St. Rose.
Stagni won the District 92 seat in a special election in the spring of 2017. In a turnout of 10 percent, Stagni polled 73 percent of the ballots cast. With 2,333 votes, he defeated fellow Republican Gisela Chevalier and Democrat Chuck Toney, who finished with 13.4 percent and 13.1 percent, respectively. Toney had stopped campaigning early in the race because of "a personal family situation" that developed after the deadline to withdraw his name from the ballot.[2]
Stagni succeeded Republican Tom Willmott, who resigned in November 2016 to join the Kenner City Council, the same body on which Stagni was a member from 2006 to 2014, when he was term-limited.[2]
As a Kenner council member, Stagni pushed for legislation to make the awarding of contracts more open and to assess street damage after Hurricane Katrina. Before his council tenure, Stagni was a civic activist who helped to establish term limits for Kenner elected officials and a civil service system to hire on the basis of merit. He also served on the Jefferson Parish Board of Election Supervisors and the Kenner Board of Zoning Adjustments.[2]
In 2011, Stagni was caught in a sexting scandal because he sent a photograph of himself in his underwear to a Kenner city employee with whom he was having what he admitted to have been an "inappropriate" relationship. Opponent Gisela Chevalier argued in the campaign that the scandal showed Stagni's poor judgment. Stagni, however, said that he and his wife had worked out the matter.[2]
In addition to Stagni, two other Republicans, Raymond Crews in District 8 and John Stefanski in District 92, also won special elections in 2017 to fill legislative vacancies. Crews succeeded another Republican; Stefanski followed a Democrat, Jack Montoucet, who resigned to join the administration of Governor John Bel Edwards.
In one of his first legislative votes, Stagni joined a group of mostly Democrats to oppose Representative Thomas G. Carmody's bill to permit, via state constitutional amendment, voters to override local officials who order the removal, dismantlement, or defacing of Confederate military monuments. The Carmody bill passed the House, 65 to 31, but was killed in the state Senate when Senate President John Alario, a leading RINO, sent it to a hostile committee. The Legislative Black Caucus walked out of the House to protest passage of the bill.[3]
Stagni joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker
On January 13, 2020, Stagni was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the Fraud Squad, who voted for the Moderate Republican Clay Schexnayder of Ascension Parish, whose election as House Speaker depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers, along with two Independent legislators, and the Republican defectors. Governor John Bel Edwards made contacts in the House on Schexnayder's behalf. Statewide radio commentator Moon Griffon coined the term "Fraud Squad" for the twenty-three dissidents nominally in the Republican Party.[4]
Stagni opposes transgender sports bill
In 2022, Stagni voted to uphold Governor John Bell Edwards' veto of legislation to prohibit men from playing on women's sports teams. Some conservatives have hence called for Stagni's defeat in the legislative election in 2023.[5]
On October 14, 2023, Stagni won reelection to the House, 70 to 30 percent, against another Republican candidate, Michael "Mike" Sigur.[6]
References
- ↑ Joseph Stagni, December 1963. Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved on May 3, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ramon Antonio Vargas (March 25, 2017). Ex-Kenner councilman Joe Stagni wins state House District 92 race. The New Orleans Advocate. Retrieved on May 3, 2017.
- ↑ To protect Confederate monuments, here's how Louisiana House voted. The New Orleans Times-Picayune (May 16, 2017). Retrieved on May 16, 2017.
- ↑ The Moon Griffon Show, January 23, 2020.
- ↑ Blake Patterson (February 24, 2022). Kenner Republican bucked his party on a transgender sports bill. Some constituents want him gone.. The Baton Rouge Advocate. Retrieved on April 19, 2022.
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.