Rep. Walt Leger to seek speakership of state House of Representatives
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag...1.48.49_pm.png House Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, still has to survive two more regular sessions unscathed and secure re-election to District 91, but he tells Gambit he has his sights set on the big gavel in 2016.


"I will absolutely be a candidate for speaker," he said yesterday after an address to the Baton Rouge Press Club.? [ Read more ]

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