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Stephen Joseph "Steve" Scalise (born
October 10,
1965) is a Representative of the
United States House of Representatives from
Louisiana's 1st congressional district Previous to his Congressional service Scalise served in the
Louisiana State Senate 5 months and the
Louisiana House for 12 years. He succeeded
Bobby Jindal in Congress who became Governor of Louisiana.
Early Life
Scalise graduated from the
Catholic Archbishop Rummel High School and obtained a
bachelor of science degree from
Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge, with a major in
computer programming and a minor in
political science.
Louisiana Legislature
Scalise served three terms from District 82 in the Louisiana House before he was elected in the
October 20,
2007,
jungle primary to the District 9 seat in the
Louisiana State Senate. That position was vacated by the term-limited
Ken Hollis of
Metairie. Scalise received 19,154 votes (61 percent) in a three-way contest. Fellow Republican Polly Thomas polled 8,948 votes (29 percent). A
Democrat, David Gereighty, polled 3,154 votes (10 percent) in the heavily Republican-oriented district. A special election will be held to fill the remaining three and one-half years in Scalise's state Senate term.
Scalise was elected three times to the Louisiana House:
1995,
1999, and
2003. His legislative peers named him to the House Appropriations Committee as the representative of the First Congressional District. Scalise initially succeeded fellow Republican Representative
Quentin D. Dastugue, who made an ill-fated bid for
governor in the
1995 primary.
Congressional Election
In
2004, Scalise announced that he'd run for the U.S. House but thereafter deferred to the preference of party leaders and supported Jindal, who won the position vacated by the successful senatorial candidate,
David Vitter.
In 2007, when Jindal was elected to the Governorship of Louisiana. Scalise annonced his intentions to seek the seat yet again. This time he received Republican party backing.
Scalise's strongest Republican Primary opponent,
state representative Tim Burns from
Mandeville in
St. Tammany Parish, accused Scalise of
push polling, a practice in which a campaign contacts voters by telephone and asks probing questions which leave a negative impression of his opponent. Scalise defended his poll from criticism by Burns: "We were running a public opinion survey this week conducted by the largest Republican polling firm in the country, Public Opinion Strategies. . . . conducted with a sample of 300 people, and it shows Scalise at 57 percent, Burns at 26 percent and undecided at 17 percent The margin of error is 5.6 percent. We ran a fact-based public opinion survey, not a push poll."
In the
March 8 Republican primary, Scalise polled 16,799 votes (48 percent). He went on to win the
runoff election on
April 5 against Burns, who received 9,631 votes (28 percent) in the initial primary.. .
In the
May 3 general election, Scalise received 33,867 votes (75.13 percent) to
Democrat Gilda Reed's 10,142 ballots (22.5 percent). Two minor candidates polled the remaining 2.36 percent of the vote. Reed was a favorite of
organized labor and the Democratic constituency groups. The First District has been Republican since 1977, when
Bob Livingston won a special election.
Scalise was sworn in on
May 7,
2008.
Personal Life
He is a member of the Seventh Ward Senior Center and the American
Italian Renaissance Foundation. He is married to the former Jennifer Letulle (born
1975). The couple has one child, Madison Carol Scalise (born
March 17,
2007).
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