John Bagneris
| John Harold Bagneris | |
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| Louisiana State Representative for District 100 (eastern Orleans Parish) |
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| Assumed office January 11, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Austin Badon |
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| Born | July 1950 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Relations | Orleans Parish Civil District Judge Michael Bagneris (brother) |
| Residence | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Alma mater | Joseph S. Clark High School Southern University at New Orleans |
| Occupation | Manager of Charbonnet Transportation Company |
John Harold Bagneris (born July 1950)[1] is an African-American Democrat member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 100 in eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana. On January 11, 2016, he succeeded Austin Badon, another New Orleans African-American Democrat who was term-limited in the legislative position.
To win the position, Bagneris defeated in the general election held on November 21, 2015, another Democrat, Alicia Plummer Clivens (born 1959), 6,662 votes (54.9 percent) to 5,150 (45.1 percent).[2] Clivens oversees the reopened New Orleans East Hospital and formerly worked in the administration of then Mayor Ray Nagin. In the campaign, Clivens charged that since 19993 Bagneris had accumulated more than $206,000 in federal and state tax liens: "He can’t pay his own tax bills. Why trust him as state representative to help you with yours?”, her mailer read.[3]
Bagneris graduated from Joseph S. Clark High School and historically black Southern University at New Orleans.[4]He spent twelve years as an aide to Democrat African-American former state Representative Louis Charbonnet. He has managed Charbonnet's transportation company for some thirty years. Bagneris' brother, Civil District Court Judge Michael Bagneris ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New Orleans in 2014 against the current mayor, Mitch Landrieu. Bagneris drew the backing of the African-American political groups, LIFE begun by the late Mayor Ernest Nathan Morial and the 7th Ward organization, COUP.[5]
In March 2016, Bagneris joined a House bipartisan majority to enact a one-cent increase in the state sales tax. State representatives voted 76 to 28 for the tax hike, a part of the revenue-raising measures pushed by new Governor John Bel Edwards.[6] A House and Senate conference committee subsequently trimmed the duration of the tax increase from five years to twenty-seven months, effective from April 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018. Even the sale of Bibles and religious publications and Girl Scout cookies are now subject to the tax.[7]
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| Louisiana House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by | Louisiana State Representative for District 100 (eastern Orleans Parish) John Harold Bagneris |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Politicians from New Orleans, Louisiana
- Louisiana Democrats
- Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- African-American state legislators in Louisiana
- Activists for African-American civil rights
- Southern University at New Orleans alumni
