Tami Hotard
Tami Hotard (Republican Party) ran for election for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. She lost in the primary on October 14, 2023.
Biography
Tami Hotard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hotard's career experience includes working as a real estate developer and manager, a college teacher, an editor, and an author.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Louisiana lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2023
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
The following candidates ran in the primary for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana on October 14, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Billy Nungesser (R) | 65.5 | 678,531 | |
| Willie Jones (D) | 20.5 | 211,988 | ||
| Elbert Guillory (R) | 6.2 | 64,058 | ||
| Tami Hotard (R) | 4.9 | 50,711 | ||
| Bruce Payton (Independent) | 1.7 | 17,195 | ||
| Gary Rispone (Independent) | 1.3 | 13,111 | ||
| Total votes: 1,035,594 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Clay Schexnayder (R)
- Chester Pritchett (Independent)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Hotard in this election.
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Hotard's campaign website stated the following:
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Pro First Amendment: Freedom of Speech Having been involved with the educational system at various levels throughout the years, I’m a very big proponent of free speech. Everyone should be able to express their point of view without threatening words or violent acts that destroy someone else’s property.
Being a huge proponent of the Second Amendment stems from the fact that I come from a long line of hunters and we love spending time in the outdoors. I believe we should encourage our citizens to protect themselves with a gun, as long as that firearm is registered and handled responsibly. I also think women should use creative ways to defend themselves. No one should feel unsafe in their own home, nor going to and from their residence.
Everyone needs to understand that our demographics have changed due to the rate of illegal immigration. For our State to ever flourish again, everyone must hear our message of respecting our heritage as well as our borders. We may choose to address this situation with a plan toward accountability, work, and even through citizenship, particularly because our local and State medical resources are being used unnaturally and toward a detrimental future, for all of us. I will introduce a Statewide Louisiana Enthusiast Campaign to push for increased education regarding the rich history of our State.
We can save so much money when our citizens are healthy. You feel good. You look better. You want to get out and do things with each other. Right now, there’s so many unhealthy people using our medical facilities draining our resources. This fact only underscores the urgency for all of us to focus on our health. My vision pushes to continue to make sure we offer our citizens the best quality care possible with the most qualified physicians, who can be trained right here in our State. Our duty is to encourage our medical professionals to remain here to practice through our commitment to research and successful employment opportunities.
Oil is the lifeblood of Louisiana, no doubt about it. A global demand for oil advances our possibilities as a State. We also have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to energy: wind, water, solar, and oil. A balanced approach allows us to conserve our resources and sell our energy to everyone. Battery-powered vehicles at their current capacity won’t rescue a State without electricity when the next hurricane hits us. The price of natural gas, the fuel that generates half of our State’s electricity, has increased approximately 75 percent in two years. Coal provides another fourth of the state’s electricity, and, nuclear power plants produce the rest. We need our leaders to value us and to be realistic. We need refined oil to be more affordable through a reserve system to counter huge spikes and reject anti-production practices.
It’s time we fundamentally change the way we run our State. The citizens of Louisiana pay too many taxes, more than most States. Federal and State income taxes, rising property taxes, sales taxes, individual parish taxes, the list is long and growing. One way to immediately increase our family household income to help eradicate poverty is to immediately abolish State income taxes. This one solitary act of genuine concern will attract more people to move here, who have something vital to offer us. When Louisianans make an average annual income of $45,000 dollars, and the national average is $77,000 dollars, then we have a problem.
Our kids are the future of our State. It is our responsibility to protect them. People keep talking about the future of Louisiana and our cities. Unless we start paying close attention to the actual children in our educational system, we will have a future, but it will not be a good one. All of our schools can and should run smoothly to provide our children with a strong foundation. It is my belief that we should allow our State’s public schools to use the best rated parishes as a template to direct our teachers to the best proven practices.
Their perception is our reality. We must protect our police as they are sacred. We have clear laws on the books and we need all our citizens to obey them to be a civilized society. We are driving people away from here every day, worsening our tainted image through violent crime and corruption. In order to be an effective Lieutenant Governor, I need to increase the tourists in our State. The tourists visiting our State must feel safe and secure when they come to Louisiana, especially in our larger cities. They are our guests. Their perception of our State needs to change Godspeed, so we can bring in tourists and retain them.
I believe in a total transparent administration in order to vanquish corruption in our State. We need to be able to trust our elected officials are going to do what we need them to, or we have a major problem. The challenge of most campaigns is that they require financial backing, which in turn, leaves a gap in the foundation of our principles, where backroom deals get unethically made.
Louisiana’s three-million acres of wetlands disappear at the rate of 30 square miles each year or a football-field-sized area every 60 minutes. Our ecosystem needs to be valued more with concerned integrity, as it’s the only protection we have right now from these terrible wind filled flooding storms. For instance, we need to put in more artificial reefs and barriers. As your Lieutenant Governor, I will bring my knowledge of fresh ideas to this need with major commercial innovation.
Luck is not luck. It’s work. It’s what I’ve done my whole life. It’s how we succeed, and that’s what I’m going to bring to the table. I’m not going to wait to see if it happens, I’m going to make it happen. As your next Lieutenant Governor, I will be useful. I will listen and I will act. My policy will always be to report back to you on my findings. You are my main concern.
Sports keep you active and healthy. Sports are also one of the main ways our people come together and enjoy ourselves as one people, unified in glory, or defeat. Sportsman’s Paradise can only be Sportsman’s Paradise when we all get to see LSU’s Fighting Tigers and the New Orleans Saints on television, as it’s happening in real time, not blocked out by expensive cable companies or sports’ channels trying to make a buck. We have a championship basketball and baseball team. All our citizens should be able to watch our football games, or any other sport, for that matter. All college and professional football games should be on one of the regular television channels. You’d think one elected leader would’ve accomplished this by now for everyone.[2] |
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| —Tami Hotard's campaign website (2023)[3] | ||
See also
2023 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Tami Hotard for Lieutenant Governor, "Meet Tami," accessed September 19, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Tami Hotard for Lieutenant Governor, “My Vision,” accessed September 1, 2023
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