Thomas M. Cooley Law School Alumni - John Engler, Chris Hazel, Bart Stupak, Chris Chocola, Rashida Tlaib, Nicholas Scutari (Paperback)

Chapters: John Engler, Chris Hazel, Bart Stupak, Chris Chocola, Rashida Tlaib, Nicholas Scutari. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas M. Cooley Law School Lowell Christopher Hazel, known as Chris Hazel (born January 25, 1965), is an attorney from Pineville, Louisiana, and a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 27, which encompasses northern Rapides Parish. In the October 20, 2007, nonpartisan blanket primary, Hazel unseated Democrat Representative Rick L. Farrar of Pineville, 9,330 votes (62.5 percent) to 5,611 (37.5 percent). Farrar had first won the seat in the primary held on October 19, 1991, when he upset fellow Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., 7,729 (56.6 percent) to 5,929 (43.4 percent). Gunter had been known for his populist political stance and his fiery opposition to abortion. Farrar was narrowly unseated for the 1996-2000 term by the Republican Randy Wiggins (born 1951) of Pineville, a State Farm Insurance agent in Alexandria. On October 6, 1995, Wiggins defeated Farrar, 6,350 votes (51.1 percent) to 6,077 (48.9 percent). When Wiggins ran for the state senate in 1999 against former Senator Joe McPherson, who did not run in 1995, Farrar staged a successful return to office. In the 2003 primary, Farrar handily defeated Independent "Pete" Ferrington, 7,072 (61 percent) to 4,519 (39 percent). Hazel served from 2004-2007 as an assistant district attorney in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana. From 2003-2004, Hazel was the assistant D.A. in Colfax, the seat of neighboring Grant Parish. From 2000-2002, he was a law clerk for Ninth Judicial District Judge Tom Yeager in Alexandria. Hazel graduated in 1983 from the Roman Catholic Holy Cross High School in N...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22561798