Mickey Guillory

Mickey James Guillory (born February 1940)^[1] is a retired Louisiana State Police officer from Eunice, Louisiana, who is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 41 in Acadia, Evangeline, and St. Landry parishes in the southern portion of his state. First elected in 2003, he is term-limited and ineligible to run again in the October 2015 nonpartisan blanket primary.^[2]

Background

Guillory attended Louisiana State University in Eunice and in Baton Rouge, both LSU and the Louisiana Police Academy.^[2] He has formerly resided in Glen Ellyn, near Chicago, Illinois, Richmond, Virginia, Cheyenne, Wyoming, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, dates unavailable.^[3]

He is a former Eunice city marshal.

Political life

On October 4, 2003, with 7,938 votes (58.2 percent), Guillory unseated the Republican Representative Gregory L. Fruge, also of Eunice. Fruge trailed with 5,650 votes (41.6 percent).^[4] Fruge may have been damaged in his reelection bid when the chancellor of LSU at Eunice attended Guillory’s announcement of candidacy.^[5] Guillory faced no opposition in his 2007 and 2011 re-election bids.

Representative Guillory is a member of the Louisiana Rural Caucus, the Acadiana delegations, and the Democratic Caucus. He serves on these committee: (1) Criminal Justice, (2) Labor and Industrial Relations, (3) Ways and Means, (4) Joint Capital Outlay, (5) House and Joint Homeland Security, and (6) Atchafalaya Basin Program Oversight.^[2]

His legislative ratings have ranged from 33 to 94 percent from the conservative Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. In 2013 and 2014, the Louisiana Family Forum scored him 67 and 88 percent, respectively. Since 2008, he has been rated all but one year as 100 percent by Louisiana Right to Life. In 2006 and 2007, he was rated 55 percent by the Humane Society.^[6]

In 2014, Guillory supported the requirement that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges near their clinics. That same year, he voted to extend the time for implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. He did not vote on the matter of forbidding the practice of transporting dogs in open truck beds on interstate highways.^[7]

In 2013, Guillory voted to increase judicial pay and co-sponsored lifetime concealed carry gun permits. In 2012, he voted to prohibit the use of cell phones while driving and opposed state tax incentives to recruit a National Basketball Association team to Louisiana. He did not vote on the matter of reducing the number of hours that polling locations remain open. Louisiana has traditionally had 14-hour polling days. In 2011, he did not vote on the requirement for drug testing of welfare recipients.^[7]

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