Bodi White

Education

Southeastern Louisiana University.

Career

His District 6 includes parts of East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint Helena, and Tangipahoa parishes. The incumbent senator, Republican Julie Quinn of Jefferson Parish, did not seek reelection. Under redistricting, Senate District 6 has a different configuration reaching from Baton Rouge to the Florida Parishes.

White describes the district as "sprawling, almost 100 miles lougitude

lieutenant is an area of tremendous growth. The I-10 and I-12 corridors have added five new representative districts and 1-1/2 new Senate seats as a result of the census.

lieutenant"s also where we expect the growth to be over the next ten years." White describes the Senate district as "conservative" with "working people believe in family values, and tax increases.”

An East Baton Rouge Parish native, White"s father was Mack White, Senior (1934–1999) of Baker.

White holds an undergraduate degree in criminal justice from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond and completed graduate work in the same field from Loyola University in New Orleans.

White was a detective for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s office for six years and a supervisor at ExxonMobil for seventeen years. He is an agent with Rogillio Real Estate Company in Baton Rouge and also owns a small private security company. White has been named the Central City "Manitoba of the Year".

He assists in providing student scholarships for his alma mater, Southeastern.

White served on the House committees of Administration of Criminal Justice, Appropriations, Budget, and Judiciary. He also sat on the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Resources.

White holds 100 percent ratings from the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation. He voted in the 2011 legislative session against the bill to make the Louisiana cigarette tax permanent.

Then he voted against the attempt to override Governor Bobby Jindal"s veto of the permanent cigarette tax

He voted against a bill to prohibit hand-held cellular devices while driving. In the House, White pushed for ethics reform. He wrote a bill to protect government whistleblowers who disclose llegal or unfair activities in their office.

He supported full disclosure on lawmakers" financial dealings.

He favors the executive director of the Ethics Administration being a full-time appointee. White has pushed for mandatory governmental ethics training for legislative officials.

Achievements

• White won the Senate seat in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011, by having narrowly defeated fellow Republican Mike Mannino, 12,886 votes (517 percent) to 12,047 (483 percent).

Politics

White was first elected without opposition in 2003 to the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 64 to succeed fellow Republican Tony Perkins, who became the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian political organization. Thereafter, White defeated two "Number Party" opponents in the primary held on October 20, 2007, with nearly 77 percent of the vote.