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Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
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Broadwater defeated fellow Republican George Holton, 2,800 (569 percent) to 2,125 (432 percent). A native of Saint Francisville in West Feliciana Parish, Broadwater listed the key campaign issues in 2011 as economic development and education. He claimed that his private sector experience and his work as the former director of the office of workers compensation would give him an early advantage as a legislator.
Broadwater promised to pursue a balanced state budget.
As the former head of a state agency, he developed and managed a $62 million departmental budget during the first term of Governor Bobby Jindal. Tucker himself ran unsuccessfully for Louisiana Secretary of State but lost to incumbent Tom Schedler.
District 86 had been relocated after the 2010 United States Census. The "District 86" represented by Tucker was south of Lake Pontchartrain, but Broadwater"s constituency was entirely north of the Lake.
(The area south of the Lake had lost population because of Hurricane Katrina)
Broadwater is a 1995 graduate of Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville.
He graduated in 1998 from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. In 2002, he received his Juris Doctor from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.