Background
BURNS, TIMOTHY was born on April 1, 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana,: admitted to bar, 1983, Louisiana, United States.
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Timothy Burns
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Tulane University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1979. Master of Business Administration, 1980. Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1983).
Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Eta Sigma. Beta Alpha Psi. Certified Public Accountant, Louisiana, 1982. Associate, Baldwin and Haspel, 1986.
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Career
Burns is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Louisiana. He led with 6,152 votes (467 percent). Susan Bonnett, with 3,534 votres (268 percent) ran second.
Burns was reelected without opposition in 2007.
After the election of Republican Bobby Jindal as governor in 2007, Burns soon entered the special election called to fill Jindal"s term in Louisiana"s 1st congressional district. Burns accused Scalise of having used push polling to mislead voters in their congressional race.
Under this system, a campaign contacts voters by telephone and asks probing questions which leave a negative impression of an opposing candidate.. conducted with a sample of 300 people, and it shows Scalise at 57 percent, Burns at 26 percent and undecided at 17 percent.
The margin of error is 5.6 percent.
We ran a fact-based public opinion survey, not a push poll."
In the March 8, 2008, Republican primary, which was a closed election restricted to registered Republicans, Scalise polled 16,799 votes (48 percent). Burns received 9,631 votes (28 percent), and two other candidates, Ben Morris and David Simpson, shared some 24 percent of the ballots cast. In the runoff election on April 5, Scalise easily prevailed, 19,338 (58 percent) to Burns"s 13,958 (419 percent).
Burns serves on these House committees: (1) Health and Welfare, (2) Judiciary, and (3) Transportation, Highways, and Public Works.
In 2010, Burns was rated in his legislative voting record 100 percent by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and 89 percent from the Louisiana Family Forum. In 2009, he was rated 100 percent by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation
He will be succeeded in January 2016 by another Republican, Reid Falconer of Madisonville in Saint Tammany Parish.
Falconer defeated Pat Phillips in the primary election held on October 24, 2015.
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Politics
Political web sites do not indicate Burns"s place of birth. He received 6,156 votes (691 percent) to 2,752 (309 percent) for his intraparty opponent, Pat Phillips.
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Scalise defended his poll from criticism by Burns: "We were running a public opinion survey this week conducted by the largest Republican polling firm in the country, Public Opinion Strategies.
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1983