Career
On January 11, 2016, Bacala (full name missing) succeeded outgoing Republican Representative Eddie J. Lambert, also of Prairieville, who instead moves to the District 18 seat in the Louisiana State Senate. In the primary election of October 24, 2015, Bacala, with 6,987 votes (66 percent), defeated two other Republicans, Pat Bell, with 2,654 votes (251 percent), and Rusty Messer, who ran third with 947 votes (89 percent). Bacala graduated from East Ascension High School and studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Mississippi Command College, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
He has been employed by the Ascension Parish School Board and the parish sheriff"s department.
