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Tommy Armstrong (American politician)
Tommy Gene Armstrong (born February 19, 1941) is a businessman from his native Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1991 to 1992. He filled the unexpired term of the Democrat, Robert P. "Bobby" Waddell, who resigned to become a state district court judge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2008 )〕 Armstrong was elected to the House from District 4 on February 23, 1991, with 50.5 percent of the vote over two Democratic opponents, Forrest A. Davis and Stephen B. Carter.〔Louisiana Secretary of State, Special election returns, February 23, 1991〕
==State senate race==
When Armstrong won the District 4 House seat, the lines were under the 1980 census. He did not pursue a full term in 1991 because, under the 1990 census, District 4 became majority African American and heavily Democratic. Instead, Armstrong contested the Louisiana State Senate District 38 seat vacated by the three-term Democratic incumbent, Richard G. Neeson, also of Shreveport. Armstrong's principal rival was Ron Bean, a more liberal Republican who had narrowly lost to Neeson in the 1987 election and had once been a pilot for U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Armstrong led in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 19, 1991, with 13,354 votes (40 percent). Bean trailed with 8,866 votes (26 percent). Ken Wright, another Republican candidate, trailed with 6,088 votes (18 percent). Democrat Bobby Bruce Shofner (born 1948) finished last with 5,494 votes (15 percent).〔Louisiana Secretary of State, Primary election returns, October 19, 1991〕 In the general election, popularly termed the runoff in Louisiana, Bean narrowly defeated Armstrong, 20,474 (51 percent) to 19,720 (49 percent).〔Louisiana Secretary of State, General election returns, November 16, 1991〕
Armstrong was known for his opposition to gambling. In 1996, he joined several Baptist ministers in appearing before the Caddo Parish Commission, on which he had previously served as a member and president, to oppose video poker at a truck stop near Keithville, where Armstrong resides. Armstrong cited a number of publications which link corruption to the licensing of video-poker installations. He opposed a request from Carl J. King and wife to build the video poker outlet within a forbidden B-2 zone. Such a permit would, he told commissioners, constitute "spot zoning. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the commission's decision to deny the needed permit to the Kings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana Supreme Court: Carl J. King ''et xu'' Caddo Parish Commission (No. 97-C-1873) )〕
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