Sen. Mary Landrieu, An Industry Supporter, Wins Tough Re-Election Battle
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Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Sen. Mary Landrieu, An Industry Supporter, Wins Tough Re-Election Battle
By Brad Harbison
12/3/2002
URL: http://www.pctonline.com/news/news.asp?ID=3D1520/
WASHINGTON - Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), a past supporter of the pest control industry who filed the School Environmental Protection Act (SEPA), won a tough re-election battle over Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell.
Landrieu defeated Terrell in a special run-off election held Saturday, Dec. 7. Unofficial returns had Landrieu with 643,359 votes, or 52 percent, to 603,293 for Terrell, according to the Associated Press. Landrieu carried 35 of the state's 64 parishes.
Landrieu received 46 percent of the vote in Louisiana's unique open primary Nov. 5, but she needed a majority to win. The three major Republican candidates won more than half the vote, led by Terrell, the state's election commissioner.
During her term, Landrieu has served on the Senate Appropriations Committee, helping to keep language harmful to the pest management industry out of appropriations bills and she also played a very aggressive role with SEPA.
"In this last two sessions of Congress there probably isn't any member of the House or Senate that has been more helpful to the pest management industry than Mary Landrieu," said Bob Rosenberg, director of government affairs, National Pest Management Association (NPMA). "We probably would have had to go a whole different direction with SEPA if she had not been there. She changed the face of that issue entirely by her personal involvement."
SEPA was not included in the final version of H.R. 1, the Better Education for All Students and Teachers Act or in the final version of the farm bill. Both bills were passed last year.
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