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=ALEC National Chairman Noble Ellington II: LA cotton merchant; divorced his wife, married secretary, ex-wife's new husband Traylor ran against Vitter[kind of Gothic?]; termed out, but elected to statehouse again, then he and four other Democrats defected in 12/10, giving statehouse to the GOP for first time since reconstruction. 
--Noble Edward Ellington, II claimed Chet Traylor was "significantly involved" in his divorce from Peggy, who later married Traylor. Chet Traylor is also reportedly currently involved in a romantic relationship with Denise Lively, the estranged wife of his stepson, Ryan Ellington. Lively and Ryan Ellington remain legally married, but both he and Traylor said the Lively-Traylor relationship began while Lively and Ryan Ellington were separated.... Traylor upheld sodomy law and " opposes an attempt to cap British Petroleum's liability related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Dawson said that Melancon "can bring out more of Vitter's problems. There may be other scandals they are saving for the general election. We fear that if Vitter is nominated, we may end up with a Democratic senator." The weaknesses to which Dawson refers is the 2007 revelation that Vitter was a client of the so-called "D.C. Madam," and Vitter's continued employment of aide Brent Furer, who was accused of having assaulted a female friend with a knife and holding her hostage---<div>
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Noble Ellington is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> member of the Louisiana State Assembly. He is in the following committees: Appropriations, Insurance, Judiciary, Legislative Audit Advisory Council (Vice Chair), House Executive Committee, Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, House Committee on Homeland Security, Joint Committee on Homeland Security, Special Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

Ellington is also the National Chairman of the Board of Directors for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC), as of July 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> He served as the Workshop Moderator of the "Saving Dollars and Protecting Communities: State Successes in Corrections Policy" session at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect">ALEC</a> is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" class="external text" title="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALECexposed.org</a>.

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://house.louisiana.gov/h_reps/members.asp?id=20" class="external text" title="http://house.louisiana.gov/h_reps/members.asp?id=20" rel="nofollow">Noble Ellington, Louisiana State Assembly</a>, House.Louisiana.Gov, Accessed July 7, 2011.</li>

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Noble Edward Ellington, II (born May 25, 1942), is a wealthy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton" title="Cotton">cotton</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant" title="Merchant">merchant</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnsboro,Louisiana" title="Winnsboro, Louisiana">Winnsboro</a>, the seat of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Parish" title="Franklin Parish" class="mw-redirect">Franklin Parish</a> in northeastern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, who is former member of both houses of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Legislature" title="Louisiana Legislature" class="mw-redirect">Louisiana Legislature</a>. He served as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Legislature" title="Louisiana State Legislature">state Senate</a> from District 32 from 1996 to 2008. He was a member of the state House from District 20 from 1988 to 1996 and again from 2008-2012. On December 17, 2010, near the end of his legislative career, he switched his affiliation to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>. He had returned to the House on January 14, 2008, after an absence of a dozen years because he was term-limited from seeking a fourth consecutive Senate term.

Late in 2007, Ellington, as a returning but still freshman member, sought to chair the House Appropriations Committee, but he ran into a bloc of opposition from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservatism" title="American Conservatism" class="mw-redirect">conservatives</a>, including the statewide <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_show" title="Talk show">talk show</a> host <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Griffon" title="Moon Griffon">Moon Griffon</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe,Louisiana" title="Monroe, Louisiana">Monroe</a>. The conservatives stopped <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor" title="Governor">Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal" title="Bobby Jindal">Bobby Jindal</a> from recommending that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker%28politics%29" title="Speaker (politics)">Speaker</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Tucker_%28Louisiana_politician%29" title="Jim Tucker (Louisiana politician)">Jim Tucker</a> name Ellington as the chairman of the critical committee. They contended that Ellington is an advocate of raising <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxes" title="Taxes" class="mw-redirect">taxes</a> to fund expanded government, rather than a lawmaker committed to reducing taxes and cutting programs. Ellington had asked for the appointment on grounds that no House members from northeastern Louisiana had otherwise been named committee chairmen. Jindal had agreed to the recommendation until Tucker informed him that Ellington does not share Jindal's professed philosophy of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_government" title="Limited government">limited government</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education and civic activities">edit</a>] Education and civic activities</h2>

Ellington was born to Mr. and Mrs. Noble Ellington, Sr. He graduated in 1960 from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mangham_High_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mangham High School (page does not exist)">Mangham High School</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangham,Louisiana" title="Mangham, Louisiana">Mangham</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richland_Parish" title="Richland Parish" class="mw-redirect">Richland Parish</a>. In 1964, he obtained a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Tech_University" title="Louisiana Tech University">Louisiana Tech University</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruston,Louisiana" title="Ruston, Louisiana">Ruston</a>, the seat of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Parish,_Louisiana" title="Lincoln Parish, Louisiana">Lincoln Parish</a>. Ellington has been active in such civic organizations as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Bureau" title="Farm Bureau" class="mw-redirect">Farm Bureau</a>, the Northeast Louisiana Agriculture/Business Council, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Commerce" title="Chamber of Commerce" class="mw-redirect">Chamber of Commerce</a>. He is a past director of the Winnsboro Economic Development Corporation. He is a former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank" title="Bank">bank</a> director and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital" title="Hospital">hospital</a> board member. Ellington is a patron of the restored Princess Theatre in Winnsboro.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-1">[2]</a> He and his sons operate Noble Ellington Cotton Company, Inc., in Winnsboro.

In his earlier years, he was a national director of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaycees" title="Jaycees" class="mw-redirect">Jaycees</a>. He sits on the board of directors of the Louisiana <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist" title="Baptist" class="mw-redirect">Baptist</a> Children's Home <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphanage" title="Orphanage">orphanage</a> in Ruston. He is a former co-chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>. Ellington is Baptist.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-enlou-2">[3]</a>

During his first legislative stint in the House, Ellington was named "Legislator of the Month" by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_group" title="Interest group" class="mw-redirect">interest group</a> which represents city officials, the Louisiana <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal" title="Municipal" class="mw-redirect">Municipal</a> Association. Another interest group, the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, gave Ellington its "Golden Apple Award" for his support of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_%28government_funded%29" title="Public school (government funded)" class="mw-redirect">public schools</a>. Similarly, the Louisiana Association of Educators named him to its "Legislative Honor Roll". He has also been named "Guardian of Small Business".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-enlou-2">[3]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: A bitter divorce">edit</a>] A bitter divorce</h2>

In 1964, Ellington married the former Peggy Marie McDowell (also born 1942) of Winnsboro, a native of Monroe. Their two sons are Noble Ellington, III (born 1964), and Ryan Fred Ellington (born 1967).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-3">[4]</a> The Ellingtons <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorced</a> on May 11, 1998. In their family-owned company, Noble handled the negotiation of deals with suppliers and customers, while Peggy ran the office, kept the books, and performed paperwork associated with the business. Their sons joined the business, Ryan in 1992 and Noble, III, in 1995. The company buys cotton from farmers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin" title="Cotton gin">cotton gins</a>, and other producers and sells to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile" title="Textile">textile</a> mills and shippers. The gross profit of the company comes from the margin made from this activity. The Ellington firm made a profit each year from 1979 through 1998.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-lacoa2-4">[5]</a>

By August 1996, when the Ellingtons separated, they had made more than $2 million in the cotton business. They used some of their proceeds to purchase <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment" title="Apartment">apartments</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_building" title="Office building" class="mw-redirect">office buildings</a>, and farms. Peggy sued Noble over the division of the company but lost her claim on appeal. After the divorce, Peggy married <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_D._Traylor" title="Chet D. Traylor">Chet D. Traylor</a>, a Republican who served on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Supreme_Court" title="Louisiana Supreme Court">Louisiana Supreme Court</a> from 1997 to 2009. Traylor, now of Monroe, formerly resided in Winnsboro.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-lacoa2-4">[5]</a> Peggy Traylor died on August 22, 2009, and is interred at Columbia Hills Cemetery in Traylor's native Columbia, Louisiana.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-5">[6]</a> Noble Ellington, III, and Ryan Ellington sued Chet Traylor in Fifth Judicial District Court in June 2010 for allegedly withholding information about their late mother's estate. Peggy Traylor died without a will. Chet Traylor since became romantically involved with Denise Lively Ellington, the former wife of Ryan Ellington. Noble Ellington, II, has also blamed Traylor as part of the cause of his own divorce from Peggy, his first wife of thirty-four years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

In 2010, Traylor launched an intraparty challenge to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senator" title="U.S. Senator" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senator</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vitter" title="David Vitter">David Vitter</a>. Traylor claimed that Vitter's personal problems may render the incumbent Republican senator vulnerable to the challenge of the Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Melancon" title="Charlie Melancon">Charlie Melancon</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonville,Louisiana" title="Napoleonville, Louisiana">Napoleonville</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_Parish" title="Assumption Parish" class="mw-redirect">Assumption Parish</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-7">[8]</a> However, Vitter handily defeated Melancon on November 2, 2010.

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Controversy over second wife's employment">edit</a>] Controversy over second wife's employment</h2>

In 2006, Noble Ellington married his longtime legislative secretary, the former Brenda Anderson Armstrong (born 1961). The second Mrs. Ellington sought to continue as her husband's legislative assistant.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-8">[9]</a> A hearing was to have been held in the 19th District Court in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Rouge" title="Baton Rouge" class="mw-redirect">Baton Rouge</a> on February 19, 2008, to see if she qualifies under the state's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> laws. However, the case was postponed.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

State District Judge Don Johnson issued a temporary restraining order on January 11, 2008, that Mrs. Ellington could continue in her $54,540-per-year position until a final court decision is rendered.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-10">[11]</a> She maintained her position while Ellington served in the Senate because she had worked for him for more than a year before the couple married. In fact, she has been employed by Ellington since he entered the House in 1988. The Louisiana Ethics Board maintains that the Senate and House are separate bodies so the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause" title="Grandfather clause">grandfather clause</a> no longer applied after Ellington returned to the House. The Ellingtons maintain that the legislature is a single body and that her employment should stand.

Ellington said that his wife has "tremendous experience and a great understanding about the needs of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_district" title="Electoral district">constituents</a>." House Clerk Butch Speer said he believes the Ethics Board's opinion should stand. According to Speer, "The House's position is that we have to adhere to the code of ethics. The (Ethics Board) is charged by law with interpreting the code, and it said that (Ellington) can't participate in the employment of his wife. But the House is also bound to follow a lawful order of the court. Under the restraining order issued by the 19th Judicial Court, the House isn't to perform any act that would interrupt her employment. Unless or until that order is lifted, she will remain employed. If the order is ever lifted, the House will follow the dictates of the Ethics Board", and Mrs. Ellington would therefore be terminated from her position.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-11">[12]</a>

On May 19, 2008, the state Senate without objection approved an amendment offered by then Senate President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Chaisson" title="Joel Chaisson">Joel Chaisson</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destrehan,_Louisiana" title="Destrehan, Louisiana">Destrehan</a> that would erase the court ruling that Mrs. Ellington must resign as her husband's legislative assistant. Chaisson's amendment states that if a lawmaker's spouse is legally an assistant in one chamber of the legislature, a member then being elected to the other body does not change that assistant's employment status.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-12">[13]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Election history">edit</a>] Election history</h2>

Ellington won the District 20 House seat in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_state_elections,2007" title="Louisiana state elections, 2007">state election</a> held on November 17, 2007. Incumbent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lelon_Kenney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lelon Kenney (page does not exist)">Lelon Kenney</a> (born 1935) of Columbia was term-limited. Ellington hence defeated his runoff opponent, fellow Democrat Cleveland Webb "Cleve" Womack (born 1953) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonesville,Louisiana" title="Jonesville, Louisiana">Jonesville</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catahoula_Parish" title="Catahoula Parish" class="mw-redirect">Catahoula Parish</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-13">[14]</a> 6,215 (52 percent) to 5,686 (48 percent). The district includes, Franklin, Catahoula, Caldwell, and two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precinct" title="Precinct">precincts</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensas_Parish" title="Tensas Parish" class="mw-redirect">Tensas</a>, the smallest of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes, which is located adjacent to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-14">[15]</a>

Ellington's former Senate District 32 includes in addition to Caldwell, Catahoula, and Franklin (also in the House district) the parishes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_Parish" title="Concordia Parish" class="mw-redirect">Concordia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Salle_Parish,_Louisiana" title="La Salle Parish, Louisiana">La Salle</a>, and small portions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouachita_Parish" title="Ouachita Parish" class="mw-redirect">Ouachita</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapides_Parish" title="Rapides Parish" class="mw-redirect">Rapides</a> parishes. The district is now represented by its first ever Republican member, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Riser" title="Neil Riser">Neil Riser</a> of Columbia. By the time that Ellington left the Senate, the district lines had changed somewhat and included even a few <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precinct" title="Precinct">precincts</a> as far south as the northern portion of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoyelles_Parish" title="Avoyelles Parish" class="mw-redirect">Avoyelles Parish</a>.

In Ellington's first election to the House in 1987, he and intraparty rival Rodney R. "Rod" Elrod (born 1954) of Winnsboro<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-15">[16]</a> led a field of seven Democrats and one independent. Ellington polled 3,640 (21 percent), and Elrod 3,063 (17 percent). Ellington then defeated Elrod in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_election" title="General election">general election</a>, usually called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runoff_election" title="Runoff election" class="mw-redirect">runoff</a> in Louisiana.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-16">[17]</a>

Four years later in 1991, Ellington overwhelmed intraparty rival Dennis Grady Stewart (born 1953) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayville,Louisiana" title="Rayville, Louisiana">Rayville</a> in Richland Parish,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-17">[18]</a> 13,211 (72 percent) to 5,060 (28 percent).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-18">[19]</a> In 1995, Ellington first won his Senate seat. He went into a general election with fellow Democrat Roy Eugene Hebron (born 1954) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball,Louisiana" title="Ball, Louisiana">Ball</a> in northern Rapides Parish,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-autogenerated1-19">[20]</a> 19,325 (48 percent) to 16,076 (40 percent). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_%28politician%29" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> candidate Paul A. Nugent received the critical 5,048 remaining votes (12 percent).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-20">[21]</a> In the showdown with Hebron on November 18, 1995, Ellington prevailed, 21,703 (53 percent) to 19,180 (47 percent).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-21">[22]</a>

Ellington handily won reelection to the Senate on October 23, 1991, when he defeated his first and only Republican opponent, Larry Bruce Minton (born 1945 of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineville,_Louisiana" title="Pineville, Louisiana">Pineville</a> in Rapides Parish),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-autogenerated1-19">[20]</a> 27,001 (69 percent) to 11,954 (31 percent).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-22">[23]</a> In 2003, Ellington won his last Senate term in an easy contest with fellow Democrat James "Jim" Hearns (born 1952) of Columbia, 27,021 (80 percent) to 6,497 (20 percent).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-23">[24]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Party bolt">edit</a>] Party bolt</h2>

On December 9, 2010, Ellington announced that he was likely to switch to Republican affiliation to seek renewed membership in the state House of Representatives in 2011. Four other Democrats announced that same month that they have switched affiliation, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Smith%28Louisiana_politician%29" title="John R. Smith (Louisiana politician)" class="mw-redirect">John R. Smith</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leesville,Louisiana" title="Leesville, Louisiana">Leesville</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alario" title="John Alario">John Alario</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwego,Louisiana" title="Westwego, Louisiana">Westwego</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mills%28Louisiana_politician%29" title="Fred Mills (Louisiana politician)" class="mw-redirect">Fred H. Mills, Jr.</a>, of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Martinville,Louisiana" title="St. Martinville, Louisiana">St. Martinville</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_B.Champagne" title="Simone B. Champagne">Simone B. Champagne</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberia_Parish,_Louisiana" title="Iberia Parish, Louisiana">Iberia Parish</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-24">[25]</a> A week later, on December 17, 2010, Ellington made the switch official, giving the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Republican_Party" title="Louisiana Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Louisiana Republican Party</a> its first majority in the Louisiana House since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era" class="mw-redirect">Reconstruction era</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-25">[26]</a>

Ellington explained that this party switch is "historically significant, but the truth is I've been a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_%28politics%29" title="Conservative (politics)" class="mw-redirect">conservative</a> for my entire career, so it won't affect the way I vote. . . . I found myself farther and farther away from what has become the liberal philosophy of the national party. My way of thinking, which falls along a more conservative line, has been shrinking within the party. At least nationally, the Republican Party seems to fit my philosophy more than the current Democratic Party."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-switches-26">[27]</a>

Then Speaker Tucker, who had opposed Ellington's committee chairmanship in 2008, said he is "excited to have Noble in the party and ecstatic about holding the majority. We as Republicans can continue to push for smaller, more efficient government, and we have the numbers to pass legislation that can do that if we stick together. . . . It's incredible that when I started in the House [in 2001] that we have more than doubled our numbers and indicative of where the state in going. It's also a tribute to those who preceded us to helped build the party in this state, in particular [Senator] David Vitter."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-switches-26">[27]</a>

Louisiana Republican Chairman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Villere" title="Roger Villere" class="mw-redirect">Roger Villere</a> issued this statement on Ellington's defection: "For more than one hundred years, the Louisiana House of Representatives has remained under Democrat control, but today that has all come to an end. In just three short years a 16-seat Democrat majority has been erased and Representative Ellington's decision to become the 53rd Republican in the House gives the GOP our first controlling majority in that body since Reconstruction. This is a great and historic day for the Republican Party of Louisiana and I'm pleased to welcome Representative Ellington to the new conservative majority in the House."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-switches-26">[27]</a>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noble_Ellington&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2011 election">edit</a>] 2011 election</h2>

Ellington changed his plans and did not seek reelection to the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. Voters chose a Republican successor in the seat, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Pylant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve Pylant (page does not exist)">Steve Pylant</a> of Delhi, the sheriff of Franklin Parish. Pylant defeated Ellington's previous opponent, Cleve Womack, 9,119 votes (56.3 percent) to 7,066 ballots (43.7 percent).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_note-27">[28]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-enlou-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-enlou_2-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-enlou_2-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.enlou.com/officeholders/senatedistrict32.htm">Louisiana State Senate - District 32</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-3">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://preview.ussearch.com/preview/newsearch?searchFName=peggy&searchMName=m&searchLName=traylor&searchCity=&searchState=LA&searchApproxAge=64&adID=10002101&searchtab=people&x=36&y=10">People Search & Background Check</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-5">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mulhearnfuneralhome.com/printobit.aspx?MemberId=62308&MName=Peggy%20%20Traylor">"Obituary of Peggy Marie Traylor"</a>. mulhearnfuneralhome.com. Retrieved July 10, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20100721/NEWS01/7210327/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Ellingtons+paint+different+picture+of+Vitter+challenger+Traylor">"Ellingtons paint different picture of Vitter challenger Traylor"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Town_Talk_%28Alexandria%29" title="The Town Talk (Alexandria)" class="mw-redirect">Alexandria Daily Town Talk</a>. Retrieved July 21, 2010.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">dead link</a>]</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-7">^</a> "Monroe's Traylor to challenge Vitter", <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monroe_News-Star&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monroe News-Star (page does not exist)">Monroe News-Star</a>, July 10, 2010</li>

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<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Ellington#cite_ref-25">^</a> Barrow, Bill (2010-12-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/12/louisiana_republicans_take_fir.html">"Ellington gives GOP majority in House: Legislative veteran switches parties"</a>. Times-Picayune (Metro Edition): p. A3. Retrieved 2010-12-18. With Ellington's switch the Louisiana House of Representatives has 53 Republicans, 4 members with no party affiliation, and 48 Democrats.</li>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/members.asp?ID=20">Louisiana House of Representatives - Noble E. Ellington</a> official government website</li>

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lelon_Kenney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lelon Kenney (page does not exist)">Lelon Kenney</a></td><td rowspan="1" width="40%" style=" text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_House_of_Representatives" title="Louisiana House of Representatives">Louisiana State Representative</a> from District 20

2008 – 2012 (pending)</td><td rowspan="1" width="30%" align="center">Succeeded by

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Pylant&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve Pylant (page does not exist)">Steve Pylant</a></td></tr><tr style=" text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" width="30%" align="center">Preceded by

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_McKeithen" title="Fox McKeithen" class="mw-redirect">Fox McKeithen</a></td><td rowspan="1" width="40%" style=" text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_House_of_Representatives" title="Louisiana House of Representatives">Louisiana State Representative</a> from District 20

1988 – 1996</td><td rowspan="1" width="30%" align="center">Succeeded by

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lelon_Kenney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lelon Kenney (page does not exist)">Lelon Kenney</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="3" style=" border-top: 5px solid #cccccc;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Senate" title="Louisiana Senate" class="mw-redirect">Louisiana Senate</a></th></tr><tr style=" text-align: center;"><td rowspan="1" width="30%" align="center">Preceded by

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_D._Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve D. Thompson (page does not exist)">Steve D. Thompson</a></td><td rowspan="1" width="40%" style=" text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Senate" title="Louisiana State Senate">Louisiana State Senator</a> from District 32

1996 – 2008</td><td rowspan="1" width="30%" align="center">Succeeded by

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Riser" title="Neil Riser">Hartwood Caldwell "Neil" Riser, Jr.</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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