Elbert Guillory has announced that he is a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
Guillory has promised to more aggressively market ALL of Louisiana, including Cajun Country, Central Louisiana, and North Louisiana. This is becoming necessary because tourism is already down in New Orleans and is falling even further because of the persistent crime wave.
Guillory also promised to have a legislative staff which will, using his extensive legislative experience, identify specific State problems and propose legislative solutions to those problems. The first problems he plans to address are the educational disaster in Louisiana’s public schools and the violent crime in Louisiana’s streets and communities.
Guillory said, “I don’t need a long-term career or a stepping stone to some other office. I just want 4 years to address the problems and make the changes needed by my beloved Home State.”
Guillory made the announcement on February 9, 2023.
About Guillory
Elbert Guillory was born in Opelousas, Louisiana, and graduated from J.S. Clark High School. He became active in the Civil Rights Movement during the late 1950’s then joined the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He finished college while in the Navy and was accepted into several of the nation’s top law schools. He graduated from Rutgers Law School and taught at Rutgers Law.
He worked for the state governments of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and at age 29, he ran his first state agency in Maryland. He was also chosen to run cabinet level agencies for Illinois and Seattle, Washington, and to work in the Nixon administration in Washington, D.C
Guillory spent 50 years as a criminal defense lawyer and served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana Senate. He was Legislator of the Year twice in his first 6 years and was admitted to the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame for his work in law and government.
