[Theodore R.]

Is Jock Scott running for the Alexander House seat? I did not know that the Republicans were contesting that race. Scott's father, the late Nauman Scott, was the Nixon-appointed federal judge who ordered massive cross-parish school busing to achieve racial balance in the 1970s and 1980s.

[Theodore R.]

I believe that Scott ran unsuccessfully for this seat (in a reconfigured district) in 1985, when the popular Democrat Gillis W. Long died on the day of Reagan's second inaugural.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Is Jock Scott running for the Alexander House seat?"

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Yes, he's running. According to Politics1.com, Lee Fletcher, Kay Katz and Robert Barham are also possible candidates, but none of them have declared yet. I think Cooksey already said he wouldn't seek his old House seat.

Was it Jock Scott or his dad who ran for the House in 1985 and who organized Rapides Parish for Carter in 1976?