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<p>BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana Senate voted 33-6 Wednesday to fire embattled Senate Secretary Mike Baer, who in January sent e-mail with sexually explicit jokes to legislators, their staff, the governor's office and others with legislative e-mail addresses.</p> <p>Within minutes, senators voted unanimously to elevate assistant secretary Glenn Koepp to the $123,000 a year job, the Senate's top employee.</p>

<p>BATON ROUGE - Louisiana Senate Secretary Mike Baer made a racially offensive remark on live television election night Saturday.</p> <p>But black senators said they would not ask for his resignation. And WAFB-TV apologized to its viewers throughout Monday.</p> <p>Baer, who is elected by senators as the state Senate's chief administrative officer, also apologized.</p>

<p>Gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal visited Monroe this week to outline his plan for changing Louisiana's image.</p> <p>Jindal, R-Baton Rouge, released the plan during his "Good Government Tour" across the state. The plan includes three main themes - making state and local government more open and accountable to the public, aggressively addressing potential conflicts of interest and responsibly managing spending of hard-earned taxpayer dollars.</p>