<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>