March 26, 2026

Judge Blair Downing Edwards | Local Leaders The Podcast #222

Judge Blair Downing Edwards | Local Leaders The Podcast #222
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In this powerful episode, Jim Chapman sits down with Judge Blair Downing Edwards as she discusses her decision to run for the Louisiana Supreme Court. Joining Jim on this episode is also Livingston Parish Assessor Jeff Taylor who provides his insight (and a full endorsement) of Judge Edwards who has been legendary in both her start as a Juvenile Court Judge to her current status on Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals. 

You can learn more about Judge Edwards and her candidacy at 
https://judgeblairedwards.com/bio/

Timestamps:
01:49 Judge Edwards Journey to the Court
08:00 A Calling to Serve 11:50 Mentorship and Guidance
15:25 The Importance of Education 21:44 Support and Community
25:00 Decision to Run
31:01 Standing Your Ground
34:44 Election Details

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Local Leaders the podcast.

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I am super honored today to have two guests on

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the show. One of them you see with me all

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the time on another podcast, and of course he wants

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As a matter of fact, he is famously known for

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saying he was Republican when Republican wasn't cool. That is

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Assessor Jeff Taylor. So welcome to Local Leaders.

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Thank you, Jim. And that is a true statement. I

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was the first parish wide elected Republican in Livingston Parish

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and so when I first started, it was nothing but

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Democrat in the whole every office. In this past time,

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we didn't have but two Democrats run for any office

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in Livingston Parish.

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So yeah, it's pretty.

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Cool to be the first. Yeah, the trendsetter.

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And of course to your right we have the I

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would say, the famous judge in the Appeals Court, and

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that is Judge Blair Edwards. So first of all, I

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want to welcome you to the show. I'm honored to

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have you.

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Well, thank you so much.

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I'm honored to be here actually and honored to be

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sitting next to Jeff Taylor.

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Yeah, sure that he was one. He was one of my.

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First supporters in Livingston Parish about eighteen nineteen years ago.

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Yeah, yeah, very good. Well he you know, he knows.

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Talent when he sees it, that's what they say.

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So glad to have you on.

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And we're going to take the viewers and listeners through

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kind of a learn all about Judge Blair Edwards session

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here And I want to start off by maybe if

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you could share with the listeners a little bit of

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your journey. I heard a story that you told on

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I guess it was Facebook reels or something at one

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point where you discussed your journey a little bit in

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your path to the court system.

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Can you share a little bit of that?

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Yes, And that sounded kind of strange like my path

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to the court system, right, It surely could. And I

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can tell you that as a as a young girl

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in sixth grade, I you know, wrote papers on being

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an attorney and interviewed attorney and that was something that

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was you know, certainly I've always thought about. However, my

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life took somewhat of a detour, and you know, choices

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and consequences are definitely a thing and certainly have become

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my motto. I was pregnant at sixteen and then you know,

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you can kind of become self of and you can

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become a victim in your own.

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Mind, like, oh goodness, you know what am I going

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to do? Well?

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My family never believed that I should not go to college.

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It wasn't kind of like are you going to college?

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It's where you're going to college. And then I thought, Okay,

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my dreams are over. Everything's gone. But I decided I

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didn't want to live that way. I did not want

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to be a statistic and I guess at that time

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in my life that's probably not how I processed it,

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but that's how I kept moving.

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Right.

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So, back then, you didn't become pregnant and be single.

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You married. That was the proper thing to do. And

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so we got married.

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We were very young.

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He had a football scholarship to Nicols State University, and I,

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being the young pregnant teenager, of course, was not going

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to let him go by himself because I was going

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to change his world, change my world, and this baby

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was going to change our world.

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Wo And that's not quite how it happened.

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But I went to Nichols and certainly focused on my

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child and focused on my education, and I.

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Took twenty one twenty four hours and had.

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To get out as soon as I could because I

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had a family to take care of.

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And so that's what I did.

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I graduated from Nichols and I had a bachelor's degree

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in accounting, and then I just started working right and

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working through and of course, being very very young, the

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marriage didn't work out. And he's a great, a good

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grandfather to you know, my grandchildren now.

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But so I went.

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I was an accountant and I went to work in

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downtown New Orleans. I worked for Energy. First, I worked

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for Texaco. When Texaco merged with Chevron, the counting department

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moved to Houston. By that time, goodness, that was years later.

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I had two children and certainly did not want to

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move to Houston without my support system here in Louisiana.

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So I went to.

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Work for Energy, did the compliance regulatory parent accounting for Energy,

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and realized that accounting is a personality as much as

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it is a career. And so I realized it was

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not my personality.

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So I don't come off as the typical accountant.

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No, No, I enjoyed it, but not your typical account

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So what I did was I reached back into way

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long ago and what was it that I really saw

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for myself, and I wanted to be an attorney, and

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that's whatever I wanted to do. So what I did

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was took the outside, applied to Loyola Law School and Texaco,

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I mean not Toxico, but Energy asked me that don't

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leave work part time, will give your benefits and with

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the children. That was certainly something that interests me. So

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I continued working there part time and I went to

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night school at Loyola for the first year. The issue

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became that they did not take away the auditing, you know,

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and the compliance regulatory which happened three nights a month

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until about twelve o'clock at night. You know, you would

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be downtown and we would you know, work through and

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get all of that done.

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Wow.

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Well, law school did not.

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They did not excuse me for those three days, and

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it became a little overwhelming and I had to be

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in court, and so I transferred to the day program,

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moved to a meet which is where I was from,

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to have support. My mother was living in Texas at

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the time, so I didn't have her to help, but

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I had such a support system. Just like in Livingston.

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There are people they support you they want you to

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do well. And so Daniel, my husband, Now we were

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in the same kindergarten class. We grew up around the

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lot from each other, and he had been my best friend.

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He would help me with the kids I would leave

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transferred into the day program. I would leave at five o'clock,

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four o'clock in the morning, and he would be there

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and get him after school. And so it just was

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a natural and going through what I went through, I

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wanted to have a best friend as a partner. And

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we ended up getting married, and I continued to go

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to law school finished in three years because I took

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extra classes to make sure that I finished in three

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years because we had a family to support, and he

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was a prosecutor for ten years, you know, and it.

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Was just a very It was hard. It was difficult.

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Today I look back on it, I don't even think about,

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you know, was it hard?

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Was it not hard?

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I guess you just become on autopalote. And that's what

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we did and grew our family. And then there became

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a seat open, and I said, you know, I think

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I'm gonna I'm going to do that.

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It's with children and families.

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And I worked a lot with habitat for humanity after

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Hurricane Katrina, and just saw the children, the families in need.

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I saw ugly parts of what was going on that

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I probably could not imagine. I had a supportive family,

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but not one that said, hey, here's your silver spoon, right,

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we're going to make your life okay. It was more

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of this is what you chose, and now you make

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the best of it. And so I cannot even say that.

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You know, people say, oh, I made a mistake. I

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did not make a mistake. I have an incredible daughter

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who's forty one years old, who is who's a nurse,

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who is the absolute best mother in the world, to

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two grain babies that I have, my son, my daughter

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or other, to Daniel's two children. You know, we have

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had to navigate a whole lot, but in the end

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the rewards were unbelievable to us.

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But running for office.

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Daniel had been the sheriff, and certainly his family they

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were not in favor of me running for judge. However,

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I felt it as a calling and as a passion,

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and I just said, you know, I'm sorry. I'm not

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running for family names or politics. This is something that

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is in my core belief and so I did it.

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And I've been representing Livingston and the surrounding parishes for.

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Almost eighteen years.

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They have blessed me by saying, great job, because I

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have run unopposed all but the first ran unopposed.

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That's huge, that's huge, And I tells you what kind

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of job you're doing.

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Right, And I ran unopposed for the first circuit, which

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included the Saint Timmany, Washington and parish areas and plus

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you know East Lyciana, Westley, Shianna. And then of course

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my core area would just Tangi, Livingston and Saint Lena.

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So I've been on the Court of Appeals. My opinions

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speak for themselves, my core beliefs. I certainly could not

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have gotten through all of this without being a Christian

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and having a church home. That was certain, that was

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very important to me, important for me to rear my

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children in. And so I'm just absolutely so blessed for sure.

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Yeah, And one thing about your story that really stuck

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out to me is is.

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Being a judge. It has a lot to do with

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decision making. And if you look at.

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Your life, you you could have zigged when you zagged

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to sort of speak, you made the right decisions at

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the right times to put you on a path where

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you're at now, and you are obviously very successful. One

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thing I can tell you is that you are looked

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at as a mentor to many. I have never had

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the pleasure of meeting you till today, but I felt

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like I knew. As a matter of fact, Judge Jenny

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fo who's been on this show several times, spoke so

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highly of you that I wanted to meet you, and

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so I'm excited to have you on today. But mentorship

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speaks volumes, and your decision making along the way seems

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like it was the right decisions to make. A lot

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of people out there listening to this right now, you

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know they they will see what you did and may

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give someone your life's not over because you know you're

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pregnant at sixteen years old.

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A lot of people think that.

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I absolutely and you know I've used my story as

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my platform. Of course, if you don't use your story,

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somebody else will, right. But I use it as my

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platform not because I'm proud that I became pregnant at sixteen,

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because certainly it was a It was a huge challenge

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and a huge challenge in my family, and I'm sure

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it was embarrassing to my family members. But the one

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thing that I know thought, especially after going through what

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I went through, after being you know, working and running

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for judge and all of these things, the one thing

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I said is, you know what, And I tell the children,

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or would tell the children in my courtroom.

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You know, people don't get to write the rest of

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your story unless you let them.

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That's right.

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And you know there are all kinds of how many

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chapters you may have. The bottom line is you're in

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control of it.

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Now.

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What the decisions you make, decide if you're going to

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have a fairy tale ending right or if there's going

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to be a tragedy. And I can tell you that

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I looked at my family and I thought to myself,

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you know what, I want my children to live this life.

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And I'm not talking about it life of money and

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fame and fortune.

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It had nothing to do with that.

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It was a life full of love and a life

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making good decisions and being responsible and being successful. And

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success comes in all kinds of different packages. But I

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think at the end of the day, when you can

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sit down with your family and you can pray together,

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and you can have a meal together, and they're making

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good choices and they're good to their children. I think

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that to me is success. But if I can be

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a mentor and guide other people that have come in

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my life and show them and tell them your life's

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not over at the deepest, darkest points of their life,

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that we're going to be here. We're going to protect you,

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we're going to hold your hand, we're going to do

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all of those things. And not even just to the

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people that come in because their kids have delinquent charges

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or are abused in neglected children, but also the people

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that work with me.

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I had a little I say a little girls.

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She's my daughter's you know, younger than my oldest daughter,

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but you know, and she was going through a horrible

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time of her life and she was working for the

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clerk's office and she was my minute clerk. And I

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looked at her and I said, why are you here?

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Why are you not in law school? And she said,

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I can't I have it. I'm a single mother with

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a child. And I said, well, then you cannot not

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do it like you owe yourself and owe your children

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right to do the best you can be.

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You can take out loans, we will get you in school.

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We will do these sorts of things, and you know,

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it's to be there for people that are that can't

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stand up for themselves at that particular time. And I've

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just had the most incredible journey I've had just working

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with drug courts, because you don't just working with that child,

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You're working with these families and everybody I believe has

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been touched by addiction or something to that nature. And

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so it's amazing when you see the transformation and you

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see kids that are getting their diplomas or going to

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college when they were truant or not showing up for

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school eighty days a year.

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You know.

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But it's been an amazing journey. I'm very blessed. I'm

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very blessed to have these opportunities. And I know you

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say everybody has them, everybody doesn't realize that they can

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take hold of these opportunities. And I just want people

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to realize that if they can see that I can

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do it, then anybody can do it one hundred percent.

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And you know, you mentioned truancy, and that's something I've

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seen a lot of stats on truancy, and it's amazing

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the difference just keeping kids in school will do for

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community in relation to juvenile crime.

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Yes, so we have that's right.

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We've had a truancy, you know, court, and I feel

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very strongly in that. And I can remember there was

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a time where, well there was more than one time,

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but this particular time putting this mother in jail after

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telling her, like over months, you cannot sabotage your child's future,

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and she would get, you know, doctor's excuses from this doctor.

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So I said, poened the doctor, and the doctor came

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in with an attorney, you know, fearful, and I said,

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I'm going to port you to the medical review panel,

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like you cannot keep writing.

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You know, these excuses for these kids not to be

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in school.

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This child is missed over eighty days, Like mom, either

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she's gonna go or you're going to go to jail.

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You don't have the right to sabotage your child's future.

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And that's what I did.

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And I got calls, you know, from elected officials, and

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I told him, I said, you know, the.

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Principal showed up in his time off.

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It was like during the Easter holidays or Thanksgiving holidays,

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I think, and they called me seven thirty in the morning,

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you know, We're getting all kinds of phone calls, and

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I says, you know what, I'm the one that made

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this decision, and I had big shoulders, like I've got

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to do this for this child. And I told him,

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I said, just telling that crazy blond ladies not listening, right,

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I mean, I did this and put her in jail,

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and I'm going to stick by this because I want

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her to understand. And certainly she didn't have it wasn't bad,

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but her daughter did not want to go to school right,

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and she seemingly was so distraught. And finally this little girl,

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smart girl, her life opened up and her mother did too.

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And it certainly wasn't in an effort to harm the

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mother or whatever, but it was to open her eyes

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to realize how important it is because if kids can't

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read by the eight third grade, the propensity for them

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to drop out is change is significant.

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Right, Yeah, it's very important. Jeff Taylor, Yes, sir, you

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were great friends with this lady.

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Right here, I am, and.

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I want you to talk a little bit about about

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out Judge Edwards and and uh what you find is

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appealing about her uh seeking a Louisiana Supreme Court.

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Judgeship well, first off, she said something a few minutes

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ago that I think people need to pay attention. She said,

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I will not allow you to sabotage your child's future. Yeah,

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that's huge, huge, and you just stop and you think

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about that. It took somebody with a lot of nerve

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to make that stand because, like she said, getting calls everywhere,

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people are pulling you, pulling, pull. The thing that I

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found out about Judge Blair is this simple thing that

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she follows the law. She does not waiver to any

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calls here and there. She follows the law. What does

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the law say, whether that be her family, whether that

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be her friends. Look, I've called her on things before

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because I get calls on a lot of stuff.

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We was talking about this a little bit earlier.

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All the things I get calls on, I get one

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side of it, and I'll call and said, this is

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what I.

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Know, this is what I've heard.

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Now you're going to have to find out what the

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full story is, but this is what I know. The

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thing that I do know that she goes in there

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and she does her homework. But something I want people

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to understand real quickly is they want to keep on

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saying somebody her being on the juvenile Court Court of

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Appeals not juvenile. She ran unopposed for that, so people

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obviously thought that she had everything that was needed to

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go on the Court of Appeals. It's like I've told

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you a few times, it's amazing to me. For three

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years and about six months, people think I'm the greatest

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thing in the world, except for the two months where

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the tax bills go out. But then all of a sudden,

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because somebody wants to run for an office. They could

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have went to church with me Sunday, went to lunch

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with me Sunday, But all of a sudden, because somebody

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else wants to run, I become a bad person.

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This woman is.

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A great, great example of what life should be. She

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didn't let circumstances sabotage her child's life. She didn't let

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circumstances sabotage her life. But all of a sudden, because

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now somebody else wants to run, which, by the way,

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it's stuck in my crawl. You and I have talked.

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About this before. Sure, when is it our turn?

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When is it the people of the twenty first or

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Livingston Parish stand up and say you know what I know?

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Every time we turn around, somebody is coming to us

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to support somebody else, but when it's our turn, they

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never come to support ours. Right, So Livingstone, I grew

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up in a little place called co Yal. Some of

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you've heard of it, some of you have not. Some

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of the greatest people you are ever going to meet

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in your life. And people always say, well, you're just

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from co Yal, just from Coye. Let me tell you something.

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I'm from Coye and I am extremely proud. I'm from Livingston, Paris,

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and it is time that we stand up and say,

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you know what, we deserve that seat just as much

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as you do.

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We deserve that judge just as much as you do.

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We deserve the twenty first Judicial District, we deserve that

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Supreme Court, and we're going to come take it because

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we want to stand up for our people. I have

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witnessed this lady for twenty years. A little side note here,

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our daughters went to college together at Rhodes College.

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So they knew each other then.

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So I would run into Blair when she wasn't judge, Okay,

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she was mom. I got to witness that. I got

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to see her and her husband at every function that

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we went to so you get to know somebody after

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a while and you know that it's not just a

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political thing, it is a core thing.

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And when she.

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Tells you for her core that she has pulled herself up,

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she pulled herself up. And I'm in great admiration for her.

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I was with her when she ran way back when,

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when we were both a little bit younger, and I'm

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with her now and I'm telling you that the people

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living from Parish are fortunate to have somebody like Blair

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Edwards as their judge.

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The people of the Appeals.

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District is very fortunate to have her because she is

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going to follow the law. It's not a deal to

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where she's going to flip a coin. It's not a

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deal where she's on the bench and she lets people

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go and then they go out and commit crimes. I

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know of what I speak here because I've watched her.

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I think she's a great lady. I think it's time

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that the people of Livingston Parish stand up and say

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it's our turn.

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It's our turn.

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When, if not now, when when do we start saying

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this is us, whether it be for Senator, congressman, whatever,

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why not us?

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Is it?

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Because we are in a situation to where we don't

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believe we deserve it.

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I do.

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I believe that Livingston Parish deserves everything that we can

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possibly get. And we are out there and Judge, I'm

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going to tell you now, I've told you this on

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many occasions, but you.

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Endorse you.

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I will be out there.

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If you need somebody helping you put up signs, I

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will be out there putting up signs. If you need

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somebody shaking hands with you, I will be there putting

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up signs and shaking hands with you. I'm not as

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young as I used to be. Those signs hurt me

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a little bit more than they used to. But I

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want people to know that this lady has my full

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support because I know what she does. I don't always

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give my full support to people. People ask me all

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the time, would you come out, would you come out?

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Would you come out? No, this lady right here deserves

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our support. She deserves Livingston support, She deserves the twenty

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first Judicial District support, she deserves the whole Appeals Court

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because she's been in there and they've seen her work.

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They don't have to guess at her work. It's not

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like she's running for the first time, and we say, well,

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I wonder what she's gonna do.

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I know what she's gonna do.

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She's gonna follow that law. And if that law, if

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I go in there and ask her to do something

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that's not with the law, she's gonna tell Jeff Tayley, no, right,

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it's not for who endorses her, it's what the loss is.

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And you you have my full support.

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I appreciate that so much. I'm honored for sure.

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Well, and I'll and i'll first of all, I agree

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with you one hundred percent, of course, but I will

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also say that fair and impartial is an important thing,

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obviously for a judge and any in any aspect of

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the court. Your your seat that you're you were running

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for was vacated by Judge Will Crane who moved to the.

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Federal court system. Yes, how much thought.

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Did it take for you to make that decision?

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You know it was a lot. And I'll tell you why.

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Being on the first Circuit is very different than the

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district court, because I'm not it's not a constant thing, right,

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I mean, there's a lot of work to be done there.

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It's one of the busiest court of appeals, but the

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work is different in that I have my reading materials,

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I have my briefs, I have all of that, and

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I can you know, read that at home. It's not

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like you have to be somewhere all the time. You

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have your oral argument days, you have your writ conference days,

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you have your administrative conference days. But for the most part,

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if I want to pick up and go somewhere, I

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have the things I need to do my job. And

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so with my husband retiring from the sheriff's office for

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twenty years, we had kind of gotten, not even settled

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into this is going to be good. You know, we're

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just gonna I'm going to be there for eight years,

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and I'm going to have all my reading and reading

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is a lot different than having to be somewhere right

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on the clock, and so, you know, being relaxed and

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peace of mind and all of these things kind of

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started settling in. And then when I heard that you know,

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oh goodness, now we have a vacated Supreme Court seat.

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Well, the first thing I did was check with my.

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Actually, there are three other females on the Court of

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Appeals in our Court of Appeals district, and to check

485
00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:14.000
with them to say, is anybody running for this? I mean,

486
00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:18.160
is anybody gonna take this on? And I heard a

487
00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:21.319
lot of you know, district court judges, and not that

488
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.200
these people aren't smart, intelligent or that kind of thing,

489
00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.160
but however, being on the Court of Appeals, on an

490
00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:33.039
appellate review court is very different. You're not the big

491
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:35.440
guy in the courtroom. You don't make all the decisions,

492
00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:38.440
you don't get to, you know, decide everything.

493
00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.440
The bottom line is, you have other people that you

494
00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.279
have to work with. It's a very different environment.

495
00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:50.640
And so at that point, I said, you know, I

496
00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:51.839
just feel this calling.

497
00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:52.839
I prayed about it.

498
00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.480
I thought, you know, it's gonna be a little unrest

499
00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:59.400
with my grandchildren and my family. But then I just thought,

500
00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:02.880
you know, some things aren't about me, and some things

501
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.440
are about the process and my core values and what

502
00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:07.440
I believe.

503
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:09.000
That someone needs to do.

504
00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:12.880
And so at that point said to my husband, I

505
00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:14.640
think this and he said, are you really going.

506
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:15.440
To do this? Now?

507
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.160
Are you really going to do this? And I said,

508
00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:23.319
you know, I am, like I'm dedicated. I had a

509
00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:25.519
bunch of people calling me, as I'm sure people were

510
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:28.039
calling everybody else trying to line up their person.

511
00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:28.400
Right.

512
00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:31.519
Well, I can tell you that I didn't do it

513
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:34.240
for someone that called me. I did it for after

514
00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:39.160
prayer and consideration in realizing that we need somebody that

515
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:44.039
has Appellet review experience. And not only do we need

516
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:47.160
somebody with a pellet review experience, but they have the

517
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:51.559
programmatic stuff. We take care of all the budgetary for

518
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.440
the budget for the entire judiciary, specialty courts or something

519
00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.400
that I believe in, And where do we place our money,

520
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.559
what programs do we place our money? Where's the most

521
00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:07.440
bang for your book, so to speak. And also transparency

522
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:11.200
with the judiciary, I think is key. You hear about judges,

523
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:13.960
you know, going rogue or political activists or making all

524
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:19.880
these decisions and that are not appropriate. Our judges doing

525
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.759
things that you know, we should be held to a

526
00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:24.759
higher standard. We're the ones that are issuing sentences. We're

527
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:27.960
the ones that are saying, you know, these consequences need

528
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.960
to be in place. But then we don't get to

529
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:34.720
be absolved for making you know, and I'm not saying

530
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:35.480
bad decisions.

531
00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:37.160
Sometimes you're going to make decisions that.

532
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:41.839
Aren't popular, sure, but I'm talking about things that are unethical,

533
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.400
things that are illegal, And I think that the judiciary

534
00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:47.400
has to be quick, swift.

535
00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:48.599
And transparent with those things.

536
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.720
And that's something that I'm certainly really wanting to get

537
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:53.640
into the weeds of.

538
00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:58.480
Yeah, Jim, if you've been reading the paper a little bit,

539
00:28:58.519 --> 00:29:01.200
you see where the governor is talking about how we

540
00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:05.119
need to bring some of these rogue judges into because

541
00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:07.640
what happens a lot of times is when the judge

542
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.640
gets in there, they make these decisions. And like Blair said,

543
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:13.079
there's a lot of times that.

544
00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:14.079
You just make a decision.

545
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:17.559
It's not popular, sure, you know one of those things,

546
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:21.279
but there's sometimes that you make a real error. And

547
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:24.119
so that's what the governor is talking about when he

548
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:28.759
starts talking about that very thing of we need to

549
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:31.559
bring these judges into just compliance.

550
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:32.920
I don't know the word, but you've got to bring

551
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:33.160
them in.

552
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:38.440
You can't let people go in a court system just

553
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.400
because you may know some of their family. You can't

554
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.079
let people go just because you think that this is

555
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:45.640
not the way.

556
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:46.920
What does the law say.

557
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:49.480
If the law says they should be locked up, we

558
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:50.240
should lock.

559
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:54.440
Them up, period. And I know.

560
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:56.720
That this one's going to follow the law. I know

561
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.759
there's questions about what the opponent has done up in

562
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.799
the district that he's at, and some people have been

563
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:07.039
let go as far as I know, And so those

564
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:09.319
are things that we got to pay attention to. But

565
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.680
another thing is on the court, on the Supreme Court,

566
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:20.480
the female perspective is very important. We're a male dominated. Look,

567
00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:23.039
I've got a strong mother, strong wife, and a strong daughter.

568
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.319
I believe that women can do everything in this world,

569
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.279
and I support them one hundred percent. If not now

570
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.160
when we've got a chance to put a female on

571
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.440
that Supreme Court, and I think it's time.

572
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:39.480
Well, and I want to quote you.

573
00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:43.160
Something that you said kind of spoke to me and

574
00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:47.160
I think it speaks to what you would do on

575
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:51.440
the Louisiana Supreme Court. And your quote was, my parents

576
00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:54.839
and grandparents raised me to be a strong conservative, even

577
00:30:54.920 --> 00:31:00.000
while surrounding surrounded by folks with opposing views, even family,

578
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.640
I've never lost my bearings. Some call it stubborn. I

579
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:07.240
call it backbone. I stand my ground, aimed straight, and

580
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:10.839
keep a sense of humor about it. If you want

581
00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:14.480
a Supreme Court judge who has convictions and want budge heck,

582
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:16.440
that's been the story in my life.

583
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:19.640
I like that absolutely. That has been the story of

584
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.240
my life.

585
00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:25.279
And I think you can look at who I'm married to,

586
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.920
you can look at his family. I think it's only

587
00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:30.440
fair that you look at me. Yeah, you know that,

588
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.160
you look at me. And when I'm standing up in

589
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:36.000
a room full of people that don't share my views

590
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:39.480
and I still stand up, I think that's a lot

591
00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:42.720
better than surrounding yourself with like minded people because you

592
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:44.279
don't have to stand up for anything.

593
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:45.680
You don't have to fight for anything.

594
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.000
Yeah, you don't have to make an organy.

595
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:48.640
Now, you don't have to make an argument.

596
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.480
But I stand up regardless if it's my family, if

597
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.319
it's my in laws, if it's people in general. I

598
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.319
want them to know what I stand for, who I am,

599
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:00.640
and I don't.

600
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.119
Falter with that.

601
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:03.359
You stand on your own merits.

602
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:04.119
Stand on my own merits.

603
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:06.960
A stand on the fact that, yes, I was sixteen

604
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.279
and pregnant, and let me tell you how hard it was,

605
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:09.960
and let me.

606
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:11.640
Tell you why you shouldn't do that.

607
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:16.519
And however, if you make one mistake, you don't have

608
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:19.400
to make another one, right, right, it's not what you do,

609
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:22.680
it's what you do after. And I think that's very important,

610
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.799
and that certainly has been my guiding Like for sure.

611
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.119
Yeah, and you have a lot of support out there.

612
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.359
Obviously, Assessor Jeff Taylor endorses you, but also the R Pack,

613
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:38.759
the Livingston R Pack. Yes, you picked up an endorsement

614
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:44.240
from the Saint Tammany Sheriff for Andy Smith Noel Norman.

615
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:48.319
So yes, So that is someone I highly respect and

616
00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:51.720
he is known, I believe for doing the right thing,

617
00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:56.200
even when it's not popular. He's a very you know.

618
00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.240
I mean, he's out there, he's on the radio, he

619
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:02.799
does these things. And he didn't endorse me. People say, oh, well,

620
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:06.000
he's from Jefferson Parish. Well, I haven't just dealt with

621
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.559
sheriffs because of my husband. I've dealt with them on

622
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:13.960
many other things. Seminars speaking to the Louisiana Sheriff's Association,

623
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:20.319
going into Angola, learning about the whole criminal what's going

624
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.680
on the criminal minds. I've become a trauma practitioner understand

625
00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:27.440
litigates in the courtroom, regardless if it's criminal or families

626
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:31.319
or even personal injury litigant. I mean to understand where's

627
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.200
all this coming from. And I've worked a lot with

628
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:39.039
Sheriff Norman and I have a great amount of respect

629
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:41.640
for him and I do know he doesn't give out endorsements.

630
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.039
Rarely does he give out endorsements. But he knows my

631
00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:48.960
work ethic, he knows what I've put into the system.

632
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:51.319
And when I say the system, I mean the entire system.

633
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:55.240
And that was I was very humbled by his endorsement,

634
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:55.720
for sure.

635
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.319
Yeah, it is. It's a big deal.

636
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:02.759
And you mentioned and obviously you're married to a former sheriff,

637
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.640
but you're back to pretty good by the entire law

638
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:08.400
enforcement community as a whole.

639
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:11.159
Yes, people that have worked with me and the sheriffs

640
00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:14.559
and the deputies, but the police officers and the deputies

641
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:18.079
are where that's where it is, right, that's who's out there,

642
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:20.719
and they can tell you that.

643
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.360
Look at night, when they needed me, they called my

644
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:24.960
cell phone.

645
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:27.239
I would get up, go in the bathroom so that

646
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:28.880
I didn't wake up people in the house, and I

647
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.599
would just talk them through things. And I was very

648
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:36.039
accessible to them and helpful to them. And so I'm

649
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.920
very proud of working with law enforcement and so respectful

650
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:41.159
of the job that they do.

651
00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:42.840
Very good, very good.

652
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:46.280
Jeff Taylor, when is this election?

653
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:47.880
We're going to ask you the.

654
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:49.559
Whole projection is in May.

655
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:54.199
It's a Republican if you remember, now we have the

656
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:57.440
closed primaries, and so the way it will be is

657
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:03.239
because there's only two that we decided in May, so

658
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:06.119
and I don't even know if they have a Democrat

659
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:07.679
on the other side that's going to be running. So

660
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.519
this race can be decided, will be decided and May

661
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.719
because no one else qualified. So early voting though, starts

662
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:18.400
two or three weeks before that. So you need to

663
00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:21.119
remember if you can't make it out for the election day, which.

664
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.559
The election day is what day, May sixteen, May.

665
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:25.199
Sixteenth, If you can't make it that, look at the

666
00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:28.920
early voting second through the ninth. You can do the

667
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:29.599
early voting.

668
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:32.960
Yeah, there's an opportunity. I always can encourage.

669
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:35.360
There is no reason that people because they have it

670
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:37.360
here in Livingston Paris, they got it at the courthouse,

671
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:39.320
and they also have it over here in Dealing Springs

672
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:42.480
at the library. There's no reason that we shouldn't have

673
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.159
a big turnout for somebody that's our on.

674
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:46.760
We should be there.

675
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:50.000
So, yeah, it's in May, and it's closed primary. Now

676
00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:53.039
I believe that it's Republicans and no party can vote

677
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:56.960
in so it's not necessarily a real closed primary. But Yeah,

678
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.320
we're getting out there and making sure that people come

679
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:01.079
out there and vote.

680
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:02.679
And if you.

681
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:05.000
See us out there putting up signs and you see

682
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:07.960
Baron her husband and a family putting a give you

683
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:09.960
a little honk on the horn and give her some

684
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:12.639
encouragement because it's it's tough when you get out there,

685
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.320
because what you're doing when you put your name on

686
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.039
that dotted line, you're asking people decide whether they like

687
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:20.480
you or not.

688
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.760
That's what you do. That's so do they like you enough?

689
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.280
Very true? It's very true.

690
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:27.880
And so you're putting yourself out there, and it's easy

691
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:31.000
to take shots at politicians and judges and things like that.

692
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:33.159
It's easy in this part of the game and we

693
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:35.800
all just roll with and everything. But it's awfully nice

694
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.599
when you see people out there and say, you know what,

695
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:41.639
I know you, I know your character. I'm gonna support you. Yeah,

696
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:44.039
it's rawfully nice because you got enough of the other side.

697
00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:45.400
That's right, that's right.

698
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:47.719
Any any final thoughts, Judge.

699
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:52.239
Yes, please vote May sixteenth, and preferably May second through

700
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:52.800
the ninth.

701
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:53.960
Please vote.

702
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:55.599
I would love your vote and support, and I'd be

703
00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:59.840
honored to serve Livingston Parish in this capacity.

704
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:03.480
Absolutely and again just honored that you came on. Glad

705
00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:07.679
to finally meet you in Parson really do appreciate it.

706
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:12.119
Assessor Jeff Taylor, thank you as always for coming on.

707
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:17.159
We love to sit down and just talk together, so we.

708
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:18.760
Really do appreciate it. Again.

709
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:23.800
We're gonna put Judge Blair Edward's website in the description

710
00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:28.639
of this podcast so you can click learn whatever more

711
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.800
information that you need on the good Judge. And until

712
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:35.920
next time, I'm Jim Chapman with local leaders of the podcast,

713
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:40.639
reminding you love your community, support local business and local judges,

714
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:41.800
and keep leading.

715
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:42.760
Thank you very much,