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Field was elected to the four years remaining in Blanco's term in 1996 and elected to two six-year terms of his own in 2000 and 2006. [1] His District 2 represents nearly one million inhabitants in portions of East Baton Rouge,Iberville,Livingston St. Martin,and West Baton Rouge parishes as well as all of East Feliciana,Iberia,Lafayette,Lafourche,St. Mary,Terrebonne,and West Feliciana parishes. [2] One of his assistants was Donald Trahan,a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2004 to 2008 for Lafayette and Vermilion parishes. [3]
Field won the 1996 special election to replace Blanco on the PSC with 52 percent of 344,919 votes cast. He won his first full term in 2000 with 68 percent of the 139,149 votes cast. [2]
Field did not seek reelection in 2012 because of stated family obligations. As a commissioner,Field worked to procure $2 billion in refunds and rate reductions to consumers:"I am especially proud that Louisiana's residential electric rates are currently among the lowest in the nation." [2] PSC chairman Foster Campbell,a Democrat from Bossier City,said that Field "always had the consumers in mind. But he wanted to be fair to the big companies." [2]
Five candidates,including three Republicans,sought the seat that Field vacated. The runaway winner in the race was former lieutenant governor Scott Angelle of Breaux Bridge,who finished with 213,485 votes (57.2 percent) and carried all thirteen parishes in District 2. The Democrat Forest Wright finished second in the balloting with 76,336 votes (20.5 percent),and Republican State Representative Erich Ponti of Baton Rouge,trailed in third place with 43,287 ballots (11.6 percent). Two other contenders,a Republican and a No Party contender,shared the remaining 11 percent of the vote. [4]
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