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- Quentin D. Dastugue (born December 1955) is a founding partner and the chief executive officer of the New Orleans-based real estate firm Property One, Inc. , and a former four-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Dastugue (pronounced DAS TOOG) was elected as a Democrat to the state House in 1979 and 1983 as the District 82 representative for Jefferson Parish. In 1984, as he began his second term, he switched his affiliation to the Republican Party to support the reelection of U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush. As the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works, Dastugue authored and secured passage of the state Transportation Trust Fund and the TIMED program. In 1994, Dastugue received one of eleven national "Legislator of the Year" awards. In 1990, Dastugue announced that he would run as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in a bid to unseat popular Democratic incumbent J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. , of Shreveport. When the Republican State Central Committee endorsed state Senator Ben Bagert of New Orleans as the official party choice for senator, Dastugue abandoned plans to make the race. Bagert later withdrew from the contest, and Johnston defeated the remaining Republican hopeful, controversial state Representative David Duke of Jefferson Parish, a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1995, rather than seeking a fifth term in the legislature, Dastugue entered the gubernatorial race as the early official choice of the Republican state leadership. However, he withdrew from the governor's contest when he failed to make headway in the race to raise money. Thereafter, most GOP leaders coalesced behind state Senator Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr. , of St. Mary Parish, who switched from Democratic to Republican affiliation during the campaign. Two other Republicans, also former Democrats and former governors, were in the race, Charles Elson "Buddy" Roemer, III, who had upset the right-to-life contingent of the party, and David C. Treen. Ultimately, Foster won the election.
- Quentin D. Dastugue (nascut al desembre de 1955) és el fundador de l'empresa Property One, Inc de Nova Orleans. També és congressista de la Cambra de Representants de Louisiana pel Partit Demòcrata dels Estats Units entre el 1979 i el 1983. Al 1984, es va afiliar al Partit Republicà dels Estats Units per donar suport a la reelecció del president Ronald Reagan. Al 1990 va intentar assolir el càrrec de senador dels Estats Units, però no ho va aconseguir. També fou candidat pel càrrec de Governador de Louisiana, cosa que tampoc aconseguí.
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