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Dear Mr. Hawkland:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to the status of a person elected to a state central committee. You ask whether a person elected to a state central committee of a recognized political party is a "public officer".

We find the observations of the Louisiana Supreme Court inLouisiana Republican Party v. Foster, 674 So.2d 225 (La. 1996) pertinent to your inquiry. The political party and party members instituted suit challenging statutes providing for the method of electing members to the party's state central committee. In…