State Board of Ethics v. Fontenot

KEATY, Judge.

_JjThe appellant, the Louisiana Board of Ethics (hereinafter the BOE), has perfected this appeal from the ruling of the tidal court rejecting the BOE’s objection to the candidacy of the appellee, Scott A. Fonte-not, for the office of Mayor for the City of Eunice. For the reasons given below, we affirm the trial court’s ruling.

Mr. Fontenot was first elected to the office of Alderman, Ward 4, for the City of Eunice on October 2, 2010, and was commissioned for that office on January 1, 2011. He was re-elected to this position on November 4, 2014, and again was commissioned on…