Party Switching
Adley served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980 to 1996. He vacated his legislative seat to run unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana in the 1995 primary election. He finished in seventh place, and the office was won by outgoing State Senator Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr., another convert to the Republican Party.
Adley said that he expects to work closely with Republican Governor Bobby Jindal. At a news conference in his native Bossier City, Adley said that regardless of party his focus in Baton Rouge, the state capital, has "always been conservative reform. I'm excited we have a new governor with the same philosophy, and I want to be as effective as possible in working with him." Adley noted that his becoming the sixteenth Republican state senator (among thirty-nine members) created a more bipartisan and balanced Senate. Within a few years thereafter, the Republicans gained a majority in the Louisiana State Senate.
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