Taylor Barras
Commissioner of Administration, State of Louisiana
Who they are
Louisiana's Commissioner of Administration, a former House Speaker, banker and Iberia Parish assessor with an LSU accounting degree.
Stands for
• Landry fiscal agenda
• Lower income, broader sales taxes
• Tight agency spending control
• Opposed 2017 tax increases
• Cost-effective state government
Controversies
• 2017 budget gridlock
• Speaker resignation call
• Failure-as-Speaker critique