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Foster Campbell
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner
Foster Campbell is an elected official, businessman and
farmer from Bossier Parish.
Campbell was elected to the District Five (North
Louisiana) seat on the state Public Service Commission in
November 2002, representing 24 parishes and nearly one
million people.
He served 27 years in the
Louisiana Senate representing District 36 in Northwest
Louisiana.
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Campbell owns and operates Campbell Insurance Agency
and Premier Insurance Agency, both of Bossier City.
He lives and raises cattle at Elm Grove in south
Bossier Parish. He has six children.
As a state senator Campbell led a three-year
campaign to regulate the rates charged by rural
electric cooperatives, lowering electric bills for a
million state residents. |
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In the mid-1980s he created the Bossier Educational
Excellence Fund for Bossier Parish schools from Louisiana
Downs racetrack revenues; the BEEF now contains $12
million raised from racetrack and casino revenues. Using
BEEF as a model, he created the $1-billion Louisiana
Educational Excellence Fund for local schools from the
state Tobacco Settlement. In 2001 he coauthored the "Do
Not Call" legislation protecting consumers from sales
calls at home.
At the PSC Campbell has pushed to make utility companies
and the commission more accountable to the people. He has
led efforts to restrict entertainment of commissioners and
staff by utilities. He hosts public meetings in each
parish in his district each year, and persuaded the full
commission to move its monthly meetings around the state.
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In 2004 he made national
and international news by leading the effort to
provide telephone service for the Mink and Shaw
communities, the last areas of Louisiana to receive
telephones.
In 2005 he persuaded the Federal Communications
Commission to set aside $39 million to provide free
cellular phones to Hurricane Katrina evacuees. He
has championed job-creation by utilities, efforts to
make bill-paying more convenient and the use of
renewable energy. |
For more information contact Foster Campbell at
318.681.1022
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