Stephen Handwerk of Lafayette has been named executive director while Mike Stagg, also a Lafayette resident, will share communications duties with Johnny Anderson, a Eunice native.
Three men from Acadiana, two of them Lafayette residents, have been appointed to interim management positions with the Louisiana Democratic Party. State party Chairwoman Karen Carter Peterson, a state senator from New Orleans, announced this week.
Stephen Handwerk of Lafayette has been named executive director while Mike Stagg, also a Lafayette resident, will share communications duties with Johnny Anderson, a Eunice native. Stagg and Handwerk serve on the Lafayette Parish Democratic Executive Committee. The former made un unsuccessful bid to unseat City-Parish President Joey Durel last fall.
The state party's most recent chairman, Buddy Leach, was ousted in elections in late April.