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Bring Conservatism
Back to Its Roots
Real conservatism conserves. Our parks. Our peace. Our paychecks. Our families. Our coast. Kate Cotten is running to take the Third District back for the people who actually live here.
Lake Charles Raised. Third District Rooted.
A Name You Know. A Fight You Recognize.
Kate Cotten comes from the family behind Cotten's Burgers in Lake Charles, a Southwest Louisiana institution built on hard work, fair dealing, and feeding your neighbors. That is the conservatism she was raised on, and it is the conservatism Washington has abandoned. Kate is running as a Republican to restore it.
The Platform
What We Should Be Getting Back To
Conserve Our Parks
Conservation is in the word conservative. Kate will fight the gutting of our national parks: no selling them off, no starving them of rangers and funding, no desecrating what Teddy Roosevelt built.
The Parks PlanPeace Through Strength
No new wars. No further military intervention in Iran. Our sons and daughters are not chips on a foreign policy poker table, and endless war has never been conservative.
No More Endless WarsFiscal Sanity
The national debt has blown past $37 trillion. Both parties did this. Kate will vote like every dollar came off a Cameron Parish shrimp boat, because it did.
The Debt PlanWhole-Life, Pro-Family
Pro-life means the whole life: paid sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, universal pre-K and Head Start, meals for schoolchildren, daycare tax credits, and healthcare families can afford.
The Family AgendaOur Energy, Our Land
No to sweetheart data centers draining our grid. No to carbon capture pipelines under our farms. No to nuclear waste shoved beneath the Gulf floor. Yes to real, homegrown energy that powers Louisiana first.
Energy & EnvironmentSave Cameron Parish
Cameron has been decimated by storms, by neglect, and now by outsiders, including SpaceX, treating our coast like their private launchpad. The coast belongs to the people of the Third District.
The Coast FightThe Choice in This Race
Clay Higgins Betrayed the Conservative Movement
Being loud is not the same as being conservative. For nearly a decade, Clay Higgins has voted for the spending that ballooned our debt, backed the interventions that perpetuate war, and stood by while Washington taxed our parks and our families with neglect. The Third District deserves a representative who conserves something.
The Higgins Record
- Supported budget deals that piled trillions onto the national debt
- Embraced escalation and intervention abroad, including toward Iran
- Stood by as our national parks were starved and stripped
- Delivered slogans to families instead of paid leave, pre-K, or childcare relief
- Let outside corporations, from data centers to launch companies, take over our coast
The Cotten Commitment
- Vote against any budget that grows the debt without a plan to pay it down
- Oppose any new military intervention in Iran; require Congress to declare wars
- Fully fund and protect the national parks, all of them, forever
- Deliver a whole-life family agenda: leave, pre-K, school meals, childcare credits
- Put Cameron Parish and the working coast ahead of any corporation's launch schedule
This Coast Is Worth Fighting For
From the Calcasieu Ship Channel to the Cameron shoreline, from the rice fields to the refineries, the Third District built this country's energy and fed its tables. Now it is our turn to be heard.