Editing David Vitter (section)

===Louisiana House of Representatives===
Vitter was a member of the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] from 1992 to 1999.

Vitter has argued for ethics reform and [[term limits]] since he was in the Louisiana Legislature in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|date=July 12, 2007|last=Crouere|first=Jeff|url=http://blog.nola.com/jeff_crouere/2007/07/the_rise_and_fall_of_david_vit.html|title=The Rise and Fall of David Vitter|newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune]]|access-date=May 8, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506213646/http://blog.nola.com/jeff_crouere/2007/07/the_rise_and_fall_of_david_vit.html|archive-date=May 6, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> As a Louisiana state legislator, Vitter successfully pushed through a term limits amendment to the state constitution to oust the largely Democratic legislature.<ref name="NYT071408">{{cite news|date=April 29, 1999|last=Sack|first=Kevin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/29/us/louisiana-gop-facing-david-duke-again.html?pagewanted=2|title=Louisiana G.O.P. Facing David Duke, Again|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=July 14, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=July 11, 2007|last=Nossiter|first=Adam|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/us/11vitter.html?fta=y|title=A Senator's Moral High Ground Gets a Little Shaky|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=July 14, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=September 9, 2007|last=Hasten|first=Mike|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070909/NEWS01/709090347|title=Republicans set sights on control of La. House|newspaper=The Town Talk|access-date=July 14, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204221735/http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070909/NEWS01/709090347|archive-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name="LC" /> The first election legislators affected by the reform [[Louisiana state elections, 2007|occurred in 2007]].<ref>{{cite news|date=October 30, 2007|last=Barrow|first=Bill|url=http://www.nola.com/elections/index.ssf/2007/09/term_limits_arent_gop_bonanza.html|title=Term limits aren't GOP bonanza|newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune]]|access-date=July 14, 2008}}</ref> In order to leverage the term limits advantage in that election, Vitter formed a [[Political Action Committee]] with the goal of winning a legislative Republican majority.<ref>{{cite news|date=August 5, 2007|last=Barrow|first=Bill|url=http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/47395/54420.html|title=Quest for La. House will look past Vitter|newspaper=[[The Times-Picayune]]|access-date=July 14, 2008|quote=Vitter's effectiveness for raising the profile of Republican candidates in state legislative races has dissolved|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723112911/http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/47395/54420.html|archive-date=July 23, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=December 6, 2007|url=http://louisianaconservative.com/?p=361|title=The 2007 Elections – Effect of Term Limits (Part I)|publisher=LouisianaConservative.com|access-date=July 14, 2008|quote=The LCRM also suffered somewhat of a setback ... when stories arose regarding Senator Vitter's involvement with prostitutes....|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219110131/http://louisianaconservative.com/?p=361|archive-date=December 19, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> While the Republicans saw gains, the Democrats maintained majority control.<ref name="LC">{{cite web|date=December 6, 2007|url=http://louisianaconservative.com/?p=361|title=The 2007 Elections – Effect of Term Limits (Part I)|publisher=LouisianaConservative.com|access-date=July 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219110131/http://louisianaconservative.com/?p=361|archive-date=December 19, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Vitter opposed gambling during his tenure in the Louisiana House.<ref>{{cite news |last=Applebome |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Applebome |date=June 12, 1994 |title=Legal Gambling Bedevils Louisiana |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/us/legal-gambling-bedevils-louisiana.html |access-date=April 21, 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times}} Louisiana has long experience with gambling as a political issue''';''' see, e.g., [[Francis Grevemberg]].</ref>