Maybe West Monroe voters will get a choice they didn’t have in 2022 in their city’s mayor’s contest.
Republican businessman Don Nance tried to offer himself in 2022 as an opponent to Republican incumbent Mayor Staci Mitchell. She was running for reelection after having defeated 10-term incumbent Don Norris in 2018. Back then, she criticized Norris for what she termed a depopulating city and declining sales taxes, and as one idea for bucking the latter proposed building a facility across the way from the Ike Hamilton Exposition Center, a Norris project.
Nance was critical of that idea and other of her spending priorities. But that matchup never happened because he was disqualified when his residency, specifically his failure to register to vote at the residence at which he claimed a homestead exemption as required by statute, was challenged. West Monroe requires a year of residency within the city, and Nance’s exemption was on a property outside the city limits (although that didn't seem to matter when it came to the Shreveport mayor's race later that year).