Rodney Alexander
Rodney Alexander
Rodney McKinnie Alexanderis an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs from September 30, 2013 until June 3, 2014. Previously he was the U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2013. First elected as a Democrat, he changed parties a half hour before the filing deadline on August 6, 2004. He was re-elected as a Republican five times. His district covered twenty-four parishes in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 December 1946
CountryUnited States of America
When someone from my own party entered... it became clear that I was going to spend the next six months defending my own record to my own party.
I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican