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Louisiana Medical Political Action Committee
LAMPAC
Member Services
Summary of Oct 20, 2007 Primary Elections
by Harris Deville &
Associates
List of LAMPAC-supported candidates in 2007 Elections
History
In the 1960s, the AMA recognized the importance of involving the
individual physician in politics and responded by establishing the
American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC), one of the first political action committees
formed in this country. Each state medical society also formed a medical
PAC; in Louisiana, this committee is called the Louisiana Medical Political
Action Committee (LAMPAC), which is an affiliate of the Louisiana State
Medical Society.
Through LAMPAC, the LSMS offers influence and involvement
in the electoral process to help elect candidates who fairly represent important
issues to the medical community. In addition, LAMPAC has emphasized the
importance of physicians becoming involved in the elections phase of the
political process.
Every year,
there are critical legislative votes made in Baton Rouge and in
Washington, D.C. that have a major impact on the practice of medicine. LAMPAC and AMPAC have proven to be valuable assets in educating
legislators about the concerns of medicine and LAMPAC’s record of
support for elected candidates is among the highest of any medical PAC
in the country. In fact, LAMPAC's success rate in the 1999 election
cycle was 96% in the races in which it participated.
LAMPAC is
governed by a physician board of directors who represent each of the 10
LSMS districts, plus two LSMS
Alliance representatives. Endorsements and support for election campaigns are made
with recommendations from the LSMS Council on Legislation as well as
local physician input.
LAMPAC must
continue to be fully funded to meet the many requests of friends of
organized medicine. Several levels of membership are available in our Join LAMPAC section.
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