re: Supreme Court has ruled two black majority districts in Louisiana.

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Clearly Cleo fields has some extremely compromising pictures of Jeff Landry. This makes no sense at all. This will have major local and national impact

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As someone above pointed out, the Governor likely made a pre-election deal with Fields, which also ensured lower than usual black voter turnout by Cleo and Company not getting the buses running to the extent they’re known to do.

Also, retribution towards Garrett Graves for daring to not get fully on board the Landry for Governor campaign.

Those two issues were the most important by far in drawing the new map. Other stuff was minor.

I’m sure Graves not supporting Scalise for House Speaker also played into this. It made the rest of the Louisiana Congressional delegation, especially the Republicans, care much less about helping preserve a district he could win re-election in.

If you remember back to the last time districts were redrawn, Vitter and his team tried to back a map that would have given Landry a better chance of beating Boustany in a race, as their districts were being merged one way or another. It didn’t pass the Legislature, and Landry was forced to run against Boustany in a district that was much more favorable for Sir Charles.

Weird how tables turn.