In redistricting fight, Graves could be the odd one out

Still hoping Kavanaugh will grow a pair and throw out the VRA.

Today, in The Advocate:

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One notable thorn in Scalise’s side was U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge.

Scalise supporters say Graves was among those who undercut his campaign for the speakership, which would have put him behind the vice president in the presidential succession. Graves was one of former Speaker McCarthy’s most trusted lieutenants. McCarthy had criticized Scalise earlier this year and he was reported to have worked against Scalise's ascendance, while later promoting Jordan.

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While Scalise was pursuing the speakership, Graves’ public statements surprised some Louisiana politicos and media watching the action unfold from afar.

Graves told reporters after McCarthy’s Oct. 3 sacking that the result should not be “to just give everybody one rung of promotion.”

He did not name Scalise, but it was obvious that not moving people up the ladder would deny Scalise -- who holds the House’s No. 2 spot -- the top job. Graves has said his real focus was on fundamentally changing the majority’s rules.

The next day on Baton Rouge radio, Graves told interviewer Brian Haldane he had concerns about Scalise serving given his medical challenges.

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"I want to remind you he is going through an incredible bout of cancer right now and I don’t know that that’s the best decision for him or his family at this point,” Graves said. “That is one of the most stressful jobs that you can even imagine. His timing is not ideal for him. Obviously, we’d love to have a speaker from Louisiana."

Graves repeated his view that the Republican Conference needed to change the rules that had handcuffed House leadership and allowed eight Republicans to instigate McCarthy’s ouster.

Meanwhile, when reporters asked him about Jordan, Graves found ways to praise him. In an Oct. 5 interview, Graves said he believed the fiery Ohioan had “matured” during his years in the House.

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On Oct. 10, Graves stormed out of a closed-door GOP conference after it rejected an idea he had championed that would have changed how the Republicans would select a speaker. The plan was defeated on a motion by one of Scalise's supporters. Soon after, Scalise was voted speaker-designate, with 113 votes to Jordan's 99.

Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who had officially proposed the change, said that Scalise’s defeat of the rule made him a "hard no" on Scalise.

As Scalise was trying to round up support from the additional 107 Republicans he needed, at least a half-dozen Scalise loyalists say Graves began reminding some colleagues of a controversial Scalise comment from years ago, in which he described himself as "David Duke without the baggage."

Graves also brought up a 2002 speech Scalise gave in Metairie to a group Duke organized, according to five Scalise supporters. Scalise apologized when the story emerged in 2014, saying he didn’t know what the group stood for.

In an interview Thursday in the Capitol, Graves emphatically denied he did anything to resurface those episodes.

“That is bulls--t. That is something they have said and that’s just not true,” Graves said.

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Old politicos who have watched the House imbroglio from afar said this week that regardless of how Scalise's bid was scuttled, the whole affair suggested that egos overtook a higher loyalty to what's best for Louisiana.

“I like Steve Scalise,” said former U.S. Sen. John Breaux, who represented Louisiana for 33 years in Congress. “Even if I hated Steve Scalise, I would have held my nose and voted for him because that’s in the best interest of the state of Louisiana. It’s beyond party stuff.”

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According to the 2020 census Louisiana’s population is 57.1% all white, 31.4% all black and the balance made up of Asians, Hispanics, multi race persons or others.

We have six Congressional districts but the courts are going to gerrymander our districts to assure that a black will win two out of the six!!!

This will also assure that a white will win four out of six.

The Constitution is supposed to be color blind, but to ignore geography, economic reasons, cultural reasons, etc. and to define districts solely on race isn’t following the Constitution.

Just look at these districts. They should be redrawn. Why should district 2 include large portions of New Orleans and Baton Rouge? Shouldn't Baton Rouge be in one district and New Orleans in another?

Minority Majority District.

Rules are that LA is supposed to have at least one black district due to percentages but the depopulation of NOLA means that you can’t have a 2nd District comprised of just Orleans anymore.

IF the courts hold that Louisiana has to make a second minority majority district, the governor has the sway to figure out whose district gets cut.

Landry, in fact, got fricked the LAST time we lost a district.

Why not six districts, each centered around a large city:
NO
BR
Laf
LC
Shreveport
Monroe

His( Graves') Rhino ,BS artist arse needs to GO !

Garrett Graves is a snake … always has been and always will be