How did I lose Garrett Graves as my Congressman?

Our esteemed governor plays politics against all those that dare challenge his destiny.

Garret Graves backed the wrong guy for Governor and lost his district for it.

Honestly I like the hard-nosed, old school political nature of it

Your Governor didn’t want to have to worry about a pesky runoff in 2023. Cleo Fields ensured the buses would stay parked and the inner city Democrat ground game would not be at its best during the primary.

Now yes, Landry is better than Shawn Wilson, but in a runoff, he might have had to be bothered with answering a few more policy questions.

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our lying fake pos governor,

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Sure hope he is a one termer

I was told only republican districts were gerrymandered to take power away from the people

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Sure hope he is a one termer

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Reality is it’s going to be very hard to defeat an incumbent Governor in the primary with another member of his party taking his place for the runoff.

David Duke managed to do it, but…yeah…David Duke. Buddy Roemer really pissed some people off.

So while I really dislike Landry and his constant low IQ issues shite when we had better GOP options in 2023, him being a one-termer very likely means we have a Governor Mitch Landrieu or Gov Jim Bernhardt.

2027

If a Republican is going to take Landry out, he/she better be laying some serious groundwork this year.

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Somebody in the know please fill me in. Thanks.

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In 2013, President Obama appointed Shelly Dick as a federal judge for the Middle District of Louisiana. In 2018 she became Chief Judge for the district.



In 2022 she ruled in ruled in Robinson v. Landry that Louisiana’s congressional map, drawn after the 2020 Census, likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voting strength. The map had only one majority-Black district out of six, despite Black residents comprising nearly one-third of the state’s population. She ignored that the population was so widely dispersed throughout the state that a second district would require extreme gerrymanding and ordered the state to redraw the map to include a second majority-Black district.

Instead of fighting it in court on the grounds of extreme, race-based gerrymandering, Landy used it as a reason to get some retribution on Graves for not kissing his ring and redistricted him out of office. That redistricting came about as a deal with Cleo Fields for Cleo to help with the black vote in exchange for being pushed into the new district's office.


This not only wildly changed the shape of District 6, it also impacted District 2 (Carter's district) and District 5 as those boundaries shifted to absorb some areas which were formerly District 6.

Pushed out by our pathetic governor.

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I was told only republican districts were gerrymandered to take power away from the people

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Well our republican senate, house and governor did it. I don't hear dems screaming about them though