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re: How did I lose Garrett Graves as my Congressman?
Posted on 8/13/25 at 1:42 pm to LSUJockStrap
Posted on 8/13/25 at 1:42 pm to LSUJockStrap
You lost Garret Graves as your congressman bc
1-Louisiana was required for some reason to have 2 Black (Democrat) Congressmen;
2- Cleo Fields is a powerful black politician who isn’t moving out of Baton Rouge, and he wanted the seat;
3- Landry decided he would have more political capital if he gifted Cleo his Black seat and kept Julia Letlow to help him out in DC. This is also because he and Graves are mortal enemies.
4-To say that Landry is a disappointment as governor is an understatement. I’m not defending his choice. However, Cleo was gonna get that seat no matter what.
Graves should have been smart about it and made nice with Landry in the election like Nungesser did. Instead he decided that the Baton Rouge Country Club constituency was large enough to get his best friend elected in a prime example of establishment republican hubris.
Graves gravely miscalculated the influence of the BR Bocage neighborhood on the rest of Louisiana; and stupidly burned his bridge with Landry, who probably would have otherwise worked a deal. Damn shame too - bc Graves was a good Rep.
1-Louisiana was required for some reason to have 2 Black (Democrat) Congressmen;
2- Cleo Fields is a powerful black politician who isn’t moving out of Baton Rouge, and he wanted the seat;
3- Landry decided he would have more political capital if he gifted Cleo his Black seat and kept Julia Letlow to help him out in DC. This is also because he and Graves are mortal enemies.
4-To say that Landry is a disappointment as governor is an understatement. I’m not defending his choice. However, Cleo was gonna get that seat no matter what.
Graves should have been smart about it and made nice with Landry in the election like Nungesser did. Instead he decided that the Baton Rouge Country Club constituency was large enough to get his best friend elected in a prime example of establishment republican hubris.
Graves gravely miscalculated the influence of the BR Bocage neighborhood on the rest of Louisiana; and stupidly burned his bridge with Landry, who probably would have otherwise worked a deal. Damn shame too - bc Graves was a good Rep.
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 1:42 pm to ragincajun03
quote:Perhaps but it's hard to see how they could've done a better job even if they had intended too.
I’m not sure the folks involved in the drawings could have planned and executed this proposed 4D chess.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 1:49 pm to Nosevens
quote:He was as good of a Republican that would ever be elected in that district as it existed and to be honest he did a ton of good things for the average constituent living there.
Graves wasn’t a blessing either
Posted on 8/13/25 at 1:53 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
quote:He was until he sided with Kevin McCarthy and got up and gave a flamboyant speech on how their congress had the "safest, most secure border in US history".... In the middle of Bidens term...I couldnt believe he said it when i was watching that. Lost my respect after that. I wouldnt have cared if he stayed behind McCarthy, but the blatant lies he was sky screaming did it for me.
This. Graves is/was a rising star in LA state politics and a threat to Landry.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 1:53 pm to 94LSU
In that district? That’s like saying only putting a teaspoon of shitt in a gallon of vanilla ice cream and saying you still have vanilla ice cream
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:01 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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My general point still stands, as to what swung that election.
Landry still would have beaten Wilson in a runoff, and when you consider Wilson only got 26% in the primary, maybe Landry didn’t need to cut a deal with Cleo.
But word is he did.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:04 pm to LSUJockStrap
Hopefully he runs for Senator
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:07 pm to TROLA
Voting Rights demanded one more majority minority district. Landry took the opportunity to get rid of a competitor.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:13 pm to Nosevens
quote:I got to see a lot of it up close and it seems the biggest criticism against him is hat he wasn't a loudmouth preening for the cameras every day, he just worked non-stop and got shite done without caring less if cameras were around. He was never great on TV. So what? Where have those game show hosts gotten us?
In that district? That’s like saying only putting a teaspoon of shitt in a gallon of vanilla ice cream and saying you still have vanilla ice cream
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:14 pm to upgrayedd
That is the text book definition of gerrymander and it's time to take it back.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:27 pm to LSURussian
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Maybe so, but what about Jeff Landry??
Lol. Him too.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:28 pm to LSUJockStrap
Now we have Congressman Brown Paper Bag .
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:36 pm to CarRamrod
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He was until he sided with Kevin McCarthy and got up and gave a flamboyant speech on how their congress had the "safest, most secure border in US history".... In the middle of Bidens term...I couldnt believe he said it when i was watching that. Lost my respect after that. I wouldnt have cared if he stayed behind McCarthy, but the blatant lies he was sky screaming did it for me.
He also was one of the chief negotiators for one of the Biden Budget deals. He was negotiating with a fellow Louisiana native who was in the administration.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:51 pm to Tarps99
the last guy to have his district drawn out from under him? jeff laundry.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:34 pm to LSUJockStrap
The current governor needed to bribe the blacks to win the Governor's race without going to a run-off. And he had personal beef with Garrett Graves.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:35 pm to geauxtigers87
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I tried to warn yall for years on here about landry and his inept corrupt dipshit self
Same before the election I mentioned how he was bros with the trial lawyers and would do their bidding... and let's just say, it was not well received.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:39 pm to AlextheBodacious
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Once the state caught on to graves it had to get rid of him.
Graves wasn't exactly on the up and up either... He had gotten much too swampy. But let the voters decide... they way Landry cut the deal to give that seat to black Democrats was a much worse scenario than Graves being re-elected.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:42 pm to rmc
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Endorsing Wags was not smart. Wags was never going to win
Wags is one of Graves' best friends in life. So, there was no way he was not going to endorse him. Jindal stench still on him or not, Wags would have been a much better governor than Landry.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:46 pm to LSUJockStrap
A complete idiot could primary Landry and I’d vote for them.
Landry is a mistake we couldn’t afford after JBE.
Landry is a mistake we couldn’t afford after JBE.
Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:47 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
quote:I live in Baton Rouge with a Republican mayor, the state house and senate have Republican super-majorities, the governor is a Republican, the US house and Senate both have Republican majorities and the president is a Republican.
Gerrymandered districts are why the dumbest people are leading us.
Are you saying that's all because of gerrymandered districts?
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