Gov. Bobby Jindal’s preference to maintain two vertical districts based in north Louisiana with separate seats for Monroe and Shreveport likely dooms an effort to create a district along Interstate 20 that includes both cities. That’s according to House Speaker Jim Tucker, talking today about the congressional redistricting plans at play in the special session. Louisiana’s delegation is shrinking from seven U.S. House members to six because of the state’s anemic population growth. Lawmakers haven’t decided how to redraw the congressional map. One of the most significant disputes involves whether Monroe and Shreveport should continue to be contained in separate districts that run from the Arkansas state line down into southern Louisiana. Jindal supports the large, vertical districts, so Tucker says that’s dampened attempts to create the horizontal, I-20 district.
House speaker says an I-20 district is unlikely
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