Redistricting goal: Keeping incumbent state legislators from running against one another

Lawmakers using census data to redraw political districts will try to avoid pitting incumbents against each other, says state Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican. Hewitt chairs her chamber’s governmental affairs committee and will be a key voice in the once-a-decade redistricting process.  “Where we can avoid it, we’re not going to put two incumbents