Current efforts to develop a new map for the state’s congressional districts have turned into a battle between north and south Louisiana, says John Maginnis. A compromise was reached to extend two north Louisiana districts far south and carve up the district of first-term U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia. “It was settled, that is, until the people who will actually make those decisions, the state Legislature, started to pay attention,” Maginnis says. “Legislators from more populous south Louisiana began asking why that region was being divided to protect two congressmen from north Louisiana, where population growth is flat.” Now there could be a standoff between the House and Senate over the plan. Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
