Yesterday the Republican-controlled Louisiana House took its first legislative step in adopting redistricting maps that will help ensure the party’s advantage in the state House for another decade.
On a 13-4 vote, the House and Governmental Affairs Committee backed new district lines for the 105 House members embodied in House Bill 14.
Republicans pushed aside complaints from Democrats that the new district boundaries would not elect enough Black candidates. But weakening the Democrats’ cause was that one Democrat, Rep. Jeremy LaCombe, of New Roads, and Rep. Malinda White, of Bogalusa, who recently left the Democratic Party to become an independent, voted in favor of the measure.
