The House Governmental Affairs Committee votes for a proposed Congressional district map that makes Republican Garret Graves’ district a second Black majority district in Louisiana. A federal judge has ordered the Louisiana Legislature to draw a map with two majority-minority districts. Catahoula Parish Senator Glen Womack says his bill does that and it also…
Cut 10 (12) “…Scalise.”
Sulphur Representative Les Farnum added an amendment that puts all of Ouachita Parish in Julia Letlow’s district and all of Calcasieu Parish in Speaker Mike Johnson’s district. But it splits Rapides and East Baton Rouge between three different Congressional districts. Baton Rouge Representative has a problem with that…
cut 18 (09) “….that’s insane” (2x)
The bill will be debated some more today on the House floor.

State lawmakers have begun filing bills for the regular session that starts in March and north Louisiana Republican Danny McCormick has already filed his legislation to allow non-felons, 18 and over to conceal carry a firearm without a permit. McCormick’s measure ran into trouble in the state Senate last year…
Cut 13 (07) “…constitutional carry bill.”
This is the fifth consecutive year McCormick has authored a conceal carry bill. In 2021, Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed it.

The 2024 Jazz Fest lineup is out. We already knew Rolling Stones on May 2nd but producer Quint Davis released the entire lineup yesterday with much fanfare….
cut 7 (13) “…..fell in”
Tickets and weekend packages are on sale now.