The House Governmental Affairs Committee approves legislation that will shift federal, statewide and some judicial elections from open primaries to closed party primaries. Public Affairs Research Council President Steven Procopio spoke against the proposal. He says voters didn’t like closed party primaries for federal elections in 2008 and 2010 and state legislators did away with it…
cut 10 (07) “….rid of it”
Opponents also say independents will be disenfranchised, because they can not vote in a closed party primary. But Carencro Representative Julie Emerson says they will be able to vote in the general election…
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The measure was approved on 11 to 4 vote and heads to the House floor for another key vote.

The congressional map redesign Governor Jeff Landry supports in the special session, Senate Bill 8, makes drastic changes to Congressman Garret Graves’s district and the Baton Rouge Republican is not happy about it. The proposal would make the sixth district the second Black majority district and it extends from Baton Rouge to Caddo Parish. Graves says…
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U-S House Speaker Mike Johnson also opposes the map, but it received the approval of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and the full Senate could take up the proposal this afternoon.

The Saints have fired offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael. After missing the playoffs for a third consecutive season, change felt inevitable according to the host of the Locked On Saints podcast Ross Jackson…
Cut 4 (12) “…offensive system.”