After Governor Landry suspended the U.S. House primary elections following last Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling, two Baton Rouge residents have launched a recall campaign against him. Marian Hills and Kaitlyn Stepter filed the petition following what supporters say is a pattern of actions and statements that undermine fair representation. ULM political science professor Robert Hogan says they have 180 days to collect more than 500-thousand signatures.
Today’s debate on the Moon Griffon Show involving two of the candidates in the U-S Senate Republican primary was an opportunity for them to respond to the negative campaigning against them. Both Bill Cassidy and John Fleming have described Julia Letlow as some who supports diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The Congresswoman says she has actually spent the last five years working against the D-E-I movement…
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While the Supreme Court expedited the release of its ruling that declared Louisiana’s congressional map unconstitutional, a lawsuit seeking to reinstate the current U.S. House elections is still pending in federal court. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The Secretary of State’s office received 42-thousand absentee ballots from voters for the May 16th election before Governor Landry suspended the primaries for the state’s six U-S House races. Secretary of State Nancy Landry says votes for the U-S House races will not be counted.