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Fields Steps Down Amid Redistricting Battle | Huntsville News
Congressman Cleo Fields, Louisiana’s newly redrawn district’s representative, has stunned political watchers by announcing he won’t seek reelection — citing prayer and reflection — and will instead run for the state Senate. His district, once majority Black, was reshaped by state lawmakers to favor Republicans, sparking a major Supreme Court ruling declaring the original map unconstitutional gerrymandering. The new map, designed to help GOP candidates win all six Louisiana House seats, now concentrates Fields’ district around predominantly white areas in Baton Rouge and southern Louisiana —…
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