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BATON ROUGE — State Sen. Cleo Fields said Tuesday he would seek a seat in Congress from Louisiana's reshaped 6th Congressional District, which extends from Baton Rouge to Shreveport and is intended to give the state a second minority-majority district.
State Sen. Cleo Fields confirmed on Tuesday what political insiders had expected: He will run for the new Black-majority district created last week by Gov. Jeff Landry and state legislators.
“My focus will remain the same as it has always been to work and fight for the people of Louisiana," he said in a statement.
State lawmakers approved a bill Friday that eliminates open primaries for a handful of notable elections in Louisiana.
High profile Black elected officials in Louisiana are clashing over a proposed plan to add an additional Black congressional district