Cleo Fields Quits House Re-election Bid, Targets Louisiana Senate Seat After 6th District Redraw
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Updated · NOLA.com · Jul 21
Cleo Fields Quits House Re-election Bid, Targets Louisiana Senate Seat After 6th District Redraw
3 articles · Updated · NOLA.com · Jul 21
Summary
Cleo Fields said Tuesday he will not seek another term in the U.S. House and will instead run for the Louisiana state Senate seat he once held.
Louisiana lawmakers recently redrew his congressional district into one that heavily favors Republicans, undercutting his path to re-election.
The Baton Rouge Democrat is moving to fill the seat left open after Sen. Larry Selders, his successor in that chamber, died recently of a heart condition.
Fields now represents Louisiana's 6th Congressional District, which earlier reports said was dissolved after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against it as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.