#cleo fields

It's called H.R. 8705.

Note: the bill is also racist.

"Here are the names of the eight Democrats who voted for what the House Equality Caucus condemned as the "Don't Say Trans" bill:

Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas

Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina

Rep. Cleo Fields of Louisiana

Rep. Laura Gillen of New York

Rep. Vicente González of Texas

Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington

Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia"

I beg of you to please contact your senators regardless of party. Say what you have to say to get them to vote against. This is incredibly dangerous.

If one of the Democratic quislings in the House represents you, please call them to tell you exactly how you feel about racist and transphobic censorship and their decision to endanger the lives of children through forced outing.

If you can’t safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

I mean that that’s what social media would convince you of .

But I’m here to say that they are and a lot of it is really impressive, and you’re not hearing about it.

I posted four of those stories this week!

Sam Levine at The Guardian:

Louisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map on Friday which would eliminate a majority-Black congressional district that was at the center of a landmark supreme court ruling gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The new map reconfigures the state’s sixth congressional district, now represented by Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat. Lawmakers drew the district in 2024 after a court found the map lawmakers enacted after the 2020 census diluted the influence of Black voters and violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The new map will probably give Republicans control of five of Louisiana’s six congressional seats (the previous map had a 4-2 Republican-Democrat split). The bill now goes to Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, who is expected to sign it. “It does exactly what it was designed to do: consolidate white political power by cracking Black communities apart and drowning their votes in Republican-dominated districts,” said the Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposed the new map. “The communities targeted by this map – Black voters in Baton Rouge, in Shreveport, along the corridor that Rep. Cleo Fields has represented – did not stay quiet. They showed up at the Capitol in the middle of the night. They testified for hours into the early morning. They made their voices heard at every step of a process designed to minimize their input. That resistance is not over.”

The creation of Fields’s district prompted a lawsuit from a group of white voters in Louisiana, who said that voters were unlawfully sorted by their race. The case, Louisiana v Callais, eventually went to the supreme court, which ruled 6-3 in favor of the plaintiffs. The case set a new, near impossible standard for plaintiffs in Voting Rights Act cases, requiring them to prove intentional discrimination in order to win a redistricting lawsuit. After the supreme court’s ruling in late April, Landry took the extraordinary step of declaring an emergency to cancel the state’s congressional primary, in which ballots had already gone out. He rescheduled the election to later this year.

Shameful: Louisiana has a new racist and rigged map taking effect that gets rid of one of the two Black-majority Congressional districts.

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Louisiana’s Legislature Passes New Congressional Map To Give GOP Another Seat

Who: Representative Cleo Fields (D-Louisiana)

X: https://x.com/repfields

When: March 2025

What: Former Rep. Sylvester Turner

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