By Victor C. Clark
Free Press Contributor
In what is being billed as a “Legislative Roadshow” the Louisiana Legislature is crisscrossing the state giving information and hearing concerns before elected leaders prepare to redraw district lines for the next ten years.
Last week the “Roadshow” came to Monroe and over 200 civic leaders from across Northeast Louisiana showed up to give input, for the record.
The hearing was sponsored by the Joint House and Senate Governmental Affairs Committee of the Louisiana Legislature, the Monroe stop was one of ten being sponsored across the state to comply with a constitutionally required mandate to adjust district lines every 10 years after the census.
Districts should be contiguous and should have relatively the…
