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Jindal will get his way
 When five Republican members of the state's congressional delegation sent Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal a letter over the weekend declaring their desire for the Legislature to abandon congressional redistricting in the special session, you can rest assured the delegation and the governor didn't expect the Legislature to thumb its nose at the delegation's request.
That's exactly what happened evidenced by the Legislature's persistent diddling with congressional redistricting once lawmakers signed off on redistricting plans for themselves. As soon as state legislative redistricting was out of the way Monday, lawmakers turned their attention to piecing together a plan to do away with one congressional district, dropping the state's presence in the U.S. House of Representatives from seven seats to six. Abolishing a congressional district was necessary because the state's population growth from 2000-2010 didn't match population growth in states such as Georgia, Florida, Texas and others across the country.
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