The crowd is friendly, fired up for Fields town hall Opelousas

Rep. Cleo Fields is a soft-spoken veteran politician elected as the second Black congressman in Louisiana’s newly drawn 6th District. Fields held an hour-long town hall in the Delta Grand Theater that was occasionally punctuated with calls to “tax the billionaires” as the discussion turned to Social Security, Medicaid and firing federal employees. What emerged from Fields is he believes...

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