GOP Gov calls for a special legislative session to redraw the Congress card after Texas has adopted the redistribution
Mike Kehoe of Missouri Republican Governor will convene legislators next week to redesign the districts of the State Congress in a decision that could return a democratic seat to republican control, Fox 2 News reported.
The special session begins on Wednesday September 3 at noon, with Republicans aimed at the 5th district of the Congress of the Democrat of Kansas City Emanuel Cleaver, according to Fox 2 News. The plan supported by the GOP intends to reshape the district to promote republican candidates, potentially transferring the current republican advantage of the Missouri to the Congress to a split of 7-1.
“This is clarity for voters and the property of our future, and I hope that the legislature will work together to adopt our first Missouri card and needed criticism’s IP,” Kehoe said on Friday, reported the point of sale. The session will also address the reform of the state petition process, a long -standing conservative priority.
Democratic leaders of the Missouri House of Representatives expect Governor Mike Kehoe to remind them of Jefferson City next week, officially asking them to change the limits of the State Congress District. pic.twitter.com/soyw9ogflj
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The timing follows the republican governor Greg Abbott of Texas who signing new cards from the Congress in the law a few hours earlier. President Donald Trump urged the states led by the Republicans to continue redistribution efforts as part of a broader national strategy to redraw political borders. (Related: “Have they been faked?”: Scott Jennings lists the Blue States where the DEMS dominate the Congress cards)
Democrats immediately condemned this decision. “This decision represents an alarming abuse of power and a blatant attempt to compel the electoral card for partisan purposes,” said the president of the Missouri Democratic Party, Russ Carnahan, commented, according to the point of sale.
Representative cleaver, the seat of which faces the elimination under the proposed cards, has promised resistance. “I will not give up the voices of people who told me to fight,” said Cleaver. “In the courts and in the ballot boxes, we demand that the rule of law be confirmed, our voices are heard and that democracy prevails.”
The extraordinary session will ride the veto session already scheduled for September 10.
