{"id":4603,"date":"2025-09-04T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/legislative-push-to-gerrymander-missouri-congressional-map-advances-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:56:53","slug":"legislative-push-to-gerrymander-missouri-congressional-map-advances-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/legislative-push-to-gerrymander-missouri-congressional-map-advances-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative push to gerrymander Missouri congressional map advances"},"content":{"rendered":"

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State Rep. Dirk Deaton, a Republican from Noel, presents legislation that would redraw Missouri’s congressional map to a House committee on Thursday (Tim Bommel\/Missouri House Communications). <\/p>\n

If a new Missouri congressional map endorsed by President Donald Trump is put into place, voters living on Kansas City\u2019s east side will share a congressional district with people living nearly four hours away in Osage County.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone living in downtown Kansas City would be in a district stretching south nearly to Springfield. And Kansas Citians living north of the Missouri River would be in a district running to the border of Iowa and Illinois.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of those voters currently reside in the 5th Congressional and are represented by 11-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But under the proposed new map, which was approved Thursday by a Missouri House committee after more than five hours of public testimony, that district would be carved up in hopes of creating another Republican-leaning seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a superior map than the one we have today,\u201d said state Rep. Dirk Deaton, a Noel Republican sponsoring the redistricting legislation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Missouri has eight congressional districts, with Democrats holding two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump, facing a potentially difficult midterm election cycle next year, has instructed GOP-controlled states to <\/span>redraw maps<\/span><\/a> to add <\/span>more Republican seats<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though mid-decade redistricting in Missouri is nearly unheard of \u2014 it hasn\u2019t happened in six decades, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision \u2014 Gov. Mike Kehoe called lawmakers back into session this week to redraw the map so the GOP would hold seven of the state\u2019s seats in the U.S. House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republicans Thursday downplayed any role Trump\u2019s demands had on the gerrymandering push. And they insisted the map was drawn by the governor\u2019s staff, not the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democrats didn\u2019t buy it, denouncing the map as unconstitutional and the push to split up Kansas City for partisan gain as \u201cmorally corrupt and inexcusable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Missourian deserves fair representation, not these political tricks,\u201d said state Rep. Mark Sharp, a Kansas City Democrat. \u201cMy city, Kansas City, hangs in the balance right here, right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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State Rep. Mark Sharp, a Kansas City Democrat, speaks in opposition to a proposed congressional map during a House committee hearing on Thursday (Tim Bommel\/Missouri House Communications).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Missouri Constitution calls for the legislature to draw new congressional districts every 10 years after <\/span>new census numbers<\/span><\/a> are certified to the governor. That happened in 2022, and Democrats argue it <\/span>violates the state constitution<\/span><\/a> to draw another map before the next census is complete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also questions about whether relying on old population data could also violate the state and federal constitution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Missouri NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday<\/span><\/a> in Cole County arguing the governor\u2019s decision to call a special session was unconstitutional. Cleaver has also promised to go to court to challenge any gerrymandered map lawmakers approve.<\/span><\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, a Kansas City Democrat, on Thursday demanded demographic information about the map be made available to the public before the committee took a vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m asking for information for the public and for this committee,\u201d Aune said. \u201cWe deserve to have that information, and if you are not willing to provide it, what are you hiding?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She also pressed Deaton whether the governor\u2019s office actually drew the map, or whether it was crafted by the Trump administration. She noted Trump last week praised the map and instructed Missouri lawmakers to <\/span>approve it \u201cAS IS.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The proposed new map meets constitutional requirements of districts with equal population as precisely as possible, Deaton said, and is more compact and contiguous, and divides fewer communities, than the current map.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the governor was clear that his staff drew the proposed map.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGov. Kehoe has never lied to me,\u201d Deaton said, \u201cso I take him at his word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The only person to testify in favor of the proposed new map was Susan Klein, executive director of Missouri Right to Life. She said her organization is committed to helping pass anti-abortion legislation and supporting anti-abortion elected officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe support the process that would increase those numbers,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

A parade of critics testified against the map, including the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, the Missouri NAACP, the League of Women Voters and several residents of the 5th District.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shannon Cooper, a lobbyist for the city of Kansas City and former Republican lawmaker, said the proposed map \u201cchops our region into three different pieces.\u201d The needs of downtown Kansas City, he said, are different than the needs of rural Henry County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have gone through three redistricting processes in my time here, and what is sorely lacking in this is the amount of public input and the time where, in the past, the committees have traveled across the state and gone into communities and taken the local input from citizens, businesses as well as elected local officials to see what they care about and how they want to be put into those districts,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to do this in six or eight hours and vote it out Monday and Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Scaglia, testifying on behalf of Cleaver, who could not attend Thursday\u2019s hearing, said the map violates the \u201cone person, one vote\u201d principle by relying on old census data. It\u2019s also unconstitutional, Scaglia argued, because it \u201cfails to be compact and divides communities of interest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A new map could be be drawn in a way that includes all of Kansas City south of the Missouri River in the 5th District, Scaglia said, and still give Republicans the electoral advantage they are seeking.<\/p>\n

State Rep. Don Mayhew, a Republican from Crocker, countered that he believes Kansas City would benefit by being represented by three members of Congress.<\/p>\n

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Missouri Republicans are pushing to enact this map to revise congressional district lines in a special session. The GOP\u2019s goal is to win the 5th District seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat (Screenshot from Missouri House website).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The proposed new map leaves two districts untouched \u2014 the 7th District in southwest Missouri and 8th District in <\/span>southeast Missouri, both represented by Republicans. It only tinkers with the 1st District, based in St. Louis and represented by Democrat Wesley Bell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2nd District, represented by Republican Ann Wagner, moves south of the Missouri River, taking in southern St. Louis suburbs along with Gasconade,\u00a0 Crawford, Jefferson and Washington counties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 3rd District, represented by Republican Bob Onder, swaps territory with the 2nd, taking over all of St. Charles and Warren counties, adding Audrain, Lincoln, Monroe, Pike and Ralls counties as it stretches north to Hannabil and encompasses nearly all of Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 4th and 6th Districts are where the Kansas City voters who previously all lived in the 5th will be moved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 4th District loses parts of Columbia, along with Sedalia and Warrensburg to the 5th District in order to pick up downtown Kansas City. It is represented by Republican Mark Alford.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 6th District runs across the entire northern half of the state, picking up a piece of Kansas City north of the Missouri River.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the 5th District that sees the most substantial changes. Previously encompassing nearly all of Kansas City, the district now only includes the city\u2019s east side, then stretches east to encompass Jefferson City all the way to Phelps County. It also includes the northern portion of Boone County, but not the Democrat-leaning areas of Columbia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 5th District also picks up six counties from the 3rd District \u2014 Cole, Cooper, Howard, Maries, Moniteau and Miller counties as well as Morgan County from the 4th District.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharp asked Deaton Thursday whether he would be open to changing the map, even in small ways. Deaton said the map was produced and requested by the governor, and he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine myself at this time supporting any changes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou move one line to make one person happy,\u201d Deaton said, \u201cand you have to move seven other lines and you\u2019ve got seven new enemies\u2026 this is the map I\u2019m supporting.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the committee was preparing to vote, Sharp offered an amendment moving a small portion of south Kansas City in the Hickman Mills area \u2014 around 12,000 voters \u2014 back into the 5th District. The change would be balanced out by moving voters near Grain Valley to the 4th District.<\/p>\n

Republicans opposed the change, and Sharp withdrew the amendment in the hope of offering it again when the full House debates the bill next week.<\/p>\n

Aune said the entire process \u201creeks of an authoritarian power grab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

State Rep. Richard West, a Wentzville Republican and chair of the committee, praised the map for moving all of St. Charles County into the same district.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy county is currently split up,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is going to make us whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

State Rep. Bill Hardwick, a Republican from Dixon, pushed back on the idea that what Republicans are doing by redrawing the map is out of the ordinary in American politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying we should gerrymander or we shouldn\u2019t,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cI\u2019m just saying it\u2019s been part of the republic from the beginning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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