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Missouri GOP lawmakers brokered a compromise to pass a new congressional map late Wednesday, but Democrats are already asking Gov. Jay Nixon to veto it. The big picture: The new lines place all of St. Louis into Rep. Lacy Clay's 1st Congressional District and eliminate Rep. Russ Carnahan's 3rd Congressional District.
Will Gov. Nixon veto Missouri's map? - David Catanese - POLITICO.com
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With a zig instead of a zag, a proposal for redrawing Missouri's Congressional districts would finally give one of the nation's most prominent GOP contributors a Republican representative in Washington. It's not exactly gerrymandering -- maybe more a creative curve. The map drawn by the state House redistricting committee erases a St. Louis district, with two adjoining congressman absorbing parts of the city and the county. Almost all of the area east of Hanley Road would be in the First District, a safe Democratic seat currently held by Lacy Clay. Most of the suburbs west of Hanley would be in the reliably Republican Second District now represented by Todd Akin. The line swerves, however, between Wydown Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway to include in the Second District a swath of homes in Clayton -- and not just any homes. The boundary would rope into the Republican district a row of mansions that includes the $3.9 million estate of philanthropist Sam Fox, among the national Republican Party's most generous donors.
But at least one resident urged the committee to not shift all the black voters in the St. Louis region into Clay's district. Attorney Eric Vickers, who once ran against Clay's father, said that black voters would maintain more clout if they also had pockets within the other congressional districts in St. Louis. Whether that ends up being two or three districts is likely to be a major issue as lawmakers trade various maps and determine the boundaries of Missouri's new eight congressional districts, each which will have to have about 748,000 voters.
St. Louis area residents push to keep 3 seats in Congress
A public hearing in the morning, held by the state Senate panel at Harris Stowe State University, focused on the importance of preserving the 1st District's racial makeup so that its voters can continue to elect an African-American as their congressman. "We want a representative who looks like us, is concerned about us,'' said the Rev. Sammie Jones, political action committee chairman for the St. Louis Clergy Coalition.
St. Louis Beacon - Local leaders give their redistricting wish list to state lawmakers
