Missouri Democrats rejoice the defeat of Prop. A, but is the legal fight over?
Proposition A went down in flames — and the final tally wasn’t particularly close. But the legal fight over a congressional map known as H.B. 1 might not be over, according to Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway speaking about the ballot measure last week. Long before voters cast their ballots against a congressional map favoring Republicans 7-1, the writing was on the wall, according to Missouri Democratic Party chair Russ Carnahan. The Star spoke with Carnahan and Jackson County Democratic committee chair Geoff Gerling by telephone Tuesday before election results were in. According to unofficial results , nearly 62% of voters rejected a measure that would have redrawn the Missouri map to create seven Republican-leaning districts out of eight representative districts in the state. “In this process, there was some polling done when this was in front of the legislature when they were doing this mid-decade gerrymandering, and a poll was done at that time statewide,” Carnahan said. “A large margin of people — 52-22% — thought politicians shouldn’t be drawing their maps but that an independent citizen commission should be. So I think, statewide, people are tired of politicians playing games to rig the system.” Carnahan was asked what
