The House Special Standing Committee on Redistricting released the proposed new congressional districts for the state of Missouri this week and the Missouri House has now has set up a page using Google Maps that allows you to see where your home will fall in the proposed districts. See the map here. You can view the current Missouri districts here.
After the 2010 census Missouri will lose one of it's 9 congressional districts and it looks like St.Louis Representative Russ Carnahan is the odd man out. The redistricting plan would split Carnahan's district into three pieces and add them to the districts of Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St.Louis, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country and Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau. Democrats Carnahan and Clay have criticized the plan saying it "emphasizes partisanship over fairness" (St.Louis Beacon).
After the 2010 census Missouri will lose one of it's 9 congressional districts and it looks like St.Louis Representative Russ Carnahan is the odd man out. The redistricting plan would split Carnahan's district into three pieces and add them to the districts of Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St.Louis, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country and Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau. Democrats Carnahan and Clay have criticized the plan saying it "emphasizes partisanship over fairness" (St.Louis Beacon).
On the other side of the isle, State Senator Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, complained in an e-mail about having 100,000 suburban Jefferson County residents added to Rep. Emerson's largely rural district. "The issues important to St. Louis are not the same issues that are important to southeast Missouri." Crowell wrote.
Another controversy involves the oddly shaped new 5th District in the Kansas City area. The current 5th District, held by Representative Emanual Cleaver II, D-Kansas City, which now encompasses much of the K.C. metro area would split K.C.'s Jackson County and then sweep westward into Lafayette County, Ray County rural Saline County.
Originally published on St.Louis Examiner.com
Another controversy involves the oddly shaped new 5th District in the Kansas City area. The current 5th District, held by Representative Emanual Cleaver II, D-Kansas City, which now encompasses much of the K.C. metro area would split K.C.'s Jackson County and then sweep westward into Lafayette County, Ray County rural Saline County.
Originally published on St.Louis Examiner.com