ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Politics is not getting any gentler in one of Missouri’s most contentious state House districts, where two St. Charles County Republicans are locked in a battle that features criminal charges, accusations of lying and civil lawsuits.

Max Calfo, who lost the Republican primary for the 108th District in 2024, said he has documents proving that the incumbent, state Rep. Mike Costlow of Dardenne Prairie, lied on his candidate declarations last year.

Calfo has, since early 2024, been working to obtain court records from Georgia showing that Costlow pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge there in 2008.

The records were released Sept. 12, when Judge Gregory A. Voyles of Lowndes County, Georgia, found “the facts show that the defendant entered a plea of guilty,” and there

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