Now that the Missouri GOP has jettisoned any quaint notions of fair and equal representation and moved to blatantly disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Kansas City-area Democrats, what can responsible Missourians (of any political persuasion) do to stop them?
Plenty. Information at the bottom of this editorial explains how citizens can join the effort to put the issue to a statewide vote next year and potentially head off this partisan pilfering of a U.S. House seat.
First, a review of how we got here:
The Legislature’s Republican supermajority this year passed, and Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed, an unprecedented mid-decade redrawing of congressional district boundaries with the stated purpose of dividing one of the state’s two Democratic-majority districts so Republican candi