Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe announced on Friday that he was calling for a special legislative session that will include redrawing the state’s congressional map — setting the stage for mid-decade redistricting in the state after Texas just finished doing the same.
The special session, which will begin Wednesday, will also focus on reforming the state’s ballot initiative petition process.
“Today, I am calling on the General Assembly to take action on congressional redistricting and initiative petition reform to ensure our districts and Constitution truly put Missouri values first,” Kehoe said in a statement on Friday.
Kehoe also unveiled a proposed congressional map that he called the “Missouri First Map,” which he said splinters counties and towns less than the state’s current one and preserves two districts as they are.
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