District 3 Councilwoman Gina Mitten won Tuesday's primary for 83rd District state representative.
A special election is not planned this year in Richmond Heights after District 3 Councilwoman Gina Mitten's victory in the Tuesday primary, a city official said. Mitten is expected to become the 83rd District state representative for Missouri beginning in January. She won Tuesday's primary against fellow Democrat James Trout and will run unopposed in the Nov. 6 election. Mitten can continue serving on the council until she takes office in Jefferson City, said Irene Johnson, communications coordinator for Richmond Heights. Her seat will then likely remain empty until April, at which time a new council representative will be chosen by voters in a special election. "That person would fill the vacancy for three years," Johnson said. In April, …
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The St. Louis congressman's meeting was tame compared to a 2009 meeting that ended in six arrests. He'd lose his district in the redistricting proposal before the governor now.
U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan expected the Republican-run Missouri Legislature to create bad redistricting maps, which he says it did. The St. Louis Democrat expects Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon to veto the most recent map, which he hasn’t—yet. Rolla native Carnahan expects to run for Congress again in 2013. He just didn’t say from what district, as the squabble over redrawing congressional boundaries continues to unfold. This is happening thanks to slower Missouri population growth in the 2010 census relative to other states. The state will lose a seat in the 435-member U.S. House of Representatives, dropping from nine to eight congressional districts by 2013. Carnahan’s district, the third district, would disappear, swallowed up by the remaining …
