JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Despite a flurry of speculation from both sides of the political aisle, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe hasn’t signaled whether or not he’ll call a special session of the legislature to redraw congressional maps.
Missouri has a total of eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. For more than a decade, the makeup has been six Republican districts and two Democrat districts–Kansas City and St. Louis.
“Our goal, if we move forward and there's no decision to move forward … is to make sure Missouri's values are reflected in Washington, D.C.,” Kehoe said at a press conference Tuesday announcing Catherine Hanaway as the next Missouri attorney general. “And I've said many times that I think our current speaker (Mike Johnson) does a very good job of matching the values