In 2012, Missouri redrew Congressional, State House and State Senate district lines in a drawn-out, extremely partisan process. The Blue Springs Examiner highlighted this process in 2012.

“The antics in Jefferson City during the past few weeks are more reason to drive home a point we’ve been making in this space for some time: Missouri needs to overhaul the way it draws political boundaries.”

It’s time for a change.

Here are the facts – The Clean Missouri amendment will:

• lower campaign contribution limits for state legislative candidates
• eliminate almost all lobbyist gifts
• require politicians wait two years before becoming lobbyists
• require that legislative records be open to the public
• ensure that neither political party is given an unfair advantage when new maps are drawn after the next census, by asking a nonpartisan expert to draw fair legislative district maps, which would then be reviewed by a citizen commission