St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Petitioners submit signatures seeking St. Louis ward redistricting change”

“‘The people get to pick their alderpersons and not the other way around’ under the proposal, said Reform St. Louis member Yinka Faleti at a news conference outside the city Election Board office downtown.

A goal, the proposition says, is to reflect city demographics by geography, race, age, gender, sexual orientation, ability and ethnicity.

‘This is about transparent accountable representative government and putting the people in charge,’ said Singer, a former spokesman for Jones when she was city treasurer.

Other speakers at the petition group’s news conference included Joan Hubbard, a board member for the League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis.

She said the local league backs the proposition because ‘these boundaries should always be based on neighborhoods and common interest, not political clout.’”

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