TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! TAKE A LOOK AT THE PLAYERS AND HIGH STAKES OF THE JACKSON COUNTY REDISTRICTING FIGHT!!!

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Top notch JACKSON COUNTY INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS from a KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTER that puts upcoming redistricting in perspective . . . Check it:

"The district boundaries of the Jackson County Legislature will be subject to redistricting this year and the process to select the people to perform the task is under way. The process is that the Jackson County Democratic Committee and the Jackson County Republican Committee each elect six persons and submit them to the county. The County Executive then selects three names from the Democrats and three names from the Republicans to comprise the panel of the actual redistricting.

"Last night, the Jackson County Democratic Committee elected the following people to represent the Democratic Party in the redistricting process.

County District 1: John Burnett, former State Representative, former County Legislator and lawyer;
District 2: Edward Pendleton, lawyer;
District 3: Keith Querry, employee of Blue Cross and Blue Shield (large contributor to Jacks County Executive Mike Sanders),
District 4: Tom Wyrsch, Jackson County employee;
District 5: Danny Mata, United Auto Workers Union member and Democratic Committeeman;
District 6: Phil LeVota, Former Chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Committee, Executive member of the Missouri State Democratic Committee, and lawyer."

TKC agrees 100% with this question:

"The County Executive must pick three of these people to literally fight with Republicans on the distinct boundaries and represent the best interest of the Democratic Party. 

The question: Will Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders actually pick people that will work in the best interest of the party or will he pick people who he can 'control' to do his own bidding so he can hold the legislature hostage with threats of cutting their districts? 

Unfortunately, it's highly probable that he will do the latter. Look at the list and it is clear who would work on behalf of the party and at least a couple people that will surely be the County Executive's flunkies."

We'll have to wait and see on this one but the struggle here is for nothing less than the political future of Jackson County and how voters will be represented.

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