Emanuel Cleaver: “I need it to be changed. Can you change it by the time I come back next week?”

A democracy thrives on diversity and tyranny oppresses it.

It was rewarding to those of us who were on the committee to just come to a meeting and see that there was no name-calling, no screams across the aisle.

We are just tearing apart a district in order to satisfy someone's desire for reelection.

This will not stand. We need to have robust strategies and responses.