Emanuel Cleaver: “I think we need to have a revolution in how we do zoning, because we are zoning poverty, and it needs to change.”

Despite the cynical and deeply shameful attempt to silence many of our neighbors, the people fought back and won.

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.

Tonight, after more than 305,000 Missourians demanded a say, the Supreme Court has put this shameful and unlawful scheme to rest. Power to the people.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.