"I think that is the sign of a good map--not everyone is 100 percent happy," said Steve Stoll, D-Festus. "This map is compact, contiguous, holds communities of interest and minority districts and has zero deviation."
Sen. Steve Stoll, D-Festus, said that while the map looks like very little has changed, those little changes make all the difference in the world. "It does not reflect the bipartisan makeup of Missouri."
"He is very partisan when Sen. Wiggins (Sen. Harry Wiggins, D-Kansas City and a member of the committee) and I talk with him, I'm not sure that I can be confident with his answers," said Sen. Steve Stoll, D-Festus.
Steve Stoll, one of the two democrats on the Senate re-districting committee says he doesn't sense the Republicans will try to cut Gephardt out of his district.