KansasCity.com
Clay Chastain has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to take up his case against the City Council and its repeal of his 2006 light-rail initiative. In papers filed with the court, Valerie Chastain ”” his wife and lawyer ”” said “it is incredulous” that the city charter allows the council to throw out a voter-passed proposal.
The sponsor of an initiative limiting affirmative-action programs says he plans to submit a new version after a court ruled against his first try. A Missouri judge said last Friday that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan should have rejected the proposal because of a technical flaw in its wording.