2300 Hampton is the IBEW Training Center.

Debbie Layne is or was treasurer for Clifton Heights Neighborhood Association.

Ward committees and ward committeemen/women do NOT legally decide party picks for special elections. They may well make recommendations, and their committee people have a vote at the Central Committee Meetings, but the Central Committee as a whole votes to make the party pick. So should Bauer have enough chums on the committee as a whole, it hypothetically could ram his nomination through. Same for the Republicans, though not a Bauer!

The Post did not cover it but there was dancing in the streets by Central Committee members celebrating Bauer's recall.

County Committees do not control all special elections. Per 115.365 RSMO, a County Committee selects for county offices, House District Committee selects for House seat, Senate District Committee selects for Senate seat, Judicial District Committee selects for Circuit Court seat not under so-called NonPartisan Plan.

In the City, the Central Committees (our county committees) choose special election nominees to fill BOA vacancies per Article IV, Section 5 of the City's Charter. There is a long list of reasons why it is done this way. At the top, primary elections are about voters of each party choosing party nominees, in the absence of a primary the party nominates directly, ward organizations are not party committees under state law, they are continuing committees/PACs.

It's good to see another ward organization go open ward with members voting instead of passively receiving royal decrees from the committeeman and committeewoman.