CLAYTON — A lawsuit filed Tuesday in ºüÀêÊÓƵ County Circuit Court questions whether a candidate for Missouri House lives in the district where she is running.
Chanel Mosley, daughter of state Sen. Angela Mosley and state Rep. Jay Mosley of Florissant, is running for the 75th House District in north ºüÀêÊÓƵ County.
But a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Abduraqeeb White, of Florissant, says “the frequent voter list of 2022†doesn’t show Mosley is a resident of the district.
And the lawsuit notes the Chambers Road address she lists in campaign paperwork is also the law office of Elbert Walton Jr., her grandfather and a former state legislator.
“Chanel M. Mosley has not proven that she is a resident of the 75th state district for which she claims to be running,†the lawsuit said.
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Chanel Mosley, reached Wednesday by phone, said she is a resident of Black Jack, in the district. She said she hadn’t seen the lawsuit and doesn’t know the plaintiff.
Mosley said she uses the Chambers Road address as a business mailing address.
Mosley is running to replace her uncle, state Rep. Alan Gray, D-Black Jack, in the Missouri House.
The Black Jack address Mosley provided a Post-Dispatch reporter Wednesday is also the address listed for Gray’s campaign.
Voter records as of August show Chanel Mosley was registered to vote in Florissant, at her parents’ address and outside of the 75th District.
Chanel Mosley is running alongside her sister, Janay Mosley, for the Missouri House in a bid to continue her family’s ºüÀêÊÓƵ political dynasty.
Angela Mosley ascended to the state Senate after narrowly winning a three-way Democratic primary in 2020.
She faces reelection in 2024, and it was unclear whether she would face significant competition in the heavily Democratic district.
Judge David Vincent has been assigned the Chanel Mosley case. A hearing date had not been set as of Wednesday.
Rochelle Walton Gray, who is Angela Mosley’s sister and Alan Gray’s wife, served three terms in the Missouri House and was elected to the ºüÀêÊÓƵ County Council in 2017.
Walton Gray served one term on the council but was defeated by Shalonda Webb in the August 2020 Democratic primary.