Skelton announces campaign to unseat Rowden in Missouri Senate

COLUMBIA — Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, appears to have his challenger in the 2020 general election.

Michela Skelton, a Democrat, announced she would oppose Rowden in the running for Missouri's 19th Senate District.

“Caleb Rowden and the Missouri GOP have launched a full-out assault on Missouri’s women, working families and small family farmers, from the unconstitutional abortion ban and attacks on workers’ rights to curbing local control and gutting education funding,” Skelton said in a Facebook post. “Our communities and our children can’t take another four years of Rowden’s brand of leadership, with a Senate that pushes job-killing, anti-democratic legislation on behalf of corporate lobbyists and millionaire donors.”

Skelton was defeated in a House race by Rep. Sara Walsh in 2017.