Other activist groups that worked hard to elect Bell include Missouri Faith Voices and the Organization for Black Struggle. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which does not endorse candidates, made an unprecedented effort to educate the public on McCulloch’s record of holding people with misdemeanor offenses who could not post cash bail and the meager results of the diversion program for drug offenders that he initiated after Ferguson. And, as our columnist Mike Jones wrote, “Bell’s winning strategy had to include substantial numbers of white voters, whom he attracted without diluting his commitment to criminal justice reform or running away from the black community.”

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