Burns Defeats Montecillo in "Ugly" Primary Race for District 93

The 93rd District represents parts of Lemay and Affton; Bob Burns received 61 percent of the vote.

This story was updated at 12:30 on Wednesday with comments from Bob Burns.  When Joe Montecillo called Bob Burns to congratulate him on the Democratic nomination in Tuesday's primary, the conversation lasted less than 30 seconds.  Burns won by 404 ballots and had 61.45 percent of the vote and will face Republican Tony Leech in November, who ran unopposed in the primary.  "I just called Bob Burns and congratulated him on a win and wished him good luck, and he said 'Ok Joe, thanks,'" Montecillo said. "It's been a really ugly campaign." "The only things that were negative were perpetrated by him," Burns said. "I didn't want to give him any name recognition in the area, so didn't mention my opponent by name once during the race."  Burns signed…

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