Gilstrap, 6th District race candidate as Democrat, has Republican links

From: St. Joseph News-Press | Date: April 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Another candidate with Republican Party roots enlisted in the Democratic Party primary for Missouri's 6th Congressional District seat.

At 5 p.m. Tuesday, as registration for the August primary closed, David Gilstrap filed to run as a Democrat for the U.S. House seat. Mr. Gilstrap lives in Columbia, Mo., outside the 6th District, and as recently as 1991 served as president of the Columbia Pachyderm Club.

A former resident of St. Joseph, he served as a Bob Dole delegate from Buchan...