(AUDIO) Rep. Kendrick to resign for role on state Senator’s staff

Columbia needs a new state representative, days after the general election.

Kip Kendrick said on Monday he is leaving the Missouri House to be chief of staff for fellow Democrat Greg Razer. Razer just got elected to the state Senate.

Kendrick ran unopposed for his House seat on Nov. 3. He was set to serve one more two-year term as state representative.

“In the age of term limits, the seat that I have worked hard to attain and honor to the very best of my ability is two short years from being pulled out from under me,” Kendrick said in a statement released Monday. “Term limits, especially when reduced to eight years in Missouri’s House and Senate, work against good governance and do nothing to improve it.”

Kendrick joined Wake Up Columbia on Monday:

(This story was last updated at 9:05 a.m. Monday.)