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St
Louis County is merely a
Municipality, it is equal in authority to that of the Municipalities under the
State of Missouri and its likely one of the reasons when we hear Better
Together quote Municipal numbers which keep changing i.e. 91-90-92. Better
Together and a few others seem to not be able to keep any of their numbers
straight. Certainly, in the case of my City, they get
very little right! Take
for example Better Together has stated that in 2013 the City of St Ann
collected 37.47% of its revenue in Court Fine revenue. The inference is made
and repeated by some
local politicians who have taken millions in contributions from Better Together
Mega Backer Rex Sinqfield is that it all came from petty “minor” traffic violations
and somehow violated state law. The
Missouri State Auditor disagrees with Better Together’s calculations and
concluded that 27.8% was the number and was below the amount authorized by
state law. The state auditors also gave
the St. Ann Court a GOOD ranking on
our accounting/court practices which is the second highest ranking given.
Additionally, conveniently left out of Better Together’s “narrative” was the
context in which the tickets that resulted in this revenue were written. In
2013 the City was in middle of a
partnership with the Missouri Department of Transportation to lower the number
of accidents on I-70 that were a result of speeding. This effort started in
2010 and by 2013
serious accidents on St. Ann’s portion of I-70 went from 143 in 2009 to 11 by
the end of 2013. Revenue generated by
these tickets was used to pay for the overtime for police officers enforcement
efforts. It was and still is used for
paying for School Resource\DARE Officers in Ritenour and Pattonville schools…
including 2 at Ritenour High. Better
Together fails to note that in Oct. of 2011 our Board of Alderman took steps to
reduce its own government by voting to eliminate an Better
Together’s claim that creation of a uni
gov brought growth to Indianapolis is very questionable. Just this past
July we learned that Indiana did not see business growth till 2013 when they
elected a new Governor, who cut taxes. So
Better Together’s inability to put out correct information reflects irresponsibility
on their part and the part of their sponsors. In Jan 2017 we also learned that
Louisville’s
Merger is not working well for them, most of the money seems to center
itself in Downtown Louisville leaving the rest of the area feeling hugely Left
Out. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-government/2017/02/01/bill-strikes-louisville-merger-tax-base/96982824/ My first
experience with Better Together was a few
of years ago at my Airport Township meeting. The more I learned about
it, the less I liked. I informed my City
Administrator but not sure he really believed at the time it would get this
far. I believe that the best
Governing is done closest to the people.
The idea of getting rid of 90 x let’s say 8 immediate voices of the people and
reducing that number to 7-9 is scary enough but to then know through personal
experience that listening will be the last thing on our County Councils mind…I
fathom the possibilities. Remember neither I nor
quite a few of my residents received a
reply from our Councilman on the Stengers Police Bill issue. For me to get a
response I had to let him know that I would let 13,000 constituents know that
he was not responding to their Alderman through a direct mail newsletter. I have been attending
County meetings since October 2015, one time the Council actually told a guy
that the Public Speaking portion of their meeting was not to answer questions
but just to allow the public to speak. So, with this in mind
let’s get back to Better Together. My 1st eye opener to their agenda
was through the Police Study. My City Administrator and I attended the Des
Peres meeting where I watched the speaker consistently try to lead the facts of
the publics responses to his questions to ensure the answers fit his agenda. I
knew he didn’t care to listen, when I approached him after the meeting to stop
in and have a chat with my Chief, in St Ann we prefer to elect our Chief, this
way he is beholding to the people versus the Mayor. He never did stop by. Later they held a meeting
at Bridgeton’s Community Center here the
same type of leading the answers took place but he met with great opposition to
his cause here by both St Ann and Bridgeton residents. Still their study
persists on showing that people would benefit from a combined City/County
Merger. My City Admin, now a
bit wearier worked with a group called My Town-Our Country. We now know them as
Cities Strong. Cities Strong had an UMSL Professor do a separate unpaid study
which showed $589 million dollars had been left out of Better Together’s
Indianapolis versus St Louis study proving it is actually cheaper to maintain
our current system of governing. This study can be found on my website as well.
In July we learned that Indiana did not see business growth till 2013 when they
elected a new Governor, who cut taxes. So Better Together’s claim that creation
of a uni gov brought growth to Indianapolis is again questionable. I also attended
reporter Craig Cheatum’s Special Meeting, most certainly the agenda became clear
here and began to identify those who were involved. It is politics
folks…just check your candidate’s contribution lists. Should you choose to
visit my website I have a page dedicated to –
The City/County Merger with links to a few studies, my personal views, resident
comments and some answers I have placed on comments or questions posed to me to
date in my campaign. I put together a Facebook Poll which reflected overall that
84% of those that took it were against
Better Together. I am currently polling St Louis City and St Louis County
residents….to date it shows 66% Against. As I knock on doors it is a
topic I bring up, the people barely know what this is, and it is very important
that we ensure they truly understand the ultimate goals of this group. In my conversations I
have not spoken to a resident of a Municipality yet that would prefer to lose
their present form of government. Most praise the various
programs the munis present, love their Police Forces and those with Fire
Departments love them as well. None however
are aware that the School Districts
are also at risk as the ultimate goal of
combining the city and county does include the schools as well. The goal is like
that of the Chicago School District…you know the one that is 70 million dollars
in debt.
Personally, I see no benefit for anyone in Better
Together except maybe for Rex Sinquefield whose reasoning for pushing this upon
us is to rid the City of its 1% Earnings Tax and possibly save its Bond Rating
so he and his well-off buddies don’t lose a mint should they become Junk Bonds
which very well could happen if the City does not take hold of their expenses. Rex has gained
ground through the media
stations he owns and we see the frequent pushes of misleading data to brainwash
the public into believing this rhetoric.
I fear Rex is winning the game on this topic, as those
that govern seem to fear informing the public on this topic and of course that
is tripled by Better Together’s call out that governments would indeed do just
that to keep our little fiefdoms. An informed public can
make better decisions. It’s one of the reasons I get the message out while
knocking on doors. And its Better Together’s greatest fear. Though I am not
saying that every municipality will survive, I am saying its survival should be
decided by its residents and not someone who projects they know better for us. Jobs are the answer,
to our issues in society today people need to
feel independent to have hope, a reason to go to school, Jobs in North County
have been neglected for 3 decades. Running
our County should be about “WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE,
to make St. Louis County a strong and business friendly environment, thus
providing JOBS
for the people of St Louis County -North, South,
East and West while assisting in keeping our County Schools Strong,
our citizens Safe,
our infrastructure strong, and providing
necessary services to the People.” The
City Government and County Government has failed their North sides and now they
want everyone in the County to bail them out. Currently
it is $150.00 Cheaper/person to live in St Louis County than it is to live in
St Charles. $45.00 Cheaper to live in St Louis vs Indianapolis. Don’t let the Propaganda
fool you read up for yourselves.
The meeting was run by
representatives of Better
Together. Their topic of discussion was supposed
to be specifically
related to just “Policing in the St Louis Region”. The gentleman who ran
the discussion was brought in from the Washington, D.C. area. I mention this
simply because I feel people in different areas of the United States have different
expectations and different views of how things should be done, then we do here
in St. Louis County and in Missouri. For that matter even within St. Louis
County there are variations on how we desire things being done. For example,
most of the municipalities have gone with an appointed Chief of Police, yet St
Ann and Eureka residents prefer to Elect our Chief of Police and we have indeed
spoke out against changing this system by a vote of the people, I think even as
recently as within the last 10 years.
I find that our 90 municipal
systems
here in St Louis County are similar to the setup of the States of the United
States of America to begin with.
In
the U.S. each state is an embodiment of its own. Able to make its own laws,
etc. The U. S. was set up in this fashion so that if you did not like how one
state was run, you had a choice to move to another one. Here I feel the 90
municipalities may have done the same thing and apparently it started along the
railroad lines.
The
people of those municipalities did not like how they were being governed, so
they set up their own, and this is how St Louis County grew after St. Louis City
said, hey we
don’t want to take on the financial burden of developing all that
land...sewers, roads, gas lines, electric, lights, water, etc.… Do it yourself!
Then likely as the states became one at a time,
so did the development of each municipality, one at a time.
This meeting spent most
of its time
discussing the fact that Bridgeton and St Ann, like/prefer the system they live
within and do not want to be forced
into the Better Together Scheme and that if specifically, with our police
departments, Better Together needs to know how they could “fix the whole” it
should be by exampling our Police Forces, our City Administration and our
Community involvement and efforts to be involved and stay vibrant communities.
However, the Washington D C guy kept trying to push the negativity of having so
many departments.
Look
to how Bridgeton survived when St Louis City took 2500 homes and 400 businesses
to expand an Airport that still has not met as of yet, the expectation of its
expansion.
Look
to St Ann who slowly lost one of the Largest Malls in the United States from
the early 90’s till finally the last store closed, I think in 2007/08. The
majority of which had been finished by 2002/03 and sat vacant. Proud we are,
and this was not acceptable for us, thus since 2011 we have seen a
revitalization of our small city and its great mall. Now reopening as, “The
Crossings at Northwest”.
The only difference between the two cities -
one fell victim to the Grand Plans of St. Louis City and the other victim to a
changing economy. Both cities fought their way back through the involvement and
hard work of those who reside in the communities. In my personal opinion, it’s
because we believed in our community and were not willing to accept defeat. I
could be wrong and I am sure everyone has their own opinion, this is just mine.
Now to the meeting, the
presenter
did a much better job in this one of trying to keep the topic of Policing in
the St Louis Region at the top of our discussion. In the Des Peres meeting he
could not stay on topic and pushed elimination of the police departments and
the municipalities.
There were maybe one or two that were not
happy with their police departments, from other cities, in the room.
The speaker kept insinuating that other police
departments had lower wages like ten dollars an hour and no training, no
expectations in hiring like college degree or time equivalent to be an officer,
no citizen oversight as if all the municipalities are run this way. St. Ann and
Bridgeton are not run that way. As a matter of fact I have been to most of the
municipal meetings in District 2 and have not found any departments, run this
way.
The expectations of the
crowd were that
Better Together devise a way to aid those areas that need guidance, without
affecting those municipalities that are on the right track or just plain happy
with how things are going.
However,
this is not the goal of Better Together. Better
Together’s goal is the Elimination
of the 90 Municipal Governments and to
combine the County with the City of St Louis.
Now
let’s put this in perspective. The
City of St. Louis has a Billion Dollar Budget yet their infrastructure i.e.; streets,
sidewalks buildings have not been taken care of. Crime is up in my opinion
because they need more police, yet do not budget for them. The city has 28
Alderman making 35,000/year and a Mayor making ???, with this I have to ask
Why? Imagine the Car insurance rates and Home insurance rates do you think they
will go up or down. Will home values go up or down? Taxes to correct these
things, up or down? Years ago the City did not want to build the infrastructure
of the County, but now expect the County to solve their over spending and lack
of maintenance and foresight.
Better Together would also mean
ONE SCHOOL DISTRICT like Chicago.
So No Lafayette, No Pattonville, No Parkway, No
Ritenour, No Hazelwood etc.…Did you know the Chicago School District is 70
Million Dollars in Debt currently and the Teachers are about to strike because
they cannot get a raise even with all this over spending?
One Police Department, both
County and the City have already shown us that safety is not tops on their
list, if it were they would put more emphasis in the budget on the Police
Department so they could proactively police versus reactively police. In
reactive policing the crime has already happened and the citizen is already
a victim.
One Fire Department, here I
do not know a lot about how these districts are set up, St Ann shares two
Departments within its boundaries. Though I can’t imagine what costs may be
initially incurred to ensure every location had the same equipment.
One street department. In St
Ann and a few other municipalities, I am aware of our citizens enjoy every
little street being plowed within hours of a snow storm. In the city and
unincorporated St Louis County - Only Snow Routes are plowed period. Again
let’s not talk about what it would take to fix the streets not taken care of
for years in the City of St Louis and in unincorporated St Louis County…
One Planning and Zoning
Department. This department is
the department that does the occupancy
inspections and home inspections. It is also the department that aids in Economic
Development. Here St Louis County has already shown us for the last 30 years
that they only care to develop anything South of Olive Road for that matter
even the State shows us this with the condition that both Page and St Charles
Rock Road are in. Even the very reason 7 cities were asked to Police Highway 70
is because they did not opt to fix the crowning and curving issues of Highway
70 in front of the Airport. And for the Record the reason the Highway Patrol
can’t do it is because there are only 4 cars scheduled per shift from here to
Rolla, Mo. We see this happening again in Wentzville, Mo., where a new Double
Fine Zone has been established.
This
Link has list of Sponsors/Donors of Better Together on the right of this page. http://www.bettertogetherstl.com/donate
Do we really want Big Business, deciding how
we want to live?
Bigger Government NOT a good idea…Currently
most municipalities have in place 2 representatives of the community in each of
the wards that you can reach by phone or email and these representatives will
help you fight city hall or understand city hall.
With
bigger Government I ask…HOW OFTEN DO YOU TALK TO YOUR - STATE REP, OR STATE
SENATE REP. HOW OFTEN DO YOU TALK WITH YOUR FEDERAL SENATORS OR CONGRESSMEN? ….OR
DO YOU GET THE STANDARDIZED EMAIL?
BIG GOVERNMENT EQUALS NO VOICE FOR
THE PEOPLE….Who will care
about our needs, Your needs, Ferguson’s needs,
Fenton’s needs, Creve Coeur’s needs……etc.?
I
already know that my County Councilman
did not respond to my email till I threatened to put in a Newsletter to
13,000 residents that he did not respond to their Alderman. I also know that
many of my residents have still never
received a response from our County Councilman.
If this is the end result of Better Together -
when our Lowest level of contact would be the County Councilman…
I see NO BENEFIT for the
residents, TO LOSE THEIR VOICE and let BIG GOVERNMENT takeover, which DOES NOT
FEEL THE NEED TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF “WE THE PEOPLE”. Nor Listen to US. So
yes I Am Against Better Together because I prefer to have smaller governments
where I can actually give em a call and express my opinions…and they listen.
So Louisville merged in 2003. They should be in pretty good shape by now than right? Personally I have to wonder
what the money is being spent We dropped her
off fall of 2011 no problem, no sooner did One bridge no Biggy right? Well the next trip out we had to take
the extremely Drive through the Louisville
to get to the Airport, or a Indianapolis is the same way, took many trips there for So 9-12 years after their merger is when we were in the The Pros and
Cons of a merger are many but only as good To date we have seen little to
Economic Development in We have witnessed
unconstitutional legislation passed We watched the city and state
government waste 16 million Now you ask us to believe that through a city/county Why, because the Better Together People from Washington Rex already owns ABC is he working on Fox Now? At minimum
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residentes del Condado de St. Louis, aquí quiero informarle de algunos
de mis logros en los últimos 5 años 2011-2016 como el Ward 2 concejal de la
ciudad de Santa Ana ayudó en la creación de nuestro programa de adopción de
animales de ciudad e - mí y 2 otros patrocinados por concejal y empujó el
programa a través de la Junta de concejal https://www.healthnet facebook com/St
animales adopciones de mascotas y el 10 de septiembre de 2016 el primer perro
nadar en nuestra piscina llevó a cabo, esto cumplen 3 años de empuje combate
codo a codo con alcaldes municipales y jefes de policía en las reuniones de
Consejo de Condado de St. Louis para evitar el exceso de gobierno alcance por
Consejo de Condado de St. Louis... Mi oponente votó a favor de llevar su
Departamento de policía http://www kmov.
com/clip/12043856/St-Louis-Co-Adopts-County-Wide-Police-Standards-over-Objections-of-Some-mayors
negociado un 2 5% de ahorro para la ciudad de Santa Ana las personas mayores en
su factura de basura por encima de su 10% de descuento, para los años 2015-2020
requerido y se realiza un foro público sobre la tubería de Westlake construido a
través de nuestras ciudades a lo largo de St Charles Rock Road https://youtu ser
/ dXfiy7Fn6g4 e introdujo mi miembro de municipio de aeropuerto para el tema que
trajo a su vez el senador Roy Blunts participación y un proyecto de ley ante el
Senado s2306 que pasó y está a la espera de la cámara de representantes para
pasar como proyecto de ley 4100. También informó a Dawn Chapman que Maria
Chappelle Nadal fue uno de los senadores de Bridgeton y sería una buena fuente
para atraer la atención a las cuestiones de la recaudación de fondos del
vertedero de Westlake para ciudadanos necesitados es decir; Mujeres cuya muñeca
se rompió en un robo en Ashby, fuego de la víspera de Navidad de 2015, de
gestión familiar en la acera por la sobredosis de la heroína sigue al empuje de
la lucha contra la fusión de ciudad/condado que están empujando para el distrito
escolar de uno similares de Chicago que es de 70 millones en el rojo, un
departamento de policía, un departamento de bomberos, un departamento de
parques, un departamento de calles , Ejecutivo Oficina Mayor que esperan de
nosotros que creen que esto será menos costoso, pero han dejado información que
difiere de su agenda como se ve aquí. ¿http://citiesstrong com/Estudios/donde
589 millones fue dejado fuera de su estudio de Indianápolis contra St. Louis han
visto la condición de la infraestructura de las ciudades de St. Louis? Muchos de
los munis tienen servicios que el Condado de St. Louis no ofrece los perdería su
gobierno es sólo tan bueno como la gente en su lugar actual sugiere que los
costos son improbable reducir/permanecer reducido cuando la ciudad asumió el
control su Departamento de policía. desde el estado de Missouri que decían que
los ciudadanos verían un ahorro millones de dólares de 6... Liderazgo actual
también no es escuchar a la gente, de hecho en una reunión de Consejo de Condado
de ST. Louis, dijeron que un Señor que habla ante el Consejo era solo para
escuchar... NO para que ellos responder a sus preguntas http://nocofoshojrvbc
trípode com/amypoelker/id75 html activo miembro Comité de desarrollo económico
donde en 2012 con éxito obtenido un desarrollador noroeste Plaza ahora llama
"Las cruces en el noroeste". Actuales nuevos negocios son Menards, gobernantes,
regiones, Cañas crianza, generación 3 QT, Sprint, aquí hoy, de último minuto en
muebles de Bob, espectro de carta y su centro de formación, junta electoral,
administración de fuerza de trabajo y oficina del Asesor de un satélite, 3-4
otros Call Centers en el edificio de 500 y más por venir aquí y en otras zonas
de Santa Ana, IE; Mobil de bus Loop Burger, águila del Banco, en el plazo, Aldi,
St Louis Negro correa Academia 2012 combate con éxito para obtener St Louis
County añadir un 2 º torre de alarma de Tornado para la ciudad de Santa Ana, no
podríamos oír una alarma colocada en el lado este de Santa Ana http://fox2now
com/2012/03/01/demand-for-weather-radios-spike-after-recent-storms/ creado el
St. Asociación Empresarial de Ann, dirigido por Rhonda Marsalas hoy
https://www.healthnet facebook com/St-Ann-negocios-Asociación-202804379876362 /
asistida ciudadano Maurice Gayden en su lucha para salvar nuestro viaje de Quik
de Santa Ana, aunque perdimos esta batalla originalmente, ganamos al final
cuando nuestro viaje Quik regresó poco después antes de llegar en la oficina
ayudó un concejal Sherry Hoffman en su lucha para prevenir S Prop , una calle
pilar que habrían tenido los residentes de Santa Ana pagar para arreglar calles
de la ciudad durante 20 años, para que en el momento en se pagaron apagado...
tendrían que fijarse otra vez derrotamos con éxito esta Prop. Recientemente se
ha sustituido por un TDD, asegurar ingresos para el mantenimiento de calle en
los próximos 40 años en nuestro distrito de negocio y no un impuesto a la
propiedad con ayuda de la Asoc
St Ann and I have worked together for the last 5 1/2 years, looking back at where we started,
and seeing where we are now….it’s happening in St. Ann! We are clearly on our way
to and economic recovery. Congratulations, St. Ann…all your hard work is paying off…. St Louis County - I hope I can gain your support and the support
of others, in my work towards the future. I will aggressively work with both parties to push thru the success of the entire
region...it must happen NOW, this next election is very important to District 2 and St Louis County.
Good Evening, I have been an Alderman for the City of St Ann for the last 5.5 years. Today I come before you because I am running for the St Louis County Council District 2 seat. . The job of the St Louis County Councilman is no different than the job of an Alderman, just a larger population to serve. You see the County is merely a Municipality, it is equal in authority to that of the Municipalities under the State of Missouri and its likely one of the reasons when we hear Better Together quote Municipal numbers which keep changing i.e. 91-90-92. Better Together and a few others seem to not be able to keep any of their numbers straight. Certainly in the case of my City, they get very little right! Take for example Better Together has stated that in 2013 the City of St Ann collected 37.47% of its revenue in Court Fine revenue. The inference is made and repeated by some local politicians who have taken millions in contributions from Better Together Mega Backer Rex Sinqfield is that it all came from petty “minor” traffic violations and somehow violated state law. The Missouri State Auditor disagrees with Better Together’s calculations and concluded that 27.8% was the number and was below the amount authorized by state law. The state auditors also gave the St. Ann Court a GOOD ranking on our accounting/court practices which is the second highest ranking given. Additionally, conveniently left out of Better Together’s “narrative” was the context in which the tickets that resulted in this revenue were written. In 2013 the City was in middle of a partnership with the Missouri Department of Transportation to lower the number of accidents on I-70 that were a result of speeding. This effort started in 2010 and by 2013 serious accidents on St. Ann’s portion of I-70 went from 143 in 2009 to 11 by the end of 2013. Revenue generated by these tickets was used to pay for the overtime for police officers enforcement efforts. It was and still is used for paying for School Resource\DARE Officers in Ritenour and Pattonville schools… including 2 at Ritenour High. Better
Together fails to note that in Oct. of 2011 our Board of Alderman took steps to
reduce its own government by voting to eliminate an My first experience with Better Together was a couple of years ago at my Airport Township meeting. The more I learned about it, the less I liked. I informed my City Administrator but not sure he really believed at the time it would get this far. I believe that the best Governing is done closest to the people. The idea of getting rid of 90 x let’s say 8 immediate voices of the people and reducing that number to 7-9 is scary enough but to then know through personal experience that listening will be the last thing on our County Councils mind…I fathom the possibilities. Remember neither I nor quite a few of my residents received a reply from our Councilman on the Stengers Police Bill issue. For me to get a response I had to let him know that I would let 13,000 constituents know that he was not responding to their Alderman through a direct mail newsletter. I have been attending County meetings since October, one time the Council actually told a guy that the Public Speaking portion of their meeting was not to answer questions but just to allow the public to speak. So with this in mind let’s get back to Better Together. My 1st eye opener to their agenda was through the Police Study. My City Administrator and I attended the Des Peres meeting where I watched the speaker consistently try to lead the facts of the publics responses to his questions to ensure the answers fit his agenda. I knew he didn’t care to listen, when I approached him after the meeting to stop in and have a chat with my Chief, in St Ann we prefer to elect our Chief, this way he is beholding to the people versus the Mayor. He never did stop by. Later they held a meeting at Bridgeton’s Community Center here the same type of leading the answers took place but he met with great opposition to his cause here by both St Ann and Bridgeton residents. Still their study persists on showing that people would benefit from a combined City/County Merger. My City Admin, now a bit wearier worked with a group called My Town-Our Country. We now know them as Cities Strong. Cities Strong had an UMSL Professor do a separate study which showed $589 million dollars had been left out of Better Together’s Indianapolis versus St Louis study proving it is actually cheaper to maintain our current system of governing. This study can be found on my website as well. In July we learned that Indiana did not see business growth till 2013 when they elected a new Governor, who cut taxes. So Better Together’s claim that creation of a uni gov brought growth to Indianapolis is again questionable. I also attended reporter Craig Cheatum’s Special Meeting, most certainly the agenda became clear here and began to identify those who were involved. It is politics folks…just check your candidate’s contribution lists. Should you choose to visit my website I have a page dedicated to - Against Better Together with links to a few studies, my personal views, resident comments and some answers I have placed on comments or questions posed to me to date in my campaign. I put together a Facebook Poll which reflected overall that 84% of those that took it were against Better Together. As I knock on doors it is a topic I bring up, the people barely know what this is, and it is very important that we ensure they truly understand the ultimate goals of this group.
In my conversations I have not spoken to a resident of a Municipality yet that would prefer to lose their present form of government. Most praise the various programs the munis present, love their Police Forces and those with Fire Departments love them as well. None however are aware that the School Districts are also at risk as the ultimate goal of combining the city and county does include the schools as well. The goal is similar to that of the Chicago School District…you know the one that is 70 million dollars in debt.
Personally I see no benefit for anyone in Better Together except maybe for Rex Sinquefield whose reasoning for pushing this upon us is to rid the City of its 1% Earnings Tax which the people of the city just voted again to keep in place. Rex has gained ground through the media he owns and we see the frequent pushes of misleading data to brainwash the general public into believing his rhetoric. I fear Rex is winning the game on this topic, as those that govern seem to fear informing the public on this topic and of course that is tripled by Better Together’s call out that governments would indeed do just that to keep our little fiefdoms. An informed public can make better decisions. It’s one of the reasons I get the message out while knocking on doors. Though I am not saying that every municipality will survive, I am saying its survival should be decided by its residents and not someone who projects they know better for us. Jobs are the answer, people need to feel independent to have hope, a reason to go to school, Jobs in North County have been neglected for 3 decades.
Running our County should be about “WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE, to make St. Louis County a strong and business friendly environment, thus providing JOBS for the people of St Louis County -North, South, East and West while assisting in keeping our County Schools Strong, our citizens Safe, our infrastructure strong, and providing necessary services to the People.”
A VOTE FOR AMY IS A VOTE TO PREVENT “BETTER TOGETHER”, if you prefer “Better Together” vote for my opponent, he will vote that through for you.
4/30/16
Hi Amy, See below for my responses to your survey. I can mail the form in with all my responses (that form will show an X
on the ones that I agree with and the box will be left blank on the one's that
Hi Amy, See
below for my responses to your survey. I can mail the form in with all my responses (that form will show an X on the
ones that I agree with and the box will be left blank on the one's that I don't agree with) if that
works better for you if you email me your address. As an fyi for this listing of how I voted, I've
put an X in front of each one that I agree with and "Disagree" in front of the one's that I don't agree with. Amy,
I know you are busy, but I wanted to take a minute to say that as much as I dread St. Ann's Ward 2 losing you as
our Alderwoman, I know you are going to be so great in the new position you are running for. You show us every day how
important our city is to you and I know you will do great things on an even higher level when (not if) you win this election.
Thanks for all you do. dj X I live in a Municipality and prefer to live in a Municipality. X
I prefer St. Louis County leave Municipal Government decisions to their residents. X Better Together
could have a negative impact on services currently provided by Municipal Governments. X Better Together
would hide crime and not fix the problem. X I live in Unincorporated St. Louis County and prefer
to live in unincorporated St. Louis County. "Disagree": I prefer St. Louis County to eliminate the
Municipal Governments. "Disagree": Better Together is good for St. Louis Region. "Disagree":
Better Together would reduce crime.
Municipal Division Work groupFinal report to Supreme Court 3 1 16 Judge sides with St Louis County Munis on SB5
Stenger's Police Standards Ordinance Judges Final Order ie: Not Constitutional
This was my 1st email to our County Council Person. There was no response till a week later when I explained
that if he did not respond to my email requests that I would indeed put in a newsletter that is mailed to every household
and business, to 13,000 residents that their County Council Person did not even answer their Alderman. There were an
additional 15-30 other residents that had told me they emailed their council person with NO RESPONSE either.
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I wanted to share this information with you, to assist you in finding information on what you or maybe your kid could do beyond
school to achieve a NICE PAYING job.
LABORER' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA ST ANN PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST FORM Zoo Member, NRA, KCU, St Ann Alderman in 6th Term - Unopposed last 6 runs, USAV, AAU V, Operation Graduation,
Pride & Promise, SAPA, SABA, Ran as a Candidate for St Louis County Council 2x -got 41% of vote. RLAC & Ritenour Parent
Advocacy Committees.
Paid for by Amy Poelker.
Resume on Linkedin - Click Here Paid for by Amy Poelker. Paid for by Citizens for Amy Poelker, Treasurer Christopher Poelker. |
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