U City Runs Sting Operation On Citizens

For the past several weeks, University City Police have been running a sting operation on Delmar Blvd. near Luptons Chapel. They send a decoy pedestrian into a crosswalk in front of on-coming traffic. If the automobile does not stop (California style) the driver is issued a traffic ticket.

While this appears to make Delmar Blvd. a little more pedestrian friendly, it has created a dangerous hazard on the roadway. The decoy has purposefully stepped in front of on-coming traffic which may or may not have time to stop. Police standing in the road attempting to pull over violators create a hazard and police pursuits have ended up around blind corners where heavy traffic flows.

While there may have been serious injuries on Delmar, this is a busy street and will never be pedestrian friendly. Cross walks with signals have had fatalities on Delmar. People run those red lights all of the time. Creating a dangerous situation to prevent another dangerous situation seems foolish. Creating a false sense security where none should be expected could be lethal.

Kerry's Tire Slashers Sentenced

A congresswoman's son and three Democratic campaign workers were sentenced Wednesday to four to six months in jail for slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day 2004.
The men pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty.
"This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan, who rejected prosecutors' recommendation of probation for the four men.

U City Election Results

****** CITY OF UNIVERSITY CITY (17 POLLING PLACES) *****
Precincts Counted - . . . . . . . 17 100.00%
Registered Voters - . . . . . . . 25,581
Ballots Cast - . . . . . . . . . 5,789 22.63 %

MAYOR 1 TO BE ELECTED
JOSEPH "JOE" ADAMS . . . . . . . 2,895 51.15 %
SHELLEY WELSCH . . . . . . . . 2,765 48.85 %

*** CITY OF UNIVERSITY CITY-WARD 1 (8 POLLING PLACES) **
Precincts Counted - . . . . . . . 8 100.00 %
Registered Voters - . . . . . . . 8,712
Ballots Cast - . . . . . . . . . 2,245 25.77 %

COUNCILMEMBER-FIRST WARD 1 TO BE ELECTED
ROBERT G. "BOB" WAGNER . . . . . 1,618 80.38
ALLEN S. SABOL . . . . . . . . 395 19.62

*** CITY OF UNIVERSITY CITY-WARD 2 (6 POLLING PLACES) **
Precincts Counted - . . . . . . . 6 100.00
Registered Voters - . . . . . . . 7,629
Ballots Cast - . . . . . . . . . 1,833 24.03 %

COUNCILMEMBER-SECOND WARD 1 TO BE ELECTED
L. MICHAEL GLICKERT . . . . . . 1,073 67.27 %
EDWARD MCCARTHY . . . . . . . . 522 32.73%

*** CITY OF UNIVERSITY CITY-WARD 3 (6 POLLING PLACES) **
Precincts Counted - . . . . . . . 6 100.00 %
Registered Voters - . . . . . . . 9,240
Ballots Cast - . . . . . . . . . 1,711 18.52 %

COUNCILMEMBER-THIRD WARD 1 TO BE ELECTED
ERIC B. REESE . . . . . . . . 639 39.44%
BYRON R. PRICE . . . . . . . . 981 60.56%

Meet the Hip Hop Republican

Voter Fraud OK According to Judge David Mason

Circuit Judge David Mason in St. Louis has sentenced a woman, who turned in voter registration cards in the name of dead local politicians, to probation, community service and relaxation training using transcendental meditation. Way to go Dave! Missouri citizens do not need fair and honest elections. More crack heads are always a plus.

According to the Assocoiated Press:

Michelle Robinson, 36, pleaded guilty Friday on charges of 13 violations of election law and of possession of crack cocaine and a crack pipe.

Robinson worked for a campaign called Operation Big Vote that aimed to boost the participation of black voters in the 2001 St. Louis mayoral election. But some of the cards she turned in on Feb. 7, 2001, were made out in the names of several dead former city aldermen, triggering state and federal criminal investigations.
Robinson admitted in court Friday that she had filled out 13 fraudulent cards, including ones for now-deceased Aldermen Albert "Red" Villa and Nellene Joyce, whose daughter is a St. Louis circuit attorney.

Maybe Maria needs a Che T-Shirt

A Letter from Maria

There are groups who believe we can better educate our children. This group will support politicians who support their ideas. However, State Rep, Maria Chappelle...... wants to make a political issue out of our kids future:

Dear University City Residents,
As many of you know, I have taken the lead in the Missouri House to ensure our schools districts are safe from special interest groups, such as Wal-Mart, Overstock.com, Alliance for School Choice and the group, which funded Matt Blunt in his campaign against Claire McCaskill, All Children Matter.

From many of my newsletters I have stated the funding stream that right-wing Republicans have used to take democratic seats in the house and senate. I have stated in previous newsletters which legislators have also been swept by these out-of-state special interests, such as Ted Hoskins, democrat from the 80th Legislative district, who has received over $13,000 from All Children Matter-MO PAC directly into his legislative account.

Well, I am sad to say, that Mayor Adams has taken money directly from the sponsor of House Bill1783, Ted Hoskins, which is a state-tax credit voucher bill which will take $40 MILLION dollars from Missouri's Education Budget.

In his last financial disclosure, Ted Hoskins not only maxed out on the Adams campaign, but just this week he PAID for an AD in the Citizen Journal. The School Voucher proponents are BUYING off our local officials AND WE CAN NOT LET THAT HAPPEN!

Take a look at your Citizen Journal again, look at the bottom of the page as it reads "Paid for by 80th Legislative District committee." This is Ted Hoskins committee, which received thousands of dollars for passage of the school Voucher bill just this year.

If you have a problem with Joe Adams taking money from PROPONENTS OF SCHOOL VOUCHERS, please call him and ask why is he selling out our schools and community at 862-7877. Ask why the disguise Joe? It was always peculiar to me why Betty Thompson supported Joe this go round, yet had her son oppose him 8 years ago.

Also, to refer to all financial disclosures of All Children Matter-MO PAC, Ted Hoskins or the 80th legislative district please go to the Missouri Ethics web site at http://www.moethics.mo.gov/.

If Maria would stand up for U City kids, perhaps All Children Matter would
support her too.

Democrats guilty again

Democrats have been found guily again of not reporting campaign contributions. I thougt it was the Republicans who could not be trusted. What were the Democrats afraid of reporting?

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Ethics Commission has fined the Missouri House Democratic Campaign Committee $104,000 for various campaign finance violations during the 2002 elections.
The fine is among the largest ever levied by the commission.
The commission found that the Democratic committee failed to report how much direct support it gave to which candidates. It also did not correctly report some contributions and expenditures, mixed money with another campaign committee, was controlled by candidates for office and didn't keep proper records, the commission found.

From the Kansas City Star:

House Democrat committee fined $100,000