Tuesday, May 14, 2013
One Creve Coeur City Councilwoman said Monday she had to stand up for a defeated city council candidate. Her colleagues said they were "saddened" and "appalled" by references to a recent prayer to remember the Holocaust.
Three weeks after Creve Coeur's new city council was seated following April's elections, allegations concerning dirty campaign tricks boiled back to the surface Monday night when one councilmember invoked the words of an invocation to recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ward 4's Jeanne Rhoades referenced "the price of staying silent," part of an invocation used last month by B'Nai Amoona Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose. She did so in speaking out about a last minute campaign flier which colored the end of the Ward 1 race between Cynthia Kramer and David Caldwell, won by Kramer. The flier, paid for by an employee of the printing firm Kramer's campaign used, accused Caldwell of being a bully, mirroring an allegation leveled at Caldwell by a …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
We've got the rundown on the results of all the races and ballot issues that affected readers of Creve Coeur Patch.
The former State Senator defeated former State Rep. Cole McNary in a race for the West St. Louis County area fire district board.
A matchup of two high profile political names who have spent the past few months duking it out for a seat on the Monarch Fire Protection District Board of Directors came to a conclusion Tuesday as voters elected chose Jane Cunningham over Cole McNary for a seat on the three-person panel. In unofficial final results: Cunningham 5,679 60.02 percent McNary 3,742 39.55 percent Write-In 4 1 .43 percent "This is one of the sweetest wins I've ever had because it was a win of something so direct for the people. This was a fundamental war if you will," for control of the Monarch Fire Protection District board, Cunningham said as a victory party at Mike Duffy's in Town and Country wrapped up late Tuesday. Cunnigham, who …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
It had to pass in both St. Louis City and St. Louis County in order to impose the sales tax increase to fund improvements around the Gateway Arch, local parks and regional trails.
Voters in St. Louis County and St. Louis City said yes to a 3/16ths of one-cent sales tax increase designed to fund about $31 million a year in improvements to the Gateway Arch grounds, the regional Great Rivers Greenway trails and greenways, and for city and county parks. The measure had to pass in both the county and the city in order to be implemented. In the city, with 100 percent of the vote counted, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the proposition won with 67 percent of the vote. With 100 percent of the votes counted in the county, the proposition passed easily with a 53 percent to 47 percent margin. The money would go toward: Correction: An earlier version of this article used the incorrect proposition name in the headline…
Ruth Petrov and Robert Dillon were re-elected to the Pattonville Board of Education Tuesday night.
Pattonville School District voters decided Tuesday night to retain its board as is and re-elected board members Robert Dillon and Ruth Petrov. Petrov lead the field of four candidates with 1,881 votes, while Dillon narrowly edged out candidate Andrea Glenn, 1,696 to 1,687 votes, respectively, according to the unofficial results. Challenger Andrew Ostrowski received 738 votes. In his filing paperwork, Dillon wrote: “I signed up for the fifth term on the Pattonville School Board, so I can continue to guide the district through these difficult years. With the economy of the federal and state governments, as they are, we will need to be very fiscally responsible in all of our decisions regarding Pattonville. Tough times demand a steady hand to…
Incumbents Sam Sciortino and Tom Appelbaum kept their Parkway School Board seats in the April 2 election.
UPDATED 12:50 p.m., Wed., April 3- Voters decided Tuesday that incumbent Parkway School Board members Sam Sciortino and Tom Appelbaum should keep their positions. Voters selected two of the eight candidates running for the open seats in the Parkway School Board election. Board members serve three-year terms. Sciortino received the most votes, with 5,049 votes, or 21.26 percent. Appelbaum garnered 3,596 votes, or 15.14 percent. School board candidate Jenifer Clifton wasn't far behind with 3,338 votes, or 14.05 percent, but there were only two open seats. Patch reached out to both re-elected school board members Tuesday night, but it was after 10 p.m. when election results came in. Patch was able to reach Appelbaum who was watching the …
Charlotte D'Alfonso and Scott Saunders ran unopposed races for Creve Coeur City Council and were re-elected Tuesday.
Creve Coeur voters knew going into Tuesday's election that no matter the result, two new faces would be elected to City Council. Now, according to unofficial St. Louis County Board of Election results, we know that those faces are Cynthia Kramer and Ellen Lawrence. In Ward 1, Kramer defeated Caldwell by a margin of 467 to 201 votes, 69.60 percent to 29.96 percent. There were three write-in votes. Kramer, a Planning and Zoning Commissioner, sought to position herself as one who could work with others in a collaborative fashion and did not stake out a set of specific actions or policy goals. "Wow," Kramer said when informed of the result late Tuesday night. "It's really an honor that people put faith in my candidacy. I look forward to …
Find out who won city council and school board races.
Creve Coeur voters went to the polls Tuesday to elect four city council members, and a pair of school board members in Parkway, Pattonville and Ladue Schools. There was a Monarch Fire Protection District Board seat to fill, and a decision to make on a countywide parks funding proposal. Check the vote totals for the races that affected Creve Coeur Patch readers. And here's links to related articles: Need a last-minute refresher on the candidates, or to locate your polling place? Check out our April 2 Election Guide.
Get informed before you go to the polls in Creve Coeur.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Cynthia Kramer and David Caldwell are your choices for Creve Coeur's Ward 1 Council election April 2.
When voters in Ward 1 go to the polls Tuesday to decide who will join David Kreuter on Creve Coeur's City Council, they'll have a chance to decide between two candidates and two contrasting styles. Read: The Creve Coeur Patch April 2 Election Guide David Caldwell has campaigned on his experience as a city watchdog through his website CreveCoeurVoter.com over the last few years, and attention to detail in criticizing his opponent's inability to complete a League of Women Voters questionnaire. Caldwell used the LWV questionnaire to lay out detailed policy statements. Cynthia Kramer, a Planning and Zoning Commissioner, apologized for not completing the League of Women Voters material, and a typo that incorrectly stated her length of tenure on…
Scott Simon
1:33 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
It's amazing that complainers try to mine message ideal as some sort of personal intellectual property. It's been used in poltical debate and analysis for decades by both parties here and across the world. The claim of "I didn't know" is disingenous. The "wink wink" culture continues to flourish in Creve Coeur for self-selected insiders. And you really want us to sign up for this "For the Love of… more ›