Sunday, September 16, 2012
The state agency dismissed complaints filed against campaigns of Barry Glantz and Laura Bryant.
Five months after the vote to elect Creve Coeur's next Mayor, action this week may have finally tied a bow around the campaign.. The Missouri Ethics Commission voted to dismiss a complaint filed by Barry Glantz against his opponent, Laura Bryant, over a missed February deadline for a campaign finance report. The Bryant campaign later filed the report. In April, Glantz defeated Bryant at the polls. In a statement to Patch late Thursday, Bryant said: The Missouri Ethics Commission's decision confirms precisely what my campaign treasurer and I said all along -- that our late filing on the "40-day-before report" was a simple oversight and an honest mistake. The fact that this particular deadline is the only one missing from the official …
Friday, September 14, 2012
The Missouri Ethics Commission on Tuesday voted to dismiss the complaint filed in connection with the April election.
In a decision posted on the agency's website earlier this week, the Missouri Ethics Commission announced it had voted Tusday to dismiss the ethics complaint filed by Barry Glantz, now Mayor, against his opponent in the April election, Laura Bryant. Glantz made the complaint after Bryant missed a filing deadine for campaign finance documents. Bryant and her campaign treasurer called the oversight an honest error and later filed the necessary paperwork. In a statement late Thursday night, Bryant said in part, "The fact that this particular deadline is the only one missing from the official campaign finance form is still a problem, and one that the MEC should address so that no other Missouri candidate makes the same mistake." The Glantz …
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
One case tied to the Creve Coeur Mayoral election is over, while another waits.
In her first interview with Patch since the Missouri Ethics Commission issued a ruling dismissing the post-election complaint filed by Creve Coeur City Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades against the Barry Glantz for Mayor campaign, the agency's Executive Director said complaints are taken "very seriously," and that evidence is looked at "very thoroughly" and "very carefully". Julie Allen was unable to speak about specifics in the case due to state law, instead directing people with questions about the verdict to copies of letters available on the agency's website. In reacting to the dismissal, Rhoades said Friday the ruling serves to "raise more questions than they answer..." Allen, again while not addressing a specific element of the case said …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Current and former members of city council say they've received anonymous typed letters over the last decade and just recently.
Tuesday 5:58 p.m. Update: Creve Coeur Police Chief Glenn Eidman, who was not in attendance at Monday's Council meeting when the letter in question was turned over, told Patch late Tuesday afternoon "We are looking into it. We document it. We look at it like anything else." He added that he wasn't aware of letters sent to former Councilwoman Bryant, noting that it would have included a period of time before he was the Chief of Police. Original Story: Creepy. Definitely personal. A veiled threat. Those were some of the words Creve Coeur City Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades used Monday night to describe an anonymous letter she received within the last few weeks. The typed letter, in a plan white envelope, also typed, which she said she told City …
Monday, July 9, 2012
Is Creve Coeur a city divided by local politics? You tell us.
It's been just over three months since Creve Coeur voters went to the polls to elect a new Mayor after a lengthy and passionate campaign which extended for more than a year. In the time since, Mayor Barry Glantz has been going through firsts....ribbon cuttings, recognition ceremonies, and his first council meeting to last under 30 minutes. He's also had to take his first vote to break a tie, in just his second meeting as Mayor, to elect Dr. Bob Hoffman as Council President. On election night, there was talk of the need for healing political divisions in the city. Has it happened? Should it? And how did the city get this way in the first place? Patch takes a look at the political pulse in Creve Coeur. Mayor Glantz insists he has continued …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Creve Coeur City Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades filed a complaint Thursday with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz will chair only his second City Council meeting Monday since being elected last month, but he will do so under the cloud of an ethics complaint filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission Thursday. Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades filed the query with the agency and in the 9 page report, accuses Glantz of "misrepresenting the primary affiliation (employer) of his single largest contributor." It also alleges that a woman behind a last-minute mailer in the campaign "misrepresented and/or omitted key information" in order to benefit the Glantz campaign. It further states that Glantz and or his supporters may have colluded "to deliberately and fraudulently confuse and distract voters." By Missouri law, the Missouri …
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Barry Glantz and Laura Bryant answered questions posed by Patch readers at a recent Chamber of Commerce forum.
Creve Coeur voters head to the polls Tuesday to end what has been more than a year of campaigning in the race to be the city's next Mayor. This past Thursday, Barry Glantz and Laura Bryant took part in their last joint appearance as opponents in this election cycle, at a candidate forum co-sponsored by Creve Coeur Patch and the Creve Coeur-Olivette Chamber of Commerce. Read: Creve Coeur Mayoral Candidates Debate Before Election Day As promised, we're sharing more about what the pair had to say about the Mayor's role, zoning concerns in the city and where they see the city at the end of their potential first term. How Do You Define The Mayor's Role As An Ambassador? Glantz: The Mayor does run the city council meetings. The city council …
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A.J. Wang in a bit of a tight spot after his name showed up on a mailer taking sides in the Mayor's race.
According to his original plan, Creve Coeur Ward 2 Councilman A.J. Wang said he was going to remain neutral in the race between Barry Glantz and Laura Bryant for Mayor of Creve Coeur. But with less than a month left before the April 3 election, Wang found himself in what he called Monday a "somewhat akward" position recently, when his name appeared on a mailer with more than two dozen other current and former city elected officials, backing Glantz. Wang said if he had been asked to sign off on it, "I would have said no." Glantz contended Monday night that he did speak to Wang about signing off on the letter, and that if Wang wanted to change his mind, that was his prerogative. Wang meanwhile has posted campaign signs for both candidates in…
Thursday, March 22, 2012
City Clerk confirms Laura Bryant did not file an ethics complaint with the city of Creve Coeur.
Creve Coeur Patch would like to offer a point of clarification in our coverage of the race for the city's next Mayor. Patch recently reported on a campaign mailer sent out by candidate Barry Glantz, which used endorsements from some current and former city elected leaders to buttress a claim that his opponent, Laura Bryant, had "wasted valuable city resources by engaging in divisive political actions." When pressed, Glantz did not provide specifics on areas where he felt that had taken place, but told Patch his supporters had spent "countless hours with lawyers," and ethics complaints because of Bryant. Bryant has declined formal comment. Patch has confirmed through the office of Creve Coeur City Clerk Debbie Ryan that Bryant has not, …
Sunday, March 18, 2012
David Caldwell is editor of CreveCoeurVoter.com.
Editor's Note: The following opinion is republished with permission of CreveCoeurVoter.com editor David Caldwell. To avoid any confusion, any references about "Your Editor", "I" or "We" refers to Mr. Caldwell, and not Creve Coeur Patch. Just when I thought that this year’s mayoral campaign was going to set a high standard for integrity and honesty, the Creve Coeur Cares crowd had to come along and spoil it. [Your editor is speaking personally this time, and I will not hide behind the editorial we.] I was digesting the thoughtful responses CCV received from the two candidates to the Kitchen Table Talk inquiry and preparing to write about the things I liked about their answers. Then I received a mailer from something called Leaders For A …
Scott Simon
10:01 am on Monday, September 17, 2012
Of course Mayor Glantz isn't going to say anything about the MEC. After all, he had business with them too! Let sleeping dogs lie... more ›