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 …
Saturday, July 21, 2012
"I'm pleased that this issue appears to be behind us," Glantz told Patch Friday.
Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz received a letter in the mail Thursday, confirming a July 13 decision by the Missouri Ethics Commission to dismiss a complaint filed against his election campaign by Ward 4 Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades. The two-page, five paragraph letter does not lay out decisions on all of the aspects raised in the nine page complaint. It does say the following: It dismissed the allegation that he "concealed" his involvement in sending a mailer against his opponent in the Mayor's race, Laura Bryant, and that he concealed the employer of a campaign contributor. The MEC investigation said "there was no evidence that you knew the individual responsible for the negative mailer or had any knowledge of this mailer's distribution …
Friday, July 20, 2012
The Glantz campaign will have to file amended campaign finance documents.
According to letters sent to interested parties in one of two sets of complaints filed in connection with the 2012 Mayor's race in Creve Coeur, the Missouri Ethics Commission has announced it has dismissed complaints brought by Creve Coeur City Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades against Mayor Barry Glantz and a woman who supported the Glantz campaign with a late-in-the-campaign mailer, Donna Dill. The decision, which came during the Commission's July 13 meeting and announced in letters dated July 16, came as the panel decided that "Mr. Glantz concealed his involvement in sending a political mailer against his opponent and that he concealed the employer of a campaign contributor were unsubstantiated," according to a letter sent to Councilwoman …
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Glantz acknowledged at least one area where campaign disclosure could have been better, but calls Ward 4 Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades "obsessed".
Creve Coeur Ward 4 Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades announced Wednesday evening that she had amended claims in an ethics complaint filed last month against newly elected Mayor Barry Glantz related to the just-completed campaign. Rhoades filed the initial complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission in early May, accusing the Glantz campaign of failing to properly disclose the employer of its biggest donor. Garrick Hamilton is General Counsel for the Koman Group, a fact Glantz did not deny in a May interview with Patch. Hamilton's donations, including a $2,000 check, came from a Yogurt firm's account, and not the developer with long and sometimes complicated ties to city politics and infrastructure projects, including the Olive Boulevard …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Council members could not reach agreement on issues related to the election of a council President, amid talk of healing a perceptual rift between city wards.
A little more than a month removed from the last election, Creve Coeur leaders showed Monday that there are differing opinions about the best way to provide healing following a tightly contested Mayor's race that has resulted in a pair complaints filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission. The Creve Coeur City Council elected Ward 3 Councilman Dr. Bob Hoffman as Council President Monday, but only after forcing new Mayor Barry Glantz to cast tie-breaking votes in just his second meeting since being sworn into office. The Council President is involved in vetting city committee appointments and also chairs council meetings when the Mayor is absent. Hoffman was chosen over Ward 4 Councilman Dr. Scott Saunders under a new procedure meant to open…
Monday, May 14, 2012
A complaint filed Thursday with the Missouri Ethics Commission alleged misrepresentations with regard to campaign finance disclosures and possibility of an attempt to deliberately confuse voters in Creve Coeur's Mayoral election last month.
In a telephone interview Monday morning Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz addressed the ethics filed against him by Ward Four Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades and defended his election campaign, first reported by Patch on Friday. Glantz said "When you hold public office, you're subject to all sorts of public scrutiny," adding that he has "nothing to hide" and will cooperate fully with any investigation by the Missouri Ethics Commission. In her complaint, Rhoades points to a problem with a $2,000 donation made by Garrick Hamilton, on behalf of 3G's Yogurt. Rhoades believes Glantz misrepresented Hamilton's primary employer since Hamilton is general counsel for the Koman Group, one of the area's largest developers and long a major player in Creve …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
City Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades filed the complaint against Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz Thursday.
The major players involved in an ethics complaint filed Thursday against Creve Coeur Mayor Barry Glantz's election campaign are staying quiet so far. On Friday, Patch reported that City Councilwoman Jeanne Rhoades filed the Missouri Ethics Commission complaint against Glantz, who defeated Laura Bryant last month. Rhoades has been one of Bryant's most ardent supporters. She did not return several messages seeking comment late Friday afternoon. Bryant has also not returned a message seeking comment. In a letter to the Ethics Commission, Rhoades said the effort was not meant as a "political stunt" to influence the outcome of the race. Mayor Glantz first learned of the charges when Patch requested comment on the matter Friday. Glantz said he …
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 …
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 ›