This week's Political Eye mentions Gentry Trotter getting paid to provide good press for Francis Slay in the Evening Whirl.
But Trotter doesn't show up on the mayor's campaign finance filings. Trotter does show up on a committee called Citizens for a Better St. Louis, Bradley Ketcher treasurer. For the October quarter, Trotter was paid $6,000. The committee isn't listed as supporting any candidate, but has been supportive of Slay efforts including a $10k donation to the WeCan Coalition and a direct expenditure of Prop G in 2006.
The committee has been funded by the usual businesses that show up on these reports - AB, Stone Layton, Gallop Johnson.
In other news, Slay announced another endorsement today - the Ironworkers. |
Posted by: Dave at 3:34 pm | Category: Campaign Finance Filings | Link & Discuss (0)
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| Rep. Allen Icet amended his campaign committee to run for state senate - district 26. The current incumbent John Greiseheimer is term limited. Former state representative Charles Portwood has also started a committee. |
Posted by: Dave at 1:17 pm | Category: 2010 | Link & Discuss (0)
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| Democrats for Education Reform, the organization for which Rodney Hubbard has started working, sent the Obama transition team a memo recommending Arne Duncan for Education Secretary, according to a NewYork Times article on the pick. |
Posted by: Dave at 8:25 am | Category: Education | Link & Discuss (0)
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Last night at Sen. Kevin Engler's holiday bipartisan love-fest, out-going state senator Maida Coleman was telling her former colleagues that she was going to run for mayor of St. Louis. Furthermore the rumor is that former state representative John Bowman is set to be her campaign manager.
Meanwhile, Francis Slay filed another fundraising report showing $15,000 more raised, $5k from H.O.G. Properties, $5k from Dobbs Tire and Auto Service, and $5k from Husch Blackwell and Sanders. |
Posted by: Dave at 10:34 am | Category: 09 | Link & Discuss (0)
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