Archive for the ‘Government, Politics, Law and Order’ Category

Kacie Starr Triplett, the excruciatingly self-promoting St. Louis alderman, has sent out an e-mail to her supporters (and pretty much everyone else) asking us to “Join President Obama and Me at an Event for Senator Claire McCaskill.”  The columnist is less surprised at the hint of hostess than at the fact that Triplett managed to mention McCaskill at all. Meanwhile, McCaskill  has tapped hometowner Neal E. Boyd, winner of America’s Got Talent, as a “special musical guest” for her March 10 dinner here with the Prez.

Although it is still months away from the November election between County Exec Dooley and his Republican challenger, lawyer Bill Corrigan, the two campaigns have already made some “important” decisions.  Dooley has selected blue and gold, while Corrigan has opted for red, white and blue on parchment.

News that state representative Rachel Storch (D. St. Louis) has announced her intention to wed a financier warmed the columnist’s romantic heart, but one has to wonder what Storch, who is a member of the Democratic National Committee, will make of fiancee Barry Akrongold’s reported campaign contributions to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Sen. Mitch McConnell and President George W. Bush and the presidential campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin. (Offering some hope of marital harmony, Akrongold, who lives in New York, also reportedly contributed to N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s campaign).

A “dream team” of activist lawyers (led by venerable Bevis Shock) may be trying to erect a roadblock in court to developer Paul McKee’s plans to transform a swath of north St. Louis, but McKee himself seems unfazed by their arguments.  While the nay-saying lawyers argued that McKee’s Northside Transformation plan was illusory, McKee and his own lawyers were quietly acquiring additional property for the project on Friday.