Posts Tagged ‘Bill Corrigan’

An invitation making the rounds will probably not endear attorney Bill Corrigan to any of St. Louis county’s restaurants and banquet rooms, but it IS convenient to his office in Met Square.  Can you even see St. Louis county from that room?  The invite is for a reception/fundraiser for Corrigan’s run for county exec on Friday, Feb. 19 on the 42nd floor of One Metropolitan Square.  You can co-host by raising or contributing $1,000.

Karen and John Temporiti were also among the holiday revelers, but Temporiti had some serious issues with which he expounded.  He turned to a recent page-one story in the Post-Dispatch and opined, “It was a nothing story – even tracing my education at the seminary. The paper wanted to get  (County Exec)  Charlie Dooley. Obviously (operative) Jeff Roe is making inroads with the paper to support Dooley’s rival, Bill Corrigan. You know, even some of Corrigan’s colleagues at the Armstrong Teasdale law firm are supporting Dooley such as the upcoming fundraiser led by his partners Steve Cousins and John Nations.”  Turning to another topic,Temporiti hailed that he’s helping Fred Weber, Inc.’s plan to expand its landfill in Maryland Heights. “Look, it’s the only one in St. Louis county,” he reasoned.

The office of Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has begun asking local governments to quantify the economic consequences of a series of Rex Sinquefeld-sponsored petitions to abolish the earnings tax collected by St. Louis and Kansas City (and, beyond Rex’s current reach, by most major cities in the country.) In St. Louis , the earnings taxes paid by city residents and by others who work within the city limits amount to one-third of the entire city budget (or the cost of operating the entire police dept)… The two trains of Charlie Dooley, county exec and candidate, brushed each other on the tracks this week.  While Dooley campaign exec John Temporiti was dousing Republican challenger Bill Corrigan‘s No-Tax announcement with proof of Dooley’s own tax-cutting chops, county officials were telling reporters that Dooley was supporting a half-cent sales tax increase for public transportation… Yes, that was former St. Louis mayor Clarence Harmon sitting back-to-back with former St. Louis mayor Vince Schoemehl over lunch at low-profile Beffa’s.  Unrelated meetings and polite handshakes, reported bemused observers.  Meanwhile, Fredbird – the unlikely club next door to St. Louis’s most hidden restaurant – will host a fundraiser Dec. 5 to promote the 2010 season of the Arch Rival Roller Girls… From my booth at the McDonald’s across the street from the Post-Dispatch, it looks like on-line editor Kurt Greenbaum (a true gentleman, by the way) has managed to do exactly what his bosses wanted him to do: get readers.  A P-D story – more accurately, stories about the newspaper – spent the past week near the top of the Google International search list.  Greenbaum, who oversees most of the paper’s social media efforts, drew worldwide attention for telling a local school that someone using its computers had posted and reposted a naughty comment on a P-D website… Erstwhile P-D commentary page editor Eric Mink was beckoned by The New York Times as freelancer to pen a review of a new production of “The Card Game” in the long-running “Frontline” documentary series on PBS. Published Nov. 23, the review is headlined “In Love with Credit, It’s Business as Usual”… Betsy Taylor, super-reporter in the Associated Press’s St. Louis bureau, is job hunting.