Posts Tagged ‘John Temporiti’

On the heels of the Missouri Earnings Tax Initiative (Prop. A) which he heavily supported, conservative millionaire Rex Sinquefeld said he is poised to launch a petition in April to abolish the Missouri income tax.  With his wife, Dr. Jeanne Sinquefeld, he greeted 500 guests at the St. Vincent Christmas benefit at the Chase Hotel.  (Rex was raised at the St. Vincent orphanage.)  Within earshot were Maggie and Ron Holtman, Rex’s basketball coach, as well as Brenda Talent of the Show Me Institute, where she said a new study “shows how the economy can grow by eliminating the taxes.”  Asked about her husband, Jim, and his reputed run for U.S. Senate, she demurred and then said she told him, “You run in one election and then run in another?” Attorney and advisor to County Exec Charlie Dooley, John Temporiti, had a take on that, when he said, “If Ann Wagner takes the RNC chair post, Talent will probably run for U.S. Senate.”  With Temporiti was his and wife Karen’s son/barrister Michael, who has begun working at the firm where dad works. After they met and greeted, the Temporitis were off and running to the Log Cabin Club to hear Karl Rove, hosted by The Roundtable group. “Hold your enemies close,” chuckled John. St. Louis Aldermanic prez Lewis Reed was joined by state rep Rodney Hubbard, Sr., and Jr., after which Reed speculated on License Collector Michael McMillan‘s possible run for St.Louis mayor.  “Mike’s a hard worker. But, I’m not going to pit him against Francis Slay,” insisted Reed. Meanwhile, McMillan is off to Malaysia for three weeks on a State Department exchange program.

The Missouri Ethics Commission has dismissed as “unsubstantiated” a complaint against attorney (and Charlie Dooley‘s adviser) John Temporiti filed by the campaign of fellow attorney Bill Corrigan.  The columnist is now waiting to see if Temporiti files a lawsuit against political pro Lloyd Smith, the new exec director of the state Republican Party, who signed the complaint against Temporiti under oath.

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.