By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 9:40 AM
In March, Pub Def asked the question "Where have all the real Democrats gone?"
Former 20th Ward Alderman Sharon Tyus filed to run for state representative in the 60th Distric against activist Jamilah Nasheed.
Mayor Francis Slay's appointees kept overruling Fire Chief Sherman George.
Alderman Steve Gregali (D-14) led an unsuccessful filibuster against the bill to create a civilian review board. It eventually passed anyway. Then Slay vetoed it.
BTW, cops hated CRB. "Where do they get the idea that some shitbag should have the right to investigate a police officer?," wrote one person on the St. Louis CopTalk electronic bulletin board.
Senator Barack Obama came to town to stump for Senate candidate Claire McCaskill.
McCaskill's mom, Betty Anne, lent her daughter "elderly cred" with senior voters.
Pub Def suggested 3 easy things Metro could do to improve pubic transportation in the City.
There was an allegation of a physical confrontation in the school board campaign.
Chris Goodson became president of the police board, which then, after Mayor Slay left the meeting early, approved waiving the residency requirement for the department's 500 civilian employees. The board later reversed itself. (Then later in the year reversed itself again.)
Pub Def broke the story of how University City Mayor Joe Adams was edited from a CALOP-commissioned documentary about the city because of campaign politics.
Committeeman Francis Slay, Sr. jumped on the Jeff Smith bandwagon.
RFT editor Tom Finkel apologized after his reporter, Chad Garrison, lifted quotes from one of our exclusive videos without giving us credit.
State Rep. Sherman Parker, the lone black Republican in the state house, bucked his party and filed to run against a fellow Republican, Congressman Todd Akin.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accepted the apology of Dave Lenihan, of St. Louis' own KTRS 550AM. Lenihan was fired after he used the racial slur "coon" when discussing the Secretary. He quickly said it was an unfortunate slip of the tongue and just as quickly (and inexplicably) had Harold Crumpton of the local NAACP jumping to his defense.
Pub Def was the first to report the selection of Julie Szymula Feier to replace Frank Ollendorff as city manager of University City.
We also presented the first-of-its-kind video voter guide for the U-City's mayor's race.
Deputy Mayor Barb Geisman testified before a House committee on eminent domain, defending the City's use of the power, which one state rep described as "willy-nilly."
Pub Def proudly endorsed parents Peter Downs and Donna Jones for school board.
Superintendent Creg Williams tried to prevent teachers from volunteering on Election Day.
The St. Louis American responded to observations we made about the relationship between political advertising and newspaper endorsements in that paper and others.
The "AmShack" was officially pronounced dead.
And political op Lou Hamilton won our first ever "Name That Politico!" contest.
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