By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Labels: Blairmont, Development, Tax_Credits
A group of St. Louis legislators, including State Reps Jamilah Nasheed, Jeanette Mott Oxford and Rodney Hubbard*, State Senator Harry Kennedy, Aldermen April Ford Griffin, Dionne Flowers, Freeman Bosley, Sr., Jeffrey Boyd, Marlene Davis, Terry Kennedy, Frank Williamson, Bill Waterhouse, and Aldermanic President Lewis Reed*, today called for the controversial Land Assemblage Tax Credit to be amended during next week's special session.
*Clients of A.D. French & Associates
5 Comments:
Say it isn't so...Antonio...
It appears that James Harris, former Blunt henchmen, benefactor of recently disgraced former-representative Cooper, and one of the creators of the Adam Smith Foundation and ally of Jeff Roe, is advising the Hubbard for Senate Team.
Are the birdies lying?
8/16/2007 11:34 PM
Amend? How can you amend a bill which was drafted by McKee's lawyer Steve Stone? No. This is simply urban renewal, yet instead of high rise Pruitt Igoe's we have wonderful vinyl housing. The same end result will be displacement of residents and the destruction of the built environment. St. Louis does not need people from Marble Hill Missouri or any other rural town telling us how to revitalize our City. And certainly we do not need suburban developers. What we need is monies going to our neighbors so that they can maintain their property. The Healthy Home Repair Program is far more deserving than any suburban messiah figure.
8/17/2007 12:01 AM
This is not about the community at all, this about these two Aldermen (April Griffin and Marlene Davis)providing inclusion for developers that are lining their pockets with campaign contributions.
There are plenty of problems that these two Aldermen (Marlene Davis and April Griffin) can address that are immediate life threatening problems to their residents, such as shootings, killings, violent crime, and safety issues that can be corrected through their Aldermanic powers.
Life threatening neighborhood problem solving does not bring about campaign contributions when they are resolved, only votes (anybody remember votes).
However, these two Aldermen (you know who) are all about the money that flow into their campaign accounts and this is all some bogus bull.
Mc Kee is being extorted to share some of the State of Missouri money with other developers that these two Aldermen will choose at a later date when nobody is paying attention to this issue anymore. Then those chosen developers will make contributions to these two Aldermen campaigns.
Signed by Truth Shall Set You Free
8/17/2007 9:28 AM
"McKee's being extorted".
1. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise
of power or ingenuity;
Seems more like that's what he's doing to the Northside.
Comparing future 'possible' contributions due to a politicians actions as a leader, to pre tax credit contributions meant to sway future actions, is also hilarious.
8/17/2007 9:53 AM
WHAT will WHO amend exactly? WHO will those "amendments" benefit? I'm cheering for rehabbers and the like, but my pessimistic side says that is unlikely.
8/18/2007 9:27 AM
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