By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 7:24 AM
State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed told the committee yesterday that her area didn't want the $95 million Land Assemblage Tax Credit. Labels: Blairmont
"Until we understand it and until we know better what's going to take place in the areas we represent, we don't want it," said Nasheed.
She said developer Paul McKee has been "disrespectful to the local elected officials" and she thinks it is "pathetic" for anyone to support the tax credit without first seeing his plan for the area.
17 Comments:
Wow, Rep. Nasheed acting like a fool again.
She needs to worry more about her constituents and less about her ego.
Seriously, she will not support progress in any form unless she gets sole credit.
I am sick of her games, and sick of her playing games with the future of St. Louis.
I will not vote for her ever again.
8/22/2007 8:32 AM
Acting a fool?
She is using logic.
Why should the state subsidize a developer who has not released his plans?
Why is the Mayor supporting a plan which the public has not yet seen?
Who owns this City? The people or developers?
8/22/2007 9:55 AM
Apparently developers that are in cahoots with that damn Slay run this city,St. Louis Cardinals and Ball Park Village owners included!
8/22/2007 12:52 PM
Yeah, that damn Slay! I am sick and tired of him bringing jobs, people, businesses and opportunity back to the city!
He better stop improving my property value!
I wish he were more like Rep. Nasheed. At least she understands that we in the city like dangerous neighborhoods, we want the jobs to leave and stay away and we definitely do not want developement of our beloved vacant lots!
Damn you Slay! Damn you!
Oh yeah, and the reason he does all of these horrible things to the city is because he is a racist. (We all know that any white person that tries to help the city is secretly against us, just ask Rep. Nasheed and Ald. Griffin.)
8/22/2007 2:27 PM
This whole thing reminds me of an Onion article a couple of months age...the headline read something like, "Shithole Neighborhood Residents Up In Aarms Over Proposed Improvements".
The sad thing is that was satire and in St. Louis it is reality.
8/22/2007 2:55 PM
This video was great and showed how Rep. Jamilah Nasheed is being used to fight against a bill that is really not about the community.
Aldermen Marlene Davis and April Griffin were smart in allowing Rep. Jamilah Nasheed to be their spokesperson at this committee hearing, because now it will definitely pass with an amendment. Not to mention that when the House of Representatives goes back into session, Aldermen Marlene Davis and April Griffin will be collecting their kickbacks and campaign contributions, while Rep. Nasheed will not be able to get a single bill passed through the House of Representatives. The legislators are going to remember this testimony and how Rep. Nasheed will fight any and everything related to government. Oooppps, that's right, she is elected to government.
Is she fighting herself too?
However, it's O.K. because Rep. Nasheed will receive a very small fraction of some money in the form of a campaign contribution from Aldermen Marlene Davis and April Griffin vs. the large campaign contributions these two Aldermen will have received from that one special developer that are fighting for tooth and nail!
Rep. Nasheed has the possibility of being re-elected again, but her only relevance will be to fight, fight, fight, anything, anytime, anywhere, and ya'll thought Neicy Williams was gone. Neicy ain't gone nowhere, because people are saying that you can take the woman out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the (you know the rest)!
The word is that the State Representatives refer to Rep. Nasheed as Rep. G.E.D. They also say that the more she talks and doesn't get anything done or bills passed, the better all the St. Louis Representatives look in comparison.
MAY NEICY WILLIAMS LIVE ON!
8/22/2007 3:14 PM
hmmmm
I'm in the near North Side. We call it 'outside the Green Zone'. I own my building. I have all these problems around me, the brick eaters, the crack, the whores, the dumping, the speculators. I have the State Correctional Facility two blocks away. I have an unlicensed building across the street that houses 30 to 40 people at a time...from the Facility, from the street. I have mentioned this to the Mayor, in person, at a neighborhood meeting. He came back and shook my hand, as others came to chuckle that he had not answered my question. I have photographed, called, filed, been shined on, and had my calls ignored, by the NSO, whom I have also met.
This neighborhood, these neighborhoods are on limited life support. The city is spending a pre-determined fractional equivalence, with regards to support services the further North one travels. My police response is quicker to call the non-emergency number. The most recent multiple car police response, ironically blocking a street behind the prison known for drug use, was a deer, and for all I know, they put it down. Even though the Correctional Center releases 300 men and 100 women a day, there is no familiar police protection. Every call, a new face... and we can begin to describe the actions of the neighborhood, all over again...It's like calling India to get your DSL back on... You begin to suspect that the purpose is to tire you out, and you'll just hang up.
I can appreciate the 'other' side of the city being protective of itself, and of it's increasing property values. But if these events happen at a human cost, whether they work 'next' to you, or for you, then it has to be acknowledged. If the North side is so valuable, why not pay next years value, rather than last years? You want the baseball that my grandfather caught at Sportman's Park? Make it attractive to me to part with it. Don't give me a new, made in China Rawlings, and a swift kick in the pants. It's not the same.
If you reach across the table, aiming at something I may not have eaten yet, on my plate...be prepared to draw back an arm severely 'forked'
makla
8/22/2007 3:46 PM
Makla,that damn Slay's plan for your area is gentrification with ethnic elimination!
8/22/2007 4:37 PM
Who needs enemies when you have Rep. Nasheed representing you?
8/22/2007 8:22 PM
what do you think the out of state legislators think when they listen to her speak?
8/22/2007 8:44 PM
I read the comments before I viewed the video. Oh, My GOD!!!! Her testimony sounded like a comedy skit! It made you believe that she was making fun or intentionally mispronouncing and misusing words out of context. Yet she wasn't. This is a classic example of; "Be quiet and be thought a fool, open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Jamillah isn't "acting like a fool" she is just someone who thought they could bluff their way through the process. She is young and hard working. She just doesn't know what the heck she should be working on.
Everything she said was generic in nature, except that "people distrusted this plan and for good reason; and it should stop so we could talk about it more". She doesn't know what the bill means and what it contains. She just believes that she should be against it, but can't get any more specific except to say we don't know what the plan involves. I agree, but that alone is not the only concerns I have about this bill.
Rep. Nasheed scares me with her lack of knowledge and the fact that she's not ashamed to show it.
8/22/2007 10:39 PM
If a southside alderman and state rep. were in cahoots and said since the N. St. Louis doesnt want this tax credit we should get it, I wonder what people would say then?
8/23/2007 12:49 AM
If South St. Louis had a developer like McKee, then there would be a terrible uproar, since all the influential Catholics, rich people, and the such would be up in arms against McKee's secret plans to demolish their neighborhoods. But no, when it happens on the North Side, people just shrug it off!! "So what, they would never do that here, WERE DIFFERENT!".
8/23/2007 1:13 PM
McKee wouldn't disrespect the white alderpeople of the southside by not meeting with them and making them aware of his development plans for their wards the way he did Alderwoman Ford!
8/23/2007 4:40 PM
Of course, they probably wouldn't be shaken them down either! The FBI or someone needs to investigate some of these shakedown artists!
8/24/2007 6:58 AM
I find it hard to believe that some certain North Side aldermen are truly against the development given their fetish for Walgreens. Perhaps their upheaval against McKee is simply to appear independent? We will only know when this actually goes to the BOA. But by then it will probably be too late.
8/24/2007 11:31 PM
I don't know if some of you listened to her comments or not, but she didn't say she was against it - she clearly stated (more than once) - "Let me see your plan, and make a decision on a later date". What is so wrong with that? That makes sense.
How many of you would sign something without knowing what it is you’re signing? Someone is NOT going to just give 98 million without some kind of strings. I would (at the very least) want to know the strings up front. It sounds suspicious to me. Who does that? And why would anyone want an elected official to sign something like that.
8/26/2007 8:25 PM
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