By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 10:20 PM
It has not been a good week for 1st Ward Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe.
Channel 4 reports that Troupe, who owns numerous residential properties, is being sued by a family who rents from him after a one-year-old girl fell out of a second story window which reportedly did not have a screen installed.
18 Comments:
And this motherfucker talks about the LRA is a slum lord?
9/12/2007 11:45 PM
That's the blatant hypocrisy that's appalling. The same thing that he criticizes LRA, city government, Paul Mckee and anyone besides himself, he himself is guilty of neglect. As far as I'm concerned, Troupe is a part of Team 4 because he hadn't done anything in his 30 years of service to stop this. Just look at his ward. Let's begin by putting blame where it belongs..... with the inept leadership that has been in leadership for years.. Oh, what legacy has thou left?
9/13/2007 12:19 AM
Screens aren't meant to keep kids from falling out of windows. Parental care is--that is what is missing here. This case should be thrown out of court. The mother should be happy she wasn't prosecuted for neglect.
There are many windows on my house that do not have screens. I didn't know that meant I live in a slum.
The outside pictures of the house look okay to me--that's the owner's responsibility. The inside looks like a pig sty--that's the renter's fault.
9/13/2007 7:45 AM
Actually, according to the city building codes, it is the responsibility of the owner.
I wonder when the last time Alderman Troupe's property was inspected.
9/13/2007 8:42 AM
Are you going to post video from the meeting last night. I was really astounded from what they all said.
9/13/2007 9:50 AM
We'll be editing it this afternoon. The two-camera stuff takes a while.
9/13/2007 9:58 AM
Out of curiosity, Doug, what were you astounded by?
I personally was most astounded when Alderman Marlene Davis told the crowd not to bother reading the legislation for themselves, because it contained just a bunch of "jargon."
Just take her word for it, she said, it says "he [McKee] can take whatever property he wants."
Thank goodness St. Louis has legislators who we can trust to interpret things for us. I really hate reading.
Maybe Marlene can summarize the new Harry Potter book for me. It's just so thick!
9/13/2007 10:33 AM
Oh, and the Bible too.
9/13/2007 10:46 AM
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE read it themselves... is there really a point now?
Please say you're not argueing that it's not full of double speak and run on sentences that attempt to make this all sound fantastic?
Cannot use this credit on eminent domain does not mean cannot use eminent domain.
The definition of acquisition has grown to include 'reasonable demolition'... I'm afraid to ask what 'reasonable' means?
And so on...
9/13/2007 11:15 AM
I really hope the person who wrote that last comment is not an elected official because they should know that ANY redevelopment project CAN use eminent domain IF, and only if, the Board of Aldermen votes to ALLOW it.
As far as this particular tax credit is concerned, it CANNOT be used on property that has been CONDEMNED, taken by EMINENT DOMAIN, or is acquired from the LRA.
Please read the bill. Some REAL legislators spent a lot of time making sure safeguards were in there for the ALDERMEN to be able to have input and ULTIMATE say so over what this redevelopment does and DOES NOT look like.
9/13/2007 12:01 PM
Yes. That was one of the things Antonio. And that the fact that Troupe began by attacking TD El-Amin for sponsoring the Bill. Troupe endorsed the Bill! Perhaps El-Amin did as well because Troupe testified for it? Then at the end of the meeting he said people need to be united and end, to paraphrase, the political infighting. How does one unite when the leader is pretty damn inconsistent?
Troupe also incorrectly said that McKee could use eminent domain. This is no longer allowed!
Also, the fact that Bosley and Troupe were using the language of preservationists, specifically attacking the utility of new brick veneer homes, when they have demolished a good amount of the brick stock they said people should preserve. Bosley has his own neighborhood of new brick veneer homes named after him: Bosley Heights. He also has Gano Place as well. So, their actions are contradictory to their words.
I have a long list of interesting quotes and I'll bust em out when I am out of class.
9/13/2007 12:08 PM
I'm was only pointing out that ED is not off the table; as saying 'can not apply this credit too' implies.
I'm not convinced THEY read it.
9/13/2007 1:53 PM
The credit cannot be applied to parcels acquired through eminent domain.
However, the credit can only be used for projects of at least 75 acres, and a recipient of the credit need only purchase 50 of those acres to get the credit. That recipient could use eminent domain to acquire the remaining 25 acres, could buy the remaining 25 acres on the market, could not buy any of the remaining 25 acres, or could buy some but not all of it through various means including eminent domain.
All local use of eminent domain, even for projects using this tax credit, has to be approved by the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.
9/13/2007 6:53 PM
Ok, so screens are the responsibility of the landlord, but what the heck was she doing letting her baby crawl around an open window? Screen, or no screen, this is clearly a case of a mother who was not watching her child!! Screens are not made to protect children from falling out of windows! In fact, it is likely that if there was a screen, the baby would have still fallen. This will be thrown out of court.
9/13/2007 8:11 PM
Word on the street is that the people renting this home are the parents of Talib Al Amin! The suit was announced on the same day that Alderman Troupe held a community forum exposing how Talib Al Amin and Rodney Hubbard were taking money from people who work against the good of their constituents!The attorney representing the family suing Alderman Troupe has made contributions to Al Amin!This sounds like payback to Alderman Troupe for exposing two sellouts!
9/14/2007 3:10 PM
well well well why didn't we read about that on pub def?
9/14/2007 3:31 PM
who's child was this? Talib's momma? Was this Talib's brother or sister?
I heard that this house was also the address for his treasurer---check his campaign reports if so does that mean that the child fell out of the window of Talib's campaign office? hmmmmm
9/14/2007 3:35 PM
What was the issue again? How insensitive are we when a one year old child falls from a window and not one person wondered through this post how the child is doing. People speak of the community, and standing up for the well-being of children, and yet there are no expressed concerns about her health. Where is our humanity and decency. My prayers go out to the family for a full recovery. Seems like the Lizz Brown-types are more concerned about protecting the alderman. Let's not say we're for the community, and children only when it's convenient.
9/14/2007 6:00 PM
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