By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 12:22 AM
The headline could have read: "Hometown Boy Makes Good". Labels: Board_of_Aldermen
St. Louis' President of the Board of Aldermen was featured Tuesday in his hometown newspaper, The Herald News, which serves Joliet, Illinois, the town a young Lewis Reed started his journey from wrestler and part-time janitor to the second-highest elected official on our city.The current president of the Board of Aldermen for the City of St. Louis was a wrestler at Joliet Central High School, but he didn't spend much time picking himself up after a match. A mainstay of the Steelmen teams of the late 1970s and early '80s, he moved to the varsity as a freshman and wound up earning a third-place trophy in the state competition in his senior year.
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"I went through a transformation as a person in those years," Reed said. "The lessons that Coach Mac (Eural McLaughlin) taught are the same lessons I used to get where I am today. He said everything in life is a matter of preparation and execution, and I've never forgotten that."
Reed, now 45 and well over the 155-pound weight class in which he used to compete, had to prepare himself to unseat a better-funded, better-known 20-year incumbent to win the election for the second most powerful position in St. Louis government. His campaign signs were blue and gold in tribute to his days as a Steelman.
10 Comments:
If the newspaper would have used your headline, "Hometown Boy Makes Good". They would have been called racist for calling him boy.
10/24/2007 6:16 AM
Reed is doing a good job. Thank goodness he is black because if he weren't Antonio would be "blogging" about the millions of people showing up to recall him.
10/24/2007 8:54 AM
I was "honored" to have a candidate, like Reed to vote for!
10/24/2007 9:22 AM
That's right Anon 8:54. Blacks are not supposed to report on blacks. Blacks should just shut up and be quiet.
I am so sick of you people attacking Antonio for... what? Using his blog, which he started all by himself, to write about the things that interest him. If you don't like it, go away. We love it! We actually wish there was more if it!
Keep up the good work, Antonio!!!
10/24/2007 10:08 AM
Pete and Repeat walked into a bar. Pete went home, who's left?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat walked into a bar. Pete went home, who's left?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat...
10/24/2007 10:31 AM
so when is he running for mayor? he is running for mayor, isn't he? i'll be checking the foot notes and disclosure for hints as usual ;)
10/24/2007 11:27 AM
Has Reed taken a public position on either the George demotion or the recall effort?
10/24/2007 12:45 PM
Yes.
Boy you guys really haven't bothered doing any research into this non-event have you? You just listen to French, Nasheed and Percy...this is scarey.
The BOA have said publicly they are against a recall.
The internet is a dangerous tool in the hands of propagandists.
10/24/2007 1:18 PM
It amazes me that the people actually involved in this realize this was a question of following orders, not of race. And, people that had NOTHING to do with this situation are the ones screaming recall and racist.
Ignorance is dangerous.
10/24/2007 4:13 PM
It is about time that this city wake up and stop using the race baiting that it is known for. There are good people still in St. Louis who would like to see this city move forward.
Lewis Reed has a vision for St. Louis to make this city the best it can be. Let us all stop using race as an issue. That goes for both black and white people of the City of St. Louis. Let us not run off the talented people who want to stay here and make St. Louis a world class city. A lot of people don't want the distinction of St. Louis being some back woods hick town, where we can't and won't celebrate the diversity that we are fastly becoming.
10/24/2007 8:51 PM
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