By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, December 21, 2007 at 8:40 PM
Absent of City Hall trying to stop the coming economic insanity which is the two-year shut down of Highway 40, former school board member and perennial mayoral candidate Bill Haas has stepped up to the plate.
From the Post-Dispatch:Former St. Louis School Board member Bill Haas filed a motion in federal court in St. Louis today requesting an injunction against the Missouri Department of Transportation stopping it from shutting down Interstate 64 (Highway 40) for construction beginning Jan. 2.
U.S. Senior District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh scheduled a hearing for Wednesday at 1 p.m. to hear Haas' request. But Limbaugh denied Haas' motion for a temporary injunction this morning.
17 Comments:
It is a toss up between Bill Haas and Veronica O' Brien for the 'Eccentric Of The Year Award'!
12/21/2007 9:25 PM
maybe, but shutting down 40 is stupid and I don't care how much construction time it saves. The business owners along that corridor ought to be the ones joining Bill. The money MoDot saves will be taken from the pockets of those business owners and us fools who have to buy the extra gas. stupid.
12/21/2007 11:15 PM
The good news is that the money MoDot saves will go to outstate MO to make sure that their towns of 4,000 have smooth roads to ma and pa's grocery store.
12/22/2007 9:50 AM
At least he doesn't stop trying.
12/22/2007 10:15 AM
I forget my greek mythology---but didn't they have a character whose fate was to always tell the truth---and never be believed?
12/22/2007 12:47 PM
Casandra, I believe.
12/22/2007 3:50 PM
John Q. Public says,
Please be thankful for the Bill Hass of the world who refuse to take route step with what others think ought to happen; there were those that comdemed the Great Freedom Fighter "Harriet Tubman" for leading black slaves to freedom.
12/22/2007 4:01 PM
Bill should stick to his job @ Wal-Mart.
12/22/2007 4:19 PM
Where was Bill a year ago when City Hall tried to stop MoDot from going through with this plan?
We are past this point of no return on this thing. Too bad Mr. French and Mr. Hass didn't speak up before this issue got popular.
12/23/2007 4:57 PM
Wow, I must have missed "City Hall" (do you mean Mayor Slay?) speaking out against this. Did Francis say it was "a damn shame" like when the school board fired Creg Williams?
12/23/2007 9:34 PM
Come on old Billy give it up.Your getting way too crabby and think you own Missouri...guess what you don't even own the highways in Missouri so butt out...
12/27/2007 1:31 PM
Yet another loser rich politican who doesn't want you to drive by his house. "Pay no attention to that guy who live in the Central West End and making money off your children's academic failure." --Bill.
Keep an eye on this map, Mr. French. I have a feeling that you are going to see alot more green little golfers who don't want to see our ugly faces in the morning.
12/27/2007 1:50 PM
What a ploy. In his next Quixotic search for an elected office his motto will be ." I was the voice trying to save St. Louis from Traffic "
12/27/2007 3:41 PM
Bill Haas is 'a day late and a dollar short'! I guess next he will file suit to force the reopening of St. Louis Centre as a shopping center!
12/27/2007 5:12 PM
Gee, hardly know where to start with these people, but will try.
Havent worked at Walmart in over 6 months; teaching Law in an MBA program and administering professional testing of doctors, nurses, brokers and nativeamerican chiefs instead. And of course in
9th year adjunct professor of Law and Business/Government (formerly English/Philosophy) at Harris Stowe. And a proud substitute at least once a week in SLPS.
2. I hope I was not the rich politician referenced. Working at Walmart? if that's a correct interpretation, too dumb even for me to address. Substituting school? former Walmart manager?
and 3. was trying to get Scott Muschany to find a more appropriate plaintiff, and experienced attorneys, since last summer. But no one did, so finally Joe Passanise and I were all you had left. We or no one, and we did a good job; the case was there if Limbaugh wanted to give it to us. Would have been a very brave decision. Too brave, it would seem.
4. and thanks for kind words from others. So standing up to MODOT makes me crabby, Cecilia? And what would that make you.
5. and my new girlfriend named Cassandra; what are the odds.
6. Finally, modesty causes me to eschew the appellation or aphorism of cahonnes bigger than a Giant Wholly Mammoth in full rutt. Maybe compared to those collectively akin to those of a gnat of the democrat and republican politicians in the area. To me the more their rhetoric, the less they actually did to try to stop it. Bill Haas
1/09/2008 10:44 PM
Gee, Bill. You keep going on about Wal-mart like Giuliani goes on about 9/11. What are you, being paid every time you say "Wal-mart"?
Secondly, how many of those doctors, nurses, brokers and Native American (more like Mexican perhaps?) chiefs actually went to school in the St. Louis Public School district?
And if you have been subsituting at schools, then prove it. And by prove it, I don't mean some photoshopped photo of you teaching first graders how to read, I mean the HIGH SCHOOL students at one of the most rowdy classes. And don't pan off this "I'm the kind but tought teacher who teaches an inner city school and we all live happily ever after", because you certainly are no Louanne Johnson, and definitely no Principal Joe Clark, although you probably wish that you were.
You and Joe made a mountain out a molehill.
In terms of the Wooly Mammoth Analogy, How do you eat an elephant? The answer obviously is one bite at a time.
1/10/2008 12:04 AM
Hey sexy Bill...smartsweetsexy99@aol.com...
1/14/2008 7:34 PM
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