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family can afford the inequality has also allowed sam page to take in a considerable amount of contributions from doctors and doctor groups doctors can afford to make contributions there has been no reporting on the total contributions they have made to the page campaign the post dispatch has largely ignored campaign contributions to sam page since it was the issue that caused steve stenger to corrupt county government and land in prison you would think it would get a lot of scrutiny the page pac was set up so page could accept contributions greater than 2600 the limit on contributions to candidate committees but not political action committees that was initiated by sam page when he was council chair this is no small amount of hypocrisy on page s part the page pac has taken in about 300 000 in the last few weeks or so not a word in the post dispatch today is the deadline for quarterly reports and the page pac should have a lot to report along with the page candidate committee on sept 27 2019 sam page asked the county council to enact a prevailing wage ordinance that would require prevailing wages be paid for construction projects funded by the county it is quite a perk for construction unions as it pretty much guarantees wages for workers will be held at a higher level in four years and four months on the county council page never saw the need for such an ordinance but now he was running for county executive the county council gave final approval to the prevailing wage ordinance on october 15 2019 on december 27 2019 exactly 90 days after page asked the council to approve the ordinance the laborers union contributed 50 000 to the page campaign not a word in the post dispatch though the paper did report page saying that pay to play politics ends now that was shortly after he became county executive sam page has also taken in over 100 000 in campaign contributions so far from centene corp and its executives this has not been reported by the post dispatch former centene executive cindy brinkley who was making 4 7 million annually before retiring is the lead advisor of the cares group of five advisors picked by sam page to advise on how to spend the 173 5 million federal grant to fight covid 19 effects presumably it was centene chairman and ceo michael neidorff who recommended brinkley neidorff was best buddies with steve stenger and now it seems page has taken his place tom irwin former civic progress executive director and now senior vice president at centene promoted page s contrived police review plan to the st louis county board of police commissioners last week the police board is supposed to be separate from county government but page and irwin trampled all over the board s independence the spending of the 173 5 million federal government grant has pretty much been overlooked by the post dispatch though stories were done about the morgue that was built in near secrecy and how minority contractors were being excluded there have been questions about why so many purchases have bypassed the normal bidding process but these question have mostly been asked by reporters at media outlets other than the post elliott davis of fox 2 just did a story about nearly 29 000 was needlessly spent on legal fees in an attempt to close down the house of pain gym sam page said it should be closed that s small stuff compared to the hundreds of thousands of dollars of other legal fees that are being spent by the county some paid for from the federal grant and some by the county the county had a contract with hawthorn suites in maryland heights that was said to cost nearly 1 million but the suites were hardly being used it was supposed to be for first responders needing to self quarantine the county spent 2 6 million or more for food grants and there were considerable purchases made for face masks it is mostly unknown how all these purchases were handled and how it was decided who to buy from link market got a 110 000 food grant but there have been questions about the organization it was created a few years ago and was supposed to provide fresh produce to under served areas at two metro transit stations one in wellston and one at north hanley but has failed to do so both markets had few customers and are now closed the post dispatch coverage of this organization has been awful it is unknown when or where the cares group meets in a post story about the advisory group it read page has clarified that it s not he who will make the decisions but teams of advisors he has put in place it isn t easy to figure how decisions are made on spending the federal grant dr alex garza head of the st louis metropolitan pandemic task force also has connections to sam page he made a nominal contribution to page s campaign page appointed him to the board of freeholders his wife melissa garza worked for claire mccaskill for more than 20 years which was how garza got a job in the obama administration she was considered for a job in the page administration as a policy advisor dr garza has praised sam page and lyda krewson for how they have handled the covid 19 pandemic one of the first things sam page did after becoming county executive was ask the county council for nearly 700 000 more for his office the amount was reduced but it seems that the county executive s office has grown under page in particular a lot of political operatives have been hired his chief of staff winston calvert who was forced to resign as city counselor under mayor francis slay has brought in many of his friends this includes tod martin as director of administration he was the deputy chief of staff for claire mccaskill s operations in missouri and is the 15th ward democratic committeeman in the city on his twitter page he says he is a recovering neuroscientist the post dispatch has never listed all the people working in sam page s office and has overlooked a glaring problem of page and many people working for him they have almost no management experience also there are now four former post dispatch employees working for page and st louis county two former reporters one former editor and one former photographer sam page winston calvert and others had apparently been planning to have page replace steve stenger for some time it was said they had regular sunday night meetings at the office of republican political consultant david barklage a 48 page transition plan county executive same page was produced apparently well before stenger resigned after being indicted they no doubt had an idea stenger was to be indicted page s candidate committee paid thousands of dollars to calvert before page became county executive for communications that description seems questionable a recent tweet said the page bunch did some opposition research on hazel erby ahead of the vote by the county council for county executive after stepping on and over erby page said he was closer to her than anyone on the county council sam page s record on the county council has all but been forgotten in his first two years on the county council he was a 100 rubber stamp for steve stenger among other things he voted for the notorious leases at the old northwest plaza saying they were a great value for st louis county he also voted to give 3 million to the loop trolley tax dollars that were totally wasted as the trolley has mostly stopped running sam page all but endorsed the county giving 700 000 to the loop trolley last year this apparently was because of the influence of john meyer president of the loop trolley company meyer works for the capes sokol law firm so does michelle schwerin who page appointed to the county police board and amy fehr who page appointed to the msd board it isn t known what connection page has to the law firm amy fehr was appointed to the msd board last year by sam page she doesn t seem all that interested at one point she had missed two of three msd board meetings there is only one a month she rubber stamps most everything for all those homeowners with stormwater and backup problems fehr will make no difference she doesn t care and neither does sam page in 2017 sam page insisted the council hire someone he wanted for county auditor this person has been a disaster as he has no accounting or auditing experience and is unable to perform audits page has followed this pattern as county executive handing out jobs to favored people whether competent or not but it has not been reported on the county has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for outside law firms to handle matters it would seem the county counselor s office should be able to handle there have been questions about the competency of county counselor beth orwick who was hired by page last summer she was severely criticized for her handling of the sgt keith wildhaber matter the county hired a law firm earlier this year to handle negotiations with the owners of the old northwest plaza shopping center the leases that the county has there which were initiated by steve stenger are said to cost 20 million to 30 million more than they should this was supposed to be a priority issue with sam page he has done some sabre rattling on the matter but has achieved no results what s going on with the mediation negotiations nothing about it in the p d for some time this is something voters should know about sam page has been doing some extreme pandering to african american voters ray hartmann did an excellent column on this in last week s riverfront times sam page is all talk on race hartmann was right on target he brought up how page stepped over hazel erby to become county executive as to page s new found concern about issues concerning the black community hartman wrote the facts are not on his side and it s too late to make them up but it seems page will keep on trying and the post doesn t cover the issue much at all north county residents still wonder why nothing is being done with the old jamestown mall which has been a very big eyesore for years page just blames stenger the fanny lou hamer organization a group of mostly north county elected officials formed in 2014 to opposed the re election of steve stenger endorsed jake zimmerman a few weeks ago what was noteworthy is the group s chair has been hazel erby the post did not give the endorsement any coverage jeremy kohler did a story on august 28 2019 headlined whistleblowers get protection in st louis county along with a hotline to report misconduct on july 5 this tweet was from councilman tim fitch next month will be a full year since this law was passed the interim county executive still hasn t implemented the hotline why not it now seems the county executive is going ahead with a contract to hire a firm to handle the hotline but it seems the matter was forgotten by the post dispatch the county council just passed a one year 2 million food contract for the county jail with trinity services group trinity has had troubles all over the country some of them quite serious there were media reports that the company served maggot infested food violated labor laws and failed to adequately staff jail kitchens trinity was fined more than 2 million by the michigan department of corrections in 2017 for a variety of offenses the issues surrounding trinity were brought up at council meetings in early may and numerous times after but the matter was ignored by jeremy kohler when he was on furlough and the issue was brought up again this time at a council committee meeting on june 16 it was finally covered by the post dispatch a reporter filling in for kohler did a lengthy story on the matter in looking into the county jail food contract it was found the director of justice services for st louis county raul banasco has had problems in his past when he was the jail manager at osceola county florida he resigned after several problems were found at the jail in 2010 he was also named as a defendant in a lawsuit having to do with the death of an inmate at the jail in 2009 did the page administration know about his past what about the post dispatch the newspaper can go looking through court records having to do with mccloskey matters going back to 1976 but it seems to not have done basic due diligence on someone appointed to a critical job in st louis county government the publisher and editor of the post dispatch are currently leading an effort to increase subscriptions to the paper touting how the paper keeps readers well informed yet the paper has done an inconsistent job covering st louis county government and county executive sam page readers might know more about the mccloskeys than they do sam page and the election is august 4 comments comments tags media bias st louis left successfully achieving political aims through violent coercion june 23rd 2020 by marktwain a statue of confederate gen robert e lee is removed from the university of texas campus early monday morning aug 21 2017 in austin texas university of texas president greg fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of robert e lee and other prominent confederate figures from a main area of campus saying such monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo nazism ap photo eric gay by christopher arps i have to admit i find no particular pleasure in writing this piece i am usually the eternal optimist hell i ve been a member of my local optimist international club for over seventeen years now no matter how dark the circumstances have been in my life my faith in god and sincere belief he will show me the correct path has always sustained me through my most trying times i still believe that with all my heart but my consternation lies solely in what i see currently happening in our country i know this is not the first time our country has experienced societal unrest and change i was born in the mid 1960 s so i wasn t yet alive during the assassinations of president kennedy malcolm x or medgar evers and i was far too young to remember the assassinations in 1968 of robert f kennedy and martin luther king jr and the ensuing riots that occurred afterwards in inner cities all around the country back then the culture war was still in its infancy and america was still a country that overwhelmingly believed in god family and country no matter where your personal beliefs fell on the political spectrum god family and country were the three bedrock principles that a melting pot of diverse people depended on to keep our society cohesive and orderly today those bedrock principles have been jackhammered by activist courts the so called woke generation who sadly have been indoctrinated in their public schools and colleges by the 1960 s culture warriors and by the democrat ic party which long ago sold out america and their principles for political power i firmly believe the obliteration of god family and country has resulted in the deep divisions we currently see in our country read more related black and red show featuring 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