It’s Time For the Mayor To Resign
Mayor York has placed City tax payers at risk over an endorsement and a friendship with Fraternal Order of Police President Tommy Mayer. In this paper you will find a letter that was introduced as evidence in a law suit against the City by Tommy Mayer sent by Mayor Patti York to St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa. One has to question the motives and thoughts of York in sending a letter of recommendation while the taxpayers of this City are being sued for $104 million. When York wrote the letter she was aware of the law suit, she was aware that Mayer had placed the City Administrator on the ground at gun point during a traffic stop and was aware that Mayer had been fired. York placed her own selfish interest above that of the St. Charles citizens who will be stuck paying the bill if Mayer is victorious in his lawsuit. In the letter York claims that Tommy Mayer was harassed and that the Council singled him out, yet in her deposition under oath York said she “had no direct knowledge of that”. So which Mayor York are we to believe? Did she know or didn’t she? Did she send a false letter of recommendation to the St. Louis Police department in violation of the City Charter?
According to her testimony in deposition, under oath, the answer is, she didn’t have any knowledge of what York and Mayer accuse members of Council of doing. That makes the last question a big, “Yes”. The Mayor of St. Charles used her friendship with Chief Mokwa to influence the hiring practices in St. Louis and sent a letter that appears to be in direct conflict with her testimony under oath. Like her signing of the Express Scripts contract in violation of the City Charter and ordinances, she has once again signed something you and I might have to pay for. Of course we will have to pay for the legal wrangling that this letter will produce. Because York went out on her own and wrote this letter without asking the City Attorneys if it was proper, it could cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars to determine if what York has done is detrimental to the case.
This letter will probably be a key piece of evidence if this case goes to trial. How can the Chief Executive Officer of this City send something that goes against the best interest of the taxpayers? The answer to that question could be what Tom Mayer has hanging over York’s head and could be why she would jeopardized the City of St. Charles residents in this way. York has violated our trust and has demonstrated that she is in this for herself and not for the good of St. Charles. The next time you ask the Mayor a question you might want to put her under oath before getting the answer. On second thought what does it matter, I think we all see her in her true light.
Mayor York should do the citizens of St. Charles a favor and resign immediately.
“STOOPS WELL BELOW THE GUTTER WHEN REPORTING THE NEWS”
In her letter of recommendation for Tommy Mayer to Chief Mokwa of the St. Louis Police Department the Mayor writes, a local paper that stoops well below the gutter when”reporting” the news. What the Mayor failed to point out is that it is necessary for us to stoop below the gutter in order to report on her activities. It is ironic that when we report on the activities of the Mayor and her friends they claim we stoop below the gutter, but never consider their actions as being below the gutter. Mayor, we would love to step out of the gutter when reporting on you and your friends, so anytime you want to climb out, we will be right behind you.
MAYOR’S BODY GUARD COSTS $51.50 an hour
The cost to date for a body guard for Mayor York has amounted to $2,130.06 and averages approximately $51.50 an hour.
This includes a cost of $256.60 for a police sergeant to accompany the Mayor to the swearing in of the Chief of Police in Madison, Illinois on May 11th.
