Dear Editor,
In the recent edition of the City Newsletter Mayor York talks about the heroes her children have to look up to in their magazines. Her attempt to make herself sound like she still has teen and pre-teen kids is just another attempt at creating the false persona she carries. York’s kids are grown, her youngest, a daughter now lives in the office that Glennon Jamboretz is supposed to occupy. I take great offense to her trying to play this motherly figure. York has done this in the past when she was accused of wrongdoing of the Express Scripts contract.
Having been a co-worker with her and her husband I can tell you that she is not the person she is trying to convince everyone she is. This paper has done a great job exposing the real truth and what she is all about. I encourage you to continue. There is a lot more to uncover.
Ozark forever
To The Editor
Though I’m not an advocate of recall in general, I do know that if the citizens of St. Charles are not happy with a duly elected official, they certainly have the right to petition for a recall vote of that official.
However, there is something wrong when people who do not live in the city, let alone a Council Ward, decide they have an interest in overturning the duly-elected Ward officials, and so they hire professional petitioners (who are being paid by the number of signatures they can obtain) to go from door to door with half-truths, innuendos, and pressure tactics until enough signatures are gathered to put the recall on the ballot. This seems to be the case in the recall petitions of both Councilpersons Greer and Brown.
According to an article in the Oct. 18th Post-Dispatch, a large sum of money was spent by Glenn Jamboretz of St. Louis Co. and T.R. Hughes of St. Charles Co. as well as a committee headed by Jamboretz and St. Charles resident Ken Kielty who, though a St. Charles resident, lives in neither Greer’s nor Brown’s Ward. Ward voters might wonder why out-of-towners and people who do not even live in their Wards should have more of an interest in their councilperson than the voters themselves. Are Mr. Jamboretz and Mr. Hughes planning to move to one of these Wards? What’s the motivation here for spending large sums of personal money to affect a recall for an official who will never be their representative?
You can bet that if the recall vote occurs, these Wards will start receiving expensive, colored brochures advocating the recall, they will see full-page ads in all the local papers advocating the recall, and their phones will be ringing with paid solicitors also advocating the recall. The voters of these Wards will be subject to the best negative advertising money can buy, all bought and paid for by non-residents of the targeted Wards. Perhaps the voters should start to question who is really going to benefit from these types of political shenanigans. Do we really think these out-of-towners would be spending thousands of dollars to overturn an election if there was no financial gain for them?
Eleanor McCune
An Open Letter About The Convention Center Complex
The St. Charles Convention Center and adjoining Embassy Suites Hotel has been a work in progress for the past 10 years. As a business owner in the community, I was anxious for it’s completion and was enthused with the business prospects the center would generate. I shared my enthusiasm with friend, business associates and guests of my Bed & Breakfast.
When I learned the Working Women’s Holiday show, held September 20 through October e2, 2005 was scheduled at the Convention Center I immediately reserved my place as a vendor. Please note the announcement of the show to be held at the Convention Center was nearly a year ago. I worked very diligently for many months spreading the word of the show, passing out flyers and displaying posters with local shops and stores.
On September 30th my husband and I prepared our booth and readied ourselves for the show. The following are observations made during our weekend: The Charles Convention Center and Embassy Suites Hotel are not vendor or guest friendly. The event was designed for the ease of the Convention center and did not accommodate vendors, who paid for vending space, or guests who paid to attend the event.
Guests were not permitted to enter through the front doors nor through the hotel. The guest entrance was in the back of the building and was not mentioned in any of the show’s advertisements. Guests were advised by small signs affixed n the doors to enter from the “back lower level”. The Convention Center’s lovely front exterior and parking lot were blocked off. Many people parked in the commuter parking across the street from the front facility only to learn the front entrance was locked and they were to walk quite a distance to the back of the building, an extremely difficult task for many of the show’s older guests. I personally saw many women trying to access doors only to find them locked.
On Sunday, my husband and I wanted to treat ourselves to a nice lunch at the Embassy Suites Hotel dining room. We walked to the adjoining door between the Convention center and the hotel where we were confronted by a Convention Center employee who would not allow us to enter. The guard directed us out the back of the building and around the front to enter through the hotel’s front entrance. After a weekend of vending, making the long trek around the building to reach a destination that could be seen through the doorway made our lunch plan less than inviting. We decided to skip lunch at the Embassy Suites. The security guard’s behavior was unprofessional and discourteous.
When the show was concluded, I have a very negative feeling about the Convention Center complex. Others that I spoke with, guests and vendors alike shared the negativity.
St. Charles has worked long and hard for the Convention Center complex and its success will depend on its ability to accommodate its vendors and guests. With the shoddy treatment given to the Working Women’s Holiday Show, I will not be surprised to see the business going elsewhere.
If you were involved in or attended the Working Women’s Holiday Show I would appreciate your input concerning the Convention Center complex.
Sincerely,
Rhona Lococo
Lococo House II Bed & Breakfast
1309 N. Fifth St. St. Charles, MO 63301
636-946-0619 Rhonaloc@charter.net
Editor, First Capitol News
In reading an article in Saturday’s Post-Dispatch, first I had to ask myself why Justice Thomas got himself involved in Missouri State Law in the first place, “Justice Thomas Blocks Abortion Order”? Why the state is refusing to take this young woman, an inmate in a correctional institution who is paying personally for her own access to clinical abortion as is allowed by Missouri law, saying it is too costly and time consuming to allow it with two guards back and forth to the clinic, and instead is now insisting that we, the taxpayers force her against her will to carry this child; to pay for medical care and delivery of a child while she is in prison, literally forcing her to go through 9 months of an unwanted pregnancy in a prison environment, stressful and unhealthy for carrying a baby, certainly much more expensive and more time consuming and problematic for the prison, as is stated in the P.D. article Oct. 15th, than to have her make one trip to the clinic, and then force her to go through the emotional stress of either giving the child up after birth or trying to find someone to take it? She knows she won’t be able to take care of it upon her release which will be traumatic for both mother and child. Another thing that really upset me, aside from all the remarks that I’m used to by now from our self professed Christian Governor who takes from the poor to give to the wealthy and proclaims to know what’s best for everyone rather than letting anyone make their own decisions, is the fact that it was a POST-DISPATCH reporter who contacted a St. Charles republican state Senator Chuck Gross, to “tip him off” and get a bunch of anti-abortionist protesters firmly in place outside a clinic where this young woman was to have her procedure is beyond my belief just in case she made it there before Justice Thomas stepped in and stopped it. What is the Post-Dispatch planning to do about that? What is St. Charles and it’s voters planning on doing about Senator Gross?
Sandra Vago
Dear Sirs,
i was wondering if you could check the grammar in the Mayor’s letter to Chief Mokwa? Should the word “incidence” be “incident” in this official letter? I was also wondering if your find paper could put a picture of Linda Meyers in and a biography of where she came from and what she is trying to accomplish from all the pamphlets, postcards, mailings and phone calls we citizen are getting to recall our Council persons. Is she planning on running if they get recalled/ What is her agenda?
Thank you
A concerned Citizen and Loyal reader.
Dear Editor,
Mayor, don’t worry. Be happy. You’ve got your good parishioners at Borromeo to stand behind you. Well I do not know how true that statement really is.
At least you have Henry and Father Tillman in your corner for your legal defense fund. You yourself are a Eucharistic minister as well as that Ron guy on the recall committee to recall Dottie Greet so you can get that power back.
Then you have some judges, doctors, lawyers, labor people and people like me who used to attend and many still do.But for whatever reason they are afraid to say anything about your reign as Mayor of this town unless it is a back slapping get together.
Mayor, you asked a question (Council meeting of 10/18) about if anyone thought you would do such a thing as to funnel money to Jamboretz to pay for the recall of Greer and Brown, giving the people of this City (taxpayers) the impression you would never do such a thing. Well I’m here to tell you, you and Father Tillman better get together. He could tell you that you could probably go to hell for lying. You, Henry and Father Tillman and the movers and shakers of this town seem to think the principals and or commandments of God do not belong in politics.
I would like to give you one example to show what happens when coverups occur in our town.
Back about 25 years ago on Decatur Street between 4th & 5th streets where the church sits, Msgr. Michael Owens, Pastor, and a young priest who was known as Father Duck were ministering to the parishioners of this parish.Story has it that Father Duck was doing more than his priestly duties with young men in the parish. You can imagine the rumors going on around the town as this was taking place. I know at the time Henry was very active in the parish and was on the parish council as he was a good friend of Msgr. Owens. There was also a high ranking law enforcement official who attended mass very frequently at this church and could have been a parishioner.
I’ve recently talked with the David Clohesy organization that tracks these types of priests and found out the Duck is alive and well and living in south county and has been sued numerous times by individuals he has taken advantage of. He has been defrocked and the Catholic Church has paid off on two of the suits against him and two are pending.
So you can see Mayor, people like Henry, when he says in your campaign literature that, “Patti gets things done” and then I see you do get things done that are really not good for the taxpayers of this town. We have Henry and friend Kevin , Father Tillman, TR, Jamboretz, Kielty, Baum and Watkins etc raising money for your defense, makes them look pretty silly when you insist that you would never do anything wrong. (illegal that is)
How about ethically and or morally wrong? Would you admit to that? Look at her record folks and you make the call.
Bob Breidensteiner
