Curious Feet St. Louis has the best accounting of Paul McKee’s reign of terror.
Open your eyes, St. Louis. McKee is not a developer; he is a politically connected extortionist. My prediction: McKee “builds” a Walgreen’s, gets his land acquisition tax credits, but the mega “project” fails due to a lack of private financing. McKee’s scheme stands divorced from market realities in St. Louis: Our region has negative population and job growth, so I have no patience for anyone who thinks that a “development” on the scale announced could EVER happen. This is a complete sham devised by McKee for the sole purpose of redirecting our Missouri and St. Louis tax dollars into his bottom line.
McKee Contributions to Slay for Mayor, October 2008 Quarterly Report, Missouri Ethics Commission
Francis Slay, stop taking money from McKee. And stop claiming that you have “taken absentee landlords to court.” I agree that you think that you are “determined to fight for [our neighborhoods];” you should be truthful enough to admit, however, that the our to which you refer is an exclusionary allusion. [read: I will not let you get away with advancing your interests through the deployment of racially divisive rhetoric.]
I want a mayor with an intellect. I want a mayor who recognizes that the City of St. Louis will remain impoverished for all in the face of a politics that services the interests of McKees, Stogels, and DESCOs at the expense of longtime residents. It is high time for us to stand up and said no to Francis Slay and no to his enablers.
You disgust me, Francis. You will never be my mayor.
Tags: francis slay, mayor slay, paul mckee, tax credit abuse
June 2, 2009 at 2:58 pm |
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June 17, 2009 at 11:34 am |
[...] a body led so poorly by Lewis Reed, fail to appreciate is that every dollar spent on a T.I.F. for Paul McKee, D.E.S.C.O., or the Cardinals is a dollar diverted from addressing the above-enumerated challenges. [...]
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August 28, 2009 at 12:03 pm |
[...] City’s elected officials” to see how this practice hits home. When I question whether public support for Paul McKee is a greater spending priority than combating our City’s status as the least healthy [...]
September 25, 2009 at 1:38 am |
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