Comments on: Favazza Not a “Fat Bastard”, But Possibly a Mayoral Candidate

By: Jackson

Jackson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:02:09 +0000

Months later, and Trotter is still at his shit. What a pimple on the city’s face!

By: Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:43:26 +0000

http://www.marianofavazza.com/

By: yellow dog dem

yellow dog dem — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:02:12 +0000

Favazza is a buffoon!!

By: john

john — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:44:00 +0000

Truth, you claim to have intimate knowledge as an ex employee. Let me ask you a question. Has Favazza ever once required you to go to one of his fundraisers and then require you to contribute, like so many other politicians in this city? No, he hasn’t. How many city employees actually get a present at Christmas from their boss? None that I know of, and those that do are paying for it out of their own contribution to their boss’ campaign. Do any of the other city politicians have an employee appreciation day for their employees? I don’t believe so. Favazza pays for all of these things out of his own pocket because the man couldn’t fundraise if his life depended on it, which is probably the sole reason he won’t run for mayor. So take your hateful attitude somewhere people might enjoy it, like over to city hall with Slay and Gentry Trotter. And while over there, say congrats to Michele Kratky, the Slay backed candidate, who had more money than she knew what to do with and all of the organizational support, for barely beating a 24 year old kid who was still in school and never held a real full time job in his life. And if Favazza wants to run for mayor, let him and anyone else who wants to run. Anybody will do a better job than Slay.

By: Central Corridor Resident

Central Corridor Resident — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:48:50 +0000

The last post was one of the most ignorant ones that I have seen from the Mayor’s office. They should be doing the work of the City that they are paid to do by the taxpayers as opposed to working illegally on campaigns during work hours. Rainford personally directs the Mayor’s re-election efforts while at City Hall getting over $125,000.00 from the people. As opposed to talking about the issues facing our City, they would rather change the subject to a supposed drag queen and whether or not someone is gay, bisexual or straight. I personally don’t give a damn about what a person does in their personal life and most people in the City don’t either. I want to know what you are doing to make this City a better place to live, work, play and raise a family. I wonder if the Mayor’s three gay siblings would appreciate him ordering/condoning attacking people’s character about what they may or may not do in bed? I wonder how the City’s large gay and lesbian community would feel about that? I wonder how Mike Colona and Jeanette Mott Oxford would feel about that since they were both elected and are openly gay and Slay backed Colona’s opponent? The real issues that we need to stick to in discussing the future of our City are:
1. What are we going to do about the public schools? Slay’s answers have failed us.
2. What are we going to do about the budget? Slay has layed off hundreds of employees since becoming Mayor and barely balanced a budget.
3. What are we going to do about the racial problems in our City? Slay has made things worse than ever.
4. What are we going to do about our pension systems? Slay has gotten more taxes paid but lied about what we did with the proceeds.
5. Our property taxes have gone through the roof for a school system that has gotten worse under Slay.
6. The faith we have in our police department has diminshed considerably. We have had several scandals ranging from the missing money, world series tickets, and towing scandal where people have legitimate legal claims against the City and Police Department for stealing their cars. Slay was a mmember of the Board of Police Commissioners while this whole scandal took place.
7. The racial divide in the Fire Department is equivalent to 30 years ago based on Slay’s mismanagement of the Chief George incident.
8. The Mayor claims that he cannot control his Personnel Director but he appointed him which means he is either lying or makes significantly bad judgments.
9. The administration has a horrible record of diversity in its executive staff. Ron Smith is the only minority in the Mayor’s Office who has an executive position. Mayors 40 years ago had better track records of inclusion than that.
10. Ballpark Village is a disaster. There have been three press conferences but no action. St. Louis will be embarrassed in front of the world during the All Star Game next year.
11. After the AB takeover, we will not have one fortune 500 company located in the City. May Company is gone. Federated moved out aftewards. Thompson Coburn will likely follow Armstrong Teasdale out of the City making Clayton the legal headquarters of the region. Ralston Purina was sold and there seems to be no plan whatsoever to attract another major company here.
12. The City signed off on the St. Louis Center project as an extension of its line of credit and it has failed miserably and it is currently embroiled in bankruptcy.
13. City Hall should be a crown jewel of the region yet it is ugly, dirty, has bad maintenance and does not even have new paint on its cracked walls.
14. Our homicide rate is going through the roof yet we have the Chief of Staff of the Mayor illegally running campaigns and engaged in pure ignorance (which is what he is best known for going back to his attempted set up of a Catholic priest) as opposed to doing anything about it.
15. There is not one new idea or program coming out of Room 200. There is no new vision of how to deal with the previously mentioned questions and there never will be under this administration.

Those are the things that we should be focused on in St. Louis. All other issues are a waste of time and an effort to change the discussion to stupidity versus legitimacy.

By: Troubleshooter

Troubleshooter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:17:19 +0000

Jack-get a life! It is tiresome to read one’s hatred.

A mutual friend said that he introduced a woman as his girlfriend during a recent lunch at Shannon’s. The report is she is a long-time friend who is a civic activist and works with Better Family Life. They were supposively very happy to be together. Good for him, and her.

By: what?

what? — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:38:09 +0000

B right,
Are you sure that was his girlfriend? Did he say so? Who is she? Details?

By: Douglas Duckworth

Douglas Duckworth — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:22:37 +0000

This is quite an interesting thread! Douglas Duckworth's last blog post... Election Results

By: Butterfly

Butterfly — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:26:53 +0000

Question for truth–

Do you know what happened to the people who left Favazza’s office?

Some people complain of the low pay of government jobs, but the turnover rate, generally speaking, is not that of the private sector. Most people say benefits, holidays etc., and job stability keep people in government jobs. I would be curious to know where the former workers landed.

The filter thinks this is spiced ham.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:34:16 +0000

The last post must have come from the Mayor’s office. Darlene Green shows up for more than 2 days of work a week. I see her in the community frequently. I own a business in the City and have been to McMillan’s office. An older, middle aged woman waited on me and was very professional. There were two other women at the counter and all other women behind her so I don’t know where the harem of young boys are. Lewis seems to do well as President of the Board of Aldermen but I heard he has no interest in being Mayor. Mariano would be no worse than Slay. I’d rather have a mistaken letter than his brother at the airport, sister having worked for Callow and been a part of the management team of the police department where a scandal has been brewing for years.