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Entries Tagged as 'STL County Executive Charlie Dooley'

Dooley Lays Off 26; $200k a Year Cronies Keep Their Jobs

January 26th, 2012 · No Comments

One thing you can say for sure, Mr. Dooley sure is loyal (to a fault) to his cronies. Instead of firing these cronies from their plum patronage jobs, he’d rather throw hardworking county employees out into the street who actually do meaningful work for the county. Post Dispatch: County Executive Charlie A. Dooley said Wednesday [...]

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Flashback: BREAKING: MHIP Votes Yes to Accept $20 Mil for Health Exchanges

January 11th, 2012 · No Comments

 Missouri Political New Service  was the first to report on the governor’s backhanded implementation of Obamacare through executive order. A Senate committee heard testimony Tuesday on a bill, which would prevent Gov. Nixon’s administration from creating a health exchange without the approval of Missouri voters. The bill sponsored by Sen. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, prevents [...]

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STL Mayor Stokes City/County Merger Talk

November 29th, 2011 · No Comments

“If it takes the City of St. Louis reentering St. Louis County to make us globally competitve….that’s what I’m all About.”– Charlie Dooley Here we go again! MayorSlay.com: Publicly, privately, and at every opportunity, I am a supporter of undoing the Great Divorce of 1876 that separated the City of St. Louis from St. Louis [...]

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Women’s Shelter & County Parks Held Hostage to Dooley’s Political Appointees

November 11th, 2011 · No Comments

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley First, St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley proposes selling county parks to make up for an alleged budget deficit. Now we learn that in order to save money, Dooley has been ordering the county’s domestic abuse shelter to only admit county residents – all while his political appointees keep [...]

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Post Disgrace: “Dooley Regained Some of That Lost Credibility This Week”

September 12th, 2011 · No Comments

“Acting as the rare politician who owned up to a mistake in no uncertain terms, Mr. Dooley regained some of that lost credibility this week.” –Post Dispatch editorial board That’s a quote from the Post Disgrace after St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley backtracked last week on his dumb idea of raising property taxes so [...]

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Ed Martin to Charlie Dooley: Open the Bidding Process

August 29th, 2011 · No Comments

No bid contracts in the Dooley Administration? SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!! Examiner.com: Martin contends that the county council has excluded all non-union labor from consideration in awarding project labor agreements. Since, as Martin maintains, the majority of the construction industry is non-union, the field is severely diminished and therefore also diminishes the opportunity for tax [...]

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