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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Quote of the Day: Former Temporiti Trash Client “Becoming Closer and Closer to a Monopoly All the Time” If the cronyism going on in St. Louis County Executive Dooley’s office wasn’t so sad, it would be hilarious fodder for Ripley’s Believe it or Not! First, the day after Dooley’s re-election mind you, St. Louis County […]

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Corleone crime family consiglieri Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) confers with The Don Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in a scene from The Godfather St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan pens a “confidential” memo to embattled STL County executive Charlie Dooley regarding his controversial consiglieri John Temporiti. Here’s an excerpt: I hope I don’t even have […]

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Corleone crime family consiglieri Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) confers with The Don Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in a scene from The Godfather And the beat goes on! The St. Louis Post Dispatch is reporting today that St. Louis County Executive Dooley’s rewarded his  consiglieri John Temporiti with a patronage job for his son son Mike […]

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 Brian Wahby, co-chair of the St. Louis Host Committee Well, it looks like St. Louis is out of the running for the 2012 Democrat convention. It was announced this morning that St. Louis was bypassed for Charlotte, North Carolina. Although their platform doesn’t necessarily line up with ours, having the convention in St. Louis would […]

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Hat tip:suedegroup2010 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/LsBc3uTck1Q” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] The Corrigan campaign has countered the “Bail Out Bill” website that the Dooley campaign launched immediately after the August primaries. Here’s an excerpt from a statement released last week: County Executive Charlie Dooley’s disturbing pattern of corruption has been the subject of multiple news articles, television spots, […]

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Charlie Dooley and John Temporiti conducting business as usual? In a rare treat for you today, we combine our picture of the day and quote of the day into one post for your enjoyment. Our political cartoonist did an excellent job of illustrating just what has been going on in St. Louis County for the […]

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“The time is now to send a strong message to Charlie Dooley that no-bid contracts and pay-to-play politics will no longer be tolerated by the people of St. Louis County. This administration has violated the public’s trust over and over again. Public servants are supposed to do what’s right for all citizens, not the chosen […]

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Picture credit: KMOX.com STL County Executive Dooley reacts to a reporter’s question last week regarding his consiglieri and campaign manager John Temporiti. St. Louis County Councilman Greg Quinn, a frequent critic of County Executive Charlie Dooley, held a press conference yesterday claiming that he found a “gaping loophole” in Mr. Dooley’s recently released ethics code. […]

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 Progressive blogger questions STL County Executive Charlie Dooley’s “vision.” The very progressive blog Show Me Progress had some unusually harsh criticism for St. Louis County executive Charlie Dooley. As we wrote after the primary election that Mr. Dooley is hemorrhaging support among Democrats, this harsh piece seems to be another indication of that. The progressive […]

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