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STL County Executive Charlie Dooley | Missouri Political News Service - Part 3

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Inexperience Beats Experience; Wood Chosen as Republican Assessor Nominee

January 13th, 2011 · No Comments

St. Louis County Republicans chose real estate firm owner L.K. “Chip” Wood as its candidate in April’s election to choose an assessor. It was close vote with the final tally being 23-21. Insiders are telling us that Mr. McNary’s “experience” is what ultimately doomed him in the end: Wikipedia: In 1963, McNary began his career […]

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TIPLINE: Zimmerman OUT, Barry IN for STL County Assessor

December 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Rumors are running wild that St. Louis County Democrats will choose former state representative Joan Barry to be their candidate to run in April for the new St. Louis County assessor position. Their first choice was state representative Jake Zimmerman but apparently he is not interested. DEVELOPING… Related: Dooley Flip Flops On Electing County Assessor; […]

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Reader Questions STL County Executive’s Home Assessment; Did “AAA Charlie” Get a Sweetheart Deal?

November 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

A reader noticed another gaffe on the Dooley Facebook page. This time its from a commenter questioning why the county executive’s tax assessment grade went down on his home while assessment grades on other homes around his went up:

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Post Dispatch Attempts to Bail Out “AAA Charlie”

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments

With the loss of 43,000 jobs lost under St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s watch, it must be nice to have a willing accomplice in the media to pump up a non news story such as this: St. Louis Post Dispatch: The pharmacy benefit manager, based in north St. Louis County, is mulling another expansion […]

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Quote of the Day: KMOV: “Is This Why We’re Broke?”

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments

 “St. Louis County is not broke, let’s not fix something not broke.” — Charlie Dooley The local CBS affiliate in St. Louis (KMOV) has been running a commercial with the above tagline for a special investigative report set to air on Thursday’s 10 pm newscast. What we know so far from the teaser is that […]

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STL Alderman On County-City Merger: “Merge County Municipalities 1st”

October 26th, 2010 · No Comments

“AAA Charlie” Dooley’s city county merger trial balloon continues to have negative reverberations for him in his campaign for reelection as St. Louis County executive. Here’s what Dooley told the Post Dispatch on September 27th: In a meeting Monday morning with Post-Dispatch editorial writers and reporters, St. Louis County Executive Charlie A. Dooley said a […]

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Video: Website Exposes History of Corruption in Dooley Administration

October 25th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Quote/Picture of the Day: AAA Charlie Inc. – “No Bids, No Problem Since 2003”

October 21st, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: Editorial Cartoons · Picture/Quote of the Day · STL County Executive Charlie Dooley

WOW, What An Endorsement?

October 20th, 2010 · No Comments

The St. Louis Post Dispatch gave their lukewarm endorsement to current St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley today with the headline: “Let Charlie Do it.” After endorsing “moderate” Republican John Lamping earlier in the week, most political observers expected the chances of a second Republican endorsement from them to be slim to none. Check out […]

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With S. County Gone, Is Dooley Losing N. County Support Too?

October 19th, 2010 · No Comments

It is not surprising that voters in the southern part of St. Louis County are extremely upset with current county executive Charlie Dooley. Besides his failed leadership and blatant cronyism, Dooley ignored their concerns and implemented a catastrophic and illegal trash scheme that will eventually cost county taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in punitive […]

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