Election Night Watch Party Photos

I took the photos above at a couple of watch parties in the St. Louis area Tuesday evening. Turnout in the region was light as it typically is for April elections. The evenings results were disappointing.

Jesse Irwin, the Republican candidate for Alderman in St. Louis's 10th Ward, lost by 39%. Prop E, which would have repealed St. Louis's earnings tax had it been voted down, passed with a whopping 75% margin. Apparently, the citizens of St. Louis enjoy taxing people who come to the city to work while denying those workers any representation within city government.

Results in St. Louis county weren't any better. Chip Wood lost the Assessor's race to Jake Zimmerman by 27%. Rick Gans lost by 7% to the union backed Steven Swyer in the race for the Monarch Fire District Director. Mike Geller was running for one of three seats on the Rockwood School Board. He finished fourth, missing a seat on the board by less than 300 votes (about 1%).

Related articles

• Geller and Gans: The Taxpayer's Candidates! (rebootcongress.blogspot.com)
• St. Louis City: Arrogant, Anti-Freedom (hennessysview.com)
• Zimmerman heading to victory in county assessor's race (stltoday.com)

Geller and Gans: The Taxpayer's Candidates!

I got a call Wednesday afternoon asking me if I wanted to shoot a TV spot for a couple of west county candidates. They wanted the 30 second spot to air this weekend so it had to be finished first thing Friday morning. I had less than 48 hours to shoot and edit the spot so I knew I wasn't going to be getting much sleep and, yes, I am being paid. We decided on a shoot near Busch Stadium on opening day. Obviously, there's a baseball theme to the ad above, but the main message is Geller and Gans: the Taxpayer's Candidates.

Rick Gans is running for the Monarch Fire District. He has been the target of dirty politics from his opponent. In his time at Monarch, Rick has helped to cut the tax rate 16% to the 5th lowest rate in the region.

Mike Geller is running for Rockwood School Board. This is Mike's first foray into politics. He brings conservative values to the fight for quality education.

The election is Tuesday, April 5th, 2011. Mike Geller and Rick Gans are true taxpayer's candidates, but so, too, is Chip Wood. Since you'll be in the voting booth anyway, I'd encourage you to vote for L. K. "Chip" Wood for St. Louis County assessor. Here's an ad that he's produced:

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• Mike Temporiti's Job Qaulifications: Nepotism and Patronage (24thstate.com)
• Crooked as a Dog's Hind Leg (hennessysview.com)
• All About L. K. "Chip" Wood (24thstate.com)
• Chip Wood on St. Louis County Property Assessments (24thstate.com)
• Jake Zimmerman's brand of Crony Capitalism (rebootcongress.blogspot.com)
• 3 Top Ways to Clean Up St. Louis County Government (hennessysview.com)
• A Tale of Two Taxes (hennessysview.com)
• Every Election Counts (hennessysview.com)