Aldergeddon: New 14th Ward

New 14th Ward Map, St. Louis City (2023)

The new St. Louis City 14th Ward includes parts of current 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 19th Wards, and other Wards, and is the result of Census Redistricting and Ward Reduction.

All 14 New Ward Profiles here.

Primary Election Candidate Forum:  Live Tweeting Thread by Jessica Payne of February 11, 2023 14th Ward Candidate Forum sponsored by League of Women Voters

2023 Alder Primary Results

18+ Population: 16,481
Registered Voters: 11,992 (72.75% Registered)
Total Ballots Cast: 1,583 (13.20% Turnout)
Total Votes Cast, Approval Voting2,129 – In St. Louis City Municipal Primary Elections, voters may vote for as many candidates as they want with top two advancing to General Election.
Board President
Megan Green: 1,091 Votes
Alder Candidates
James Page: 376 Votes
Brandon Bosley: 530 Votes
Rasheen Aldridge: 590 Votes
Ebony Washington: 633 Votes

2023 Alder General Election

Current State Rep Rasheen Aldridge
Neighborhood: Old North
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: owner of RA5 Organizing LLC; former employee of Recorder of Deeds; former employee of Missouri Democratic Party
Party Office: 5th Ward Committeeman; former member of Missouri Democratic Party State Committee
Genealogy: son of Tonya Finley-McCaw, former candidate for 22nd Ward Alder 2022, 2019 and 5th Ward Alder 2011
2023 Alder Primary: 2nd place of 4 Candidates, 590 Votes of 2,129
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Report: $18,381.50 raised ($4,700 Labor Unions, $2,600 attorney Jerry Schlichter, $1,000 lobbyist Jeff Rainford, $500 Lawyers of TIF Husch Blackwell Strategies MO PAC, $500 former State Sen Jamilah Nasheed, $500 Katie Casas- school privatization lobbyist, $500 Nexus- lobbyists, $500 school privatization lobbyist Tricia Workman, $250 Garrett Webb- lobbyist for Strategic Capitol Consulting/Steve Tilley, $250 Lawyers of TIF David Sweeney, $250 realtor Brad Waldrop, $100 City Treasurer Adam Layne, $100 25th Ward Alder Shane Cohn); $20,660.19 spent ($6,638.14 LPS Campaigns, DC, for campaign management & digital ads); $41,575 on hand; $0 debt
February 2023 Report #2: $3,990 raised ($2,600 21st Century PAC/Civic Progress, $1250 from 3 Labor Unions); $3,502.61 spent; $43,854.60 on hand; 0 debt
February 2023 Report #1: $15,830 raised ($2,600 UNITE HERE MO, $2,500 SEIU Healthcare, $1,500 SEIU Mo/KS, $1,000 Alder Oldenburg, $1,000 State Rep Butz, $250 Lawyers of TIF Sweeney; $14,918.03 spent ($8,500 LPS Campaigns, DC, for campaign management & digital ads, $3,500 Marquis Govan for campaign strategy): $43,367.21 on hand, $0 debt
January 2023 Report #2: $10,526 raised ($500 Katie Casas- school privatization lobbyist, $200 former Mayor Francis Slay, $100 former State Rep. Bruce Franks,
January 2023 Report #1 Amended: $7,410 raised ($1,000 Jeff Rainford, $1,000 Maxine Clark), $1,567.19 spent ($600 to Communities First 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier’s nonprofit), $35,283.08 on hand, $0 debt
January 2023 Report #1: $7,410 raised ($1,000 Jeff Rainford, $1,000 Maxine Clark), $1,194.19 spent ($600 to Communities First 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier’s nonprofit), $35,283.08 on hand, $0 debt
December 2022 Report: $0 raised, $2,003 spent ($2,000 to Communities First, 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier’s nonprofit), $29,067.27 on hand, $0 debt
November 2022 Report: $3,750 raised, $2,660.42 spent, $31,070.27 on hand, $0 debt
October 2022 Report: $5,958.88 raised, $0 spent, $29,980.69 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: self/Rasheen Aldridge
** Terminated party committeeman committee 7/17/2017

Alder Candidate Ebony M. Washington
Neighborhood: Carr Square
Residence Tax Abated: No, but housing is owned by Carr Square Tenant Corp, a tax exempt nonprofit controlled by Hubbard Family since 1985
Occupation: leasing manager at Carr Square Tenant Management Corp (run by Hubbard Family); realtor at Wood Brothers Realty; owner of EMW Midwest Logistics (freight broker); owner of Washington Sisters Consultant Group; owner of Financial Powerhouse & Development Corp; former founder of Carr Square Neighborhood Association (administratively dissolved); PPP Loan recipient
Genealogy: granddaughter of Penny Hubbard, former State Rep. and current 5th Ward Democratic Committeewoman
2023 Alder Primary: 1st place of 4 candidates, 633 Votes of 2,129
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Report: $10,235 raised ($2,600 Carpenters Mo-Ks PAC, $1,500 Anheuser-Busch’s theLouPAC, $1,000 Leadership Counts PAC- legal money laundry for Steve Stone + St. Louis Cardinals, + Kevin Short + LIUNA 42, $1000 Realtors PAC, $700 dad Steve Roberts); $2,620.88 spent ($141.29 Sam’s Club); $9,566.10 on hand; $7,500 debt
February 2023 Report #2: $325 raised; $156.07 spent; $1,916.07 on hand; $7,500 debt
February 2023 Report #1: $4,953 raised ($2,500 loan from candidate); $3,985.15 spent; $1,747.14 on hand, $7,500 debt
January 2023 Report: $7,300 raised ($2,500 loan from candidate, $2,500 loan from former State Rep. Penny Hubbard, $100 Sheriff Vernon Betts, $1,950 from less than $100 each donors), $6,520.71 spent (most to OR Pechman for signs and printing), $779.29 on hand, $5,000 debt
Treasurer: Errianna Washington (employed at Collector of Revenue; PPE Loan recipient; sister of candidate Ebony Washington; granddaughter of former State Rep. and current 5th Ward Democratic Committeewoman Penny Hubbard)

2023 Primary- Other Alder Candidates

Current 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley
Neighborhood: Hyde Park
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: owner of New Black Wall Street 314; hip hop/rap artist/producer at Bawsomemusic; Focused on Family Entertainment (create family engagement through innovative gaming and fun activities)
Other Political: treasurer for Citizens to Protect Saint Louis (Mayor Lyda Krewson recall)
Genealogy: son of former 3rd Ward Alder Freeman Bosley and 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier; brother of Freeman Bosley Jr (attorney, former Mayor, former Circuit Court Clerk, former chair of St. Louis Democratic City Central Committee); brother of State Rep. LaKeySha Bosley
2023 Alder Primary: 3rd place of 4 candidates, 530 Votes of 2,129
Campaign Finance
(also see 14th Ward Regular Democratic Organization)
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
Last report with activity- April 2021 Report: $100 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Lucinda Frazier (3rd Ward Committeewoman; mother of 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley)
Deputy Treasurer: Linda Primer (also Treasurer for 3rd Ward Regular Democratic Organization and Civil PAC; Deputy Treasurer for State Rep. LaKeysha Bosley)

Current 5th Ward Alder James Page
Neighborhood: Downtown West
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: executive director for Downtown St. Louis Neighborhood Association; retired from U.S. Post Office
2023 Alder Primary: 4th place of 4 candidates, 376 Votes of 2,129
Campaign Finance
February 2023 Report: $30,115 raised ($2,600 21st Century STL PAC/Civic Progress, $1,000 LIUNA Local 42, $1,000 LIUNA Local 110, $550 Sierra Club ), $20,743.50 spent ($14,500 People’s Strategies/John Cross campaign management), $11,961.27 on hand, $1,373.0
January Report #2: $5,675 raised ($1,000 Elkin Kistner, $250 Alder Oldenburg), $4,976.33 ($4,798.49 to MO Political Consulting), $2,589.77 on hand, $1,373 debt
January 2023 Report #1: $3,111 raised ($500 Brad Waldrop), $3,546.55 spent ($2,551.96 to MO Political Consulting), $1,891.10 on hand, $1,373 debt
October 2022 Report: $396.67 raised, $2,084.73 spent (mostly to MO Political Consulting), $2,326.65 on hand, $1,000 debt
Treasurer: self/James Page

Other Public Officials Residing In Ward

Current State Rep. LaKeySha Bosley
Neighborhood: Hyde Park
Residence Tax Abated: Yes, the building is owned by Hyde Park South Apartments and is tax abated until 2027  
Occupation: owner of Cold Rose (sell/rent hookah shisha/tobacco products); owner of La Rose Apparel Clothing (create clothing goods- design, printing, etc, own and purchase real estate); works or did work at State Party Chair/Recorder of Deeds Michael Butler’s bar; works or did work at Communities First nonprofit (organized by her mother and using same address as State Rep. Bosley)
Other Party Office: Serves on Missouri Democratic State Committee
Genealogy: sister of 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley; daughter of former 3rd Ward Alder Freeman Bosley; daughter of 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier
Campaign Finance
December 2022 Report: $0 raised, $2,850.03 spent (including $800 to Tim Person***, $11,376.87 on hand, $0 debt
November 2022 Report: $1,688.00 raised, $2,207.45 spent, $14,226.90 on hand, $800 debt
Treasurer: Ashley Clemon (also Treasurer for 4th Ward Alder Dwinderlin Evans; former treasurer for former State Rep. Wiley Price; former treasurer for 26th Ward Alder candidate Leata Price-Land)
Deputy Treasurer: Linda Primer (also Treasurer for 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley, 3rd Ward Regular Democratic Organization, and Civil PAC

Ward Committees (PACs)

New 14th Ward Regular Democratic Organization
(name change from 3rd Ward Regular Democratic Organization 3/6/2023)
Campaign Finance
February 2023 Report Late (filed wrong report, late; owes two other reports): $5,550 raised ($1,500 Civil PAC run by Tim Person, $250 political consultant and part-time HR director at Recorder of Deeds Tim Person); $4,433 (signs for Alder Bosley); $1,138 on hand; $0 debt
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
Previous report with activity- April 2021 Report: $20.21 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Linda Primer (also treasurer for Civil PAC; deputy treasurer for 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley and State Rep. LaKeysha Bosley)
Also, New 14th Ward Democratic Organization filed at Secretary of State as nonprofit by 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier

New 14th Ward Republican organization: None

Current 3rd Ward Republican organization: None

Current The Mighty 5th Ward Democratic Organization
Campaign Finance
October 2022 Report: None
Last Report showing activity- August Report #2 2018: $75 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Dorothy Finley (grandmother of State Rep. Rasheen Aldridge)
Deputy Treasurer: Rasheen Aldridge (State Rep. and 5th Ward Committeeman)

Current Fifth Ward Democratic Organization
(Hubbard Family 5th Ward political action committee, not related to School Board Member Emily Hubbard)
Campaign Finance
October 2022 Report: None filed
Last Report showing activity- October 2021 Report: $4,698.06 on hand, $210 on hand
Treasurer: Gary Parker

Current 5th Ward Citizens for Change
Campaign Finance
Filed with MEC in 2013 but never made any campaign finance reports

Current 5th Ward Republican organization: None

Political Party Committeepeople

Current 3rd Ward Democratic Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier
Neighborhood: Hyde Park
Resident Tax Abated: No
Occupation: chief deputy Recorder of Deeds; founder of Communities First non profit- Recorder Michael Butler, her boss, and lobbyist David Sweeney serve on the Board
Other Political: treasurer for Alder Brandon Bosley (her son)
Genealogy: wife of former 3rd Ward Alder Freeman Bosley; mother of Alder Brandon Bosley; mother of State Rep. LaKeysha Bosley
Campaign Finance
* No party committeewoman account filed with MEC

Current 3rd Ward Democratic Committeeman Anthony Bell
Neighborhood: Fairground
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation:
Other Elected Office: former candidate for 3rd Ward Alder 2017; former candidate for State Rep. 2008; former candidate for 3rd Ward Alder 2005
Campaign Finance
* No party committeeman account filed with MEC

Current 3rd Ward Republican Committeewoman: Vacant

Current 3rd Ward Republican Committeeman: Vacant

Current 5th Ward Democratic Committeewoman Penny Hubbard
Neighborhood: Carr Square
Residence Tax Abated: No, but housing is owned by Carr Square Tenant Corp, a tax exempt nonprofit controlled by Hubbard Family since 1985
Occupation: owner of Mikon Contracting LLC
Other Elected Office: former State Rep
Genealogy: mother of former 5th Ward Alder Tammika Hubbard, mother of former State Rep. now lobbyist Rodney R. Hubbard, mother-in-law of 26th Ward Alder Shameen Clark Hubbard
Campaign Finance
* No party committeeman account filed with MEC

Current 5th Ward Democratic Committeeman Rasheen Aldridge
See Alder candidate info above

Current 5th Ward Republican Committeewoman: Vacant

Current 5th Ward Republican Committeeman: Vacant

Former Public Officials

Former State Senator Jamilah Nasheed
Neighborhood: Old North, same building as State Rep. Rasheen Aldridge
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: owner of Ignite Strategic Consulting (government and political consulting registered at home address); member of Missouri Board of Probation and Parole
Other Elected Office: former candidate for Board President 2019; former State Senator and former State Rep.
Party Office: former 21st Ward Democratic Committeewoman
Campaign Finance
Terminated 2022 citywide office committee 1/15/2021

Former 5th Ward Alder Tammika Hubbard
Neighborhood: Carr Square
Residence Tax Abated: No, but housing is owned by Carr Square Tenant Corp, a tax exempt nonprofit controlled by Hubbard Family since 1985
Occupation: 1542 Solutions LLC; developer/Minnis Realty
Genealogy: daughter of former State Rep and current 5th Ward Democratic Committeewoman Penny Hubbard; daughter of former State Rep. now lobbyist Rodney R. Hubbard)
Campaign Finance
Terminated committee 7/14/2021

* Political Party County Central Committee ward and township committeepeople have the option to file their campaign finance reports with their county election authority- Board of Election Commissioners in the case of St. Louis City- or online with Missouri Ethics Commission. The St. Louis City Board of Election once posted pdfs of ward committeepeople campaign finance reports to the Board’s website. That is no longer the case. To inspect records, you must visit the Board in person.

** A committeeperson who is also an elected official is not required to have a separate campaign finance account for committeeperson contributions and expenses.

*** Tim Person runs a political consulting business while on City payroll as Human Resources Director at Recorder of Deeds. Missouri State Party Chair Michael Butler is the elected Recorder and also owns a bar.

Aldergeddon: New 10th Ward

New 10th Ward Map, St. Louis City

The new St. Louis City 10th Ward includes parts of current 18th, 26th, 28th Wards, and other Wards, and is the result of Census Redistricting and Ward Reduction.

All 14 New Ward Profiles here.

2023 Alder Primary Results

18+ Population:  17,226
Registered Voters:  13,818 (80.21% Registered)
Total Ballots Cast: 1,360 (9.84% Turnout)
Total Votes Cast, Approval Voting 1,487 – In St. Louis City Municipal Primary Elections, voters may vote for as many candidates as they want with top two advancing to General Election.
Board President
Megan Green: 1,063
Alder Candidates
Emmett Coleman: 654
Shameem Clark-Hubbard: 833

2023 Alder General Election

Current 26th Ward Alder Shameem Clark Hubbard
Neighborhood: West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: former salon owner
Party Office: former 26th Ward Committeewoman
Genealogy: granddaughter of former 4th Ward Alder Joseph Clark Sr.; wife of former State Rep. now lobbyist Rodney R. Hubbard; daughter-in-law of former State Rep. and now 5th Ward Committeewoman Penny Hubbard; sister-in-law of former 5th Ward Alder Tammika Hubbard
2023 Alder Primary: 1st place of 2 candidates, 833 Votes of 1,487 
Campaign Finance
February 2023 Report: $13,012.50 raised ($2,600 The LOUPAC, $1,500 SEIU MO-KS, $1,500 SEIU Healthcare, $500 Maxine Clark, $100 Assessor Mike Dauphin); $7,868.58 spent (; $11,607.13 on hand, $7,297.58 debt
January 2023 Report #2: $6,525 raised ($500 from lobbyist Jeff Rainford), $2,799.20 spent, $6,463.21 on hand, $7,461.35 debt
January 2023 Report #1: $450 raised, $1,261.08 spent, $2,737.41 on hand, $7,461.35 debt
October 2022 Report: $8,935 raised, $9,159.84 spent (including golf cart for “events and canvassing), $3,548.49 on hand, $7,952.66 debt
Treasurer: Joseph W.B. Clark Jr. (father of Alder Clark-Hubbard)

Candidate for 10th Ward Alder Emmett Coleman
Neighborhood: West End
Property Tax Abated: No
Occupation: realtor; owner of URBNCORE construction with former 8th Ward Alder Steve Conway agent of record
Other Elected Office: former candidate for 8th Ward Alder 2019
2023 Alder Primary: 2nd place of 2 candidates, 654 Votes of 1,487
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Report: $1,595 raised + $1,070 in-kind ($820 OnStage Performing Arts Center- candidate’s partner/treasurer biz using St. Francois County address, $250 URBNCORE- candidate’s company); $1,714.12 spent; $699.45 on hand; $26.48 debt
February 2023 Report: $1,070 raised ($400 from candidate’s family, $250 from Jack PAC treasurer Terence Niehoff); $724.61 spent; $818.57 on hand; $26.48 debt
January 2023 Report #2 Late: $1,350 raised ($500 Higher Vision Network life coach, real estate development, etc), $876.94 spent, $473.18 on hand, $0 debt
January 2023 Report #1: $2,000 raised (from candidate and his family), $1,999.88 spent, $0.12 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Jacqueline Gonzales (Emmett Coleman’s partner; teaches dance at CityStudio; owner of DaysBrighter LLC skincare; owner of OnStage Performing Arts Center; former candidate for 8th Ward Democratic Committeewoman 2020)

Other 2023 Candidates

2023 School Board Candidate Tracy E. Hykes
Neighborhood: West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: King Hykes Holding; T.E. Hykes Funding; Hykes King Enterprise
Genealogy: husband of Babette Hykes (Babette Hykes Real Estate Management Services) 
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Report: $1,375 raised ($2,000 AFT 420, $250 STL City Labor Legislature Club); $1,392 spent; $2,157.71 on hand; $0 debt
February 2023 Report: $2,535 raised ($1,500 AFT 420, $1,000 Sheet Metal Workers); $0 spent; $2,535 on hand; $0 debt
Treasurer: Tanisha Hemphill (advertising account coordinator at St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Affiliated SOS Filing Friends of Tracy Hykes, LLC

Other Public Officials Residing In Ward

Mayor Tishaura Jones
Neighborhood: West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: Mayor
Other Elected Office: former City Treasurer; former State Rep.
Party Office: former 8th Ward Committeewoman
Genealogy: daughter of Virvus Jones- former City Comptroller, former 27th Ward Alder, former City Assessor, author
Campaign Finance
January 2023 Report: $4,896.63 raised, $19,625.34 spent (mostly to Mo Political Consulting), $70,471.42 on hand, $0 debt
October 2022 Report: $82,377.30 raised, $49,980.12 spent (including $18,181.92 to Meyers Okohson Political Consulting), $85,200.13 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Rosetta Okohson (Meyers Okohson Political Consulting)
Affiliated PAC- 314 Forward
January 2023 Report: $0 raised, $5,500 spent, $4,680 on hand, $0 debt
October 2022 Report: $10,080 raised, $4,600 spent, $105,239.35 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Kimberly Morton

Comptroller Darlene Green
Neighborhood: West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: Comptroller
Campaign Finance
October 2022 Report: $0 raised, $970 spent, $137,451 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: John Nicks

Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner
Neighborhood: DeBaliviere Place
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: Circuit Attorney
Other Elected Office: former State Rep.; former candidate for State Rep. 2008
Campaign Finance
October 2022 Report: $198 raised, 5$94.03 spent, $98,263.29 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: self/Kimberly Gardner
Former Affiliated PAC: Missouri Justice & Public Safety PAC
Terminated 12/22/2020

New State Rep. Del Taylor (beat incumbent State Rep Wiley “Chip” Price, now 26th Ward Committeeman)
Neighborhood: West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: management consultant; owner of Elite Housing Group
Campaign Finance
January 2023 Report: $1,450 raised, $1,142.82 spent, $555.13 on hand, $55,025.69 debt
December 2022 Report: $65 raised, $1,088.23 spent, $247.95 on hand, $55,025.69 debt
October 2022 Report #2: $350 raised, $275 spent, $1,271.18 on hand, $55,025.69 debt
October 2022 Report #1: $2,933.88 raised, $5,234.25 spent, $1,196.18 on hand, $55,025.69 debt
Treasurer: self/Del Taylor

Ward Committees (PACs)

New 10th Ward Democratic organization: None

New 10th Ward Democratic Organization: None

Current 26th Ward Democratic organization: None

Current 26th Ward Republican organization: None

Political Party Committteepeople

Current 26th Ward Democratic Committeewoman Karla May
Neighborhood: Visitation Park
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: State Senator; owner of BIJ Investments; owner of Bridging Imaginations Jointly Publishing; owner of The Way I See It; was or is longtime AT&T employee; was or is Board member of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Other Elected Office: former State Rep.
Other Party Office: Chair of St. Louis Democratic City Central Committee, member of Missouri Democratic Party State Committee
Genealogy: daughter of former Alder/former City Register Parrie May
Campaign Finance
State Senator/State Rep Account
December 2022 Report: $24,936.44 raised, $0 spent, $48,254.47 on hand, $1,291 debt
October #2 2022 Report Amended: $14,794.06, $9,431.90 spent (including $2,172.85 in MEC fines), $23,318.03 on hand, $1,291 debt
October #2 2022 Report: $0 raised, $1,187.73 spent, $17,518.14 on hand, $1,291 debt
October #1 2022 Report: $0 raised, $2,772.93 spent, $18,705.87 on hand, $1,291 debt
Treasurer: self/Karla May
Committeewoman Account
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
Previous Report with activity- October 2018 Report: $7,250 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Rosalyn Winston

Current 26th Ward Democratic Committeeman Wiley “Chip” Price
Also See: Democrat censured by Missouri House after ethics investigation threatens lawsuit
Neighborhood: uses a P.O. Box
Residence Tax Abated:
Occupation:
Other Elected Office: former State Rep.
Genealogy: son of former 26th Ward Alder candidate Leata Price-Land; son of award winning St. Louis American newspaper photographer Wiley Price
Campaign Finance
State Rep. Candidate Account Terminated 09/02/2022
September 2022 # Report: $4,000 (including $1,200 from former Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr and $1,000 from Voice of the People at address for Rosalyn Winston, State Senator Karla May’s Treasurer), $10,187.80 spent, $0 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Ashley Clemon (also Treasurer for State Rep. LaKeySha Bosley; Treasurer for 4th Ward Dwinderlin Evans, former Treasurer for 26th Ward Alder candidate Leata Price-Land)
* No party committeeman account filed at MEC

Current 26th Ward Republican Committeewoman Susan Gladney**
Neighborhood: Skinker DeBaliviere
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: lab manager at Washington University School of Medicine
Campaign Finance
* No party committeewoman account filed at MEC

Current 26th Ward Republican Committeeman Andrew Gladney**
Neighborhood: Skinker-DeBaliviere
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: consultant
Campaign Finance
* No party committeeman account filed at MEC

Former Public Officials

Former State Senator Joe Keaveny
Neighborhood: Skinker DeBaliviere
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: attorney; workers compensation administrative law judge at Missouri Department of Labor (Governor Jay Nixon appointee); previously at US Bank
Elected Office: former State Senator 2009-2016; former candidate for St. Louis School Board 2005
Party Office: former 28th Ward Democratic Committeeman
Future Election: 8/6/2024 Primary Election, Statewide Office
Campaign Finance
MEC account says running in 8/6/2024 Primary Election for Statewide Office
July 2021 to October 2022: Limited Activity
April 2021 Report: $0 raised, $288 spent, $168,641.65 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: self/Joe Keaveny

* Political Party County Central Committee ward and township committeepeople have the option to file their campaign finance reports with their county election authority- Board of Election Commissioners in the case of St. Louis City- or online with Missouri Ethics Commission. The St. Louis City Board of Election once posted pdfs of ward committeepeople campaign finance reports to the Board’s website. That is no longer the case. To inspect records, you must visit the Board in person.

**May be the same Susan and Andrew couple in this Riverfront Times article

Ward Consolidation Wars

The Bosley Family’s matriarch has laid political claim to St. Louis City’s new 14th Ward, the combined 3rd Ward and 5th Ward under ward reduction and redistricting. This month, 3rd Ward Committeewoman Lucinda Frazier and three others incorporated 14th Ward Regular Democratic Organization as a nonprofit.

The club has not yet filed as a political action committee (all ward committees are pacs not party committees under Missouri law). No one residing in the current 5th Ward is an incorporator. It does not look like 5th Ward Committeeman and State Representative Rasheen Aldridge and 5th Ward Committeewoman and former State Representative Penny Hubbard are involved.

Frazier is the wife of former 3rd Ward Alder Freeman Bosley, mother to current 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley and State Representative LaKeysha Bosley, and Chief of Staff for part-time Recorder of Deeds, bar owner, and Missouri State Party Chair Michael Butler.

Registered agent for the new 14th Ward registration is Limda Primer, who is also Treasurer for MEC registered 3rd Ward Regular Democratic Organization and Civil PAC, and Deputy Treasurer for Citizens for Brandon Bosley (3rd Ward Alder) and Citizens for LaKeysha Bosley (State Representative and sometimes employee of the Recorder of Deed’s bar).

Then there’s the new 4th Ward, the combined 23rd and 24th Wards.

In March of this year, Kate Lovelady filed a Fictitious Name Registration for 24WPD to own 4th Ward Democrats. Lovelady is Treasurer for 4th Ward Democrats registered (previously known as 24th Ward Progressive Democrats) with MEC.

In September, Greg Meyer incorporated 4th Ward Regular Democratic Organization as a non profit with the help of attorney Ted Dearing. Meyer is also Treasurer for MEC registered 23rd Ward Regular Democratic Organization (aligned with 23rd Ward Alder Joe Vaccaro) and St. Louis Labor Legislature Club. The October 2022 Report for 23rd Ward Regular Democratic Organization shows the club paid Ted Dearing $300 in August for legal services.

In St. Louis County, you can visit the St. Louis County Democratic Central Committee website to find your township political club.

There are two online sources for anyone (a lot of us do not have book of faces) to look for St. Louis City ward organization information and neither are the St. Louis Democratic City Central Committee website. Instead, you have to search Missouri Ethics Commission and/or Missouri Secretary of State’s Business Entity database for ward committees.

St. Louis City political clubs often incorporate as nonprofits or file fictious name registrations (d.b.a.). It was thought that by incorporating, the name was owned and could not be used by a rival. They’ve been doing it for over a century. Some of the earliest ones were recorded in the Corporation Books of the City’s Recorder of Deeds. Campaign finance records began in St. Louis City in the late 20th Century via Missouri’s Corrupt Practices Act and were also recorded with the Recorder of Deeds. I did a lot of research and preservation work with these records when I worked as an archivist under the two previous Recorder of Deeds.

It’s been a long tradition for status quo ward clubs to use “Regular Democratic” or “Original” in the name to distinguish themselves from rump organizations who use “Independent.” The Independent organizations were often started by a noncommitteeperson, election competitor, or a committeeperson who did not see eye to eye with their ward colleague. Unfortunately, I was overruled by ward members when I was a committeewoman and had to file 7th Ward Independent Democrats instead of 7th Ward Irregular Democrats with MEC.