Vote NO, STL Prop B Child Care Sales Tax Grift

This is an update to School Privatizers Want Another STL Sales Tax for Child Care

Proposition B on the ballot in St. Louis City is a sketchy proposal. It most certainly would publicly fund some day care/pre-school services by charter schools, churches, and for profit companies.

Is your St. Louis City child guaranteed free or subsidized, quality early child education (ECE) by Prop B?

No.

That’s up to the private club, I mean the Mayor’s appointed Board, that will spend the money without Board of Aldermen oversight.

And most assuredly, Stephen Westbrooks, Mayor Cara Spencer director of St. Louis Development Corporation and a charter school supporter, will end up on that Board and some of the funds will become corporate welfare under the guise of workforce development.

Prop B proposes something similar to, but actually worse than, the Mayor’s appointed transparency fail Mental Health Board which manages the current ECE tax fund called Community Children’s Services Fund. It was sold as ECE but actually pays for ECE consultants, not ECE.

It also would certainly be a jobs creator for the nonprofit industrial complex. A lot of staffing positions with important titles will be created using the bloated bureaucracy role model of City’s Mental Health Board.

Like charter schools, private schools, nonprofit or for profit child care centers, there is no guarantee that your disabled child will be accepted for whatever type of funded ECE that the Prop B Board decides on.

It also appears that this St. Louis City tax money could go to child care outside St. Louis City.

The list of what’s wrong with this thing is very long. Very.

Joshua Lawrence provides more good insights on Prop B.

Read the proposal here. Not just the ballot language, read what it really does beginning on page two. Read the whole thing.

Prop B’s campaign run by Best Start for Kids makes a lot of promises not backed up with the petition they circulated. “Increase wages and benefits for early educators” and “Improve quality of care” are just sales pitches. There is no guarantee that will happen. AND there is no sunset provision so that later down the road voters could decide to end the experiment and start over.

A better way would be public school-based ECE in every school across the City.

The campaign’s funding is my focus here. I only looked at the $1,000 and over donors. Plenty of other smaller donors related to child care centers, all tithing to the campaign in hopes of currying favor from the future Board that will make the rules and hand out money.

WePower Related Prop B Donors

WePower is the school privatization non profit and driving force behind the previous Proposition R for a St. Louis sales tax to fund early childhood education consultants. Also note, WePower Made Non-Committee Expenditures in 2023 for now Alders Daniela Velazquez, Shameem Clark Hubbard, Rasheen Aldridge but misspelled their names.
03/05/2026 $17,500 loan
03/12/2026 $30,000 loan
03/16/2026 $280 in kind
03/20/2026 $12,000 loan
03/28/2026 $1,500 in kind
04/02/2026 $2,015.35 in kind
04/06/2026 $460.88 in kind
05/21/2026 $31,712.02 in kind
06/02/2026 $6,440.50 in kind
07/01/2026 $19,189 in kind
09/01/2026 $1,458.84 in kind
09/14/2026 $720 in kind
09/18/2026 $4,451.37 in kind
09/21/2026 $526.80 in kind
09/22/2026 $335 in kind
10/01/2026 $21,052.74 in kind
10/02/2026 $6,102.81 in kind
10/20/2026 $11,027.06 in kind

Laura Horwitz, JF Roblee Foundation; Board member for WePower
12/02/2025 $5,000
03/30/2026 $5,000

Delmar Divine Related Donors

Robert Fox and Maxine Clark, founder of Build A Bear (a corporate welfare recipient) and queen mother of school privatization in St. Louis based at her Delmar Divine development.
10/14/2026 $25,000
11/10/2025 $10,000

Elizabeth Mannen Berges, Mannen Financial Group, and Jim Berges, former President of Emerson Electric. Berges Family Foundation (Delmar Divine tenant) supports the Opportunity Trust, St. Louis Police Foundation, Greater St. Louis, and charter schools.
02/03/2026 $25,000
09/17/2026 $25,000

Hank Webber, former Vice Chancellor for Washington University, charter school advocate (KIPP) and Board member of Maxine Clark’s Delmar Divine, and Dr. Christine Jacobs, Dean of St. Louis University Medical School
12/07/2025 $1,000
02/10/2026 $2,500

03/30/2026 $2,500: IFF (Delmar Divine tenant), previously known as Illinois Facilities Fund, ECE consultant

Other Dark Money Funders of Prop B
Nonprofits that should be PACs filing reports with Missouri Ethics Commission
Could not find where money comes from on their websites

Children’s Funding Accelerator
04/15/2026 $75,000
04/17/2026 $28,500 in kind
04/22/2026 $25,000
09/23/2026 $30,000

Missouri Action for Kids, same Baldwin address as Kids Win Missouri (which receives public funding)
01/30/2026 $50,000
03/30/2026 $50,000
10/07/2026 $50,000

Child Care Aware of Missouri, a child care referral nonprofit and member of Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Missouri
02/10/2026 $10,000
10/20/2026 $10,000

10/13/2026 $10,000: Community Change, DC

More Private/Charter School Supporter Related Prop B Donors

Alison Ferring, Ferring Family Foundation (funds charter schools, ECE); St. Louis Library Board member
04/14/2026 $50,000
09/30/2026 $50,000

$8,000: Anne Miller, education consultant, a charter school founder (North Side Community School)

11/17/2025 $5,000: Tony Thompson, Kwame Building Group CEO, St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioner, and charter school supporter 01/21/2026

04/10/2026 $5,000: Timothy Burke, former IT professional, now groundskeeper at Westminster Christian Academy, Town & Country

03/30/2026 $1,000: Linda Hunter, Hunter Family Foundation (funds charter school, ECE)

10/23/2026 $1,000: Mary Stillman, founder, Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, charter school 2014-2023; husband Tom Stillman is chair of NHL St. Louis Blues

ECE/Day Care Related Donors Currently Not Affiliated With A School

03/31/2026 $10,000: Youth in Need, St. Charles but supports ECE providers in six counties including St. Louis City

05/29/2026 $10,000: Urban Sprouts Child Development Center, University City

SouthSide Early Childhood Center, Fox Park
03/30/2026 $4,000
05/26/2026 $1,000
09/18/2026 $2,000

Rochelle Bea, Beginning Futures Learning Center, Walnut Park
03/24/2026 $1,000
04/26/2026 $1,000
05/21/2026 $500
05/23/2026 $1,000

06/02/2026 $2,500: Mark Daly, Mary Margaret Day Care Centers (Auntie Margaret’s Day Care), St. Louis City and County

03/12/2026 $1,000: Lisa Sharp, Baden Christian Child Care Center, Baden
05/21/2026 $1,000: Lisa Scheer, Baden Christian Child Care Center, Baden; Treasurer for Best Start for Kids Prop B campaign

Angela Malone, Raggedy Ann N Andy Learning Center, Greater Ville
02/25/2026 $1,000
09/29/2026 $500

06/05/2026 $1,500: My Mother’s Roots, Baden

03/17/2026 $1,000: Saleetha Barbee, Creative Development Academy, Penrose

03/20/2026 $1,000: Mary Crockett Smith, founder The Christian Academy, North City and Florissant

03/26/2026 $1,000: Jeremy Brown, Smart Kids Child Development Center, Spanish Lake

03/26/2026 $1,000: Francene Mitchell, Precious Days Learning Academy, Berkeley

Other Donors of Note

John McDonnell, former chair of McDonnell Douglas
05/03/2026 $25,000
10/05/2026 $25,000

02/09/2026 $5,000 David Roberts, former management consultant and chair emeritus of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities’ Board of Governors, and Sue Fischlowitz, former chair of St. Louis Hillel Board at Washington University and Hillel at Brandeis University

Amy Wilson, given that she makes her donations from historic Walter Hecker house in Clayton, I’m not sure she’s the same Amy Wilson who works for Wilson School (private ECE)
01/25/2026 $1,000
03/23/2026 $500

01/15/2026 $1,000: John Kalishman, President of Harcourt Group (investment and management), owns homes in St. Louis County and St. Louis and Steamboat Springs, Colorado

01/30/2026 $1,000: Gibron Jones, urban farmer, founder of HOSCO SHIFT (food co-op)

03/09/2026 $1,000: STL Metropolitan Clergy Coalition, a Christian organization that opposes gay marriage

03/24/2026 $1,000: Michael Todorovic, insurance broker at Lockton

03/24/2026 $1,000: Natalie Clay, program manager at BioSTL (oddly, MEC report says social worker)

03/29/2026 $1,000: Mary Wheeler Jones, retired director of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners; serves on Senior Citizens’ Service Fund Board (tax district); co-founder of Fairground Park for All

04/06/2026 $1,000: Saffiyah Poole, St. Louis Integrated Health Network (nonprofit consultant)

09/18/2026 $1,000: Joyce Aboussie, Aboussie & Associates, the woman who tried twice to make US Representative Dick Gephardt a US President

School Privatizers Want Another STL Sales Tax for Child Care

Updated 10/25/2026 Vote NO, STL Prop B Child Care Sales Tax Grift

Some people would like to raise the sales tax in City of St. Louis for early childhood education (ECE) in the City. Again. Don’t be fooled. Again.

Unlike in Boliver, where there is a $3 Million expansion underway for their ECE center on the public schools campus, this sales tax campaign is not for St. Louis Public Schools ECE. Again. It’s not for free ECE. Again.

Instead, it’s another sketchy way to publicly fund charter schools, church day care, for profit child care, and a jobs creator for the nonprofit industrial complex. A lot of staffing positions with important titles will be created using the bloated bureaucracy role model of City’s Mental Health Board.

Like MHB, which manages the current ECE tax fund called Community Children’s Services Fund, that pays for ECE consultants, not ECE, the new tax would be managed by another mayoral appointed board independent from the City of St. Louis, unaccountable to the Board of Alders, or anyone else really.

Read the proposal here, not just the ballot language, read the whole thing.

Note that Stephen Westbrooks, Mayor Cara Spencer’s new director of St. Louis Development Corporation, City corporate welfare umbrella agency, and a charter school supporter, is one of the ballot issue petitioners.

Note that the proposed sales tax is enabled by 67.547 RSMO and is a county sales tax, not a municipal sales tax. That’s because Best Start for Kids also wants a tax in St. Louis County. I don’t have any idea how the campaign it’s going in the County. I do know that when MAGA eventually bankrupts St. Louis City, sells off assets, forces annexation of City into County, the folks running this scam will still be well funded.

Best Start for Kids campaign makes a lot of promises not backed up with the petition they are circulating. Again. It’s not about funding free ECE at public schools.

“Increase wages and benefits for early educators” and “Improve quality of care” are just campaign sales pitches. There is no guarantee that will happen. AND there is no sunset provision so that later down the road voters could decide to end the experiment and start over.

Best Start for Kids filed with Missouri Ethics Commission last August as a ballot issue campaign committee for November 3rd, 2026, election in the City.

A lot of preachers think their churches are getting a piece of the pie but most of the money is coming from school privatizers.

The committee filed Limited Activity for August and October 2025 reports but then received $10,000 on November 10th from Robert Fox. He is the husband of Maxine Clark, founder of Build A Bear (a corporate welfare recipient) and queen mother of school privatization in St. Louis based at her Delmar Divine development.

Fox’s contribution appeared in the January 2026 Report with others including:

$5,000 (11/17/2025) Tony Thompson, Kwame Building Group CEO, St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioner, and charter school supporter

$5,000 (12/02/2025) Laura Horwitz, JF Roblee Foundation and Board member for WePower, the main proponent for Best Start for Kids sales tax hike campaign

$1,000 (12/07/2025) Hank Webber, part of the group seeking a Midtown Infrastructure TIF, former Vice Chancellor for Washington University, former chair of Cortex, charter school advocate, and Board member of Maxine Clark’s Delmar Divine. He also serves on

Starting in January, Best Starts for Kids started receiving donations requiring “48 Hour Report of Contribution Received Over $5000” and which will not appear on a quarterly Report until April. These contributions include:

$8,000 (01/21/2026) Anne Miller, education consultant, a charter school founder (North Side Community School)

$50,000 (01/30/2026) Missouri Action for Kids, same address as Kids Win Missouri (which receives public funding)

$25,000 (02/03/2026) Elizabeth Mannen Berges, Mannen Financial Group, and Jim Berges, former President of Emerson Electric. Berges Family Foundation supports the Opportunity Trust, St. Louis Police Foundation, Greater St. Louis, and charter schools.

$10,000 (02/10/2026) Child Care Aware of Missouri, a child care referral nonprofit and member of Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Missouri

$17,500 (03/05/2026) + $30,000 (03/12/2026) + $12,000 (03/20/2026) WePower, school privatization nonprofit, driving force behind the previous Proposition R for a St. Louis sales tax to fund early childhood education consultants, the fund managed by St. Louis Mental Health Board.

WePower is represented by a stable of lobbyists including David Sweeney, everyone’s friend at Board of Alders, and Nexus Group. WePower is located in Cortex Innovation District.

In 2020, The City’s Board of Alders passed an ordinance to send voters a tax hike to fund ECE. The BOA vote was 25-0 with two absent and one vacancy.

Unfortunately, it did not really fund ECE as in subsidizing costs to parents. It was money for training and marketing consultants and creating a large staff to award grants.

Like Alders, not many bothered to read the proposal. It was approved 56.26% (72,745) to 43.74% (56,554).

Proponents of the previous ballot issue like to say the issue drove voters to the polls but it was a Presidential and statewide office and ballot issues election. 6,170 fewer ballots were cast for Proposition R than the total votes cast for US President in that 66% turnout election.

Deputy Treasurer for Best Start for Kids is Mike Pridmore, who serves as treasurer or deputy treasurer for numerous campaign accounts including Mayor Spencer, City and State ballot issues, and political action committees (legal money laundries in Missouri).

There was previously a Best Starts for Kids, STL committee, not run by Pridmore, for a 2024 St. Louis County Charter Amendment to increase sales tax by for early childhood education. That ballot measure did not end up on the ballot.

Board President Megan Green and Alders Pam Boyd, Shameem Clark-Hubbard, Tom Oldenburg, and Daniela Velázquez have endorsed the ballot issue.

Board President Green unsuccessfully tried to organize a charter school before she was an Alder.

Saida Cornejo-Zuniga worked briefly as Legislative Assistant to Alder Velázquez before taking a position at WePower.

Rodney Hubbard, Alder Clark-Hubbard’s husband, is a lobbyist for Steven R. Carroll & Associates, which is lobbyist for St. Louis Public Schools, tho Hubbard is not registered to represent that client.

During the 2024-2025 session of the Board of Alders, Alder Clark-Hubbard sponsored Board Bill 7 for a second sales tax ballot issue, an additional one-half of one percent to go to the Mental Health Board’s Early Childhood Education Fund.

Board Bill 7 was very oddly assigned to the Transportation and Commerce Committee.

The St. Louis City Board of Education unanimously opposed the measure, saying the bill “directs taxpayer dollars to non-public entities with no oversight or accountability measures in place.”

Debate was cut off an hour into the hearing and Board Bill 7 advanced no further.

The major proponent for that bill was WePower, which seemed to be complaining that their previous tax hike that they wrote and won was flawed, basically the same argument this time.

We’ll talk later about how irresponsible it is for anyone to propose a new sales tax in Missouri as MAGA General Assmbly and Governor pushes to eliminate income tax and replace with sales taxes.

Aldergeddon: New 10th Ward

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

Aldergeddon: October MEC Reports

October campaign finance reports were due October 17th. Where “None” is shown for this report, it means none filed to date. Where Limited Activity for October was filed, the next report showing activity is also used. Where the last report showing activity is older than 2022, only on hand and debt amounts are shown. Links are to the candidate’s campaign finance or political action committee page at Missouri Ethics Commission.

New 1st Ward
Current 12th Ward Alder William ‘Bill’ Stephens, October 2022 Report- Limited Activity (late). September 2022 Report, State Rep 81st District- $500 raised, $2,515.84 spent, $2,686.15 on hand, $5,108.16 debt. Note: now says it is a State Rep 81st District 2024 account
Current 13th Ward Alder Anne Schweitzer, October 2022 Report, Alder- $2335 raised, $84.43 spent, $35,967.89 on hand, $0 debt

New 2nd Ward
Current 14th Ward Alder Carol Howard– Termination Report: $0 raised, $1,312.60 spent (mostly to her treasurer), $0 on hand, $0 debt. October 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $333.20 spent, $1,312.60 on hand, $0 debt
Current 16th Ward Alder Thomas R Oldenburg, October 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $10,911.54 spent (mostly to Kelley Group), $31,787.12 on hand, $0 debt

New 3rd Ward
Current 11th Ward Alder James ‘Jimmy’ P Lappe, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. July 2022 Report, Alder- $1,575 raised, $1,096.21 spent, $1478.79 on hand, $0 debt
Current 25th Ward Alder Shane Cohn, October 2022 Report, Alder- $1,525 raised, $787.85 spent, $3,483.09 on hand, $0 debt

New 4th Ward
Current 23rd Ward Alder Joseph A Vaccaro Jr, October 2022 Report, Alder- $8,035 raised, $1,404.60 spent, $13,566.65 on hand, $540.309 debt
Current 24th Ward Alder Bret Narayan, October 2022 Report, Alder- $3,952.84 raised, $0 spent, $5,857.89 on hand, $0 debt

New 5th Ward
Current 10th Ward Alder & Acting Board President Joseph Vollmer, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. July 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $600 spent, $19,560.85 on hand, $0 debt

New 6th Ward
Current 8th Ward Alder Annie Rice, October 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $117 spent, $1,908 on hand, $0 debt
Current 15th Ward Alder Megan Ellyia Green, October #2 2022 Report, Board President- Limited Activity. October #1 2022 Report, Board President- $68,584.95 raised, $70.458.98 spent, $40,769.25 on hand, $0 debt. Affiliated PAC Progress PAC, October 2022 Report, Board President- $3,875 raised, $153.08 spent, $3,721.92 on hand, $0 debt

New 7th Ward
Current 6th Ward Alder Christine Ingrassia, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. July 2019 Report, Alder- $2,474.33 on hand, $5,800 debt

New 8th Ward
Current 7th Ward Alder John ‘Jack’ Coatar, October #2 2022 Report, Board President- $36,225 raised, $71,884.32 spent (mostly to consultants including Kelley Group), $138,012.29 on hand, $0 debt. October #1 Report, Board President- $116,604.18 raised, $119,651.90 spent (mostly to consultants including Kelley Group), $174,171.61 on hand, $0 debt. Affiliated PAC Jack PAC, October 2022 Report, Board President- $54,134 raised, $500 spent, $96,138.34 on hand, $0 debt
Current 9th Ward Alder Dan Guenther, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. January 2022 Report, Alder- $200 raised, $798.95 spent, $8,586.50 on hand, $0 debt
Current 20th Ward Alder Cara Spencer, October 2022 Report, Alder- None. July 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $566.17 spent, $8,400.82 on hand, $0 debt

New 9th Ward
Current 17th Ward Alder Tina Pihl, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. July 2022, Alder- $175 raised, $679.92 spent, $1,346.88 on hand, $86.72 debt
Current 28th Ward Alder Michael Gras, October Report, Alder- None. July 2022, Alder- $750 raised, $1,752.01 spent, $460.66 on hand, $6,779.27 debt

New 10th Ward
Current 26th Ward Alder Shameem Clark Hubbard, October 2022 Report, Alder- $8,935 raised, $9,159.84 spent (including golf cart for “events and canvassing), $3,548.49 on hand, $7,952.66 debt

New 11th Ward
Current 19th Ward Alder Marlene Davis, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity (filed late). July 2021 Report, Alder- $13,440 on hand, $0 debt
Current 21st Ward Alder Laura Keys, October 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $0 spent, $229.53 on hand, $0 debt. Affiliated PAC 21st Ward Organization, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. April 2021 Report, Alder- $1,248.58 on hand, $0 debt

New 12th Ward
Current 1st Ward Alder Sharon Tyus, October 2022 Report, Alder- None. July 2021 Report, Alder- $21,257 on hand, $24,978.41 debt
Current 12th Ward Alder Dwinderlin Evans, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. January 2022 Report, Alder- $0 raised, $565 spent, $1,077 on hand, $0 debt
Current 18th Ward Alder Jesse Todd, October 2022 Report- Limited Activity. March 2019 Report, Alder- $42.57 on hand, $0 debt

New 13th Ward
Current 2nd Ward Alder Lisa Middlebrook, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. October 2021 Report, Alder- $100 on hand, $0 debt
Current 22nd Ward Alder Norma J Walker, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. September 2022 Report, Alder- $3,620 raised, $6,277.87 spent, $1,799.37 on hand, $2,000 debt
Current 27th Ward Alder Pamela Boyd, October 2022 Report, Alder- $2,956.04 raised, $340 spent, $4,002.21 on hand, $0 debt

New 14th Ward
Current 3rd Ward Alder Brandon Bosley, October 2022 Report, Alder- Limited Activity. April 2021 Report, Alder- $100 on hand, $0 debt
Current 5th Ward Alder James A Page Jr, October 2022 Report, Alder- $396.67 raised, $2,084.73 spent (mostly to Meyers Okohson Political Consulting), $2,326.65 on hand, $1,000 debt