Talent-McCaskill Video Roundup
Rush Limbaugh discusses PUB DEF and Sylvester Brown’s reports on the tensions between black Democrats and the state party…
Jim Talent gets attacked for comments he made about amnesty for illegal immigrants…
Claire McCaskill gets knocked on talk radio…
A pro-Talent commercial is edited to show his how it conflicts with his actual voting record…
Some guy in Kansas [...]
Board Lifts Residency Requirement
The Police Board voted this morning to lift the residency requirement for civilian employees who have been with the department for seven continuous years.
Mayor Francis Slay had made a motion to table the vote until after the Nov. 7 non-binding referendum in which voters would let their preference be known in the matter, but the [...]
VIDEO: City Marshals Defend Us All
So say you’re downtown paying your property taxes when all of a sudden Bin Laden’s boys decide to attack City Hall with VX nerve gas (it could happen). What are you going to do? You have no idea, do you? Well, fear not, you simple-minded civilian. Lucky for you, you’re being protected by the elite [...]
Video from the Vault
Cleaning out the ol’ PUB DEF video vault, we recently came across this jewel. It’s a video we shot almost exactly two years ago — back in August 2004 before we had any outlet to share such videos. It’s from the St. Louis stop of the Hip-Hip Summit which sought to increase youth participation in [...]
O’Brien Denied Restraining Order
School Board president Veronica O’Brien was denied a restraining order today against fired Vashon basketball coach Floyd Irons and his friend and supporter, Demetrius Johnson.
O’Brien had alleged that the two — along with several other protestors — threatened her and her 11 year-old child at one of many recent protests at her home in the [...]
VIDEO: Canvassing with Derio Gambaro
During this final week before the August 8 primary election, PUB DEF will be pounding the pavement everyday with different candidates. We were in south St. Louis yesterday with Derio Gambaro, a candidate for state senate.
Gambaro was out with his family knocking on doors and meeting potential voters in the 17th Ward. That ward, much [...]
VIDEO: Canvassing with Yaphett El-Amin
During this final week before the August 8 primary election, PUB DEF will be pounding the pavement everyday with different candidates.
We tagged along with State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin yesterday as she and two supporters from ACORN went door-to-door in the same north St. Louis neighborhood that we followed one of her opponents, Jeff Smith, the [...]
VIDEO: Canvassing with Joe Palm
During this final week before the August 8 primary election, PUB DEF will be pounding the pavement everyday with different candidates.
We were again in north St. Louis yesterday, this time we followed two candidates: State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, who’s running for the state senate, and Joe Palm, who’s running for her seat in the House. [...]
VIDEO: Canvassing with Jeff Smith
During this final week before the August 8 primary election, PUB DEF will be pounding the pavement everyday with different candidates. Yesterday we were in north St. Louis with Jeff Smith, a candidate for state senate.
As Smith and his aide, Quinton Lucas, hopped out of the car and head towards the streets of the Visitation [...]
VIDEO: 19th Ward Festival
Despite the extreme heat yesterday, according to organizers, more than 2,500 people attended the 6th Annual Community Empowerment Festival of the Jeff Vanderlou, Blumeyer, Vandeventer, Tiffany Park, Shaw, Midtown and Grand Center Neighborhoods.
Fire Chief Sherman George, Marlene Davis and Ida Goodwin Woolfolk joined 19th Ward Alderman Mike McMillan at the annual event at which people [...]
