Shrewsbury Getting Late Dough Too

According to campaign finance reports just made available on the State’s website, Aldermanic President Jim Shrewsbury collected $20,900 in two days last week, adding to his much-depleted coffers just hours before the polls open.

The largest donations of $5,000 each came from Illinois-based Market Street Bancshares and local EOI Employee PAC. Shrewsbury also received $2,000 each from Southwest Bank and the Site Improvement Association PAC, and a total of $2,400 from three different entities of the McGuire companies.

In the last few weeks, Shrewsbury has poured approximately $300,000 into his campaign to retain his position as Board President. He has had a much tougher than expected challenge from Alderman Lewis Reed who is backed by a majority of the city’s aldermen and recently won endorsements from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis American, and the Arch City Chronicle.

Polls open in nine hours.

*Reed is a client of A.D. French & Associates