Keeping Up with Francis
Filed Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 12:00 PM
A recap of Mayor Francis Slay’s week…
On Friday, Francis jabbed the American for “bad reporting”.
Then Francis said he’ll support Police Chief Joe Mokwa even if his officers won’t.
And yesterday, Francis said Fire Chief Sherman George better get busy with those promotions, or else.
Oh, and let’s not forget last week when he blindsided National Park Service officials with a request for local control of the Arch grounds.
Priorities, priorities.
How about local control of our police department first? After all, that is where about a third of our city’s annual budget goes. But then, why should city folks have any say over how one out of every three of our dollars is spent?
Perhaps Mayor Slay could be calling for local control of our schools — even mayoral control. No, wait. That’s right, he was the one pushing for the state’s Republican governor to take control of our $450 million-per-year school system.
Well, it’s not like crime or schools have anything to do with the quality of life here in the city — at least not like the Arch grounds anyway!
As a matter of fact, we’re so out of practice with controlling our own destinies around here, if the U.S. government did give up control of the Arch grounds, they should probably just turn it over to the State of Missouri.
At least that’ll keep Hizzoner from building a parking garage or a Walgreens on it.