> There was a move last year to try to bring St. Louis City back into surrounding St. Louis County or rather the other way round to try get more money for the city
It was also to launder the city crime stats so the city would look better from the outside! What a damned stupid reason to burden the county. Idiots around me in the county were touting that. I wish only they, not all of us, would suffer the consequences of their bad voting patterns.
Too many generations of miseducated people are allowed to vote. They kicked out the long-time prosecutor who clear Darren Wilson, and put in would-be child psychologist Wesley Bell. I took a D primary ballot just to oppose that!
The irony of it all was that the City pulled out of the County back in the late 1800s so that wouldn’t have to spend its money on the country bumpkins in the County. I believe they got it written into the state’s Constitution. So fast forward two or three lifetimes and the City wants all that sweet, sweet county money.
I believe there were some who said opposition to the reunification were doing it for ‘racist’ reasons.
For those who don’t know, for many years a Federal Judge required county schools to accept students from the city to pay for the sins of segregation. The state was required to shoulder the costs. Busing you might think, but many actually took taxis to and from school. I’ll bet a lot of county residents grew tired of the “diversity” in their kids’ schools.