Changes In Trash Services for St. Charles Residents

Trash pickup for St. Charles residents will go to once a week next year but the price will drop under a new contract with Allied Waste. The cost per household will drop to $14.48 a month from the current $18.03 charge.

Items to be recycled will continue to be picked up once a week. The three-year contract allows increases of 5 percent a year in 2010 and 2011. A city committee chose Allied over the only other bidder, FWCD, a partnership of Fred Weber Inc. and Christian Environmental Services. Allied, formerly known as Midwest Waste, has collected St. Charles' trash since 1995.

Plans call for Allied to provide new carts for recyclables of either 65 gallons or 35 gallons, depending on the resident's choice. Those will replace smaller recycling bins distributed in the past. The city also will require multi-family buildings to begin using Allied under the new contract after their current arrangements with other haulers expire. No freedom of choice here.

Obama Abandons St. Charles County and Missouri

The Obama "Campaign for Change" St. Charles County headquarters has a top quality sign. What kind of message are they attempting to send to the residence of the area? I have heard of recycling but this takes it to extremes. Let's examine the picture to the right. A hand written reused Tom Fann Sign? I guess it is good to see that Tom Fann can use those signs for something!!!



The message this sign sends to me is that Mr. Obama does not think he can win Missouri and has given up on trying to win it. That is OK if your strategy is conserve dollars for your key battleground states but like Tom Fann was thrown under the bus against Terry Hollander is this Barack Obama throwing St. Charles County candidates under the bus by not authorizing leaders in the St. Charles County area to spend a couple of hundred dollars for a few quality signs? It makes all St. Charles County Democrat Candidates look bad when you have your headquarters with a sign like pictured here.



Furthermore to add insult to injury I understand that the Democrat Headquarters is charging for Obama signs. (someone feel free to comment if this is incorrect). Is the Democrat Party advertising they are "out of funds" to support their candidates? One is left to wonder why such an unprofessional approach would be taken and if they win their elections would they run our Federal, State and Local offices in the same unprofessional manner?

Obama Democrats & Chicago:

I have received some e-mails asking why on a local St. Charles County political watchdog site would we be speaking about the presidential race. The presidential race affects all of us as citizens of St. Charles county. It is important we realize that policies of the past and a candidate choices will be enacted at our highest executive branch. Those policies will affect each and every one of us in St. Charles County.

When looking at the Democrat parties leadership in Illinois it is clear that they have destroyed everything they have touched. Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, Mayor Richard Daley are all leadership in Illinois and all Democrats. Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago and of course they're all blaming each other. They can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!

• The State pension fund $44 Billion in debt and the worst in country.
• Cook County (Chicago) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. (Look'em up if you want).
• Chicago school system one of the worst in country.
• In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago compared to 221(Iraqis) killed in Iraq.

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois and he's gonna 'fix' Washington politics? Someone needs to tell Obama that this is not the change we are looking for.

Pagano A Republican - REALLY?

I find it interesting that Mayor Len Pagano is supporting Jay Nixon concerning the Missouri State Governor's race. Mayor Pagano has put it in writing that he would never take a stand in a partisan race.

In a letter dated January 14th, 2008 from Len Pagano to the Editors of the St. Charles Post-Dispatch, St. Peters Journal, Mid Rivers News Magazine and the Labor Tribune stated:

"The position of the Mayor of St. Peters is a non partisan office and I believe it is essential and in the best interest of the 58,000 residents of St. Peters to maintain an effective working relationship with elected officials across party lines, locally, regionally, statewide and federally."

The letter was generated after Tom Fann released a literature piece that stated:

"Tom Fann, his wife, and his three children have been a vital part of St. Charles County for decades. Fann is right on the issues. It is a shame that families do not have health insurance, and I know that he will do a great job" - Len Pagano, Mayor of St. Peters

The question remains did Tom Fann just make it up or did he believe that Mayor Pagano was actually supporting his campaign? In an April Aldermans race the St. Charles County Democrat chairman Tommy Roberts ran against an area unknown candidate to win the Alderman seat in St. Peters. In that race Tommy Robert's material stated that he was mentored by Mayor Pagano.

I think this calls into serious question Len Pagano's Republican standing. According to the article released today:

''Hulshof campaign manager John Hancock also asserted that Pagano "never -- ever'' contacted state officials, in either the governor's office or the state Department of Economic Development, about his concerns.

Furthermore Republican John Hancock had this to say about Len being a Republican:

"It's not credible to call him a Republican"

Repulican status aside if I were a resident of St. Peters I would have to ask, what's changed? I may agree that it is Len Pagano's right to have an opinion but is it in the interest of St. Peters residence for him to express it openly and use the power of his position to express it.

What happens if the Republican Party wins in a significant number of the area elections? Will St. Peters get a fair shake considering all the law suits that the city has had to over come in the last few years? The city took away the tax free weekend due to these very lawsuits. How much more presure will now come down on the city of St. Peters economically, financially and just through plain lack of co-operation with other county and state elected officials if he endorses the wrong candidate?

Mayor Pagano knows full well that he won't have to personally pay for this mistake but "the people" will get saddled with any financial drain that occurs due to retribution that may occur from the Republican elected officals that remain in office after November 4th which may include preventing St. Peters from further economic growth.

Great Day for Republicans In St. Charles County

Democrats seem to have a problem with judgment. We see it in our presidential election with the gaffs of Obama all the way down to our local elections.

Debbie Cook for example. She is not continuing her campaign because in her words “I can’t parent the way I want to and be in Jefferson City.” I believe it is admirable that she is thinking of her family and how much time she will be away but seriously she is just now coming to that realization? It would have been more prudent to think about these things before you put your name in for election in the first place. Did she not think her personal life our with the job responsibilities of the office you are attempting to seek out until it is to late to withdraw? Like many Democrat candidates this year just one more sign of "poor judgement"

Tim Swope is just another example of poor judgment. Here is what the article below calls the "brightest hopes for picking up a House seat" and didn't think that because he had been out of work since January and having to pay his bills might be a problem while running for office? I call this poor judgment to start a campaign with no way of sustaining your expenses.

Tim Swope and Debbie Cook have done more to hurt the Democrat Party than any republican candidate ever could. But then again, judgement and comittment have always been a problem with the Democrat Party in St. Charles County.

See full article below for context.

Democrats in bind over reluctant House candidates
By Mark Schlinkmann
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Tim Swope and Debbie Cook, the Democratic nominees for two Missouri House seats in St. Charles County, no longer want to run in the Nov. 4 election.
But it’s too late to easily withdraw their names from the ballot and both say they can’t afford the cost involved if they were able to get a court order to do so. That could be $6,000 to $10,000 or more, says the County Election Authority.

So unless the Democratic Party or some other benefactor agrees to pay for reprinting and reprogramming the ballots, the two remain on the ballot - putting the party in an odd situation.

Swope and Cook each say they will do no campaigning. Swope goes as far as saying he’ll turn down the seat if he’s elected because of the time commitment he’d made to his new employer, a computer software company. “I made a pledge to this company I would not go to Jeff City,” he said. Cook says she probably wouldn't serve if elected.

Swope, who is widely known from his former stints as county sheriff and St. Charles police chief, was among the county Democrats’ brightest hopes for picking up a House seat.

He is the nominee to fill St. Charles' vacant 18th District seat formerly held by Republican Tom Dempsey, who gave it up last fall after being elected to the state Senate in a special election. The GOP nominee is Anne Zerr, a former aide to ex-County Executive Joe Ortwerth.

Swope said he got his new job after the standard Aug. 19 withdrawal deadline. He said he had been out of work since January and “I had to pay my bills.”

Cook is the Democratic nominee against Republican incumbent Cynthia Davis in O’Fallon’s 19th District.

Cook, who has five children and works as an X-ray technician, said she decided to drop her candidacy after realizing “I can’t parent the way I want to and be in Jefferson City.” She got into the House race after running unsuccessfully last April for the O'Fallon City Council.

She said she intended to withdraw before the deadline but didn’t get the paperwork in to the secretary of state’s office on time because that office initially sent her the
wrong form.

Cook then filed for a court order but withdrew it after finding out what the bill could be for preparing new ballots.

The secretary of state’s office says local Democratic county committee members from the two districts could pick new candidates if Swope and Cook did get their
names removed by court order.

The county Democratic chairman, St. Peters Alderman Tommy Roberts, said Monday he wanted to talk with the two now-reluctant candidates before commenting in detail.

County Elections Director Rich Chrismer said the cost of preparing new ballots depends on at what point the printing process is stopped in its tracks. The later in the process the court order is issued, he said, the more expensive it becomes. He said the deadline for getting on the ballot via court order is Sept. 23.

What Obama Really Thinks About White People

Midwesterners Cling To Religion and Guns

Here it straight from Barack Obama:

Easy Comparison Chart For President

It takes less than 5 minutes to review this list of issues and come to a sane conclusion to vote for John McCain.

This charts different points of the 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES from examinationof their TALKING POINTS.

• Favors new drilling offshore US shores McCain Yes Obama No
• Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it McCain Yes OBAMA No
• Served in the US Armed Forces McCain Yes Obama No
• Amount of time served in the US Senate McCain 22 YEARS Obama 173 DAYS
• Will institute a socialized national health care plan McCain No Obama Yes
• Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy McCain No Obama Yes
• Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately McCain No Obama Yes
• Supports gun ownership rights McCain Yes Obama No
• Supports homosexual marriage McCain No Obama Yes
• Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase McCain No Obama Yes
• Voted *against* making English the official language McCain No Obama Yes
• Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals McCain No Obama Yes

If you are not in favor of a socialist dictatorship then vote for John McCain.

Protect Your 2nd Amendment Rights - Vote McCain

As we pass into the home stretch of this year's critically important election, two things are certain: First, the winner of the election will have a profound effect on your Second Amendment rights, and second, you need to make your voice heard and protect your freedom by making sure that you and your friends, family members, neighbors, and coworkers VOTE!

It's time for gun owners to take a closer look at just where Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment. To that end, NRA-PVF has designed a new, comprehensive, and very informative Web site - GunBanObama.com - to serve as a resource for the facts on Barack Obama's Second Amendment stance.

Barack Obama has a 10 point plan of "change" that will dismantle our right to bear arms. See Graphic.

Obama's Radical Followers

Everyone needs to know it's not just socialism it's is radical Marxism. We all have heard the slanted story of Troopergate. Yes, Troopergate. Have you ever read this statement about Troopergate? In Troopergate the guy that Palin apparently fired said, quote: "Let's be clear. Governor Palin has done nothing wrong and is an open book in this process." That's the guy she fired. Quote: "The governor was rightly expressing concern about Trooper Wooten.", okay?

After he was fired, that's what he said. In the last few days since Sarah Palin has been announced as the Vice Presidential Candidate let us discuss what we know about her in the media bias world she has to deal with. You know about her daughter. You know about the hockey player that impregnated her. You know all of this stuff. Where was the press concerning the guy that Palin wanted fired? Where is the press on this even today?

Talk about a vetting process by the press, the reason why we don't care about your vetting process by the press is because you don't take your job seriously. This from Investors Business Daily: Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992. You go to the website, Public Allies, and you are going to see that it's just a community organizer. That's all this is, just community organization. Barack Obama, founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992. His wife became the executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Got it? Obama plans to use the nonprofit group which he features on his campaign website as the model for a national service corps. We've heard about this national service corps, haven't we? Universal voluntary public service. When Michelle Obama said he'll never allow you to sit idly by again, he will never allow you to be unengaged. What does that mean?

Universal voluntary public service, a national service corps. Quoting from the story: Our alumni from Public Allies are more than twice as likely as 18 34 year olds to engage in protest activities. Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for "Justice and equality" in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington. Cincinnati recruit Amy Vinson said, "I get to practice being an activist and I get paid for it."

The Obamas' plan is to herd American youth into government funded reeducation camps where they will be brainwashed into thinking that America is a racist, oppressive place in need of social change. The pitch Public Allies makes on its website doesn't seem that radical. It promises to place young adults 18 30 in a paid one year community leadership position with nonprofit or government agencies. They will also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats. In exchange they will get a monthly stipend of $1800 pus healthcare and child care.
They also get a public service education award of almost $5,000 that can be used to pay off student loans and fund future education. Got it? Public Allies promotes diversity and inclusion.

That's what you'll find on their website. More than 70% of its recruits are people of color. When they are not protesting, they are staffing AIDS clinics, handing out condoms, bailing criminals out of jail and helping illegal aliens and the homeless obtain food stamps and other welfare. Haven't gotten to the good stuff yet. Public Allies brags that they are more than 80% of their graduates have continued working in nonprofit or government jobs. So the people who are trained by these people, 80% of them go to nonprofit or government jobs. It's training, "the next generation of nonprofit leaders, future social entrepreneurs".

Does any of this sound familiar? Is any of this starting to connect with the speech that you have heard Obama and Michelle give all the time? "Don't go into corporate America, work for the community, be social workers, shun the money culture." Individual salvation depends on collective salvation. If you commit to serving your community, we will make sure you can afford a college education, said Barack Obama. How was he going to do that? Well, here it is. Public Allies.

They do some good stuff, don't get me wrong. Not everybody in Public Allies is a radical. Don't get me wrong. But not all of the recruits appreciate the PC indoctrination. A graduate of the 2005 Los Angeles class, Nelly Nieblas, says it's just a lot of talk about race. It's a lot of talk about sexism, a lot of talk about homophobia, a lot of talk about isms and phobias. One of those isms is heterosexism, which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago remember, founding member, Barack Obama. Executive director, Michelle Obama, in Chicago. That's their chapter. A Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes heterosexism as a negative byproduct "of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male dominated privilege".

By the way, your tax dollars now fund about half of Public Allies' expenses, through Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it to a national program some say will cost $500 billion. Obama said, "We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as the military. Public Allies, Chicago chapter." Founding, founding member, Barack Obama. Executive director, Michelle Obama.

Listen to the words in their speeches. It is all code language. It is all the language of the 1960s radicals. They have their they have their tentacles into an organization that does good things but also teaches that heterosexism is a byproduct of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male dominated privilege. Heterosexism! Let me tell you something, gang. When you can name the children of a woman that lives in Alaska that you just met seven days ago, you know half of the story. You know all the bad things about this woman and some of the bad things that aren't even true about this woman, but you've never heard of Public Allies. You've got to ask yourself why. When you see somebody take down Sarah Palin, you've got to ask yourself why. When you see the media, who has always been in bed with John McCain, now say John McCain, no, you've got to ask yourself why.

It is the liberal elite? It is the march of socialism that has been happening in our universities forever. It is the Marxism that has been festering in our large cities and nobody is willing to call it by name. It is the reason why Barack Obama, who should have a 20 point lead. This is the best thing about America. America, you don't know this stuff. Why doesn't Barack Obama have a 20 point lead with everything he has? Because something in your gut says something's not right. He can't close the deal because enough people say something's not right here. This is it, and it's been kept from you, somewhat. Every piece of this puzzle has been outed. Every piece of this puzzle is out there. But nobody will put the pieces together. All they want to say is look at the nice Greek columns, look at the nice stage show. Isn't it cool that he's African American?

I wonder when we'll get the journalists who have such a responsibility to the fourth branch of government to actually fulfill their civic duty.