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03.21.2008 11:58 am

Gibbons’ yard signs spark intriguing talk in School Board contest

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This observation comes from our crack St. Louis County reporter Paul Hampel:

Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Mike Gibbons, R-Kirkwood, has two campaign signs in his yard supporting candidates for the Kirkwood School Board. And neither one of them are for Dan Sullivan or Tom Haenni, who support Gibbons’ Senate Bill 711, which would prohibit taxing jurisdictions from reaping windfall profits from property tax reassessments.

Instead, Gibbons has signs for incumbents Scott Stream and Ruth Jayne, both of whom were on the school board when it voted unanimously in August in favor of a tax rate that led to a $3 million windfall for the school district.

Since last year, Gibbons has lambasted public officials — mostly administrators with St. Louis County government — who did not vote for rollbacks that would offset windfalls.

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Maybe those yard signs represent Mrs Gibbons’ favored candidates?

— suzyjax
2:13 pm March 21st, 2008

*This observation comes from our crack St. Louis County reporter Paul Hampel:*

What does “crack” refer to?

— Piper
2:39 pm March 21st, 2008

Sullivan & Haenni are single issue, one act candidates, nice as they may be. Stream & Jayne are longtime republican Gibbon supporters, pro quo i guess. I am surprised though, that Matt Cottler, engineer & current chair of the board & the brains behind the push to get Kirkwood High’s science center into the 21st century doesn’t rate a sign spot in Gibbons yard. The Kirkwood High science center blows away most college science classrooms I’m told. So I’m looking for some of the current Kirkwood underclassmen to be Noble Prize winners in say 2017! Thanks in advance Cottler.

— reeves
8:41 pm March 21st, 2008

Hey, so Gibbons is two faced about what Gibbons says versus what Gibbons does.

When his district voted overwhelmingly against conceal-carry he voted to override a veto, and his constituents were ignored.

When Andy Blunt and the rest of the pocket robbers of the GOP went and gave away the store to the utilities, Gibbons went along and his constiuents were ignored.

We heard “Mission Accomplished” five years ago, and we’re still in the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time in Iraq rather then Afghanistan.

Why is Gibbons any different than any ohter GOP politician? He’ not, he’ll talk any way he has to so he can win and continue giving away the store to the insurance companies, utilities, chemical companies, and drug companies.

— Tim Hogan
1:40 pm March 22nd, 2008

Grow up, Tim. You can’t blame Gibbons for the war in Iraq.

— Nick Kasoff
8:04 pm March 22nd, 2008

Well I can blame Gibbons for concealed weapons and wow what a great help (gag)that was for Missouri. Seems our ciminals do not bother to register their weapons Senator. Oh of course corportate loopholes biig help again gee it goes on but no time for Gibbons he needs to go we re ready for change.

— On the Streets of Mo Yes
3:59 am March 23rd, 2008