Clay hopes to deliver post office for dad
Forget a shaving kit or neck tie. For his father’s birthday, Congressman Lacy Clay wants to stamp dad’s name on a post office.
Last week, the U.S. House approved a measure to rename the post office on Dunklin Drive in Florissant “William ‘Bill’ Clay Post Office Building.”
Bill Clay, who turns 77 at the end of the month, held for 32 years the House seat now occupied by his son and namesake.
The legislation - which is actually being sponsored by Clay’s St. Louis colleague, Russ Carnahan - was endorsed by the house on April 9, and has been referred to the Senate.
If approved, it would be the second local post office to be recently given a new moniker to honor a local political luminary. In February, the postal station in the Delmar Loop was dedicated in the memory of Harriett Woods, the former lieutenant governor who died last year.
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Is there anyway to stop this?