Everett Ballard and his North County Citizens Group is rather useless. The Citiznes group is nothing but an extention of North County Labor Club. Their endorsements are the same across the board, and the citiznes group is Dick KElett’s attempt to influence politics in hte layman arena, outside of labor influence.

Walton and Unity Pac are divisive, subversive, and simply bad people. Elbert Walton has been stirring up trouble, playing the race card in St Louis politics for 30 years now. The area needs to be rid of his presence nad influence. Their candidates (Terry and Roger Wilson) got thoroughly trounced. It’s no surprise that the only one who did well was selfish Elbert’s daughter.

Don Calloway is an interesting dude. Very smart, very affable, but kind of cocky. But. kudos to him for bein independent of wither of these groups and winning on his own terms. It will be intersting to watch him in Jeff City, I think that he may be around for some time. I don’t think he’s 30 yet.

And Juanita Head Walton is Rochelle Gray’s stepmother, not her mother.

Unity PAC endorses both members of its organization and non-members. Member candidates that won election on August 5th included State Rep Candidates, Steve Webb, 74th District and Rochelle Walton Gray, 81st District, and Democratic Central Committee Township Candidates Tony Weaver, Spanish Lake, Juanita Head Walton, Ferguson, Yolonda Fountain Henderson, Norwood, and James Cotter, University. That’s six winners not four. Furthermore, they had 14 member candidates running in total, so they won six and lost eight not eleven.

Steve Webb’s defeat of an incumbent state legislator, Tony George, the only incumbent state legislator to lose in the whole state of Missouri, was and is the major story of the day.

Unity PAC did not endorse in the Chase vs. Pace election so that should not have been included in the story.

Further, as one of their detractors noted, the North County Citizens Group is but a pawn and puppet of the North County Labor Club, the real dog in the fight. Labor spent on average over $25,000 and as much as $40,000 on each of their legislative candidates and some $5,000 to $10,000 on their democratic central committee candidates. Unity PAC spent only about $10,000 in the whole election or less than $1,000 per candidate. Their two successful state legislative candidates spent about $5,000 each on their campaigns, both defeating candidates who spent over $30,000 each. Gray got over 65% of the vote in her victory.

If Unity PAC was losing elections in which it outspent it opponents, it would have something of which it should be concerned. But when you are winning elections, despite being outspent and outmanned by your opponents, you can stand tall knowing that time is on your side.

If you look at Unity PAC’s website, unitypac.com, you will note that Unity PAC has now elected over 38 candidates to state and local offices in St. Louis County during the twelve year period that Elbert Walton has been active in county politics. Most of all, each election brings at least one victory.

Unity PAC’S goal is to increase the number of black elected officials in St. Louis County. Thus even Gwen Reed’s victory as Spanish Lake Township Democratic Committeewoman is deemed a winner to Unity PAC.

My hat goes off to Unity PAC and to its founder and Chairman, Elbert Walton — a brilliant black political strategist who has been in the struggle since his days as a black student activist at Washington University in the late 1960’s.

There is not a single other black politician nor a single other black political group in the St. Louis area that works with unity to bring about black political progress.

Freedom, Inc. of Kansas City and Unity PAC of St. Louis, Inc. are the premier black political organizations in the State of Missouri. As they said in the 60’s, RIGHT ON to Unity and Freedom!

Your comments are quite telling, Mr. Miller.

Now, can you politely explain to me what “black political progress” means, and why it can’t just be “progress” in general?

One of these days, the black groups (MoKan, etc.) are going to have their fill with the labor unions’ bully tactics, not to mention how the unions have kept blacks out of their ranks to the point of actually shutting down minority-owned businesses who competed with union shops.

Progress without the consideration of race is the ideal that Martin Luther King and Barack Obama are striving for. However, despite his interracial parentage, multicultural background and effort to rise above his racial identity, Barack Obama is constantly faced with the issue of his race. We are not beyond race at this point in time. Race has been in the past, is now currently and shall continue to be in the future a decisive force in electoral politics and political decision making. We measure progress in the terms of black versus white because black people have been denied equal opportunities in these United States of America. If black people held public offices in predominantly white areas equivalent to the number of white elected officials holding office in predominantly black areas, there would be no need to measure progress based on race. That is not the case. Furthermore, these white public officials who continue to rule predominantly black political subdivisions do not practice equal employment opportunities even in these predominantly black communities. How do you explain the city of Jennings having no blacks holding director level positions, including the police and fire chiefs being white? How do you explain an 85% black fire district, Metro North, not having a single black firefighter above the rank of private and only having 5% of its workforce as black?

We shall continue to measure progress in terms of race so long as whites, and particularly white labor leaders, continue to dominate everything in disproportionate numbers even in predominantly black communities.

Well said Jim (the Republican)!

Though there are serious issues (with the UNITY Chairman, Elbert Walton), I do revel in the fact that finally, many of these black groups see that they have been been totally taken advantage of by the Labor groups and much of the Democratic establishment in North County. But, they also need to realize the Dem Party as a whole has left them, and taken them for granted.

Its a telling tale that the struggle for control of the Democratic Party in North County is completely a racial issue. The North County Labor Club (and its white leaders: Dick Kellett, Tom Sansavere, Jim Murphy, Butch Hepburn et al.) is concerned about keeping whitey in control of politics in North County by recruiting sell-outs like Sylvester Taylor, Sharon Pace, & Brenda Boyd to run for office (and keep them on the leash through heft financial donations from labor).

Sansavere himself ran a campaign for committeeman against Walton’s son (spending over $20,000!), by scaring white residents into believing that they would be kept out of the Democratic club if the blacks took over.

Its a telling sign to see that an area which is over 50% black, and about 60% Democratic could have a Democratic Club that is 95% white. And if you saw his campaign people, poll workers, and parade walkers; it was laughable, there was more diversity at a Minuteman Rally.

New plan for North County Democrats… Apartheid (oh, btw, collaborators welcome!) Well, its not really that new at all for the Democrats.

We, at North County Labor, are very strong Union members who SHOW UP every day for work and take pride in the neighborhoods where we live and grew up so we cna have a say so in how they are run. For what? So people black or white who consider not to be “sell-outs” can steal (Normandy fire) and vote most of the time with republicans in Jeff City. Think they have your people in mind when they draft legislation? Think again. People like you are what is causing decent people to flock elsewhere and leave the homes that they have built for years. Well I am another one that is fleeing AGAIN thanks to you. See you in twenty years when you screw this up so much that you can not stand it and then we will be reading blogs about how racist St Charles county is

Lovin’ it!!! So “northcountydem” justifies keeping minorities out(the ones that don’t collaborate with him), because he/she grew up in North County so he must have some inherited right to control the area over those people now moving in. Oh, and thier policies help keep “decent” people from fleeing… Are you talking “white flight”? Are you equating white people with “decent” people.

Please African-American Democrats… are you listening to this??? Return to your roots, COME BACK to the GOP!!! If you know your history, you left the GOP in the early 1900’s over the same crap the Dems do to you now!!!

Rochelle Walton Gray did not win the election, because of Elbert Walton. Gray won her election due to the hard work she put into her campaign. Gray’s opponent tried to win w/dirty tactics (lieing, stealing, and making false allegations against Gray). Gray won on her own merrit. Steve Webb was a success as well w/a win over the incumbent. Congrats to all the winners of UnityPAC. Stay united!

Go on and go back to your “roots” with the Republicans….see if they will welcome you and carry your flag…look at the the unitypac web site and listen to people like purple leader and see who is a race baiter. I actually grew up in north St Louis in the city limits in Baden and Walnut Park….just take a gander at what happened in those neighborhoods…..the county was the promised land to all of us being “forced” out of those great areas and look what happened…you can have it…lets see how long it takes…the end…moving on

I am so sick of hearing that broken record northcountydem. Leave if you wanna. No one is stopping you, and no one cares. By the way, us people are already in St Charles. You might need to flee elsewhere.