Mayor’s former receptionist donated to his primary rival
White-Clatto in the mayor's office
After a groundbreaking career on the airwaves, former KSDK personality Dianne White-Clatto took a position in 2002 as Mayor Francis Slay’s receptionist.
Looks like she didn’t care for her boss too much.
Two month after leaving the mayor’s office, White-Clatto gave a boost to one of Slay’s political rivals.
Campaign records filed last week show that in February White-Clatto gave $100 to former Alderman Irene J. Smith, who Slay defeated in the Democratic primary.
White-Clatto, believed to be the first African-American in the U.S. to report the weather on television, retired from City Hall in December after about six years at the front desk of Room 200.
To those familiar with office politics, it’s probably no surprise there they might have been some tension between Slay and White-Clatto.
White-Clatto is the mother of Chip Clatto, an outspoken adminstrator at Gateway High who has been critical of some of the efforts to reform the struggilng school district.
Either way, if White-Clatto or any one else wants to donate to Smith, they still can. Smith has turned her campaign committee into a debt service fund to pay off the remaining obligations from her mayoral bid.
So she wasted a hundred bucks. That is no proof she didn’t “care for her former boss.”
Assume a little there?
Is this article news or commentary?
The lines are so blurry, I can’t tell the difference.
AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A JOURNALIST?
Smith went into debt for her lackluster campaign?!
I hope sour grapes make good whine, bloggers.
White-Clatto has been outed by Smith’s inept campaign. There is no requirement to disclose the identity of contributors who give $100 or less. People who want to help but who also want to maintain their privacy frequently give $100. Unfortunately for those expecting privacy, many campaigns have treasurers who don’t know the difference between “$100 or less” and “under $100.” It’s a common amateur mistake, by an amateur campaign.
Some campaigns consciously disclose every contribution, no matter how small. John McCain did that. I think it’s grandstanding. It keeps privacy-seeking citizens from participating.
I don’t think Smith’s campaign was grandstanding. I think it was just dumb.
Watch this lovely lady for years on TV.
She is way to classy to abuse a trash can
like another black woman in St. Louis, that will go un-named .
Just in case you had forgotten about tne incedent.
Don’t piss off Nixon too much, Slay, or you might find yourself in the clinker regardless of your rich friends.
A parting shot at your employer is not uncommon and in this case certainly not news. Diane White-Clatto was a classy fixture within the doors of the mayor’s office.