Corrigan, Dooley waste no time getting cash race started
Corrigan, left, and Dooley
If the first week is any indication, the race for St. Louis County executive will be an expensive one.
Since Republican lawyer Bill Corrigan announced his intention last week to run against incumbent Democrat Charlie A. Dooley in 2010, both sides have raised a combined $47,000.
As the Arch City Chronicle notes, Corrigan picked up two big donations right off the bat: $10,000 from an Overland service station and $20,000 from the C.L. Smith Co., a local container manufacturer.
Dooley, meanwhile, got $5,000 from an Omaha firm, HDR Engineering, and Ann C. Scott, whose husband Hugh was mayor of Clayton. Dooley also got $7,000 from HOK, the St. Louis-based architecture firm whose sports division designed Busch Stadium, among many other facilities.
The aggressive fundraising right out of the gate indicates that Coorigan knows he has to prove he’s a serious candidate — but that Dooley has no intention of making it easy on his new opponent to play catch-up.
This actually is very interesting. Corrigan get his donations ( by an almost 2-1 margin) from businesses actually employing people in the county. What is more interesting is that Dooley is getting his money via “pay for play”. It is no secret that HDR and HOK have significant projects pending requiring county “approvals” Let the Dooley “shakedowns’ begin. Also, in typical neglectful/deceitful Post reporting, The tie in to the Hugh Scott donation does not reference that he is a CURRENT board member of METRO. Wonder how many of our tax dollars are being funnelled into Dooley’s reelection bid
What is shown is just the recent Dooley funds raised. He already has many hundreds of thousands in the bank and as the incumbent who has had six plus successful years leading the county Mr. Corrigan has a LONG way to go. Dooley will raise many hundreds of thousands more and even with unlimited donations allowed I just don’t see Corrigan getting overwhelming amounts of cash to run against this very popular County Executive!
BNB must be on Dooley’s staff. “Very popular County Executive?” Are you on medical marijuana? Tell that to thousand of homeowners who saw their property taxes go up a whopping 15 percent and more. If there wasn’t a recession, you think Dooley would have cut them by the same amount?
> six plus successful years leading the county
> this very popular County Executive!
BNB, you get the funny post of the year award. Thanks for brightening my evening with your hilarity.
Regarding BNB’s comment about Mr. Dooley being “very popular”, I would suspect that BNB does not live anywhere near South St. Louis County. Mr. Dooley is definitely not “very popular” down here. He might be a nice guy, but his mishandling of the whole forced trash district program did not sit well and is still a major bone of contention.
It is also my opinion that the resentment over his trash enforcement caused the Metro tax last year to fail. It was an overwhelming loser in South County and a lot of folks saw this as a vote against Dooley.
The positive thing about Dooley is that he is a smoker and is against anti-smoking laws. I don’t smoke now and have not been a smoker in the past. But I just don’t like the government telling businesses whether their patrons can smoke or not. Just let the individual owner decide on his own policy. For the record, I would prefer a smoke-free environment. But I believe in letting individual owners decide what to allow and then let people decide who to patronize.
For instance, Dirt Cheap employees seem to consider the right to smoke on the job a big perk. Again, I don’t smoke and also am not a Dirt Cheap employee. Free market working, good for them.