Alderman to introduce resolution opposing Limbaugh’s Rams bid
French
ST. LOUIS — Had enough yet about the talk of Rush Limbaugh’s interest in the Rams?
At City Hall, the debate might be just getting started.
Alderman Antonio French says he will introduce a resolution at Friday’s board meeting calling on the team to reject any bid with Limbaugh as an investor.
The resolution calls Limbaugh a “racially divisive figure” whose ownership of the Rams could damage race relations in the city.
From the resolution:
WHEREAS, Rush Limbaugh has made disparaging remarks about NFL players in the past, saying: “Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”; and
WHEREAS, the City of St. Louis has in the past been known for its racial divisions, which members of this Board of Aldermen have worked to help move past and to bring our city together across racial and geographic divisions; and
WHEREAS, it is our fear that the arrival of Rush Limbaugh into the St. Louis community in such a high-profile position as an owner of a team which represents our city to the entire world, could be damaging to the spirit of inclusion and progress that so many of us are working for in our St. Louis community
Mayor Francis Slay has tiptoed around the Limbaugh issue, saying in a brief statement that his criteria for the new owner is “someone who wanted to keep the team in St. Louis without demanding a new, publicly funded football stadium.”
French, a Democrat, was elected earlier this year to represent the 21st Ward, which includes the Penrose and O’Fallon neighborhoods. It will be interesting to see how his colleagues react to the anti-Limbaugh resolution.
This is the same board, after all, that approved renaming a street Barack Obama Boulevard before the president was even sworn-in.
At the same time, however, some aldermen have been around long enough to remember when the football Cardinals left, and may be willing to set aside politics if it meant keeping an NFL team here.
Very sad to see such vitrial hatred of those exercising thier right to puruse business aspirations.
What would a proper Rams owner be? Does it have to be someone who has good judgement like an older hispanic woman, or should we demand a black for proper affirmitive action.
This is an unbelievable waste of time. There are plenty of other things wrong in the City of St. Louis, than to worry about who owns the Lambs. Let’s start with the schools.
What would those alderidiots do without resolutions? Take a hot-button issue (local or national,) run to the clerk’s office and have him draft a resolution and voila! – the media come knocking on your door. Note to French: You’re not up for reelection. Save your energy.
What waste of time. I hope he buys it and moves it. Why don’t the Aldermen do something productive like right sizing the Board of Aldermen? The City is broke and they are paying people to worry about something like this.
Antonio French is a headline grabber. He knows how to get his name in the media for doing something that accomplishes nothing. It would be AMAZING if he spent half the time on helping his constituents rather than chasing headlines.
I’m against Rush owning the Rams, but this resolution is a sham for publicity on his part.
As of the end of August, Mr. French’s ward had 3 murders, 9 rapes, 88 armed robberies, and 132 armed assaults. Seems like he would have something more important to worry about than which ultra rich people purchase the Rams.
Oh what does a PILL POPPING JUNKIE/hyprocrite WANT WITH THE RAMS? He makes his money by dogging other Americans, what a freaking patriot. Has everyone forgot he got caught with 2500 hundred Oxycontin, yes that’s right and anyone else would of went to jail forever. Not that fat PIG!
Another liberal brain-donor that likely will be the first to cry if the Rams leave town… never being able to comprehend the hand that he played in it.
People! People! People!
Rush is part, and only a part, of the group that will keep the team in St Louis. Love him or hate him… without his group’s bid the Rams leave.
Without Rush your PSLs are worth nothing.
Without Rush we have sitting an empty stadium.
The league wants the team back in LA the 2nd largest TV market. If you let them they will use you…hating Limbaugh… as the excuse they need to move the team back to LA.
The NFL doesn’t want to go back to LA people. They have had an expansion team and didn’t relocate the team in LA for a reason. That city lost 2 teams, not just one. So don’t try to scare people into thinking that is what the NFL wants because they have had their chance and didn’t do it. Plus the commissioner said they want to be in St. Louis.
Rush is not the only option to buy the team, lets get that out of the way. There is another group with STL ties, however it is a group that isn’t trying to get headlines. The only reason this made headlines was because of Checketts and the Blowhard.
Look, Rush has made a leaving off being controversial. He has become a polarizing figure on purpose. Unfortunately this does come back on people sometimes. This happens to be one of those times.
I propose the following replacement resolution:
WHEREAS, Alderman Antonio French is following blindly in the foot steps of fellow traveler race baiters Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton.
WHEREAS, the City of St. Louis has in the past been known to make stupid lopsided deals to gain an NFL football team and funding stadium projects that its residents don’t want to pay for.
WHEREAS, it is our fear that the arrival of Rush Limbaugh, a controversial commentator and native son of Missouri is likely to preserve our investment in a team in the City of St. Louis keeping those tax dollars here, propping up an already damaged city economy managed by incompetent government.