Hey Brewster: Here’s some advice for YOU about dissing St. Louis
- Brewster McCracken
If your name is Brewster McCracken, you might have had a hard time at recess when you were a kid. Maybe people still pick on him — and that explains why he picks on others.
McCracken, you see, wants to be the mayor of Austin, Texas. But instead of running an ad saying why he’d make a great mayor, and what he can do for that city, he’s running one ad that disses St. Louis — hard. He points out that in 1904, St. Louis hosted the World’s Fair and probably thought it was the center of the universe. According to Brewster, things have gone downhill since then.
“Entire sections of St. Louis urban core have been abandoned for decades. There’s a warning to cities all over the country from St. Louis’ story.”
Really? Entire sections? I’m sure Brewster did careful research to back up that claim.
We know St. Louis has its problems. I’d venture to say Austin has better Tex-Mex food, hotter summers, and no world championship caliber baseball. But is the best way to run for office in one city really to talk smack about another one?
I’m sure Mr. McCracken would appreciate hearing from St. Louisans about our city. His email address is info@brewstermccracken. com. Maybe he’ll enjoy getting some e-mail from the Midwest.
But meanwhile, what do you think of his campaign tactics, and what do you think of his attack on St. Louis?
He’s right.
There’s no doubt we transplants have a much different view of STL.
I was once labeled a “communist” for my views and told to go home.
The good thing is there’s more and more of us coming here. Things will change but it take will activism and not couch-potato-ism.
I guess he’s trying to prove a point that if you were doing well in the past you can fall? Don’t they have problems with Swine Flu and Mexican gang wars?
C’mon, we all know that Democrats destroyed the city of St. Louis. Isn’t it fun to hear the truth from another Democrat?
All that being said, criticizing another city is obviously the wrong way to campaign.
All yotube ratings and comments have been disabled. Gee I wonder why? Mayor McCrackhead declares this pizza - “AWESOME!!!”
The second funniest thing in this comment section is that in true Saint Louis spirit, our shortsightedness is shining through. Only Saint Louisians care about the World’s Fair; only we care about toasted ravioli. We stay here, we don’t question our leaders, we allowed for the total destruction of our city, we live in the same neighborhoods our whole lives and never cross county lines unless we are going on a trip. We fear the city yet the minute we travel, we tell everyone that we’re from Saint Louis. Not Kirkwood, not Affton, not Chesterfield. We get offended if someone from Seattle or New York doesn’t know where Saint Louis is located on a map. “We aren’t fly-over. We used to have an international air hub”. We get offended if someone doesn’t know that really, Saint Louis is much bigger than just the population of the city - we scream “Count the counties too”. And, we are the first to say that we are a smaller Chicago and much better than Kansas City. Most dangerous city? We reply with “Well, that’s just a few neighborhoods. If we counted the whole region, we wouldn’t be so bad”. But we do nothing to make it better; just find excuse after excuse to justify the current existence of the city and why we never leave or make anything better.
Hands down, the funniest thing in this whole comment section was the Humpty quote. Classic
jmiller, you showed him. I’m sure he’ll have a lot more respect for St. Louis when he reads your idiotic comments. Do you know how stupid the rest of the country thinks you are when you use “hoosier” as a pejorative word for white trash? A Hoosier is a native of Indiana. You are a white trash idiot. See how those words aren’t the same? All over the country, if you call me a “hoosier”, no one will understand your self-imposed meaning. But, if I say “jmiller8624 is a white trash idiot”, everyone will understand.
Amanda, is this nothing more than shock journalism? What did he say that wasn’t true? Perhaps you as a journalist should be the one doing some research before posting this. Perhaps take a walk through North St. Louis or look around at all the old, empty abandoned buildings. Also do you think our world championship caliber baseball owners are doing a great job of helping develop downtown?
Maybe we should spend our time and energy making the city/region a better place to live and do business instead of worrying about a TV ad running in Austin.
In the time it takes to draft an e-mail to Mr. McCracken, you could contact our state legislators to encourage them to support tax credits for the renovation of historic buildings, for example.
If we drop the negativity and start tackling our problems, we can turn this ship around.
What a silly and amateurish article! Yes there are whole sections of St. Louis that are dilapidated and vacant. How about doing some research and writing about saving the Mullanphy Emigrant Home or some other historical structure in need of saving in our fine city? I agree with who wrote as a politician he’s using the divert and distract tactic, nothing new for a politician and nothing to get your feathers ruffled over.