Timothy Birdnow

St. Louis County is run by Democrats. You must understand that to understand the rest of this story. The Democrats took the County over after decades of Republican control about 15 years ago, and they have systematically run it into the ground.

After the last County Executive was sent to prison for "pay to play" schemes, the current Executive was elected. His name is Sam Page and he's a medical doctor, so he has naturally thrilled at the authority he was able to usurp during the Pandemic.

St. Louis County had removed the masking mandate a few weeks ago, and now with the so-called "Delta Variant" aka the India strain, Page is back telling us all what we are going to do whether we like it or not.

The public was outraged when he unilaterally reimposed the masking mandate.

And they told their representatives on the county council about it, who voted 5 to 2 to rescind the mandate.

Page simply flipped the bird, saying the council has no authority and HE does!

Worse, the State of Missouri passed a law against this very thing, and now Page and his black shadow Tishuara Jones (mayor of the City of St. Louis) say they will simply ignore state law and the county council and enforce it anyway.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt has filed suit to stop the power-mad County Executive and the lickspittle Jones.

The county council needs to draft articles of impeachment against Page.

Jones goes along with whatever Page wants. St. Louis has an odd arrangement; it is a "free city" and as such has been it's own county since the 1870's, when the prosperous urban area tired of supporting the rather poor rural county. But now white flight and suburbanization along with 73 years of total power by the Democrats  has left the City half empty and bankrupted. The powers that be want an anschluss with St. Louis County and Jones is playing the good subordinate to Page in order to make that happen. St. Louis County voters have rejected this motion in the past as have City voters.

The neighboring counties - Jefferson, Franklin, and St. Charles - did not impose the draconian measures that Page implemented. And none of these counties did any worse than either the City or St. Louis County. In fact they did better.

St. Charles county has a population density as high as St. Louis County, I might add, yet came through better without a mask mandate or other restrictions.

St. Charles county is run by Republicans.

But Sam Page refuses to accept the will of his own council, the will of the State of Missouri, and the will of the People. He is a classic tyrant.

There was a time he would have been tarred and feathered and run out of town. Or at least would have been challenged to a fistfight. But not now, and Page hides behind his control of the police to enforce his evil will.

There need to be consequences for these tinhorn dictators. Jail time.

I don't know how America ever allowed this to happen. But it's time we put a stop to it.

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