But Chappelle-Nadal’s rhetoric turned decidedly ugly — and some say racist — during an interview on radio station WGNU.
On the air, Chappelle-Nadal called St. Louis leaders in favor of local control “house slaves” following the lead of their “plantation owner,” Missouri billionaire Rex Sinquefield, who is helping to organize political support in Jefferson City.
Those comments on WGNU now have two prominent local African American political leaders speaking out against her.
State Representative Jamillah Nasheed – who sponsored the local control legislation in the Missouri House – did not mince words. “You know, I think that she is mentally unstable,” Nasheed said. “It was just really unfortunate that she had to take it to that level of racism. She needs to seek some help.”
And from St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, a statement saying that Chappelle-Nadal should quit.
Police control was taken away in 1861, by pro-slavery lawmakers in Jefferson City, who wanted to make sure that Union supporters in St. Louis would not be able to make trouble for Confederate sympathizers or turn the weapons in the city’s armory against them.
And bad trial lawyers for Maria Chappelle Nadal please send all bogus threats of lawsuits to archpundit@gmail.com
Other than the overt racial bullshit she brought into this, there is a pretty big logical inconsistency. Rex Sinquefeld only started supporting local control recently while local control has been supported by most Saint Louis politicians for years. Rex only returned to Missouri somewhere between 2003 and 2005.
For example from February 27, 2000 in the Post-Dispatch:
The oft-debated issue was raised anew last month in the Missouri Legislature. There, state Sen. William Lacy Clay Jr., D-St. Louis, introduced a bill that would shift to the mayor from the governor the power to name four of five board members. The mayor would continue as the fifth.
“Having the governor do this is ludicrous,” Mayor Clarence Harmon said recently in support of the change. “On routine issues, I’ve got to go over there and convince four other people.”
I’m no fan of Rex Sinquefeld though I don’t see him as Satan either. However, blaming a push for local control on him is sheer lunacy unless he has developed time travel ability. And that is all the anti-local control forces have–lunacy in Maria, in Weigert, and in the Teabaggers who are too stupid to understand how they are being used by racist nutjobs like Weigert.