Michael B. Thomas / Special to St. Louis Public Radio
Originally published on April 7, 2021 3:20 pm
Tishaura Jones’ election as St. Louis Mayor
on Tuesday night was the epitome of perseverance.
After falling painfully short in her 2017 bid for mayor, Jones roared back in 2020 with a resounding reelection as treasurer. And with her more than 2,000- vote win Tuesday,
she will be the first Black woman to become mayor.
Jones will face a raft of big challenges and a host of unprecedented opportunities.
One of the reasons Jones was seen as the frontrunner in Tuesday’s election revolved around geography. She had historic appeal in largely Black wards around the city and a number of high-voting white or integrated wards. The big question was whether that coalition would hold if Alderwoman Cara Spencer got big margins in southwestern and central corridor wards.
Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 6:10 AM click to enlarge DANNY WICENTOWSKI St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones finished Tuesday s primary with 57% of approvals, a commanding win. Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer will face each other in the April 6 general election to be St. Louis s next mayor, but Tuesday s unprecedented primary was bigger than just the candidates individual victories. The election was also an experiment: As the
RFT detailed earlier this week, St. Louis s rollout of approval voting has been shadowed by measures of both anticipation and concern, and no one could predict how voters would behave when given the option to approve of as many candidates as they wished. One researcher described
Originally published on February 2, 2021 6:08 pm
St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones doesn’t want to abolish the police. But she might want to cut the department’s overtime budget.
The treasurer is one of four candidates running for mayor in the city’s March 2 primary. The darling of local progressives, she nearly bested then-Alderwoman Lyda Krewson in the 2017 mayoral primary, coming just 879 votes short.
But asked on Tuesday’s
St. Louis on the Air if she believes in defunding the police, Jones said she prefers the phrase “reenvision or reimagine public safety,” saying that includes not just police but the fire department.
Sumner High School 140th Anniversary Gala
Kenneth M. Lee, Sumner Alumni Association president, addresses the crowd at the Sumner High School 140th Anniversary Gala at Chase Park Plaza on Saturday, June 20, 2015. Photo by Jon Gitchoff Jon Gitchoff
Sumner High School 140th Anniversary Gala
Jacqueline Vanderford, Club 140 chairperson, addresses the crowd at the Sumner High School 140th Anniversary Gala at Chase Park Plaza on Saturday, June 20, 2015. Photo by Jon Gitchoff Jon Gitchoff
Sumner High School 140th Anniversary Gala
From the left, John Ditto, Sumner High School graduate from 1957, chats with Thomas Mines, Sumner High School graduate from 1964, during the Sumner High School 140th Anniversary Gala at Chase Park Plaza on Saturday, June 20, 2015. Photo by Jon Gitchoff