Heading into yesterday's Scrooge of the Year Party hosted by St. Louis Jobs with Justice, it looked like Rex Sinquefield would run away with the title after his successful effort to threaten St. Louis and Kansas City governments with the elimination of the earnings tax. Sinquefield had over 400 votes, and only one of the other candidates had even reached 100 votes. However, Unite Here stepped up to the plate for their candidate, Pinnacle Entertainment, who muttered a giant "Bah Humbug!" while stomping on the rights of workers who had voted to unionize earlier in the year.
The St. Louis Tea Party Leadership (hmmm, wonder who might have nominated them) finished a distant third.
Results from the JwJ website:
Pinnacle Entertainment beat out Rex with a whopping 2544 votes!It was a great event with lots of local celebrity organizers and activists in attendance. If you didn't make it this year, you should definitely put it on your calendar for next year and remember to VOTE!
Rex Sinquefield was the first loser with a solid 1910 votes!
St. Louis Tea Party Leadership finished in 3rd place with 505 votes!
Senator Roy Blunt elected 4th place with 370 votes!
Peabody Coal finished 5th with 279 votes
Write-in Candidate Riverview Garden’s District Superintendent Clive Coleman finished in 5th place with a respectable 143 votes.
Check out some pictures of the party below the jump:
Some ne'er-do-well hippies sang carols to try to woo people to vote for their candidate, Peabody Coal:
Mark Estes MC'd the event:
Doug Clemons and Deb Lavender casting their votes:
A group of revelers:
CWA 6300:
Rockstar Jessica Pace casting a vote. Sadly, Jessica is leaving St. Louis for the People's Republic of Los Angeles.
Unite Here celebrating their victory. They earned it:
They are the champions:
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