Bye-bye to Bauer

And good riddance (St. Louis Post-Dispatch link defunct).

In the end, the donkey did not have enough kick to get Tom Bauer his seat back.

The former St. Louis alderman lost a special election Tuesday in the 24th Ward, marking the apparent end of a colorful political drama in the city’s burgeoning Dogtown section.

Bill Waterhouse, a rookie politician backed by the city’s Democratic establishment, handily beat Bauer and Republican Sharon Barnes to fill out the remaining 16 months of Bauer’s term.

May Bauer ride his symbolic donkey into the sunset, never to trouble us again. Except that I fully expect him to try again for his old seat in sixteen months. I can hear him scheming even now. “They haven’t seen the last of ol’ Tom, no sir…”

A side note: I have never received so many robocalls for any political race as I have for this little-noted (ouside of the 24th ward) special election. It got to the point that M and I would just let the phone ring, fully expecting that the call was just a taped message for Bauer, Waterhouse, Barnes, or one of their proxies. It’s evident that Missouri’s Do Not Call statute doesn’t cover campaign calls. Freedom of political speech, blah, blah, blah.

It’s still annoying.

Another note: Jake Wagman, the P-D reporter whose story is quoted above, must think Dogtown is the Next Big Thing. He refers to the neighborhood as “burgeoning,” and in the past has called Dogtown “increasingly hip.” He must hang out in a different part of the neighborhood than I do. Unless he spends a lot of time at Felix’s. That might explain it…

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