SMI on the Radio Tomorrow in Franklin County

State and Local Government | April 2, 2009

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

Show-Me Institute intern Phil Eckelkamp and I are going to be on the Diane Jones Show tomorrow (Friday) morning at 8:35, on KLPW AM 1220 in Franklin County. Please listen in if you can. We are going to be talking about the charter proposal that people in Franklin Co. will be voting on next Tueday. For your info, here is the testimony I gave to the charter commission last year, along with an op-ed I wrote last year about the issue.

Phil, who is from Franklin County, likes the charter. I do, too, with the huge exception of the horrible idea for nonpartisan elections at the county level. That is what we are going to be talking about, and it should be a lot of fun.

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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