Tishaura Jones

The St. Louis Democrat recently left the General Assembly after becoming the first person to serve two consecutive four year terms in the 5th District since J.B. "Jet" Banks.

Three candidates who planned to run for mayor of St. Louis failed to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot in March.

The City Treasurer, Tishaura Jones, filed to run for mayor on Nov. 30. But the Board of Elections Democratic director says she fell short by a few hundred signatures that couldn't be verified. Jones has until Jan. 4 to fix the problem.

Candidates for mayor, comptroller and odd-numbered wards at the Board of Aldermen could begin filing the required paperwork to run for office Monday. The 2021 election will be the first under new rules established by the passage of Proposition D on Nov. 3. The posts are now nonpartisan, and voters can select as many candidates as they want in the March primary, a process known as approval voting. The top two advance to the April general election.

Tishaura Jones was one of seven people who ran in the Democratic primary in 2017 to replace Mayor Francis Slay, who elected not to run for a fifth term. She came in a close second to current Mayor Lyda Krewson, losing by fewer than 900 votes.

The first Black woman to serve as prosecuting attorney in St. Louis is a step closer to winning another term in office. Kim Gardner defeated Mary Pat Carl, a former assistant prosecutor, 61% to 39% in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

When St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones and her challenger in the Democratic primary, Alderman Jeffrey Boyd, ran for the first time in 2012, both pledged to revamp the office.Jones specifically said she would shift the responsibility for parking elsewhere and focus on banking and investment.Eight years later, the treasurer’s office is still in charge of parking, which bothers Boyd.

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