Steve Stenger

And this is probably not as large of a problem for St. Charles County, but a good example of this that I've seen in St. Louis County is that St. Louis County perennially gets people at the county council asking to build a homeless shelter in St. Louis County that is run by the county.

And Democratic leaders in particular, like from Charlie Dooley, Steve Stenger, Sam Page, have continually not done that because you would have to put it in either North County or you'd have to put it in South County, and both of those places, there would be a lot of political opposition there.

Um, the problem a bit, with that mentality, though, is that all the homeless population is now centralized in St. Louis City, and the St. Louis City leaders have to deal with all the, the, the issues that come with, with unhoused people.

What, what role would you want St. Charles County to play? I think they could make certainly a financial contribution to some sort of region-wide unhoused or homeless plan.

Mm-hmm.

I think it's because people don't often know what county government does unless it affects them, and they have to use some way to care about them.

So for instance, when Steve Stenger was running against Rick Stream, he was like, "Rick Stream is, like, an extreme conservative Republican, and his voting record is not, you know, conducive to St. Louis County, um, values." I think that a lot of St.

Louis County residents regret that decision, but it, it was effective.

... and excited to get onto the new chapter, and it ends up never really working out like we thought.

Remember when we were happy to flip the script from Steve Stenger to Sam Page?

Mm-hmm.

Indeed.