- "The substance of Bond's conversation with Pagano was: THREAT--according to a well connected birdie I know. St. Peters is waiting impatiently on FEMA funds needed to complete the Highway 370 project there. Bond said he could make those FEMA funds go away permanently. He also mentioned that there were still a few days left before the filing deadline in the mayoral race and that if Pagano didn't disavow endorsing Fann, the Republicans would find themselves a primary challenger.
OK, that last (part) was not a very credible threat, but it made Pagano understand that Bond was seriously displeased. And naturally, he did what the senator told him to do; he wrote the local papers to complain that those words on the flier were not an accurate quotation of anything he had said and that he was not endorsing either candidate."
Why would Bond be threatening Pagano? According to Show Me Progress "The GOP is worried about the Fann race in house district 16, St. Charles County. Or at least Kit Bond is, since Fann's Republican opponent, Mark Parkinson, is Bond's protegee, and Bond figures the Republican mayor of St. Peters has been ... too kind ... to Tom Fann."
Is the Bond story true? Who knows, but maybe Bond heard the story that Pagano is playing nice with the Democrats in return for Democratic State Auditor Susan Montee's gift to St. Peters. Another reason why we need an alternative to the two self serving parties that run this country.
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