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April Harris, Connie Johnson, James T. Morris, Juanita Head Walton, Sam Coleman, Tim Green, Tishaura Jones
First Sam Coleman, the favorite by far to replace Rodney Hubbard in the 58th House District, was disqualified from the ballot for his failure to file his quarterly finance report on time. Connie Johnson’s and April Harris’ qualifications have been challenged in the 5th Senatorial District and the 63rd House District, respectively.
And now Juanita Head Walton, who’s challenging State Senator Tim Green in the primary, has been disqualified for delinquent tax payments. Who’s next?
Not that she could have won. She hadn’t collected any money or filed a campaign finance report. Those Waltons are a piece of work, and tax delinquency is getting to be a theme in their camp.
There’s the saga of Tony Weaver, one of the slate of candidates in North St. Louis County that Elbert Walton was backing. Weaver filed to run for the Hazelwood School Board, the only nonincumbent running. Then he changed his mind and decided to challenge Mike O’Mara for the County Council seat instead. It was too late to take him off the list for the school board election, so Hazelwood–which is not in a part of town with money to burn–had to spend $47,000 on a totally unnecessary election.
Meanwhile, Weaver was disqualified from running against O’Mara because of delinquent taxes. Elbert Walton filed a lawsuit on Weaver’s behalf claiming it was unconstitutional to prevent someone from running for office simply because he can’t pay his taxes.