Remarks by Sharon Tyus
47 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I'll put it at the top so won't get testing OK. Good morning. I have lots of honored guests. First of all, I want to thank all the people who came out to the hearing we had yesterday at Health and Human Committee. We had lots of people, and then I had lots of people who called and said they couldn't get on to the call. And they're really excited that we were able to have a really good meeting about vacant homes. about grass cutting in the city of St. Louis and the whole procedure that's been broken for a very long time. And not only grass cutting, the whole job of what Forestry does is…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yes, I request that we send appointments to the proper committee. I think it is probably HUD's, but I'm not sure. Yes. Thank you.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“The alderman from the 9th yields a question from the alderwoman from the 12th.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Thank you. So I haven't had really a chance to read over everything that was in your bill. You know I read everything. But I want to give you some history about me not having any confidence in the people who you want to run these things. I'm the person that wrote the speedhump bill. And I wrote the speedhump bill because we had a previous speedhump bill, and they played politics with who could get speedhumps. They would give them to certain people and then not certain people. There was no reason or rhyme. They also... decided they were going to charge us $900 of our money to apply for a speed…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. So I'd like to say, first of all, the speed hump bill was not written in the 80s or the 90s. It was written in 2021 directly in response to the bureaucrats and the games they were playing. And guess how many co-sponsors I had? 22. So 23 of us out of 28 were supportive. That's a big number. In fact, our president had encouraged the mayor to veto the bill because we didn't give the mayor's permission to write legislation. I've been here before. All of you, the mayor, the comptroller previous, We have never had to, as legislators, get permission from the mayor's office or the…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“He said, yes. And I said, don't you have speed humps on your street? And he said, of course. And I said, did you not sign the petition? Yes. Why are you calling me about the 48 and 4900 block of Lee? Because when they put those giant barriers, concrete, I started cutting through and going through Lee. And I said, so now you think you should be able to weigh in on if there should be a speed hump on Lee. Should the people on Lee be able to weigh in about me taking up the speed humps? He said, no way. He said, I'm done with that. So one of the things you have to be real careful of is protecting…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“But what I'm just saying is that the whole thing of fairness, I'm just illustrating, it's not done fairly. I was done with that. But when you start with these, oh, these people will be fair, they absolutely will not. That's why we have aldermen from different communities. And so if you push these things through, and I tell you, well, this is going to hurt my community, and you say, well, you still can fund it. Well, but I already have a plan that's halfway through. So I don't know why you would want to be in the middle of that instead of saying, well, if you already have it all the way…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“So hear me when I say, put the prohibition of charging $900 in your bill. Put it in there. Because we were shocked when they just came up with this. And they'll come up with something else. They do a money grab. You guys are not knowledgeable enough to know how the program started out. Like they now ask aldermen to pay for dumpsters. That is a process that the city is supposed to do. But they will trick aldermen and say, oh, you need this. Well, I'm here when we first got war capital, and that was not it. And then when we increased our cost of what we should pay for trash, then Stephen Conway…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“You didn't ask for discussion. I was waiting for discussion. He had been recognized to close. But you didn't ask for a discussion. We did ask for a discussion. I did not hear anything about discussion. Okay. I don't remember you saying that. I'm sitting there waiting for it.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“And we did ask for a discussion. So then I will add a written note. Baton just texted me and said that when they had studies done, the only thing they came up with was to take away the street light. Once a vote has been called. There's no further discussion.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“You just mentioned a rule 42. Is that what you said? Pursuant to rule 42? That's what I heard you say.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, but 142, the Department of Personnel. And when they say who that applies to, does it say it applies to elected officials and aldermen? Because that's my question to you.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“But not to elected officials and aldermen.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“All right, but we do have a set of rules that governs us, and we have a charter. Is that correct?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, and our rules... state that our rules are pursuant to the charter, and the charter limits what we can do to employees. So even if, say, the president said all people were getting drunk on the floor, which that does apply to, there are some things that you can do, and there are some things that you can't. Even if my right to vote was taken away, that would be things you could do, things you couldn't. Even if you took my seniority on the first day we came back here after I beat you and the mayor and the treasurer, there are some things we can do. Even if The KKK, well, that doesn't apply…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“So I will be, again, you didn't ask me, did you speak to me is what I asked you. And then I will get into what you said. It's a yes or no. No, ma'am, I did not speak to you. Okay, now I want to answer you. You did call me, and you left a message wanting to know about the Homer G. Phillips issue. You never asked me what happened. I thought you said, I've read all the material, and I want to be brought up to speed about the Homer G. Phillips issue. And I have the tape. So it's again. And in mine, it's not doctored. It's not a 25 second clip because I never have in my life made a 25 second…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“I have told you. And I'm going to say it again. Ask me. Come and have a conversation with me. Put it in context. I'm not having this debate on this floor because you have not given me the right to come before a committee, which I would have. And if you ask Alderman Browning, inquire of him. He called me, and we had maybe an hour's conversation. Ask Alderman from the 11th, the 13th. What I am saying is that you're going to give me the right to come before the committee, which I will then talk to you. I've already had a media press release which talks about the context. Context is everything.…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay. I'm sorry, Alderman from the 14th.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“And I have a backup question. Are you saying that that's what I said and that's what happened?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“And not unless it's in context. And so that's what I'm saying. If you hear the context and then you ask me, now, what would I say? It's something I've used. It's an analogy that I've used all of my life because I'm military. And when the military talks about something, they talk about going in a foxhole. So now what I can give you, I'll give you a colonel, okay? And my colonel would be, Sharon, don't use that analogy anymore, okay? That's what I would give you. And why I give you that is because a lady contacted me and said that she brought back a lot of bad memories. And we had a…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“If the alderman from the ninth would yield, I'm sorry, not ninth, fifth would yield.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“So you've been a lawyer for how many years now? 28. Okay. And did you ever do criminal law at all?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“But do you believe in the right of the accused to face his accuser?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“And do you even in a civil? Because you've done a lot of civil law. But when you have civil laws, you have meetings. You didn't think anything was wrong that I wasn't at the committee meeting?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026