Remarks by Sharon Tyus
47 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“So I'm older. So when I started practicing, it was in the 80s. And so we didn't, I was a public defender. And I did criminal law, which all my friends laughed because they said, you're going to put everybody in jail because you're a prosecutor. And I am because I grew up in a small town and I am a black and white person. So I hear where you're coming from. Except for that isn't what I found out. I used to believe the police would never lie. I believed it. If the police said it, it had to be true. My first three cases were things where I had to prove the police were not telling the truth. I…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“What is your question? Because the Alderwoman from the 1st and the 7th talked about how these things have happened. and how they happened. But they didn't happen in a vacuum. They happened because they were at those secret meetings, but the Alderman from the 11th, 12th, and 13th were not. That is a violation of our rules, okay? Before that, when I was the 24th Alderman, when they could not beat me, they tore up my whole ward and we didn't get a chance to vote for six years, which is illegal. I say all of that to say It's not anything that had been done. It was that we want to come. So to me,…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“No. Oh, okay. So, again, you told me you don't believe it if you have a video. Is that what you're saying?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“You said you didn't believe people should have the right to be before the committee if there's a video.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“And you don't have the floor, so you need to know about yielding. So let me give you another rule. When you're yielding, you answer my question. And if you don't want to, you say you're not. I want to know if you're saying you did not believe that I had a right to be before the committee. And if you're not going to answer that, I understand it because you want to make a speech, but I'm not yielding you that floor time. Did you, are you saying you didn't believe I had a right to come before you?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I appreciate that. Fair enough. Absolutely believe that I should not have a right to come before the committee. That is your right. It is not what it should be your responsibility as an elected official. You want to tell me about stuff. I'm always going to fight, even for the people I don't believe in. How can you accuse them of something you haven't heard anything that they said? And you want to say, I want to... That's what's called a rush to judgment. Um... Growing up, not growing up, I was on the board when Johnny Cochran came along with OJ Simpson. And people hated that…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“No, you did not answer it. Pursuant to which of our rules is a censure allowed?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“It's not appropriate. That language per the United States Constitution, and you're talking about the actual case, also brings in and has things that it says that you cannot do. And if you read it, you should read the list of things that you cannot do. It is not a blanket thing of what you can do. And it does not take away the state's right or the city's local rights of what also has to be the rules. We operate under a certain thing, and that case does not give you blanket right to do that. So, again, you're not censuring me. You don't have the power. You could call it a censure. You don't…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“No, they wanted me to come there because of all the problems they've been having at Homer G that I've been working on for three years. That if you read the documents, I've been trying to get to the bottom of it, that a lady had been assaulted at Homer G, that their tires had been removed and cars had been put up on. So they wanted me to come. I think I had the email from Sharon Williams asking me to come. I always sent my L.A. there, but they wanted me to come because they were concerned about you doing a board bill and you didn't know anything about it.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
- Play at 2:50:29
“Just a burger flipper? That's not what I said. What I said is, and now let me just say this. This is where I'm not going to yield anymore. Okay. I am my inquiry. No, no, no. Then good.”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Alderman, you may proceed. So the Alderman from the 14th says that he heard all this stuff that I've said about every member of the Board of Aldermen. Have you ever heard anything I said about you? Because that would include you, right?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“He also said that I attacked him about being gay, which is funny, because before any of you all came down here, and the alderman from the third knows it, I was leading the pack of people who supported gay issues to the point that they would have the right to have, before gay was acceptable and the Supreme Court put their stamp on it, that they would have the right to do partnerships. That's just a bold-faced lie. He does that often. I know I got some information from when he was running against the Bosleys. He put out again, they don't like me because I'm gay. They don't have anything to do…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“So at some point you came down here and you were a new alder person, right? That is correct. So have I ever made myself not available to you if you had a question about anything?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay, and also if you needed help with legislation, did I do that?”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“And I would even go so far as to write the legislation. This is true. And it wasn't just with black alder people. I did it with white alder people. Absolutely. And helped them, okay? And the alder woman on the first is so worried about me, but when she was the alder woman of, what was she, the 12th, 13th, or whatever, she was on my committee. And I actually trained, helped train her and Jova Carl would try to interrupt her. And I would then say, and the other one from the 13th knows this because she was on the committee. Zova Carl would try to interrupt her, and I would say, leave her alone.…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Ali Stewart is here. Come on, Ali. Ali Stewart is here. And she's here because she's one of the people that I go to to talk to. Absolutely. I as well. Her birthday is coming up and she'll be 94. Thank you. I tell everybody, my mom is 91. Most Sundays, I'm there making sure she eats healthy. I am Christian. I had the chance last week to speak at the AME annual meeting out at the airport. I am Christian. I put holy water on, and that's why I'm still here with all the things that have come against me. And people said, oh, she got something about moving her ward. No, it wasn't moving my ward. You…”
Board of Aldermen · Oct 2, 2026
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“Nope. Alderman Tyus. Nope. Alderman Boyd.”
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 · Sep 18, 2026
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“Madam President, members of the board, I'd move to suspend the rules to introduce Resolution 126, which is a resolution regarding correcting and improving grass-cutting practices in the city of St. Louis.”
Board of Aldermen · Sep 18, 2026
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“I request that Resolution 122 be read aloud, please, by the clerk. Mr. Clerk, please read Resolution 122 into the record. And I also wish to let you know that the financial document goes to this resolution about where the $113 million, that's where all of this started. When aldermen get into your ward... They don't know what's going on. They really don't know what's going on. So this is very important because today the seniors over at Homer G. Phillips do not have air conditioning. Alderwoman, you have to ask for unanimous consent if you wish to speak on the resolution. They can read it and…”
Board of Aldermen · Sep 18, 2026
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“Madam President, I would like to, usually I would request this to go to accounting or HUDs, but I'm sorry, budget or HUDs. But this is really a matter of our seniors being at risk. So I would like it to go to health and human welfare so that we can have a true hearing about these 20-something years of non-payment and non-attention to the people at Homer G. Phillips, and that they are being mistreated, and that we are somehow trying to sell the 99-year lease again without addressing the underlying mistreatment of the people. So I'd request that we move this resolution to Health and Human…”
Board of Aldermen · Sep 18, 2026
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“Madam President, I would ask for this, I don't want this to be read because we all have seen the horrible conditions of the grass across the city of St. Louis. So I would just ask that this resolution also be sent to health and human, and it's not welfare anymore, but I've said health and human welfare for so long, but whatever the end of it is, so that we can have a hearing, because this is also a health condition. I have never seen grass so tall in all my 35 years of life, and we need to have a hearing and to have people come and explain to us how we're going to approve this so that it does…”
Board of Aldermen · Sep 18, 2026