Off-With-Our-Heads Missouri Mayor Pitches Mercy Killing for Town
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Carmen Wilkerson ran for mayor of St. George, Missouri, this year with a pledge: Elect me and kiss our town goodbye -- all 10 streets, two businesses and one stoplight.
Wilkerson is asking voters to bury the three-decade-long heritage of a south St. Louis suburb best known as a speed trap that financed the salaries of unneeded police. The county should run the place, said Wilkerson, who views this as a municipal mercy killing of St. George, age 63, population 1,337, reputation checkered.