Columnist Withheld Essential Information, Stenger Says
Date Posted: March 9, 2017
Posted In: News, Projects,
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: In “Roadwork delays threaten federal funds in county” (March 5), columnist Tony Messenger omitted key information that would have more fully informed readers. In the column, Messenger insinuated that Gershenson Construction Co. lost a $500,000 road improvement contract in 2016 because the company did not contribute to my campaign fund. As I told Messenger, this is blatantly false.
He did include information we gave him indicating that the contract was not executed for budgetary reasons. However, Messenger omitted relevant information: Apart from the cancellation of this one contract for Gershenson, I have signed three contracts for the company since I took office two years ago — in March 2015 and in August and September 2016. These contracts totaled more than $2.2 million.