Up North Progressive

On March 5, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri, a Democratic primary election will decide who runs for Board of Aldermen President in the General Election. Why is Up North Progressive, a blog dedicated to covering progressive issues in Northern Michigan writing about this? Because when a city police association takes to social media declaring one of the candidates a communist cop-hater, people around the world are going to notice.

Especially when the world notices you failed high school history. Uhm, maybe someone in St. Louis could explain to whoever posted this on facebook Communists WON the Battle of Stalingrad against a Nazi invasion during World War II.

Why does the St. Louis Police Officers Association hate Megan Ellyia Green so much? She was elected to the Board of Aldermen in 2014 in a special election, won re-election ever since and now is running for President of the Board of Aldermen in St. Louis. Green uses her office to support progressive issues such as $15 minimum wage, pro-choice reproductive freedom for women, the Ferguson Commission and civilian oversight of the police department – looks like we found the problem.

Megan Green also supports the Black Lives Matter movement. Nearby community Ferguson, Missouri, is ground zero for the organization that works to overcome unnecessary police brutality that leads to the murder of black people without consequences for too many police officers committing these heinous crimes. Green participated in a BLM march in 2017 where tear gas was used on demonstrators. Green sued the St. Louis Police Department and they’ve hated her ever since.

Hate her so much, the Stalingrad facebook post wasn’t the only one that came out on March 3, 2019 against Megan Green’s campaign.

All of the above posts are still live on the SLPOA Facebook page. Snowflake is a pejorative term used by right-wing Trump supporters to describe ‘liberals’ because liberals are so delicate and fragile says the organization posting bad photoshops and calling an elected official bad names because she’s mean to us.

This isn’t the first time Megan Green has been called names in public for her work to protect the taxpayers of St. Louis. That she now seeks to be president of the Board of Aldermen demonstrates she’s anything but a snowflake.

Megan Green’s campaign does not accept any corporate PAC campaign donations. Tomorrow, March 5, 2019, is the Democratic Party Primary in St. Louis, Missouri. Women’s History Month is a celebration of women willing to face adversity to fight for what is right. Megan Green is a woman who has faced derision, sexism, and hate speech yet chooses to keep fighting for what is right for the people of St. Louis.