I have a problem with the "Standing Up For St. Louis" slogan. While I don't believe Slay is a race baiter, St. Louis votes largely by race.

George Wallace, you remember him, the race baiter [Friday is my day to be charitable, but I am still not picking up your bar tab.]governor of Alabama/presidential candidate who actually carried Southern states had as his slogan "Stand Up for America".

I may be too sensitive but the voting patterns of St. Louis are very racially slanted, and this stuff, tinged from the gutter, has got to go. What's wrong with, "St. Louis, strong and getting stronger", "St. Louis, better every day" or "Making St. Louis Work"?

Doesn't "standing up" for something mean taking a leadership role?

For a mayor, isn't that what you want?

RB

Standing up for something can have a multitude of meanings. Taking leadership is certainly one meaning.

There are many ways to convey leadership in a slogan. Why the Slay campaign would pick such a loaded slogan is a mystery.

Isn't it fair to say that the number one definition for "standing up" for something means taking a leadership position, possibly as both leader and defender?

I stand up for St. Louis.

Who doesn't?

RB