From Day One, I've said I'm only on loan. After he resigned from public office, Jordan ran Bosley's second mayoral campaign, in which Bosley's major opponent was Clarence Harmon, former St. Louis chief of police. HUD required a commercial building to evict the Bosley campaign office because the building's owners diverted money that should have been used to pay off a defaulted HUD loan to renovate the space, and then charged the campaign rent at lower than the market price. The building's owner's claimed HUD was discriminating, and demonstrated carrying Bosley for Mayor campaign signs. The 1997 campaign that Jordan ran for Bosley against Harmon was one of the most racially divisive in St. Louis's history, even though both candidates were black.
White politicians are afraid.
Even though Mayor Bosley was the incumbent and raised three times the campaign funds that Harmon did, he lost the race. So, I reimbursed the city for both business and personal calls. It's my contribution to the city, and I would hope that people generally understand that we do an awful lot for the city and get nothing in return. I lost money just taking the job with the city. Mr. Jordan's appointment as director of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, after it is rubber-stamped by the City Council, will go to the Control Board for its final approval.