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South St. Louis County News

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BREAKING NEWS: Stenger apparent winner over Stream for county executive

Steve Stenger
Steve Stenger

With all precincts counted, 6th District County Councilman Steve Stenger, D-Affton, is the apparent winner of the county executive’s race, according to unofficial election results released by the Board of Election Commissioners.

Stenger received 137,638 votes — 47.73 percent — while Rep. Rick Stream, R-Kirkwood, received 135,870 votes — 47.12 percent.

Other county executive candidates include: Libertarian Theo “Ted” Brown Sr., Constitution Party candidate Joe Passanise and activist Zaki Baruti, who organized the Justice for Michael Brown Leadership Coalition, has filed as a write-in candidate.

Brown received 7,970 votes, Passanise received 3,200 votes and 3,665 write-in votes were cast.

Stenger, 42, 9322 Rambler Drive, 63123, is an attorney and certified public accountant at Klar, Izsak & Stenger LLC. He and his wife, Allison, have a young daughter.

Stenger, who served as prosecuting attorney for Cottleville from 2005 to 2008, was elected to the County Council in November 2008 and re-elected in November 2012.

Stream, 65, 1229 Lockett Lane, Kirkwood, is retired from the U.S. Department of Defense. He and his wife, Ellen, raised four grown children.

Stream served on the Kirkwood school board from 1992 to 2004 and has represented District 90 in the Missouri House since 2007.

Democrat Bob McCulloch, who has served as county prosecuting attorney since 1991, was unopposed.

Jake Zimmerman, a Democrat who is St. Louis County’s first elected county assessor, was challenged by Republican Andrew Ostrowski. Zimmerman was elected four years ago.

With all precincts reporting, Zimmerman is the winner with 167,067 votes, while Ostrowski received 114,911 votes.

Republican incumbent Collen Wasinger of Town and Country was unopposed in her bid for a third, four-year term.

A Crestwood Republican was unsuccessful in her effort to unseat 5th District County Councilman Pat Dolan, D-Richmond Heights.

Jennifer Bird, who serves as the Gravois Township Republican committeewoman, challenged Dolan, who was elected to the council four years ago.

With all precincts reporting, Bird received 19,319 votes and Dolan, the winner, garnered 25,886 votes.

Republican Michael Peters challenged Rep. Jeanne Kirkton, D-Webster Groves, for the District 91 Missouri House seat.

With all precincts counted, Kirkton tallied 7,645 votes for the victory, while Peters garnered 5,141 votes.

Peters, a political newcomer who serves as pastor of Christ the King Church in Webster Groves, sought to unseat Kirkton, who won her fourth and final term in the House.

Republican Al Faulstich again challenged Democratic Rep. Genise Montecillo for the District 92 Missouri House.

With all precincts counted, Montecillo is the winner, receiving 6,014 votes to Faulstich’s 4,164 votes.

Montecillo was first elected to the Missouri House District 66 seat in 2010.

Republican Garrett Mees challenged Rep. Bob Burns, a Democrat, for the District 93 Missouri House seat.

Mees, who has served on the Hancock Place school board since 2010, sought to unseat Burns, who was elected two years ago.

With all precincts counted, Burns is the winner, garnering 3,412 votes. Mees received 2,477 votes.

Former Rep. Cloria Brown, a Republican, challenged Rep. Vicki Englund, a Democrat who serves on the Lindbergh Board of Education, for the District 94 Missouri House seat.

With all precincts counted, Brown is the winner, garnering 5,309 votes, and Englund received 4,220 votes.

Englund defeated Brown two years ago to win the seat. Four years ago, Brown defeated Englund for the District 85 seat. In 2008, Englund was elected to the District 85 Missouri House seat in 2008 by defeating Brown.

Rep. Marsha Haefner, R-Oakville, was unopposed in her re-election bid to the District 95 Missouri House seat.

Haefner first was elected to the House in 2010.

A Constitution Party candidate, Cynthia “Cindy” Redburn of Concord, attempted to unseat Republican Rep. Mike Leara of Concord for the Missouri House District 96 seat.

With all precincts counted, Leara, the winner, garnered 9,825 votes, and Redburn received 2,329 votes.

Leara has served in the House for six years.

Constitutional amendment 2 — 1,015,899 “yes” votes and 395,736 “no” votes.

Constitutional amendment 3 — 338,16 “yes” votes and 1,097,807 “no” goes.

Constitutional amendment 6 — 414,911 “yes” votes and 983,504 “no” votes.

Constitutional amendment 10 — 788,930 “yes” votes and 599,929 “no” votes.

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