West County Democrats
Monthly Meeting
United Food and Commercial
Workers Union Local 655
300 Weidman Road
Ballwin, MO 63011
Monday, March 14, 2022
9:00 Doors open for socializing
10:00 Business meeting and announcements
10:30 Presentation
Topic: “Profit and Punishment”
Speaker: Tony Messenger
Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2019, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his series of columns on debtors’ prisons in MO. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. That same year he won a National Headliner for editorial writing. In 2015, Messenger was a finalist for his series of editorials on Ferguson and won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for best editorials of the year, given by the Society of Professional Journalists. Profit and Punishment is his first book.
Tony will also be signing copies of his book. There will be a limited number of books for sale that morning.
At the next meeting will you have someone talk about the 3 ST. Louis County Propsitions A, B, and C.