Ep. 77 - Mark Mantovani

The Tim McKernan Show

TMA STL | Hubbard Radio

Sports, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The St. Louis native and former Ansira CEO left his business to study at Harvard in 2016, and he's now a Democratic candidate for St. Louis County Executive... Mark's unique background with practicing law and business How he became board chairman of the Downtown Partnership Why progress tends to cannibalize itself in Downtown STL What led this 63 year-old man to run for County Executive Why has St. Louis been in decline since at least the 1940's How local government in STL is viewed in Harvard circles Mark's view on how the city and county could be affiliated Is it practical to merge the county's 90 or so municipalities What role has racism played in stunting prosperity in STL Importance of keeping and attracting young professionals Why the county should've been involved with MLS effort Thoughts on the upcoming election versus Steve Stenger For more information on Mark and his campaign, visit www.markforstl.com Please support our sponsors: The Home Loan Expert, Ryan Kelley James Carlton Agency (State Farm) Design Aire Heating & Cooling Follow us on Social Media: @TimMcKernanShow or Facebook.com/TheTimMcKernanShow Thanks to Story of the Year for our theme. Please rate, review, and subscribe so more people discover the pod. Feedback is welcome: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yes, welcome into another edition of the Tim McKernan show on the Inside
0:18.3	STL Podcast Network. I am your host Tim McKernan alongside executive producer John Seymour and videographer
0:24.4	Nick Yale welcome in to the Home Loan Expert.com studios with our guest St Louis County
0:31.8	executive candidate Mark Monavani.
0:35.0	So many topics with Mark covered here over the next hour plus in our conversation.
0:42.2	And I have a feeling you're going to enjoy hearing his
0:45.6	perspective on a wide variety of St. Louis-centric topics as he readies himself
0:51.8	for the election in August of 2018. We were sitting down and
0:58.1	talking it over and it was one of those interviews that it just kept getting
1:01.7	deeper and deeper and the thing that I really
1:05.0	liked about it is so often when you're talking politics, and this is one of my
1:10.6	biggest complaints regarding talking politics is you already know the answer before you ask the question because you know where the person you're interviewing
1:19.7	lines up politically and so therefore they're just going to follow the platform of whichever side so to speak they're on
1:27.2	well Mark Montevani
1:29.5	Isn't afraid to stray from what would be considered the party line.
1:34.0	And as a matter of fact, as you will hear, at one point in the interview,
1:38.0	I actually say to him, I said,
1:41.0	I like a lot of the things you're saying but as somebody who's running in St
1:45.8	Louis County I'm not sure that a lot of the people who would be voting in St
1:50.8	Louis County will like what you're saying and Mark's response was okay
1:55.0	then fine I don't want to win the job if I'm going to have to essentially not be
2:00.8	who I am and not share what I really think is important to get St. Louis in the region back on
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