Frustrated by media coverage that's focused on everything from a 20-year-old bankruptcy to the trips she took as a city official, St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones pushed back this morning at a press conference, saying she's become a clear target for other mayoral candidates and people who fear the changes she'd bring at City Hall.
Asked what specific fault she found with the stories, Jones noted that no one else running for mayor seems to be facing anywhere near her level of scrutiny: "If you were visiting from Mars, you would think no one else was running for mayor but me." She added later, "If you're going to talk about me, you need to talk about everybody. There are eleven other candidates!"
A surrogate who spoke just before Jones went even further.
"We see these attacks as an attack on the entire community of people of color in this region," said Lew Moye, president of the St. Louis chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.…