Jeff Roorda took a brief break last night from infuriating St. Louis city residents and turning support against local law enforcement to announce a whole new campaign: a bid for county executive in Jefferson County.The business manager of the union representing St. Louis police officers announced the news in a Facebook post, describing himself as a "conservative Democrat who is unapologetically pro-life, pro-gun and pro-police." He noted that he has fought to protect unions in the state legislature (he served four terms in Jefferson City) and also believes in increasing the minimum wage to "a sensible rate of $8.50 per hour with annual cost-of-living increases."
Locally, of course, Roorda is more famous as the snowflake who keeps insisting there's a war on cops— and doing everything he can to turn fence-sitters into police skeptics.
The pugnacious former St. Louis police officer has his fingerprints all over recent attacks on local business owners who've criticized the police response to protests in the city in recent weeks (attacks which, full disclosure, have included calling the RFT"a tabloid birdcage liner that hates cops and sides with vandals.")
Although the recent remarks blasting business owners were posted under the union's official account, they're part of a pattern than has sometimes included Roorda's personal social media accounts.…