For the first time in Sheriff Alfred Montgomery’s short, scandal-plagued tenure, he’s picked up some defenders who are not on his own payroll—even if their support is less about Montgomery and more about opposing Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
Montgomery, whose tenure has been defined by a flamboyant chaos involving everything from questionable golf cart purchases to personnel decisions made via golden dice to allegations that he’s not transporting detainees to and from the hospital, now faces a removal petition from Bailey. And that’s led to a sentiment that Montgomery may be a fool, but he’s the city’s fool—though of course elected leaders like Alderman Rasheen Aldridge don’t phrase it exactly that way.
Aldridge says that his Budget Committee has called Montgomery before them and asked plenty of hard questions on a number of issues—“but I’m not sure if they rise to the level of resignation.”…