ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey is in the news again, this time for his $2,100 water bill. The Collector of Revenue in St. Louis says it went unpaid for a year.
Deputy Collector of Revenue Tom Vollmer says it's extremely unusual across the map of the city for anyone to let their water bill get that big without paying it. He says they've sent out at least five notifications to them.
Reached by phone, Mark and Patricia McCloskey tell KMOX that they already paid the bill, within the past week. And say part of the problem is their neighborhood letter carrier has been refusing to deliver mail to their home since June of 2020 when the couple took to the lawn with guns to fend off protestors.
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Protesters were marching to the home of then-St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson as part of the nationwide protest following the killing of George Floyd in June of 2020. The group veered into a private street that the McCloskeys lived on. They said they felt threatened by the "angry mob" that ignored the "No Trespassing" sign and broke down an iron gate. The couple in their early 60s stood on their property with guns and demanded the protesters leave.
Mark McCloskey is running for U.S. Senate, as Sen. Roy Blunt is not seeking reelection next year.
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