The headline in the Springfield Business Journal article was not specific: Former STL Blues player files for Congress
I would have guessed Kelly Chase, but it’s actually Jim Campbell; the snippet named him, and I remembered his nickname Soupy and his number 10 without any prompting. He played for the Blues in the late 1990s when we watched all the games and had partial season tickets.
I was not impressed with his play, actually, and I’m not impressed that a business owner in the St. Louis area is filing to run with an address in Camden County. It looks carpetbaggish to me, but maybe he does live out there and only has business interests in the St. Louis area.
Kudos to the St. Louis television station for diminishing his entrepreneurship:
The domino effect of U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s decision to run for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat instead of seeking re-election to the House in the fourth congressional district appears to have led a former St. Louis Blues hockey player-turned St. Louis County bar owner to run for a seat in Congress.
A bar owner. How seedy-sounding, probably by intention.
