Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch

Metro columnist

CHESTERFIELD — Early last year, Bob Nation came across news that didn’t pass his smell test.

Nation was mayor of Chesterfield at the time, and he and the city council were reviewing the annual goals of City Manager Mike Geisel. One of them was to complete the purchase of an office building near the city’s Central Park.

Nation had heard nothing of the potential purchase of the Mass Mutual office building. It didn’t make sense to him.

“For the mayor to not even be aware of that is completely inappropriate,” Nation told me in a recent interview.

Nation’s tenure as mayor ended in April. But he and other critics of the purchase — which was approved by the council in August — are putting on a full-court press before the deal is finalized, tr

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