Can Beth Gottstein buy a Council Seat for 100k?

So last week it was revealed in campaign finance reports and over at The Buzz Blog that Beth Gottstein has nearly 100k for her campaign for City Council in the 4th District at-Large. This fact alone should cause you to reconsider your voting choice but given that KC voters are the only group to be even more impressed with cash than white women I guess the unsavory fact that political representation is for sale in Kansas City isn't enough to convince you.

And because this blog is really closer to a diary than it is to any kind of journalism or even respectable punditry let's go ahead and make this about me. Because this whole thing, the whole reason I link and write and type on this site is some desperate attempt to ensure that I can have some kind of say over who gets a shitty, civil service job that represents a minor boost in income with a lot more work . . . That's my evil plan that I hatched because rolling with the Underpants Gnomes really wasn't paying off. I'm guilty and a sinner; as a (horrible) Catholic I've thought much worse about myself.

My distaste for Beth (ew) isn't about how she represents everything wrong with politics in Kansas City, it's not about how she has little if any experience outside of cushy jobs and cocktail parties, it's not about how her campaign is operating using the same old tactics that have disenfranchised generations of po'folk and other outsiders of this town's political class and all of this while skanking around KC's political scene IN ADDITION TO the fact that NOBODY WHO WEARS BLACK EVERY DAY AND NIGHT FOR YEARS AT A TIME SHOULD BE TRUSTED.

But I digress . . .

What I want to write about right now is money since it's the only thing that dirtbags like the Citizens Association and so many hangers on in KC's political scene care about . . .

If you have a look at Beth Gottstein's resume you'll see mostly fluff and a couple of cute font choices.

I'm cool with that . . . My resume isn't much to look at either.

But then I think about her last few jobs.

She worked at The Hispanic Economic Development Corporation which develops nothing but margarita parties with some great queso dip from what I can tell.

Then she worked at The Jewish Heritage Foundation, a non-profit that gives away a lot of cash in order for everyone to forget about the abject poverty and horrible living conditions inflicted on the Palestinian people. Anyway, she was a Senior Program Officer but I'm sure the pay scale wasn't much higher then similar non-profits that serve as little more than daytime distractions for bored housewives.

Cut to an entry level job at City Hall where a sack lunch for everybody but Country Club Kay and Wayne Cauthen is the order of the day. Put simply, I never give City Employees any guff because I know they work hard for very little green.

Sooooooooooo, with all of these paltry gigs on her record my question is simple:

How can she afford to lend herself 50 thousand dollars?

On the face of it, she has never seemed to earn more than 50 or 60k and because I know a little bit about living expenses hiding out here in my mom's basement that doesn't leave much room for such a huge nest egg.

Far be it from me to suggest anything unsavory. I'm just asking the question. How does someone who seems to have a very average employment record have the cash to loan herself a small fortune?

The fact that I'm not sure that I want to live in a City where the council seats go for about 100k isn't a topic for discussion today. Also, even if you don't follow politics you probably know that anybody who throws around that kind of money in this cute little cowtown has something serious in store for the future . . . I don't know how I feel about being a stepping stone for a Jewish broad, isn't there some kind of JAP joke that claims they aren't into that kind of thing?

As for the origin of the uberbucks . . . You're guess is as good as mine but I'm callously assuming, like all women under 40, she didn't work for it.