Time to fill out your application!!!

Thanks to the Kansas City Post for informing us that it's a wonderful time of year in this town where patronage and political favors begin: It's time for application process for KC Boards and Committees under the Funkhouser Administration!!!

Put simply, this is where payback begins.

Things to watch for:

Mayor Funky has to make nice with "The Black Part of Town" or risk an immediate face off with the Eastside . . . Also, the scuttlebutt has it that Terry Riley is the first in line for Mayor pro tem but if they're going to make the position into an affirmative action deal then I say they should roll with the new and give it to Sharon Saunders Brooks (yeah!) since the new council is going to be fem dominated (ouch) and Riley's incompetence is quickly becoming the stuff of KC legend.

Will Mayor Funky support Hispanics in City Hall? I hear there is one kid who was the unoffical local Latino cheerleader for the Funkhouser campaign and I hope he gets a job out of it but according to the polls Funkhouser had more than 67 percent support among KC's Latino voters . . . And while I am the most prominent and important Latino in Kansas City it's important to realize that I'm not exactly representative of the majority of the this town's "salsa set" not only because I have a college degree (if we're counting UMKC) but also because I don't have a dozen children and I'm a master of "the language of the oppressor" while having only an intermediate understanding of Spanish that was largely honed in High School.

Now here's where all of the amazing political influence I have should pay off: It's time to appoint TKC as commissioner of "BRING BACK THE 40oz. back to KC!!!!" committee. Seriously, this is the only issue that matters to me - the only thing of importance as far as KC politics goes. Aggie Stackhouse forced my favorite containers of malt liquor (ew) back across the State Line years ago during her reign of terror and now it's time to bring them back. Obviously, I'll need a generous stipend and maybe a crown along with the title Grand Poobah.

Finally, I think it's important to note that the local Internets supported Funkhouser overwhelmingly even though less than one thousand votes with exceedingly low voter turnout marked Funkhouser's real world debut in KC politics.

So I'd like to encourage every blogger to apply for a position because paying off political debts is way easier than filling potholes and if Funkhouser is going to actively participate in KC's political scene he might as well learn that lesson early.