Funkhouser's stubbornness has him slipping in the polls (nullus)

The Mayor's poll numbers are horrible for a guy who has only been in office a few moths.

Here are the highlights:

Mayor Funkhouser's approval rating IS BELOW 50%, with 37 percent of residents disapproving. To put it plain and simple: Mayor Funky isn't anywhere close to being as popular as Country Club Kay . . . And that can't be good.

Here's another good stat: KC politics isn't as important as most people thing and neither the NCLR or the Minutemen have much pull despite all the recent publicity:

"Almost 45 percent of those surveyed for KCTV said they were unfamiliar with the controversy over Funkhouser appointing Frances Semler, a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to the local park board."

71 percent of Hispanics surveyed said Semler should remain on the park board - Now that's just plain weird. But interesting. On a similar note, I was at 3 meetings in the past few weeks with Latino leaders that represented more than a dozen different organizations across the metro and 99% of them wanted her to step down.

But I'll believe almost anything from KCTV5.

I think the most important thing here is the challenge to the stupid notion set forth by a few media outlets that Mayor Funky is universally beloved as some kind of reformer. The fact is, as always, Kansas City is a divided town now across racial lines and almost no politico enjoys universal support.

There is little argument with the FACT, that Mayor Funky has almost completely lost support in the urban core . . . No mayor has managed to effectively govern KC without support from this part of town. If Mayor Funky's stubbornness continues unabated, I'm sure these numbers will only get worse and he has nobody to blame but himself . . . And his shoeless wife.