STUBBORN MAYOR FUNKY SPOTLIGHTS A CON IN HIS STATE OF THE CITY SPEECH AND HAS NO REGRETS!!!

So bitches, once again your man in the media (no homo) was proven correct.

In a wonderful, fantastic and welcomed article DeAnn Smith provides the details regarding the couple indicted in New Jersey and then held up as an example of new business and people moving to Kansas City.

Smith credits KCUR with discovering the story which is her prerogative but talk was already swirling around City Hall by Friday afternoon from everybody who had access to a computer.

I'd like to note that KCUR didn't provide a link to any documents that proved the assertion, KCUR didn't provide an open forum for people to discuss the news and KCUR let that Jerkoff Joe Miller weasel out of any direct questions with the landmark statement of his career.

"I didn't do a Google search."

TKC did, with the help of awesome tipsters who told me to . . . And then TKC readers talked about it and shared some funny personal insults. You're welcome.

Still, Smith works with real facts and real-live people not just rumors, Google and web pages like TKC and she clearly got all of the hard to find details into line with her report.

Here are the juicy bits:

Dan Engravalle was convicted and paid a $5,000 fine, court officials and records show. He said in an interview that he successfully completed probation . . .

Funkhouser said he hopes he would have "the guts" to still include them in his speech if he had known in advance. He said he doesn't regret not "Googling" them.

"I like the Engravalles. They are decent people. I enjoyed them when I met them," Funkhouser said in an interview. "I wish them well with their business."

That's right, Kansas City's Mayor doesn't think it's wrong to hold up a former con as and example of this town's future.

Personally, I know a lot of former cons and they're cool but I wouldn't want them associated with me professionally . . . Speaking of, today a client politely asked for links and jpegs to the last 3 of 5 big booby broads I posted on this blog - The Internets is so awesome when it comes to sharing interests.

Anyhoo, this major flub by the mayor and yet another stubborn response indicates the following:

The Mayor's plans, challenges and initiatives are probably just as poorly researched as his State of the City speech.

For somebody who claims that he's not a politician, he's certainly really good at never admitting a mistake (a classic political trick) . . . If only he could get better at avoiding making all of these errors in the first place.

When the question of associations comes up during the next election, and it will, Mayor Funky has absolutely no credibility on yet another matter. Really, Kansas City's Mayor has worse luck than Obama in being connected to unsavory characters.

For my part, I sympathize with the Engravalles - It's unfortunate that their past, which they've paid for, had to be drudged up by everybody with Internet access in the Kansas City area. We all know former cons, some of us are former cons and some of will be future former cons. It shouldn't be a scarlet letter but it's not the best advertising for the future of this town either . . . Just think that a mere second or two of research would have prevented the entire embarrassment for the seemingly good hearted couple and the Mayor . . . And then realize that kind of incompetence is running Kansas City.