Kansas City Hump Day Thought
I was just thinking about the events of the day and the real world implications of Gloria Squitiro as Queen/Co-Mayor of Kansas City.
UPDATE: Since I'm all about freedom of speech, I think I'm going to put the theories of James Surowiecki into action and see if independently minded crowds are not only wise but also funny.
TKC CAPTION CONTEST . . . A big fat link and a photo retouch featuring your quote for anybody with an funny, good, unique or interesting caption for this photo:
C'mon, it'll be fun.
posted by Tony Permalink
Very nice.
Perfect actually.
Hey, I head that only Bill Drummond showed up to defend their cause. Plus one single black guy.
Not exactly a call to arms.
I smell a caption contest.
How did all this get so far out of hand. The TV coverage this evening was bizzar. We have so many problems as a city, the Funk should have never allowed this side show to get this far along in production. It has damaged his ability to perform the limited role of mayor. And it is in reality very limited by charter.
I worry about the next heavy rain with the sewer back up issue and he is worrying about how to keep his Gloria in the office. The council is distracted from doing its duties.
Gloria, its time to go. It would be the noble thing to just say adios.
Anon 6:46, I had the same thought while watching the news tonight. First the Funky persecution, then the City Manager's contract in court. Both are the direct result of the Funky bunch and their inability to lead. If they spent as much time trying to do the right thing for the city as they do conspiring against all of those people they don't like (developers, the City Manager, Ruth Bates, the Star, Tony), they might be able to make a difference. Sadly, there is neither a noble, nor responsible bone in either of their oddly shaped bodies. They can't take responsibility for any of their actions....it is everyone else's fault.
NAME: Kiss my_________________picture of Gloria, Kansas City
Kansas City.... No shirt, No shoes, no problem!!
Hey ya, Kansas City! You're going to be paying for all of this for another 24 years!
Only in Kansas City can you find hotties like Cathy Jolly!
You can take this shithole! I'm moving back to West Virginia.
As you can see, Kansas City IS a city that WORKS! For property developers!
My wife will align your chakras if you can bring us a hockey team.
I've got the healthiest prostate in town.
Fuck all of this. My wife stays.
Home of Squanto
Smells like feet
FUCK THESE PEOPLE. My wife rules!
How about "These people are nothing but complainers who don't see the big picture."
That would be more likely.
Wait for Tony to delete this comment.
from Joe miller your nitwit, jackass friend on the 29th floor
If Bill Drummond shows up to speak in support of you I would have to quote that stupid comedian, "There's your sign."
Funk's proving to be a total moron.
His wife is a cunt. Go ahead, quote me.
"In a few more months I will finish destroying all of this."
Cetainly some of the captions cross the line for this being rated a family web page. But great fun reading the proposals. Perhaps Tony will pick a few judges to rate the captions. I suggest the two Funks and cousin Jethro. Or we just let the man himself, TKC, make selection. The French enlightenment is comming back. We peasant (for you Tony, Composinos), have to endure the King and his queen until the revolution. Viva Tony!
Note the smile on his face and the confidence in his stance. this photograph has to be prior to the election. He doesn't look that way now. On the TV this evening, he looked worn and tattered. Give us another photo to add the caption. I can't get into this one. I like the game. My vote is for Anan 11:12 for caption winner, so far.
"This is what I gave up for a fat witch"
I am posting this information on this BLOG given that I want change in the Democratic committee. I witnessed an event at the party meeting that has me quite shaken. I am calling on all democrats and especially democratic leaders to help us with what is increasingly becoming a problem; Violence at our meetings. Here is the text of what I wrote earler:
Stan I wish you were not accurate in your description, but you are. These kind of things should not happen, but we have seen too much of it in the past few years due to one family, in my opinion. I am sorry but I need to vent.
No one who was there Tuesday night will forget the sight and sounds of physical violence breaking out in the back of the meeting after the LeVotas lost an election by acclamation. First there was cursing and then there was an attack on an older man who I know as mild mannered.
Thankfully county sheriffs were there to subdue Steve LeVota when he attacked Marty Kerr, but will there be someone there next time? I am actually nervous about attending the next meeting.
Before the next County Committee meeting I hope we all will think about what needs to be done to keep us safe. I could hardly drive home safely after Tuesday night’s meeting after violence broke out. I never want to see something like that again and I am sure I am not alone-especially among those of us who are not "kids" anymore.
I have thought about it and thought. My husband and brother tell me that I need to put it out of my mind but I can’t. I keep seeing poor Marty Kerr, who is not a physically large man, being beat up and I feel like I never want to attend another committee meeting.
I even feel too uncomfortable to raise this issue under my own name because I am afraid of what might happen to me after what I saw Tuesday night.
I have told my family that I might have to resign my committeewoman’s seat if something of substance is not done to keep our meetings safe. It is a terrible thing to reach my age and feel uncomfortable attending a Democratic function for fear of my personal safety because next time the sheriffs might be on the far side of the room and I might need help.
Will there be a next time? I for one am fully convinced that there will be. This is not the first time members of the LeVota family have turned violent at a committee meeting. Let me be right up front I supported the leadership slate that was elected on Tuesday and I would have never supported any slate which included Phil LeVota’s name. I fear the tempers that seem to run in the LeVota family.
I remember that about 4 years ago when Phil LeVota ran for chair of the committee he had a violent event. Dorothy Kennedy from Grandview refused to support him and he shoved her in a hallway, which almost knocked Dorothy down a stairwell. I talked with Dorothy and I still remember how shook up Dorothy looked. I will never forget that look on her face later after Phil LeVota abused her. Dorothy I hope you will not take offence to this, because I am no “spring chicken” myself, but what kind of man would attack a woman of Dorothy’s age? We should have done something then and I am ashamed we did not.
It would take a very violent man, if you want to use the term “man” at all. In my opinion, they have a name for that kind of attacker: ABUSER!
In my opinion the LeVota boys are all bullies and abusers. In my experience, the LeVota’s intimidate people in order to get there way. If they cannot own something the LeVotas seem bent on destroying it.
I think back on what they did after they lost a vote overwhelmingly on Tuesday night. I heard them back there cussing the committee. Then they turned on poor Marty Kerr. Like all of us Marty is not as young as he used to be. In addition I do not think it is a secret that Marty is being treated for cancer.
I will never forget seeing him TAKEN BY THE NECK and manhandled by Steve LeVota. NOR WILL I FORGET how Paul and Phil LeVota stood there and watched as their brother acted like an animal. If they did not act to stop their own brother from abusing an elderly man then they are no better than the abuser.
Paul LeVota wants Democrats to give him the honor of being Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, but he does not have the human decency to step in and stop his brother from beating an older man who suffers from cancer?
Why do we have to put up with this kind of behavior? Who among our membership will be the next Dorothy or the next Marty? I know that I do not want to be put in the same situation sometime in the future because I voted in some way that the LeVota’s have decided is wrong and “go postal” on me. It is also in my memory when Phil attacked Keith Thomas with racially insensitive language, so I am sure that he is predisposed to hate. I am ashamed to admit the honest fact that I do feel intimidated by their violent actions.
When I talked this over with my brother he simply told me to go to the Sheriff’s Department and file for a concealed weapon permit, but I do not think that is the answer. I want the new County Committee leaders, who I happily supported, to address this issue immediately.
At the very least I am afraid that the committee will have to hire more private security to police our meetings, which is too bad because like Chairman Bough I would rather see money like that spent on buying health insurance a loyal staff person, who works very hard for the committee.
I really do not understand why any organization has to seat members who have a history of violence. What club, organization or employer would allow someone to stay around after repeated instances of verbal abuse and physical violence? Isn’t there some set of rules or Code of Conduct that would expel those who engage in violence from the committee’s membership? This is not the first time and I am very afraid it will not be the last.
This kind of thing has to end. It is not the kind of thing that I expect to find in the Democratic Party. The violence on Tuesday night was shameful and unforgivable.
I keep thinking the same thing: I have always been proud to be a Democrat, but over the years I have become increasingly fearful to attend the meetings of the Jackson County Democratic County Committee.
Caption:
Where in Downtown Kansas City is my new Iphone? Gloria lost hers too. We need your help finding them :)
In Faith, Funk
This is not the black part of town, hence you will note the absence of police cars.
"My full time volunteer and spiritual advisor says that I can't attend concerts here because the stadium's ass is bigger than her own"
No silly minorities will benefit from this on my watch!
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