TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY CO-MAYOR GLORIA SQUITIRO SAYS SHE HAS BEEN PERSECUTED!!!

In Kansas City, influence and credibility are tricky things.

There are rich, well educated and powerful people in this town who don't merit much attention because they don't know the right people or don't ascribe to the right (left) political views. Then there are pesky community leaders who have almost a limitless supply of contacts who carry far more influence than their station in life would normally permit.

This truly is a strange city in that so many people are always jockeying back and forth for precious credibility and influence in the local political scene. Hell, the only way I can avoid this all-consuming pursuit is to regularly acknowledge that I couldn't care less about what you d-bags think.

Nevertheless, one of the worst things about living in Kansas City is that somebody is always trying to convince you of something.

To wit, in a last ditch, desperate and convoluted attempt to keep his wife by his side in the Mayor's office . . . The Funky Administration is undertaking a full court press in order to convince every council person to support the shoeless Co-Mayor.



The Mayor has now set aside light rail along with most of his other priorities and is working with lawyers to prepare the best defense for his wife.

THAT SCUMBAG JOE MILLER, WHO ONCE (Endlessesly )TOUTED HIS STREET CRED AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, IS NOW GOING AROUND KANSAS CITY CALLING THE VICTIM OF THE MAMMY SLUR A LIAR!!!

And to put the personal touch on things (ew) . . . Co-Mayor Gloria Squitiro is calling each and every City Council lady and using identity politics, vague hints of feminism and promises of more inside dirt against the woman she called "Mammy" in return for support.

A brief aside . . . Clearly, Squitiro is having trouble adjusting to the digital age. She may not realize that the several messages she has left can be copied . . . Council people have assistants, assistants have friends, friends have adversaries and TKC is the gully place for adversaries to congregate online in or around Kansas City. So I'm not (ever) gonna say how I got a hold of a recent message left by Gloria Squitiro but I will note that I don't have the computer skill to hack a cell phone but we all know that nothing stays secret at City Hall for long.

Now, without further ado . . . Here's a sample of the kind of empty rhetoric that Gloria Squitiro is spewing in support of her position as Co-Mayor. Check it, the transcript of a recent telephone message left by the shoeless one herself:

This is Gloria Squitiro. I was hoping to get a chance to talk to you about the vote that occurred on Thursday with the Council trying to get rid of me. And I was just a little bit surprised that you had went along with them persecuting me for, ah, a crime that I didn't commit and that I'm not allowed to talk about until the trial. I specifically won't settle my part of the lawsuit because it would be morally wrong to do so because I didn't do anything wrong. I don't think you realize that this woman was a friend of ours for 15 years and it's just her . . . (unintelligible) . . . Um, and I'm just surprised woman to woman that you would allow persecution like this to happen . . . So I still want to talk to you about it and maybe fill you in on something that you might not know. If you're agreeable, my number is . . .

For your listening pleasure:

HERE IS A CRAPPY QUALITY MP3 OF GLORIA SQUITIRO'S INSANITY!!!

Unfortunately, this doesn't sound convincing, it sounds like a threat . . .

Furthermore, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A CLEAR CUT CASE OF SUPREMACY IN KANSAS CITY GIVEN THAT THE MAYOR'S WIFE CLAIMS SHE IS BEING "PERSECUTED" BECAUSE SHE'S NOT FREE TO USE RACIST LANGUAGE AT CITY HALL!!!

Squitiro uses the term "persecuted" twice and it's just wrong in light of the retaliation and abuse that the woman she called "mammy" was forced to endure.

The fact that Squitiro makes a lame attempt to engage City Hall denizens "woman to woman" is also laughable given that the ladies she is attempting to influence are all far better qualified than her and worked in their own right to attain their positions while Squitiro rode her husband's coattails all the way to the best seat in the Mayor's office. But let's not overlook the situation at hand . . . The ordinance to get rid of Gloria Squitiro has almost unanimous support not only by the council but also with anyone who wants accountability in local government . . .

Still, I'm happy that I heard this message and even happier that I can offer it to TKC readers.

Judging from this phone call, the widespread reports that Mayor Funky's office is engaged in nothing but a desperate attempt to garner support for Squitiro and The Mayor's own clueless estimation of this subject . . . It's clear that the Funkhouser Administration is now, nothing more than a complete failure, a miserable joke which holds none of the promise that so many people had initially expected.

Without much influence or credibility, the Co-Mayor is strangely pleading to stay at City Hall and subsequently exposing her persecution complex when, in fact, Mayor Funkhouser has been incapable of standing up to his wife and now the Council has been forced to step in and address the dysfunction in the Mayor's office.