TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! The white people of Lee's Summit fail at political intrigue, forge voter signatures and settle a nasty lawsuit!!!

Some nasty business in Lee's Summit politics has finally been settled. I would label this story an "exclusive" but I find suburbanites so boring that I'll simply report the facts (way before anybody else in KC. Natch).

Credit KC Blue Blog with bringing this start of the scandal to everyone's attention last year.

Now here's the stunning conclusion of suburbanite nastiness, here's an excerpt from a PDF that was sent my way:

Political Committee settles identity theft and invasion of privacy suit.

A group of local residents agreed to settle a lawsuit filed last year alleging invasion of privacy and identity theft against a committee to recall a Lee's Summit city council member.

The Defendants, who included members of The Committee to Recall Kathy Hofmann, paid a confidential amount in settlement of the claims against them, but in doing so did not admit any liability as to the substance of the lawsuit against them.

The eleven plaintiffs claimed that their signatures were forged on a ballot access petition seeking the recall of Lee's Summit Councilmember Kathy Hofmann. Plaintiffs legal claim was that by publishing the forged signatures, the Committee misappropriated Plaintiffs identities as registered voters.

"Invasion of privacy was a natural theory to advance to hold the committee responsible for what we saw as unconscionable conduct. While they didn't admit anything in this settlement, we felt the confidential settlement was in the best interest of our clients and that is what we are responsible for," said Patrick E. White, Senior Member of White & Napier, LLC.

The Committee to Recall Kathy Hofmann was established in October of 2006, according to documents filed with the State of Missouri. The Committee's first two attempts to get the recall issue on the ballot failed when the Jackson County Election Board determined they did not have enough valid to qualify 252 names on the ballot were struck by the election board as "wrong signature."

The Committee then sued the City of Lee's Summit to force the recall issue onto the ballot. The Committee argued, among other things, that voters who claimed their signatures were forged should not be able to have their names removed from the ballot access petition.

Now this is interesting . . .

Apparently all of this suburban intrigue is connected to Republican interests on the losing side of a voter fraud settlement:

"Represented by Todd Graves, the Committee was able to get the recall issue on the April 3, 2007 ballot."

Even more interesting . . . REPUBLICAN POLITICO JEFF ROE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE LOSING END OF THIS SUBURBAN SCANDAL AND IS EVEN OWED SOME CASH BY THESE FOLKS!!!

Axiom Strategies provided $17,780 worth of services to the Committee's recall effort. Jeff Roe's political consultancy group was still owed $14,765.48 for services according to the termination of Committee report filed with the Jackson County Election Board on August 10, 2007. Despite the Committee's best efforts, the recall vote failed - with approximately 75% of voters opposing the recall of Hofmann.

Conclusion: White people and Republicans love to represent voter fraud as an issue that exists only in the urban core among people of color . . .

HOWEVER, THIS CASE PROVES THAT SUBURBAN, MIDDLE-CLASS WHITE PEOPLE ARE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF SCREWING WITH VOTER IDENTITIES!!!

This case never made the news like charges against ACORN but the suburban intrigue clearly demonstrates that just about everyone is capable of screwing around with voter names . . . Especially middle-class white people represented by prominent Republicans.