TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! WILL FORMER FUNKY PRESS DUDE SUE OVER KANSAS CITY CO-MAYOR'S SMUDGE STICK?!?!
The economy is horrible right now, we are living in harsh times . . . Yet we all know that one of the best ways to get rich is by winning the legal lottery.
To wit, today I'm using this blog to help out someone who was once a "reluctant friend" of TKC. Thing is, if I was a nicer person I guess I could send a sympathetic and somewhat dorky e-mail asking to have coffee and explain my stance in person . . . But rather than waste time in the meatspace, I'd rather just get my message out there . . . As always, take it or leave it or pretend that you don't read it like so many politicos in this cowtown. It really doesn't matter to me . . . Still, I was thinking:
FORMER DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR MAYOR FUNKY, JOE MILLER PROBABLY HAS A PRETTY GOOD CIVIL RIGHTS CASE AGAINST CITY HALL!!!
Why?
Well, I was recently talking with a lawyer friend of mine handling an unrelated case (I'm suing my ex-girlfriend for not returning my calls) and it turns out mixing religion in the workplace is a big deal and often results in a lot of money paid out . . . Furthermore . . .
WHEN GLORIA SQUITIRO USED HER SMUDGE STICK ON JOE MILLER (hehe), SHE VIOLATED HIS CIVIL RIGHTS!!!
Here's the what happened for those of you who don't remember:
Warding off ‘evil spirits’ Gloria Squitiro twice lit dried bunches of sage, or “smudge sticks,” to rid the mayor’s office and staff members of “evil spirits,” according to former mayoral aide Joe Miller. The first time occurred just after Mark Funkhouser replaced Kay Barnes as mayor, Miller said. “She smudged the whole office, you know, at some point after we moved in … to try and get rid of the evil spirits of the Barnes administration.” The second smoking came as the communications team worked on a speech in which Funkhouser pleaded with council members not to ban his wife from City Hall. Miller said he thought it was hilarious. “Well, I’m weird, they’re weird, we’re a weird administration,” he said. “There was a certain amount of pride in the weirdness of it all.”Weird or not, forcing someone to partake in New Age/Wiccan religious practices in the highest political office in Kansas City is against the law.
Miller might want to consider his legal options (Ka-Ching!!!) considering the latest passage in his blog:
"Now I'm unemployed, going broke and best suited for a job in a field where there are none."Of course, I won't get any credit for throwing the idea out there and I probably won't even get an interview so that's why writing this EXCLUSIVE is important. Now, maybe Miller is just being coy, word is that he might have some family money out there and young liberals love to play poor more than anybody else in order to justify a screwed up worldview that doesn't even make sense to people who really have been persecuted . . . The word on Miller from some of the most experienced Kansas City political operatives is that he is hopelessly naive and was largely incapable of doing anything but nodding his head during lectures by Mayor Funky. Still, I just thought I'd put this idea out there to help him if he really does need the cash and has yet to think about his sure thing case . . . That's just the kind of compassionate jerk I am.
Thing is, I don't know what the future holds . . . Mayor Funky may be thrown out of office or Gloria and Funky may limp along as Co-Mayors for a little more than a year before election talk officially makes him a lame duck . . . But as the Co-Mayor is diligently working on his second job while staying away from City Hall and hiding out at his house . . . There's no reason that the people he shut out in the cold and then insulted all over local airwaves should starve . . . Very much like practicing New Age Wiccan pseudo spiritualism at City Hall - It just doesn't make sense.
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Bastard.
I'd like to hope there isn't a lawyer in town who would bring such a silly claim. He's on the record (under oath) saying he found it hilarious.
I've never understood why you expect to get much traction out of the New Age stuff. Would you be outraged if you discovered they used feng shui to design the office?
Smudge Gloria, the fat tub 'o goo pig!
Just because he found the act hilarious does not mean that he was not coerced to take part in a religious act by his employer. And then I would consider the orchestrated public relations campaign by the nepotismist co-mayors and their administration to demean Mr. Miller's reputation in the eyes of the public, including, potential employers and publishers.
I've got your smudge stick swinging inside my Champeen sweats.
Or, how about the hostile work environment created by Squitiro when she, according to Miller's deposition, refused to look at him or speak to him because he was simply doing what he was paid to do. He did testify that that was part of why he resigned.
what about those of us with allergies? can we sue?
Joe would get laughed out of court, so if that's what he wants he can go right ahead.
He's laughable now--and why does he give interviews? I'd STFU if there were ethics proceedings pending against me
Let's see, squit kept her crystals in the office and was upset when they were moved by the cleaners..
during the floor debate regarding the Volunteer Ordinance, she had the staff PRAY that the council vote nay. Yep she made the staff pray right there in front of the TV monitor.
She kept a Book of Shadows in the office in plain view.
She smoked up the place with a smudge stick. The same one that her idiot husband denied/ lied to the press about. Thanks TKC for showing the pictures of said stick and circling the damn thing in red ink. One was aired on national TV.
She blessed TKC at a city function. She organized a shaman lecture on the city's dime. She ordered books through city hall regarding Wicca.
She made staff genuflect to her and BEG forgiveness as if she was a Wicca Deity.(so far from the truth it would make a cat laugh. She is a lazy poser.)
I did not mind the pagan prayer before one of the early funky legislative meetings. It was just very silly, but for the troll to try to use witchcraft for revenge. well that is something else. You can not have a God unless you concede the presence of the devil.
Let's hold off on the smudge stick, Santino :) It's getting old...
Thanks for the link!
God knows where else she put the smudge stick. The guy's got more of a case than you could possibly imagine.
So you think Joe has a case? Hah!
Every non-Christian in city hall should get in the lawsuit line as there is a Christmas tree on every floor, carolers in the lobby and the entire government shuts down during Christmas. Talk about forced observance of another person's religious beliefs.
yeah, every city council meeting (thursday legislative session) is begun with a prayer by a minister (almost always christian, in my experience, which is not to be confused with research), and over the years, the words "lord" and "in jesus' name" were heard by me who is neither christian nor non-christian but cringes at that kind of thing regardless.
the shaman workshop mail was way out of line, though.
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