TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY REVOKES CLEARANCE FOR 3RD DISTRICT CANDIDATE MICHAEL FLETCHER TO RUN FOR COUNCIL!!! FLETCHER RESPONDS WITH $500K LAWSUIT AND PROMISE TO DONATE PROCEEDS TO OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH!!!

Yesterday, TKC wrote a GROUNDBREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE story about the current drama at City Hall involving desperate attempts to get 3rd District Michael Fletcher off the ballot along with the quizzical behavior of Sharon Sanders Brooks.

But the story doesn't stop there . . . There's so much to report that I had to get help bring out all the details from a KICK-ASS TKC READER AND COMMENTER in order to follow-up coverage and stay ahead of the mainstream media.

First what's important to this post is the documents that I've shared with TKC TIPSTERS in the know.

Take a look at more . . .

Check the letter from the revenue dept. that rescinds previous Tax Clearance Approval of Mr. Fletcher's candidacy.

To begin the letter, Mr. Fletcher puts City Hall on notice that they're going to have to deal with his lawyers.

Now here's the old school letter that might be a point of contention. But then the financial receipt shows everything paid in full.

What do we know at this point?

A TAX BEEF IS HOLDING UP 3RD DISTRICT CANDIDATE MICHAEL FLETCHER FROM MAKING IT TO THE OFFICIAL BALLOT.

MR. FLETCHER DENIES ANY UNPAID PERSONAL TAXES.

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS MOVE AND RECENT DRAMA BETWEEN MR. FLETCHER AND COUNCIL LADY SHARON SANDERS BROOKS (SSB) IS RAISING A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

 THERE'S AN ALLEGATION THAT THE KANSAS CITY STAR WORKED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT PRIVATE TAX RECORDS THE CITY MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPROPERLY SHARING!!!

FINALLY, THIS ELECTION FLAP COULD COST KANSAS CITY QUITE A BIT OF MONEY THAT JUST MIGHT (DESERVEDLY) END UP AT OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH WHERE IT COULD BE PUT TO BETTER USE!!!

Now let's get on to the collaborative TKC GUEST POST by an author who has been following this drama for quite awhile and explains all of this in greater detail.

Check it:

The significance of these documents is difficult to overstate.

First, it is critical to understand that the U.S. Constitution expressly prohibits the government from searching not only the homes of American citizens but of their property including their writings.

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that:

“ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and Warrants shall not be issued, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Therefore at the writing of our Constitution the Founding Fathers sought to deny the government access to the private "papers" of Americans without a search warrant based on probable cause.

Here, Mari Ruck who isn't some clerk or secretary or assistant but is the highest ranking management employee in Kansas City, Missouri's Finance Department's Rrevenue Division conducted an illegal search of Michael Fletcher tax records going back to at least 2007, and did so without a search warrant or any concern for the Constitutional rights of Michael Fletcher which should scare the hell--not out of Michael Fletcher--but out of every person who believes the government can be trusted.

Think about it, the KCMO Finance Department in conjunction with the "Office of the City Attorney" illegally searched the confidential and private records of a candidate who the city officials do not like or who these officials fear his election.

We as Kansas Citians NOW KNOW that the City Attorney, Galen Beaufort, and the Director of Finance and the Commissioner of Revenue believe they can do whatever they want including initiating a legal proceeding against anybody they believe is a threat to them or who they do not like. So if a small business owner contests a tax lien or a homeowner thinks she was given a property tax appraisal that is inaccurate, the City of KCMO has made clear that they are willing to punish that tax payer to make them shut their mouths or to send a message to anybody else who challenges the city.

This is not what America is based on. The Constitution's protections against illegal searches is to protect us from the government, it is to ensure that the Government not steal our property or throw us into jail when we exercise our right to free speech.

This document shows that before the City chose seek to withdraw Michael Fletcher's certification that allowed him to run for City Council, that the City KNEW that Mr. Fletcher did not owe a single penny to the City but the City and Galen Baeufort went ahead and sued Fletcher without a legal basis--This is corruption and if WE ALL do not stand against the City's attack, we will be inviting the City to attack our neighbor, brother or even our children.

The City had no legal basis to sue Fletcher because the City Charter mandates that a candidate for city council not owe any personal taxes. The City's own letter, written by Mari Ruck admits that when Fletcher filed the "Revenue Division found no taxes in arrears listed under the tax account for your social security number..."

Therefore they issued a tax clearance letter because he owed no personal taxes.

Therefore, when the City then filed the law suit against Fletcher--which he learned about when the KC STAR Reporter Lynn Horsely told him about it and admitted that the City had also discussed his taxes with her--the City of Kansas City KNEW that Michael Fletcher did not owe taxes and was qualified in every way to seek election BUT the City STILL sued him and continues to try and deny the voters of the 3rd District an amazingly qualified city councilman who WILL stand up and fight, not for purposes of fighting BUT because he believes African Americans and Latinos are entitled to the same rights as Caucasians.

What may be more shocking is that there is no question that THE KANSAS CITY STAR is now openly actively working with the City Attorney, the Finance Department and the Commissioner of Revenue to attack Michael Fletcher in hopes of defeating his candidacy. To date the Kansas City Star has NEVER reported the truth about Fletcher's "suspension" which Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White admitted was based on an "arbitrary and unwritten rule" that Gary Fenner and Ortrie Smith (two white federal judges who never had to worry about paying $10,000 in earnings tax) came up with to "fuck" Fletcher.

The Star instead of exposing Judges Fenner and Smith for the racist judges who started this attack against Fletcher 8 years ago based on their false allegations that Fletcher "misquoted" testimony in a motion filed by two white associates--not Fletcher--refuses to print the court dockets that show Fletcher NEVER filed the very documents that they claim support his unprecedented "suspension." The Star's Lynn Horsely is happy to announce the City's lawsuit against Fletcher, weeks before this election, but refuses to report that, Fletcher's entire suspension started only after Gary Fenner questioned Michael Fletcher's "integrity" at a function at the Lake of the Ozarks during a dinner conversation, which caused Fletcher to laugh at Fenner and point out that "your date's husband or your wife probably wouldn't consider you to be an authority on integrity" referencing Gary Fenner and Judge Peggy McGraw's adulterous affair which was carried on in the open and amongst hundreds of lawyers who attended the the Bench Bar function..and like most lawyers to cowardly to question two judges carrying on an adulterous affair in public.

Based on this admission by the City which proves Michael Fletcher was falsely sued, TKC has learned that on Friday Fletcher will hold a press conference where he will present even more evidence to show that this law suit which Galen Beaufort is praying will save his job because Fletcher will not allow him to stay on as City Attorney if he wins. At this press conference Fletcher is going to put the City on notice that he will agree to settle his claim within the next seven days against the City and its employees individually for malicious prosecution, constitutional violations and invasion of privacy and his claim against Sharon Sanders Brooks in exchange for $500,000--all of which he will donate to Operation Breakthrough. If the City refuses to pay his claim, he will seek a million dollars against the City the proceeds of which he will also donate to charity.

According to Fletcher the only way "dumb and corrupt people learn is by forcing them or the people who control them to pay money" and that "if people like Beaufort, the Commissioner of Revenue, SSB and the City Manager stand by and let corruption continue, we as a City will be at risk for even more millions of dollars in damages and even more embarrassment."
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