TKC BREAKING NEWS AND PARTY PIX!!! COWTOWN POLITICAL ELITE CELEBRATE AS THE TOTALLY RIGGED KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR VOTE STAYS WINNING!!!
Only a few hundred voters decided on a vote that will cost Kansas City more than $100 Million and probably a lot more this evening for a streetcar that only runs less than 2 miles.
The results . . .
Only a paltry 551 voters turned in ballots amid this Kansas City Toy Train Conspiracy
Here's a more in-depth look at the results
Sales Tax: 351 voted yes/198 voted NO
Property Tax: 344 voted yes/206 voted NO
But that's not the important part, this election was rigged from the very start.
Here's how it looked:
The Toy Train is the brain child of Council Dude Russ Johnson.
Also, look in the background and see Mayor Sly watching me watching him . . . Which I think is a 70s song.
Mayor Sly Money Quote: "Just like in my campaign, we said 'Either Go Big Or Go Home. Today Kansas City Voted Big . . . We Will Make Kansas City A World Class City."
A Toy Train supporter talking to a reporter asking a few questions that don't touch on the subject of this TKC Truism:
IF KANSAS CITY CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF A LOUSY $15K THAN HOW ARE WE GOING TO MANAGE A $100 MILLION CONTRACT!!!
The answer is: You should have attended college and majored in political consulting.
Check out Kansas City Toy Train Conspirators who labored tirelessly at coffee shops!!!
Here are 3 potential Kansas City Toy Train Riders who will have to support the $100 Million project.
Council Dude Glover said a lot of things but here's what stuck with me: "This vote was never about just one streetcar line. We are going to build more and we're going to have another line coming soon in the 4th District."
So that's another $100 million worth of property taxes and sales taxes levied on Kansas City.
Council Dude also exclaimed: "This is a night for partying."
Overall it was a pretty sad affair with politicos, consultants and other conspirators pretty much ruining this town . . . Not a word about other problems still plaguing Kansas City.
The Toy Train is the only solution Kansas City's political elite are offering this town.
LINKS:
Voters approve proposed streetcar line
Downtown voters approve streetcar funding taxes
Voters approve downtown streetcar tax
A pool of 550 Kansas City voters approved tax and property assessments that could make a two-mile streetcar line in Downtown a reality as soon as 2015.
Kansas city won!
ReplyDeleteYou lose TKC.
The Looters are in control
ReplyDeleteWe will run this train over your basement TKC. YOU LOSE!
ReplyDeleteMost of that $100 million will end up in the pockets of all the suits standing in that lobby that's obvious. No doubt parked somewhere to escape taxes.
ReplyDeleteAw don't they look cute in their green choo choo t-shirts?
ReplyDeleteAmazing how easy it is to sheer the taxpayers isn't it.
ReplyDeleteRelax. Despite the proven record of failures with this type of project it's giving all the supporters that groovy touchy feely feeling. Discovering they been ripped off comes later down the line.
ReplyDeleteShovel ready jobs. Like standing in hole six feet deep shoveling away convinced your at a ground breaking ceremony.
ReplyDeleteRaise taxes to encourage economic growth?
ReplyDeleteWhere have we heard this strategy before?
It's Obama economics.
So let me guess China will be making most if not all of the parts.
ReplyDeleteKeep fighting the good fight Tony.
ReplyDeleteSly's now using the "your either with us or against" thing. What a jerk.
ReplyDeleteCrony Capitalism on Steroids
ReplyDeleteASSHOLES are in charge of KC.
ReplyDeleteBottomless tax payer money pit.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the next Detroit.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for the ape in a bow tie.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you people understand, this is ILLEGAL.
ReplyDeleteThey are raising taxes on all of us without voter consent. They are borrowing against a district without a credit raiting, they are looting the general fund for this project.
This is the biggest ripoff KC has ever seen that. Has been led by a Mayor who is too dumb to know what's happening.
It's time to call for an investigation of these crimes. This is nothing less than fraud.
Youre right
DeleteWill the 550 use it or just go wow look at us we can do gimmicks too!
ReplyDeleteCrooks, Liars, Thieves
ReplyDeleteYour Kansas City "leaders" at play.
The voters in KC are a bunch of sheep.
Everybody is talking about tax dollars that just aren't there. This will blow up in their faces, the elite will abandon it and it will be a 9am to 8pm tourist train for downtown drunks and tourist.
ReplyDeleteThis crew from the mayor on up makes Bernie Madoff look like an honest saint.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for Kyle James to crash the party and start a fight!
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with this either, but I hope all you anonymous goons commenting on a blog actually, you know, call the city tomorrow, and every day after that, you know, actually DO something to express your displeasure. Signed, another anonymous goon.
ReplyDeleteI have already contacted Kansas to see about incentives to move my business over there. I also plan to boycott any business with one of those insipid "streetcar supporter" signs in their window. There is no restaurant in the TDD good enough to go to that justifies adding a total of 13% extra in sales taxes to the bill (don't forget about the 1/2% increase for the Parks effective Jan. 1.
ReplyDeleteWell your getting the progress you want like it or not. You can't sit around complaining Funkhouser isn't blowing enough money on stupid idiotic things we don't need that's about the only benefit. Sly will bankrupt this city soon enough.
ReplyDeleteSLY KINGFISH JAMES. MAYOR KINGFISH.
ReplyDeleteSly is quoted by KMBZ news that he didn't care about the citizens who this affects and didn't have the opportunity to vote on it. 600 and some voters voted for it and that will tax all of KC and it's visitors.
ReplyDelete100 million dollars for 2 miles....and Sly doesn't understand why so many businesses are moving to Kansas.
And his he doesn't care about those who didn't vote speaks to his arrogance.
Let them downtown mutherfuckers pay for it be my guest!
ReplyDeleteYOU just got fucked, Kansas City. Do you feel dirty, used, spent??? You should. You'll feel sore later on...
ReplyDeleteTony, you said the election was rigged? Do you mean voter fraud? No story here, it doesn't exist.....ha
ReplyDeleteRuss Johnson's 15 minutes of fame are now over.
ReplyDeleteNo, this fiasco is just beginning. KCMO is notorious for big ribbon-cuttings and balloon launches and then completely ignoring and neglecting how things are actually done and how they turn out. It will shortly on to the next big thing for Johnson and the rest of the gang at city hall.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's when THE REAL MONEY is there for the taking.
We ain't seen nothing yet!
BOYCOTT KC
ReplyDeleteSimple.
Effective.
Money talks, people!
Not one thin dime. Spend your hard-earned money elsewhere.
@7:09pm Can you post a link to where Sly said that? If he really said that it would be great to have and bring up when he runs for reelection. Of course by then, this whole thing will have collapsed of it's own weight, just empty folly trolley cars going back and forth, up and down Main Street.
ReplyDeletePardon me Boy...Is that the Kansas City Choo Choo!!!! Mayor Sly "Casey Jones" James with a steady hand on the throttle on a train bound for nowhere. All aboard!
ReplyDeleteWho's the blonde fatty in the green skirt??? I'd like to do her calves and cum on her feet!
ReplyDeleteDearest TKC,
ReplyDeleteAs one of the "3 potential Kansas City Toy Train Riders who will have to support the $100 Million project. ",(pictured in your blog) I have to say you are pretty grumpy (when's the last time you had a good B.M.?) Just because someone is not wearing a suit does not mean they are automatically "toy train" car riders (I do own a car mister). We did the marketing for the streetcar, are okay with a tax increase and pretty ecstatic it passed. Just because someone looks a certain way does not mean they are a "young downtown dweller".
Hugs Kisses and Things,
S.W.
PS- I like all the poopsluts on your blog...good work.
Kansas City wins. Suck it, haters. Have fun driving to joco to 'spend your money elsewhere.' Hey sue @655, kansas won't have much incentive for you when they stop collecting taxes next year. Good riddance.
ReplyDelete- downtown hipster who will see all of you clowns on the streetcar soon
pussy, several star folks were there and you wouldn't make eye contact. just like last time.
ReplyDelete^ Downtown anus feaster ^
ReplyDeletePardon me Boy...Is that the Kansas City Choo Choo!!!! Mayor Sly "Casey Jones" James with a steady hand on the throttle on a train bound for the BANK.
ReplyDeleteBuh, bye, Sue. Why don't you float on a filter down your river of crocodile tears. I'm sure nothing will happen to your building after you sell it for 3x what you paid for it. Enjoy NKC, where they already have a mechanism in place to fund a streetcar extension, or Kansas, where they have TDD's all over to pay for mall parking lots...
ReplyDeleteGo ahead and boycott. Spend your money at taxpayer subsidized chain restaurants in beigeland so KS can funnel your $$ to its corporate masters to move businesses back and fortch between identical office centers in cornfeilds.
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ReplyDeleteThe toy train got more actual votes than Obama did in KC.
Sly...indeed.
Meanwhile, Kansas is spending $600 million on an interchange where there already one that no one uses for traffic volumes that do not exist and aren't supposed to until 2025.
ReplyDelete$600 MILLION.
So buy all means, move to that zone of fiscal sanity.
Welcome to REAL Kansas City. Don't like it, get the fuck out. Fucking suburbanites.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fine bit of civic activism. Good job bringing my firm the tax money mayor Sly James. I believe that your people say "you are my boy." I would like to echo that statement but I don't mean it the same way they do.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for choosing my firm for the design contract before the Voting even began Mayor. Greed is good.
ReplyDeleteSo the Perez Hilton looking nerd voted against or for? Or was he just pretending he gives a shit.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the broad with the birds nest on her head next to him?
ReplyDeleteunethical election plus illegal bond sales makes a toy train. Thanks Russ!!
ReplyDelete2 more years and we will finally flush you out!
Why should we give a damn about your problems! It's not our problem!
ReplyDeleteAmateur internet lawyer's shrieking illegal really give me giggle.
ReplyDeleteYou're ridiculous, motherfucker.
KC "Planning":
ReplyDeleteThe ship is sinking...
It's time to polish the brass!
Major loss for citizens of KCMO. Nice victory for the out of town promoters, developers, consultants, & contractors.
ReplyDeleteWoo hoo think I'll buy me a Maserati. Thanks taxpayers!
ReplyDeleteJohnson County looks better every day.
ReplyDeleteThe real ironic part is no one outside of Kansas City is going to give a shit.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Streetcar Conspiracy
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/96744187
Only the idiots at City Hall would fall for this.
Ludicrous.
ReplyDeleteKansas City is finally moving into the 21st century! I love Sly.
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ReplyDeleteKC Politics - emptying the wallets of empty-scrotum sheep.
and the fine citizens of KC wonder why all the cops in this town are so pissed off. So much for getting senior officers/defectives up to state statue pay grades. Thanks FOP and the slug command staff, BOPC, city council, and most importantly "sly-dawg"!
ReplyDeleteTaxing only that corridor would avoid asking for a city-wide vote or a citywide tax.... which have failed every time except one when voting on light rail. Sherri McIntyre June 2011
ReplyDeleteTKC,
ReplyDeleteWhy haven't you linked the assault that happened today at central high school. Wait a minute, its under different name now? If u haven't heard about it, u best do some digging. A weapon made it into the school today!
"It will be the smallest number of voters committing the largest amount of money in the history of the city," said Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III, speaking as chair of the Show-Me Institute free-market think tank on Kansas City Public Television's "Week in Review" show.
ReplyDeleteKemper, who lives downtown, points out the project would entail decades of debt payments and annual operating costs of about $3 million, pushing the price tag way above $100 million.
"We have waited too long. We have fallen behind," James said in a letter to Commerce Bank Chairman Jonathan Kemper, another critic of the plan.
ReplyDelete“If you live ten miles from downtown, your house and your stores won’t be taxed,” said Kansas City Councilman Russ Johnson, a streetcar proponent. “But if you’re inside that benefit district, you’ll pay for it.”
ReplyDeleteHuh? Wait a minute here
Glover is a nice guy but one of the dumbest individuals in a 4 state area, excluding any Governor's Mansion.
ReplyDeleteHow many fucking no work jobs do I control for my idiot off-spring and friends? That is what the train means to me!
ReplyDeleteI may not be too long but I'm stiff as heck and ready pound it home any way I can. Thanks a lot KC, I just unloaded in your district and it felt great.
ReplyDeleteThe train will be gone in less than 8 years...the only riders in the end will be niggers who want to get out of the rain or want a place to eat they chicken.
ReplyDeleteTt's a way to transport 25 year olds to their jobs making coffee downtown.
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ReplyDeleteBend over, biotches!
7:22 there wasn't a link to it, but Bill Grady the reporter is the one who reported Sly's comments
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the KCMO school district remains in ruins. $100,000,000....for two miles of track.
ReplyDeleteRuss Johnson's ideas are just terrific, aren't they? aspirations of being Mayor? I am sure his suggestion to put the ambulance into the fire department, which has been a miserable failure and now the ridiculous toy train will prevent his being mayor from ever happening. He is an idiot and has little man syndrome.
ReplyDeleteMove out of KC. That's the only solution.
ReplyDeleteAlready did. More to follow..Watch!
ReplyDelete"Either go big or go home." Well, the round mound of downtown has certainly kept his waistline up to this billing.
ReplyDeleteKC continues to become a BIGGER shithole cowtown than it already is.
ReplyDeleteREAL KC keeps winning, suburbs keep losing. Suck beige tracts houses fearful white folk.
ReplyDeleteFuckin Niggers
ReplyDeleteJim Glover and Russ Johnson are fools.
ReplyDeleteThe question is which one is the BIGGER fool?