TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDERS FEAR MAYOR SLY HAS SILENCED THE CITY COUNCIL!!!
As we enter tense budget discussions in Kansas City the question of leadership has increasingly become part of the local discourse.
To wit . .
KANSAS CITY INSIDERS WORRY THAT MAYOR SLY JAMES HAS SILENCED THE CITY COUNCIL WITH HIS "WIN AT ALL COSTS" LEADERSHIP STYLE!!!
More . . .
SADLY, MAYOR SLY'S DOMINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL TRANSLATES INTO EVEN LESS REPRESENTATION FOR NEIGHBORHOODS!!!
Here's just an example of the discussion and premise of this local debate.
One Kansas City Insider notes: "There aren't any real City Council members left in the classic sense of the term. They all have been beaten down so much that they only seem to want to make the Mayor happy with their every move."
Another perspective . . .
"The lack of leadership and initiative from The City Council is a direct result of the Mayor's attitude and approach to governance. He doesn't want to hear ideas from anyone else. The Mayor is now notorious for shutting down Council members who step out of line."
Meanwhile, the last few members of the voting public are getting sold the idea that this silence and lack of creative thought from the City Council represents "cooperation" . . . However . . .
BEHIND THE SCENES MAYOR SLY'S DEMAND THAT EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER STAY "ON MESSAGE" HAS VIRTUALLY KILLED ALL NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUES!!!
Real talk . . . Really simple stuff like street lights, potholes, minor zoning disputes and the hum-drum complaints of Kansas City that most Council Members have to deal with are being met with the overtly political spin which has become the trademark of the Mayor Sly's Administration i.e. Ask your council member to fix a fire hydrant and you'll get a yearbook speech.
Realistically, Kansas City is getting the first look at a "strong Mayor" form of government and it's clearly something that only benefits Mayor Sly James and not the residents of so many local neighborhoods.
DEVELOPING . . .
Maybe it's time to bring back the old idea of more council districts.
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Yeah, these fuckers can't even find a missing $15K. All afraid of mini Mandingo warrior Sly, who is not even man enough to sexually satisfy a big booty black woman....he had to go mud sharkin'
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ReplyDeleteSly is part of the problem, NOT the solution.
He must think he's Obama Jr. or something.
The 15K is just the beginning of hush money.
ReplyDeleteHow can the FBI public corruption unit sit with their thumbs up there ass when there is a well documented theft of public money?
ReplyDeleteA stronger form of Mayoral government is not the problem, it seems to me.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, considering the inability of City Govt. in the past to accomplish anything other than dead lock, it might be a good thing.
The problem seems to be the incessant waste of money on vanity projects and the lack of good stewardship with regard to basic infrastructure, streets, sewers, stoplights, cops, crime etc.
I am way outta my pay grade here, but when cities in this country now face looming budget shortfalls by way of a decreasing tax payer base, immediately, strategies to aquire wealth by way of tourist dollars, or toy trains, or pro sports teams etc etc, are pushed on to the taxpayeer.
Look maybe it works...?
What is looks like to me, is that sharpening your pencil, making cuts, getting back to the unromantic basics of running a city that is safe and solid, would do more to draw bsuiness and people back to the tax base, than vanity projects.
The added impulse, to view THIS city like Denver, or city A, or city B in our minds, is an oversimplification that negates literally thousands of variables which defeat that vision by way of geography, demographic, weather, commerce et al, before we even begin to pretend we are something we are not.
I am sure, there is a way to actually look at the efficacy of the cash spent on initiatives like the P&L, the Chiefs, Bartle Hall etc etc etc. I am in NO way saying that those, or any other projects have turned out poorly.
I do believe, that actuaries and accountants with no agenda, could figure out the REAL cost benefits of the monies spent to this point and determine the positives or negatives.
It is NOT that tough.
The problem isn't that Sly is silencing the city council. It's that the city council has nothing to say.
ReplyDeleteNotice how quiet Tony is about Ray Naggin?
ReplyDeleteThe way to save Urban Centers, major cities in the United States, Kansas City, Atlanta, St. Louis and dozens of other cities, which are now sliding into chaos and a Hobbesian nightmare of predation and filth, is to kill off the African American sub culture that is the categorcal direct cause of that same destruction.
ReplyDeleteThe 100 million dollars spent on the Toy Train, or any other vanity projects to bring working taxpayers into an area, would be better spent on law enforcement (New York type "Stop and Frisk"), prisons, neighborhood renewal, neighborhood surveillance (In Atlanta, they are using TANKS for chrissakes.) and social intitiatives which finally face the truth, African Americans are unable to raise children and society has to do it.
Interjection by the state, placing children at the first sign of sociopathic or criminality in a military style setting where achievement and success are rewarded will end the cycle of disgraceful African American parenting over the last 40 years.
A strong consistant military presence in urban neighborhoods all over the US, concomitant with military style grade schools and high schools will end this cycle of destruction in our cities.
The trillions of dollars spent on Affirmative Action, social engineering bullshit laws, set asides, "Protected Class" horseshit, has brought American cites to their knees.
There can either be change, or there can be Detroit.
Boots on the ground in inner cities along with the effort it takes to face the truth and make changes, are the ONLY thing that will stop the necrosis, the cancer that kills, literally and metphorically, all of us every day in the streets and in our wallets.
By the time both James and Brownback get finished I doubt there will even be much left worth sticking around for in this city. Just take the loss and try to find somewhere sane to live.
ReplyDeleteHow it will be till you all vote the next idiot into office
ReplyDeleteTony -
ReplyDeleteThe photo for this post = brilliant associative comedy!
lmao
Knock Knock
ReplyDeleteHas the photos of Cindy Circo surfaced yet?
ReplyDeleteThis city is just like all cities, it rots from the urban core out and destroys everything as it expands.
ReplyDeleteChuck is high if he thinks it will evrr change.
Diversity stupidity
Don't worry the toy train and other ill advised glamour projects we can't afford will create the illusion we are growing our way to prosperity.
ReplyDeleteAs long as city hall can continue masking risk, cost and consequence everything will be fine!
Megalomania anyone?
ReplyDeleteI'm not typically a Chuck fan, but I'd say he hit the nail on the head with his two previous posts.
ReplyDeleteChuck is the most intelligent, educated commenter on this blog. That doesn't mean that he is always right.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants me to take in the homeless, the refugees, etc. I invite Chuck to relocate here (Tony, too.) I will help in finding a situation. He would be a lot happier here, & he won't have any trouble finding employment in the construction field. (Contrary to mythology, we're booming.) Housing is a lot more affordable & there's almost no crime. Only thing is, if he rants about the blacks, everyone will wonder what the hell he's on about.
I'm serious, Chuck. You would discover that all the stereotypes, are well, stereotypes, & you will find that you're living in Eden. The reduction is stress alone will extend your life.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a one-way Bromance is brewing.
Look out Chuck and keep checking your six. :O
I appreciate the comments Byron, but I love Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteI will always be here bitching.
Its what I do, like the scorpion stinging the frog.
Chuck, I can appreciate that. Home is where the heart is.
ReplyDeleteAfter three years, its very hard for me to stay away from this blog, even though I am routinely insulted. Its my nature to keep on keeping on.
Its just that on some levels, I know that we could sit down & smoke a bowl together, & enjoy the augmented conversation. We angrily disagree sometimes, but we have a lot in common, too. If I completely piss you off sometimes, remember that on some levels I see a compatriot.
Before you decide to smoke a bowl with Byron remember, he's a weenie washer.
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ReplyDelete*Gack!*
I copy.
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Cindy's tits still look mighty fine in a bowling shirt! Mighty fine, I say..
ReplyDeleteYes, yes they do! I'd put some nipple clamps on her and stroke her breasts with a feather duster. Yep, that's what I'd do....for starters.
DeleteSaying its so, doesn't make it so.
ReplyDeleteKC has had a strong mayor for years. hence Union Station, Jazz district, 18th & Vine, Sprint Center, Trains, P&L, Sputnick looking art at Bartle, money for toy sports stadiums and soon to come the sudden desperate need to spend millions to restore the old worthless Kemper.
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