TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! SIGN OF THE TIMES!!! SMARTKC BILLBOARDS ATTACKING THE KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR HIT STREETS TODAY!!!
Here's the latest Kansas City POWER MOVE to challenge the upcoming "phase II" streetcar vote.
To wit . . .
CHECK THE START OF A BILLBOARD AND SIGN CAMPAIGN GEARED TOWARD PUTTING THE BREAKS ON THE KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN!!!
Here's the word . . .
"SMARTKC's campaign against the streetcar shifted into high gear on Wednesday with the installation of its first billboard on I-70."
Even better, we're seeing yard signs cropping up throughout Midtown and the urban core aimed at challenging the toy train streetcar that was railroaded past voters in a gerrymandered district last time around.
KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDERS tell us that this is just the first salvo in what should be an SHOCKING fight to check an pricey project that's set to spike sales taxes throughout Midtown Kansas City.
Developing . . .
The fact is that the more people get to vote on this one, the fewer people end up supporting it. These guys can only win when they don't face any opposition.
ReplyDeleteOn our way, you will pay!
ReplyDeleteMr. Tony,
ReplyDeleteCould you tell me dear where I can obtain a vote no sign?
having a confessed slanderer as our biggest cheerleader is the best public relations move possible!
ReplyDeleteWhere can I get a sign? I know others that will want them, too.
ReplyDeleteNutter hate light rail and loves bitch slapping Sly.
ReplyDeleteSly is about to have 2 losses this August, street car and Sherwood.
ReplyDeleteWhat a paradox. I don't know whether to support trains or those damn billboards.
ReplyDeleteWin win for us 6:32
ReplyDelete"TOY TRAIN STREETCAR" is a moronic description. It's a STREETCAR, not a "TOY TRAIN STREETCAR" as ONLY YOU wanna call it.
ReplyDeleteGIVE IT UP. If you wanna diminish the 'streetcar, call it a "TOY STREETCAR". It's not a train at all and sorry, Tony, you just don't have that much political influence to rename it to something it's not!
No one will ever call it that, but YOU.
Maybe you should give up overused and tiresome words like "TOY TRAIN" and "TKC EXCLUSIVE" and "(Whatever) IS WINNING".
They are now irritating because of your overuse of these tritisms.
BE on the EDGE, not on the BEHIND! bud!
Thanks Jan
DeleteConnect KC (Streetcar Engineering Specialists) are knocking. The one that knocked at our place seemed to be more interested in the 18 year old teen girl our neighbor next door and couldn't even answer any basic questions.
ReplyDeleteHere to. The guy said I dunno I'm just making some extra cash. Ya voting for the TDD or not?
ReplyDelete6:07; if you want a sign, check grocery stores within the TDD on the 12th & 13th.
ReplyDelete7:12 seems a little out of breath and desperate.
ReplyDeleteThere's no question that the more people learn about this financial fiasco, the less support it has. That's why the original clever plan was to get the camel's nose under the tent with just 375 votes. It's really too bad that tens of millions have already been squandered by the merry little band of transit enthusiasts, urban futurists, and millenial kiddie corps supporters who stampeded the empty-headed electeds into such a harebrained adventure.
You'll end up with the Main Street line, poorly constructed, poorly run, not maintained at all, and with very little ridership. And without any serious dedicated funding, so money will be leeched from the general fund forever.
And bonds of $10-15 million a year will continue as far as the eye can see.
And all the supporters will have found a really neat "Next Big Thing" and have moved on.
Only the bills will remain.
Where do I get a sign????
ReplyDeleteGreat use of Nutter cash!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know if those trains have a lot of copper in them? ...just checking
ReplyDeleteThey will at first.
ReplyDeleteToddler Russ Johnson is throwing a tantrum right now because the Taxpayers are going to take away his credit card. "Whaaaa!! Where's my binky? Call big daddy James!! whaaaa!!"
ReplyDeleteThis Toy Train Streetcar is really a joke. Now it has been revealed that there is a $15,000,000.00 shortfall. That means that the proponents can't add or they didn't want anyone to know that until after the vote. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! TOY TRAIN STREETCAR!!
ReplyDeleteI heard that the opposition is starting to get campaign checks. Slow but sure. Send yours into Smart KC.
ReplyDeleteToy train toy train toy train!! Stop the fucking toy train!!!!!! (Toy train)
ReplyDelete(Toy train again)
www.besmartkc.com is the website to donate. Donate $25-$50 bucks now to make sure you aren't fucked out of thousands of dollars later by this hare-brained streetcar scheme.
ReplyDeleteVote no on the 3/4 cents State sales tax too. KC has made a deal to use it for the toy train.
ReplyDeleteRenew 1/4 cent Fire tax. No on everything else.
Voting no may be the right thing to do, but I wouldn't send opposition any money. A billboard on I-70?? That's a total waste of campaign money. They're paying for truckers between St. Louis and Denver and beyond. You would think they would know enough to advertise to voters in the urban core, where it will be on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteVOTE NO ! And a big NO on the 1/4 Fire tax!
ReplyDeleteFire tax is the biggest sham of all
ReplyDeleteJust VOTE No!
ReplyDeleteI do not like the Toy Train Tax.
ReplyDeleteI do not like it in a glass. I do not like it after Mass. I do not like it up my ass.
No, I do not like the TOY TRAIN TAX.
Vote NO on every new tax. The government has more than enough of our tax money, and it needs to spend within its means.
ReplyDeleteHear that, tax and spend sly James, and your foolish Entourage?
Vote NO - that's right a big NO by the people - on any new or renewed taxes until they show us they can spend what they already get wisely. That means on basic services and repairing/upgrading existing infrastructure.
ReplyDelete10:47 FTW !
ReplyDeleteRemember the e tax of 1% and the Combat tax that no one will audit. Chip chip away at our hard earned dollars. Enough is enough. Vote NO
ReplyDeleteName it the Bernie Madoff Streetcar System
ReplyDeleteIf it passes, I will most definitely STFU.
ReplyDeleteRight.
It's not about the toy train it's about the fucking political ripoff. Shame on them all.
ReplyDeleteRadioman, why don't you just email Tony your words of wisdom?
ReplyDeleteAlong I-70? Does anyone against the train have any idea?
ReplyDeleteThe people on the eastside that would be most interested in more bus service instead do not take I-70 to work.
They take the bus.
10:26 PM +100!!!
ReplyDeleteSane people will vote "no."
ReplyDeleteSounds like the TOY TRAIN STREET CAR is going up in flames. Is Markuson in charge of the hot dogs? Time to cook them on the TOY TRAIN FIRE. Oh I'm sorry she makes the potato salad.
ReplyDeleteIs Russ the bully boy watching the fire? Hope he isn't standing too close so the rivets in his levis brand him.
7:26 may have one of the best posts made since this whole toy train mess started. And sorry Binky Boi, a toy train is exactly what it is ... sort of like the Trolley on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood that took him to visit the puppets in Fantasyland. Ding! Ding! It's the same place KC's pocket of wannabe urbanites think it will take them, when in reality it will only take the taxpayers to the poor house.
ReplyDeletePolitically incorrect as it may be, my granddad used to use a term Ni--er rich to describe people whose shacks were falling down, but had a new Cadillac in the driveway. That's KCMO to a tee. Schools, public services and infrastructure is in are in the toilet, so the best use of millions and millions of dollars is a trolley car that goes a few blocks in a city that has always been, and always will be, dominated by cars.
10:26, Damn the opposition if they don't use your poem for their official slogan!!! ROFLMAO!!!
ReplyDelete5:00: Excellent post. I'm surprised Mensa boy has not responded with his usual accusations that the streetcar opponents all live in Leawood and are being paid for by Rex Sinquefield.
ReplyDeleteThat's so much easier than defending the toy train because he needs a job after he's termed out next year.