TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! FULL TEXT: CLAY CHASTAIN OPPOSITION TO HIS OWN LIGHT RAIL PLAN AFTER CITY HALL BALLOT LANGUAGE SWITCHEROO!!!
Clay Chastain is justifiably raging after Kansas City politicos have shut him and swagger-jacked his light rail initiative.
And now . . .
CLAY CHASTAIN ANNOUNCES HIS OPPOSITION TO THE TRANSIT QUESTIONS HE HELPED PUT ON THE BALLOT!!!
There's a lot more to report on this but for now let's check Clay in his own words ONLY on TKC:
Clay Chastain reverses course, now opposes City Ballot Questions #1 & #2
Clay Chastain and the light rail campaign are reversing course and now oppose voter approval of the City's two tax initiative ballot questions (#1 & #2) slated for the November 4 KC election.
Whereas...
1. the City's two tax questions (there is no mention they are associated with the initiative petition for light rail) maybe unconstitutional, and a court will not hear our case until December 8, 2015;
2. Sly James and the council refuse to pass a separate resolution (#140) that would commit the city to using the taxes for the light rail initiative project 4,000 petition signers mandated;
3. voter approval would give Sly and the council a blank (fill in the project) $1.25 billion check (over the next 25 years) to use as they please;
4. and the fact the Sly James- led KC government is trying to manipulate voters and the outcome of a democratic election;
it would not be wise nor right to ask the voters of Kansas City to vote for such a dark election scheme hoping we could straighten it all out after the vote.
As one might expect, there is strong division amongst the light rail campaign over this radical reversal of positions given it took 3-years (and 5 court battles with Sly and the City) just to get something before the voters. Nevertheless, as the leader, I urge all voters not to be railroaded by Sly and to vote no on KC Questions #1 & #2 November 4.
Then I urge all KC voters to elect a new honest mayor and thinking council in 2015.
P.S. Don't expect to go unopposed in your bid for re-election Sly.
Clay Chastain
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Don't agree with Clay but it's hard to justify how the city did this, they are really bending election law with this strategy. Why can't voters decide with all the facts?
ReplyDeleteClay is a maniac, his "plan" is horrendous, but what the city is doing is shitty.
ReplyDeleteI voted for the streetcar, plan on voting yes on chastain's thing (hoping the it will expand the streetcar system at least to the plaza with the money) as I will vote yes on any transit investment it before me, but the not listing the reason for the tax question is totally unethical, if legal.
Clay finally wised up that the City has run the clock on him in court, and that this will be a BLANK CHECK for nasty Sly James and his corrupt crew to do whatever they want to with this money. Count on this being defeated big time, just like the streetcar boondoggle - yes it is a BOONDOGGLE Mensa boy -look it up if you don't know the definition.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Sly can count on a very nasty re-election bid. No one likes him.
And Mensa boy will hurf durf in three... two... .
ReplyDeletethis city administration HAS to go. They are all a bunch of thieves don't trust any of them or anyone affiliated with them. Corruption and Pendergast mentality abounds at City Hall.
ReplyDeletewhats a mensa?
ReplyDeleteWould vote for Clay for mayor over Sly, don't care where Clay lives.
ReplyDeletedon't worry, it wasn't going to pass even with his support
ReplyDeleteI like the irony from the first comment that the city is bending election law when the courts told them what they can and can't do, after a ruling from the state supreme court
ReplyDeleteShut up Joni.
ReplyDelete1:09: Ever heard of Google?
ReplyDelete1:09, its something that women go through for several days every month.
ReplyDeleteim new here..who is this mensa boy?
ReplyDeleteSo the nifty plans he drew on the cocktail napkin are in the trash?
ReplyDelete4:02 PM Road-rage Coucilman Russ Johnson. I don't know how he got that name because he's stupid as fuck! He's a sociopath.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone say BOONDOGGLE yet, if not I want to. Prolly will no matter what! It's so freaking clever! Plus original! Then maybe I'll say mensa. hahahaha, lulzerz.
ReplyDeleteClay should spend a night camping with Bishop Finn.
ReplyDeleteMensa boy has started his hurf durfing and using the word clever! Great job Mensa boy at 4:41! How about throwing around Sherry DeJanes name and talking about SMARTKC? Or even using the word clevar!
ReplyDeleteYou fucking lost. The streetcar was recognized by the voters as being a BOONDOGGLE. Look it up, Mensa boy, or go back to your dorm room at UMKC.
Did they lose? Cuz I was downtown the other day and it sure looked like they were laying tracks on main...
DeleteAnd because I can read a statement of votes cast.
Oh, they won that one, but they had to rig the vote to do it.
ReplyDeleteGo home Clay
ReplyDeleteWe lost and that is in our brains and it can not be forgotten. It is growing and will become a barrier which will not allow us to plan carefully or work hard enough to WIN. We are Losers. We are losers
ReplyDeleteto 6:34pm
ReplyDeletethey didn't rig the vote. that would be the Republican legislature with the assistance of big retail business interests. assisted by not one but four judges with a lawyer against the election involved.
If it was rigged, you'd think one of those people would have noticed, especially the lawyer against the formation election.