TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! CLAY CHASTAIN CONTINUES LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST MAYOR SLY!!! TRANSIT ACTIVIST AND 'THE GENERAL' LEE FILE APPEAL TODAY!!!

Right now Kansas City's most strident transit activist isn't giving up hope and keeps pushing forward with his election lawsuit against Mayor Sly James.

To wit . . .

CLAY CHASTAIN AND "THE GENERAL" ARE STILL GOING AFTER KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY WITH AN APPEAL OF THEIR LAWSUIT THAT WAS DISMISSED EARLIER THIS WEEK!!!

Moreover . . .

MR. CHASTAIN CONTINUES TO CALL OUT MAYOR SLY AND LOCAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA OVER THE COVERAGE OF THE LATE PAY TAX CRISIS!!!

Here's the word FIRST on this blog . . .

Chastain and Vincent (the General) Lee file appeal today.

Though Mayor James was "pleased" with Judge Fahnestock's ruling, we certainly were not.

In fact, we are appealing today Judge Fahnestock's opinion because not only was it wrong on the law from beginning to end, it was also not in the public interest.

Judge Fahnestock's failure to disqualify Mayor James as a candidate for being delinquent on his taxes as of January 13, 2015 (the last day upon which a candidate can file for the office of mayor ) was in violation of Section 71.005 RSMo.


It is not the first time the public interest has not been served in Kansas City where the government routinely overpowers the people, and the media looks the other way treating the people like mushrooms...feeding them manure and keeping them in the dark.

For instance...

* How was the public interest served when in 1995 Kansas City's government, led by Emanuel Cleaver, refused to follow the law and place before the voters a valid Union Station initiative signed by 8,349 voters while the media stood by and went woof woof?

* How was the public interest served when in 2007 Kansas City's government ignored the stated will of 75,000 voters and repealed a voter-approved light rail initiative without even trying to implement it or send it back to the voters while the media stood by and went woof woof?

* How was the public interest served when in 2011 Kansas City's government, led by Mayor James, hijacked another initiative and refused to place it before the voters while the media stood by and went woof woof?

* How was the public interest served when in 2014 Kansas City's government, led by Mayor James, placed before voters two tax measures without telling voters the taxes were associated with the initiative petition for light rail while the media stood by and went woof woof?

* And how was the public interest served when during the 2015 mayoral primary election much of the media kept promenading propaganda about my residency when no other candidate had politically or legally contested my qualifications to be a mayoral candidate?

Note: Reporter Steve Vockrodt of the Pitch (who seems to rejoice in tearing me to pieces) never once reported (during the mayoral primary) on my vision as a candidate or my stance on the issues facing the city, nor did Steve attend the mayoral forum hosted by the League of Women Voters. Amy Hawley of 41 News went so far as to go by my sister's house (where I reside when in Kansas City) and say, "he doesn't live here." Then, the camera swings to her pointing to Bedford on a Virginia State map... "he lives here, in Bedford, Virginia, she said." Meanwhile, in that same story, Amy was showing Mayor James reading to third graders and pinning medals on their shirts.

Nowadays, much of Kansas City's media is driven by sensationalism and not the public interest.

Thus, it is apparent that in Kansas City neither the government nor the media is a refuge for upholding the public interest.

If indeed we are a nation of laws and not influence, then we pray the appeals court will enforce the law, disqualify candidate Sly James, and act in the public interest.

Mayoral candidate Clay Chastain
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