TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! KANSAS CITY INSIDERS SAY CATHY JOLLY STAYS LOSING MORE THAN ANYBODY AFTER PITCH EXPOSÉ!!!

This morning an important bit of Kansas City political reporting has local power brokers and insiders abuzz.

Credit where it's due: Steve Vockrodt wrote an important missive on all things related to a recent Jackson County FBI ruckus.

Take a look: Why was Mike Sanders so eager to get Brittany Burke a Jackson County paycheck?

The Pitch gives credit to The Star is a strange bit of kowtowing but let's not forget that our blog community documented this contract before anybody in Kansas City.

But I digress . . .  

Sadly, after about 3k words . . . The article doesn't really answer many/any questions about the Burke/Sanders connection  . . . Even worse, the story is far too complicated a polemic for Pitch readers who mostly pick up the alt. weekly for restaurant reviews and maybe a few quick promo/sponsored content articles which are much more skillfully written than the tripe @ Ink.

Still, there's something more interesting other than MSM speculation about what the FBI is or isn't gonna do . . .

MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE . . . KANSAS CITY INSIDERS SAY FORMER COUNCIL LADY AND CURRENT JAXCO CONSULTANT CATHY JOLLY STAYS LOSING IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS HOT MESS!!!



We won't speculate on what's gonna happen with JaxCo exec Mike Sanders . . . Nobody really knows BUT what Kansas City Insiders DO KNOW for sure is that, TKC was correct, and Cathy Jolly comes off looking like a very panicked lady in the midst of this controversy . . .

One insider brilliantly notes:

"This is horrible for Cathy Jolly, totally wrecked her image and nobody is going to trust her going forward. She's no longer regarded as a cheerleader, but something more akin to a stripper."

Ouch.

Here's a bit ore detail . . .

"How Cathy Jolly, purportedly a life- long friend of Sanders' wife (truly a very nice woman), would go SO FAR out of her way in the PITCH (for God's sake) to act as if she has never had an original thought in her head about anything concerning her EXORBITANT SALARY package at the county. To start, managing (Brittany) Burke and her contract was Cathy's almost sole job for almost a year. Cathy, as you know, works at most an honest 5-6 hours a week and spends most of her time berating the staff, then she goes home. Honestly T, she's one of the laziest people in local government. It stretches credibility to the extreme for her to now act as if she was somehow a casual observer to her own job . . . "

And now it gets personal . . .

"I know for a fact that Cathy DESPERATELY NEEDED A JOB so her kid could afford his PRIVATE SCHOOL tuition (yep, her kid does not go to public school) and Sanders was there to help her. How does she repay him? Now? Now she can't run away fast enough in an effort to avoid any chance at a little negative press or public scrutiny. It was an act of crude and petty disloyalty the likes of which, I must say, I'm not sure I have ever seen in local politics. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought of Sanders as a guy I would feel sorry for, but I do right now. Don't know any other way to say it. There is no doubt in my mind that other politicos will take notice (and are already might I add) of Jolly's incredible disloyalty to a person whom, in her own words, she has described as some of her best friends "in the world." They will conclude, if she would do it to them, then she would clearly do it to me. This is a town with many unwritten rules in local politics, and Jolly just committed the cardinal sin in an effort to avoid scrutiny for what she herself did. The fallout for her will, and should be, immense."

Personally, we think Cathy Jolly is still one of the very best local lady politicos but our esteem isn't always shared by the local elite and power brokers who play by their own set of rules unbeknownst to most plebs on Kansas City streets.

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