The decision to appeal is up to petitioners as the Pyrrhic victory should show voters where their e-tax money will be wasted. Checkit: Judge rules in favor of city in hotel petition case
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Awe poor tony and show me institute and Dan coffeyballs.
ReplyDeleteAppeal it, get away from the owned local judges
ReplyDeleteVote the judge out. She made a promise to uphold the constitution of the State of Missouri. Use the same petitioners to get the vote out to beat her at her retention vote. What a terrible verdict to not allow people to vote.
ReplyDeleteTOLD YOU SO!!! The kickass protestors have no say & no sway without no pay. That's how this city works. The spirit of Pendergast lives. See you guys at the hotel groundbreaking.
ReplyDeleteYa heard S'lie. He said half the Etaxes get paid by those KC workers living outside KC. Yep, that's right, over 130,000 +/- of YOUR city's residents who ain't in those good jobs, y'all. Wake up, speak up, and tell the Burke's hotel cronies EVERY LAST JOB -- construction to operations -- SHOULD BE HELD BY KC's LOCALS-- L.E.G.A.L. locals!
ReplyDeleteTime to start tossing tea into the Missouri river.
ReplyDeleteAs I have said in the past..this is going to happen, all you fucking retards against progress...well...told you so
ReplyDeleteIf you call progress spending millions so a few more illegals can get hotel maid jobs.
ReplyDeleteAppeal!!
ReplyDeleteCitizens (of Kansas, mostly) For Retarded Griping.
ReplyDeleteJudge rules in favor of hotel...judge is a sick corrupt bastard who should be thrown out of office or stomped to death.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of our schooldays together....
ReplyDeleteDen Coffey is a loser!
Den Coffey is a loser!
Na, na, na, na, nah hah!
Let this be the LAST tax payer subsidized project downtown. S'lie and his cronies won this won and will get to laugh all the way to the bank with the money they get under the table on this deal. Huge win for a mayor who ran his first campaign on government "transparency". What a load of shit.
ReplyDeleteIt's to the point now where any developer that comes calling for TIF gets it. That needs to change. The term "blighted" has become so deformed and disfigured that Helzberg is claiming her vacant warehouse in the Crossroads constitutes blight and is worthy of TIF. Please. Give me a fucking break. Crossroad has been a HEAVY TIF area for over a decade. One vacant building in that district does not warrant the term blight thus making it worthy of TIF. But that's the environment that Cleaver, Queen Kay and now S'lie James have created.
I couldn't stand Funkhouser but at least he stood up to developers who came to table asking for corporate welfare. Granted, Funkhouser represented the extreme opposite of S'lie/Barnes. But somewhere between those two extremes is where KC needs to move to for it's incentive policy. Funkhouser pretty much shut the city down for business at the risk of growing the city. S'lie/Barnes give out tax incentives faster and easier than a drunk hooker gives up the goods on a boat full of sailors.
The bullshit needs to stop. The city has allowed a ridiculous amount of projects that stretch from the River to the Plaza to be TIF'd. When does it end? When do WE start seeing a return on our reluctant investment? And when do we get to the point where developers don't need incentives to build between the river and the Plaza? Haven't we primed the pump enough that developers can walk on their own?
KC is a mess. You have 30 percent coons who basically don't pay taxes anyway. They are all for you spending your money, just like they are all for the E Tax, because they are not paying shit and anyone they can rob just means more for them. They are always willing to spend money on anti white RACIST leaning projects and activities. To add to the problem other ethnic groups, especially whites, just occupy space, pay the bills and do little to nothing - including voting. Until this changes, and it wont) you are owned.
ReplyDeleteActually, it is hard to see how the judge could have ruled any other way. In fact, it may mean that the BNIM/Helzberg project referendum petitions should have simply been ignored.
ReplyDeleteAnd, it is the STATE LAW that pretty clearly says that TIFs are NOT subject to referendum -- probably for the exact reason that the BNIM project ran into trouble: If a redevelopment project (regardless of its merits) can be effectively torpedoed by a small % of disgruntled petitioners (only 100 to stall for 40+ days to submit signed petitions, then only 5% to stall until a future election, imposing the cost of an election and campaign in addition to the base costs of the TIF) then the TIF statute is meaningless. Any project is subject to the "heckler's veto" of ten opponents.
Reasonable people can disagree over the merits of an individual TIF project. (Although much of the opposition seems to come from a misunderstanding of what the "I" in TIF means: "Incremental". No taxing district ever loses present income in a TIF.) But effectively requiring KC to have a "town hall meeting" and show of hands at the ballot box for such things is an abuse of the referendum process -- and violates state law rather specifically designed to prevent such.
Illegal maid jobs?...you dumbass, someone has to clean up after idiots like you-
ReplyDeleteHotels create jobs for people at all levels...executives to the lowly maids you described...
Downtown needs more CORPORATIONS to move in. All these hotel and restaurant jobs are nice and all but what downtown really needs is more high end corporate jobs.
ReplyDeleteIf KC wants to work on something, focus on figuring out a way to bring more larger companies downtown from the suburbs.
I don't want any nigger maids at any hotel I stay at. They wipe their butts on the sheets.
ReplyDeleteI recently watched this documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXuUYXrt54
which is a predictable leftist attempt to gain sympathy for negro teens sentenced to life for murders like the one described above.
"We're the only country that sentences kids to life!" excretes the Marxist attorney.
The message is they deserve a second chance because of all the usual excuses: poverty, gangs, racism, no jobs, failed schools, etc. Very little time is devoted to the broken lives of their victims but we're treated to long sobbing interludes of the thug's mother and other fambly members. I can just imagine the White cucks who produced the thing. They should all be forced to live with these black demons.
OK, so what lessons did we learn? Specifically, what was so vague about the language of the petition? Someone spell that out. Let's just make NEW mistakes. And we are all on notice now, that a turnover on the council is when mischief is done. The new rule had the newly elected council members not "seated"/sworn in, for months after the election--until August, AFTER the budget was approved by those on their way out of office. So voters beware. Mayor James rammed thru the Hyatt hotel deal with folks who had nothing to lose. They were not re-elected. Or they were term-limited. Lesson: Hold their feet to the hotel oven fire...
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be funny if all of them showed up on the exclusive catering staff?!! Wearing white jackets instead of prison stripes for selling out their constituents?! We all know it is going to be a mess with a sole source caterer. It's ethically wrong.
Voters: Who sold you out? Find out when they approach you at some fancy Chamber dinner at the new hotel, asking, "Do you want cream with your coffee? And may I clear your plate?"