tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post4909068245843961835..comments2024-03-06T04:16:12.541-06:00Comments on Tony's Kansas City: ENROLL IN KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UNIVERSITY!!!Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17923450492847284487noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-25646549252280119102016-08-26T19:29:28.894-05:002016-08-26T19:29:28.894-05:00Basic knowledge of KCMO government 101:
1. Elect ...Basic knowledge of KCMO government 101:<br />1. Elect people with no appreciation or understanding of municipal public policy, but are in local politics strictly for their own self-importance and to look after their friends and future job prospects.<br />2. Sit at the feet of Chamber swells, lawyers from large firms, developers, bankers, and construction companies and be taught how the city actually operates and what your job actually is going to be.<br />3. Set side at least some time to attend endless town hall and community meetings where you participate in facilitating, dialoguing, and identifying stakeholders and pretend you actually have any interest in what residents or other taxpayers think, want or need.<br />4. Be sure to make decisions, in secret if possible, to keep your commitments to all the folks in item number two. Repeat as many times as necessary.<br />5. When you finally are term-limited out, run for some other public office, get appointed to the board of some nonprofit you've funded while in office, or, best of all, get a job offer in the private sector from some company you've helped throw millions of tax dollars at during your tenure.<br />That's petty much it, you D-list celebrity, you.<br />Now go out and conquer the big big world of KCMO politics!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10849017.post-9057241982325365112016-08-26T15:57:11.659-05:002016-08-26T15:57:11.659-05:00It would seem logical to me that the last place I ...It would seem logical to me that the last place I would want to go learn anything about community engagement, at any level, would be to the shit heels at city hall. This seems mire like an arrogant libtard attempt to blow smoke up the very people's asses who might actually know some thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com