Kansas City's Mayor works from home!!!

It's official, Mayor Funky has been so badly marginalized that he's working from home.

The news comes from The Star so I hope you d-bags will believe it this time around. Sadly, the Mayor is retreating to his house while still repeating rhetoric about how he is so available to his constituents and the Council. Here's a bit of his letter from The Star's Prime Buzz Blog:

Funkhouser has been making changes since the volunteer ordinance went into effect last month, including working from home more often.

Date: October 21, 2008

To: City Council

From: Mark Funkhouser

Subject: Mayor's schedule

As I continue to rework how I run my office, I am discontinuing regularly scheduled meetings with Council members who do not chair one of my committees. Making this change affords me with more flexibility to meet on-request with council members and other members of the community.

Since the beginning of my time in office, I have tried to make myself as available to you as possible. You all have my personal cell phone number. And you can always call me and Gloria at the house.

So make that two campaign promises that Mayor Funky has betrayed. Obviously, his relationship with the vast majority of the council is so strained that he isn't even taking regular meetings AND any talk of "transparency" is now a joke since the guy is literally hiding out in his house.

Again, I have to reiterate my concern about the liability that Kansas City faces IF Mayor Funky plans to host City Employees and conduct City business at his residence. I'm not a lawyer but Mayor Funky is already facing a lawsuit because of bad decisions regarding his working environment so his track record on this kind of this is pretty horrible.

Is the Mayor's residence properly zoned to host a City Office?

Does he have the proper insurance for his residence in order to host press on official City Business as he's already done? It's not that I'm worried about his screwed up finances but any newsie to take a spill could end up suing KC Proper.

Is his home wheelchair accessible so that all of Kansas City can have access to the Mayor? Obviously, this isn't a big deal to people who don't rely on wheelchairs but for those that do, the Mayor hanging out in a place that has no access kind sends the wrong signal.

Additionally, I wonder if his neighbors are okay with the new location of the de facto Mayor's office or if his house is even zoned for a home business which is what he's now turned the job of mayor into . . . Clearly, the poor dude is making up his strategy as he goes along and the only thing that's for certain is that Kansas City's Mayor has become so marginalized that he can only cling to any kind of authority under his own roof.

Again, Mayor Funky claims he's not a politician . . . It's now clear that the guy simply isn't a real leader if Kansas City has to look for him hiding at home under his wife's skirt.