They call Afghanistan the Graveyard of Empires in much the same way that promising political careers are routinely cut short at the Kansas City School District.
Mayor Funky's political fortunes, approval rating and the overall sentiment toward his administration is at an all time and NOW he's plunging headlong into KC School District Disaster which has went unsolved for more than a generation and won't be fixed by the bumbling Mayor and his barefoot wife.
Here's the latest plan for failure from Mayor Funky's newsletter written by his wife:
The Mayor's push for a citywide education summit has new wind in its sails with the commitments of Janice Ellis and Tony Oppenheimer to be the Chair and Co-Chair of a steering committee. Their first order of business is to the raise the money needed to convene the Education Summit. The Summit will include up to 2,000 members of our community who would like to participate in bottoms-up approach to shaping the education system for our children living in our city. The goal is to form a consensus that crosses racial lines and includes children from all of our schools, including: public, private, faith-based, charter and home schools. The Mayor is almost finished choosing the rest of the people who will serve on the committee. Once that is accomplished the group will begin the process of recruiting others to join the effort and raising the roughly $200,000 needed for the Summit. The Mayor wants the Summit to be a watershed event so that Kansas City families know that, no matter how long it takes to get accomplished, that their Mayor will never give up fighting to bring a quality education to all of our children living in Kansas City.If a final nail in his political coffin was needed, this foolhardy move to address School District concerns is it . . . Even worse, the Mayor's in cahoots with the like of Ajamu Webster and the rest of the Kansas City Black United Front who have done nothing but benefit from the ongoing orgy of cronyism, alleged corruption and incompetence at the District.
And now that Latinos comprise 25% of the KC School District . . . Still, I've yet to see any significant outreach by Mayor to Latino leaders on the topic of education. I know the people at the local chapter of LULAC and time after time they've been left out of so many KC School District discussions.
Nevertheless, Mayor Funky wasting valuable time on the School District will only offer even more opportunity for embarrassment and challenges to his increasingly fragile psyche.
THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE KANSAS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT IS A STATE TAKEOVER AND A PURGE OF THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP STARTING WITH SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT MARILYN SIMMONS!!!
Mayor Funky's only plan is to sit around, chat, run a lame facsimile of a symposium and find more opportunities to advance the careers of his few cronies in the Black Community who have managed to earn a nice living off the shoeless reign of Gloria Squitiro.
Good luck with the education plan Mayor Funky . . . I have a feeling the Co-Mayor might unwittingly get taken to school.
Is this the SAME dead idea that Joe Miller was floating 18 months ago? The one that got laughed out of every board room in KC, both profit and non profit boardrooms I might add. They just won't quit making jackasses of themselves.
ReplyDeleteOne and the same.
ReplyDelete$200,000 is a lot of money to hold a meeting. They could rent my church basement for $150 and serve cookies and juice from Costco.
ReplyDeleteSounds like someone just needs money for mortgage payments.
I thought Arthur benson was doing okay?
ReplyDeletePlease don't let Gloria (aka Bigfoot)
ReplyDeletehold the money.
Let's see how he raises the money... if he can. And will the fundraising effort be transparent? Who will the donors be?
ReplyDeleteAnd if and when if fails miserably, will the failure get the attention of the Kansas City Star???? Or will we get a report from the blogging community?
I would look closely at the link between the summit, the Mayor, the Black United Front, and the BUF's campaign of "Hands Off" to maintain the cronie driven school board. The mayor will score points with the politically active sector of the black community if he holds a $200,000 fete that ultimately supports the status quo of school board governance.
ReplyDeleteniggas keeping niggas po and stooooopid.
ReplyDeleteIf everyone who shows up to "help" could somehow be evicted from the entire metropolitan area that would be a tremendous help to our community.
ReplyDeleteThose who are honest, intelligent and capable seldom get involved in something so stupid. If fact they seldom get involved in politics. That leaves the ignorant and corrupt to pretty much run the show.