Funky Excuses For The Weak

Here's the nonsense that is labeled as a "newsletter" written by the Co-Mayor and not as interesting as her other writing in which she curses most of the City:

"We are sorry to have been so long getting a newsletter out the door to you. As you probably saw in the news, the Mayor has been diligently preparing for the discrimination lawsuit that befell his office and the city. He remains under a court order to not discuss the matter in any detail, and he is going to continue to honor that order. What he can say at the moment is that he was looking forward to going to trial because he knows that he would have been vindicated. The council voted to settle the case yesterday for $550,000.

On the advice of his legal counsel, the Mayor abstained from the vote. On a positive note, the Mayor is glad to have this behind him. While he has been moving his priorities forward all along, this ordeal has taken a toll on the city, his staff and his family. And while the Mayor's priority has always been to be fiscally conservative and a good steward with your tax dollars, in this case, he believed that continuing to improve his growing relationship with councilmember's would go much further toward that goal than putting his own needs first and selfishly forcing the case to trial in order to be publicly vindicated.

Two weeks ago Geoffrey Canada, with the Harlem Children's Zone, came to Kansas City to give a speech. The Mayor has been in contact with him for quite a while now, and he even went to Harlem to visit with him in February. Mr. Canada is a dynamic man whose compassion, joyfulness and intellect are plain to see. He, too, is a principled man. When he was told that he couldn't educate children out of poverty, he held strong to his convictions and educated children out of poverty. When he was told that he couldn't reach every child in the zoned area, he made sure that every child made it through college. At times, when his staff wavered in their belief of the vision, he found himself standing and working alone. But he didn't give up; he kept moving forward and found others who, like him, were also unwilling to give up on children. Geoffrey Canada is a living icon that has deeply influenced the Mayor. Your Mayor is also unwilling to give up on children, on a moral level and on an economic development front. Luckily, the Mayor has put together an amazing team that is working hard to see this vision through here in Kansas City. Between this and the Education Summit, we will have a world-class education system in Kansas City in the near future.

After years of the City's housing department being in federal receivership, the City is on the verge of having full authority restored back from HUD. And on a similar positive note, Kansas City has been granted more than $17 million federal stimulus dollars for housing and community development. The City is working aggressively to build better communities for Kansas City residents."

It's not even fun when NOBODY believes their spin anymore.