During this holiday season during the greatest economic downturn since The Great Depression there has been quite a bit of bickering regarding Holiday Gift Cards that were previously supported by proceeds from The Mayor's X-mas Tree . . .
Here's the sitch.
Reps from The Mayor's X-mas tree claim that the cards went out on Monday . . . Usually, these gift cards that a great many people count on are already mailed immediately after Thanksgiving.
There are reports from a few people who donated to The Mayor's X-mas tree who haven't had their checks cashed yet . . . It has been a little more than a month and a few thoughtful/pickey people are having problems reconciling their books before the holiday season.
Even worse . . . KICKASS TKC TIPSTERS CLAIM THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE MAYOR'S X-MAS HOLIDAY CARDS HAVEN'T WENT OUT THROUGH THE MAIL YET!!!
TKC Fact Check . . . Associated Wholesale Grocers typically handles the Mayor's X-mas tree gift cards . . . A call to these folks won't reveal much detail other than the fact that the person who typically handles the Mayor's X-mas cards has been on vacation all week so there's no way this transaction was taken care of on Monday as some Mayor's X-mas Tree reps suggest . . . Most likely the exchange of Mayor's X-mas tree proceeds for gift cards for the needy happened awhile ago and it took awhile to send them in the mail because of a poorly planned last minute effort.
Still, to be fair . . . There are some people getting Price Chopper cards that just might be Mayor's X-mas tree related . . . But the organization is so disjointed that nobody is really sure and the "luster" of the Mayor's X-mas Tree Charity CLEARLY wasn't on display for po'folk this year.
My conclusion is simple and stands despite when the cards went out . . .
ONCE AGAIN MAYOR FUNKY AND GLORIA SQUITIRO RUINED X-MAS!!!
It was the Mayor's last minute planning and Squitiro's typical mettlesome antics that created a serious delay in getting the help to Kansas City families in need. With the Mayor so completely focused on reelection it's unfortunate that he neglected to provide much support for the charity that bears the name of his office.
Angry because you didn't get your welfare TKC?
ReplyDeleteI thought Will was going to get this thing fixed.
ReplyDelete"Ruined Christmas"?
ReplyDeleteYou have got to be shitting me. This blog has become a ghetto version of TMZ if that's all it takes to "ruin Christmas".
"Most likely the exchange of Mayor's X-mas tree proceeds for gift cards for the needy happened awhile ago and it took awhile to send them in the mail because of a poorly planned last minute effort."
ReplyDeleteUh... no, I don't think so. Pretty sure it hasn't happened at all.
Big Al Riederer will be mayor soon so what do we care?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the squid took charge of this event (maybe the Funk let the muzzle slip off her for this one) and she proceeded to royally f-ck it up and diminish more people's lives. If the cards didn't go out, someone should get fired. If the donirs checks didn't get cashed, then the treasurer should get canned. The treasurer of a Funkhouser venture... wasn't that one of the Squid's jobs?
ReplyDeleteMUZZLE HER MUZZLE HER & MUZZLE HER
someone needs to tell us the entire story so at least we can see who is to blame
Gloria used that money to bring WITCHES in from all over the globe. They are over there right now dancing raw.
ReplyDeleteWho would post here at 2:44 AM?
ReplyDeleteEven the Funk and Gloria couldn't fuck up Christmas. Maybe for those greedy bastards who put a price tag on everything.
ReplyDeleteI'm a pagan and a heathen but I don't mind you stole the holiday from us. Jesus is pretty cool but some of his fans scare the bejeebers out of me.
I heard Jeff Porter do a powerful version of No Room at the Inn last night. Bob Walkenhorst sang The Rebel Jesus. There is more to Christmas than gifts and who got the most loot. Look hard, you'll see it in the face of every child and on every downtrodden person who finds comfort in what this season really means.
As my friend Jackson Browne wrote...
But pardon me if I have seemed
To take the tone of judgement
For I've no wish to come between
This day and your enjoyment
In a life of hardship and of earthly toil
There's a need for anything that frees us
So I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer
From a heathen and a pagan
On the side of the rebel Jesus
And remember when you see that down-trodden homeless soul on the street, IF you don't see the face of Jesus, you just don't get it.
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Sounds like there will be a lot of poor hungry folks in KC this Christmas, I am sure that the co-mayors will have Christmas dinner. I hope they eat crow.
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