TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! CLAY CHASTAIN LEFT HIS HEART IN KANSAS CITY AND STILL RUNS FOR MAYOR AS A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE!!!
Like him or not, behind the scenes it's clear that Kansas City media is purposely ignoring local (?) transit advocate Clay Chastain.
Simply check his latest presser to view the level of frustration from Chastain as he gets the cold shoulder from the mainstream media.
Here's a sample of Clay Chastain's full scale attack against Kansas City media:
Mr. City Attorney . . . Clear The Air! Am I On Or Off . . . In Or Out?
Many in the Kansas City media appear overly eager to side with the city attorney's position (not the courts) and have disqualified me from mayor including:
1. Joe Tone (Editor of the smug, sarcastic, character-assassinating, and sexually-preoccupped publication otherwise known as The Pitch). He told me by phone over three weeks ago . . . In an unfriendly and abrupt manner . . . "I don't consider you a viable candidate for mayor," and then click went his phone.
2. The Editorial Board of The Kansas City Star. In a brainwashing barrage of ad hominem attacks the whole world knows by know the Star's open malice towards me. The Star and it's talented cartoonist have abused their power in playing to the people's emotions and prejudices . . . rather than their intellect . . . To destroy my good name, my candidacy and my personal ambition "to provide the people a more green, prosperous, and transit-orientated city."
3. Frank Morris (Editor of KCUM Public Radio). He sternely lectured me over the pnhone last Friday in a gush of stunning ignorance saying, "you don't even live in Kansas City anymore . . . I'm tired of you . . . I will not cover your campaign until your name is on the ballot, and my mind is made up."
"The bias is extreme out there. You would think the way these people and others are acting that I came back to Kansas City to push drugs on the streets . . . Not just run for Mayor to give the voters an alternative choice of ideas and leadership.
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Check the rest of Chastain's presser for yourself:
Thing of it is, agree with his transit plans or not . . . For TKC and as alternative source of news and awesome, isn't easy to identify with someone who has been completely shut out. So that's why I threw together a quick video of a chance meeting I had with Chastain last week in which he devotes his heart to Kansas City and decided to file this post today.
Developing . . .
First, to answer Clay's question: YOU'RE OUT!
ReplyDeleteSecondly, all the comments made to him that are posted on this blog are spot on.
All the media attention of this whack job over the years, particularly after he moved to Virginia, has long ceased to even be entertaining, much less of any consequence to the lives of residents of Kanss City.
Maybe Clay should try a gig on Dancing with the Stars; he sure couldn't cut it on Americs's Got Talent!
Clay should have a contest with Alonzo to decide who is tirely on the more narcissistically delusional. He has earned his reputation as a flake and a bore entirely on his own.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he could find a job in Hollywood as a paid celebrity stalker.
DOUCHEBAG!
ReplyDeleteSaw Clay at Brookside Sunfresh.
ReplyDeleteNo one would give him the time of day.
Clay already has my two or three votes.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing that could happen for transit in Kansas City would be for Clay Chastain to take up a new hobby.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Clay could get a job with Funky's International Center for Performance Auditing and go to work in China with Funky, Joan Pu and Kendrick.
ReplyDeleteOh Sweet Baby Jesus, give me strength...You are NOT a viable candidate! It's been made PEFECTLY CLEAR that you're not on the ballot! You don't HAVE a 'good name.' And we're ALL tired of you! Seriously, Clay...how fucking stupid are you?
ReplyDeleteThe only person obsessed with Clay Chastain is Clay Chastain.
ReplyDeleteClay says he lives with his sister, eh?
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S who we need for Mayor.
A married guy that lives with his sister.
And you thought the Funky/Squid thing was weird.
ReplyDeleteAt least they share a home.
No, Clay said your home is where your heart is.
ReplyDeleteSo his home is with his sister in KC (and NOT his wife in Virginia).
This whole "I live in KC" thing would be much more believable if we saw Clay outside the Brookside Sunfresh at sometime other than election time and doing something other than gathering signatures on petitions.
ReplyDelete"I've lived here for 20 years, the last 10 I've been in and out."
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S what I call A REAL COMMITMENT.
Kinda like saying, "I am committed to my marriage of 20 years, including the first 10 monogamously."
I wish the KC media (including blogs) would just ignore Clay.
ReplyDeleteHe has a narcissistic personalty disorder and the media attention just reinforces his delusions of relevance and importance.
Ignore him and he will escalate the attention-seeking behavior until ultimately, he just goes away.
Clay has the same psychological problem as Mayor Funky.
ReplyDeleteMust be something about the pollutant-laced water in the Shenandoah's.
I think it's the alternative religious views: Funky is a Wiccan; Clay a Scientologist.
ReplyDeleteThese guys need to go with a religion that's a little more mainstream.
Or at least one that has a demonstrated track history of electability to positions of government leadership (e.g. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Agnosticism, Sun Worship, Nazism, et. al.).
This would also provide a much larger pool of potential campaign contributors - (I understand the Saudis, Osama Bin Laden and the Dali Lama are all LOADED.)
CHA-CHING!!!! Step aside, Sly.
"destroy my good name"? Good grief, the Star and its editorial board are pretty much single handedly responsible for Chastain's "good name." Lord sakes, if they would have ignored him the first time he stood outside of grocery stores with petitions, he'd be long gone.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Chastain, lesson in politics No. 1: People who disagree with you, even to the point of thinking you're a crackpot, aren't out to "destroy your good name." If you can't take being a public spectacle, then stop making such a public spectacle out of yourself.
Also, the people of Kansas City are not as stupid or easily manipulated as you both think and hope. They have pretty much reached the concensus that indeed you are a crackpot, by actually listening to you. You are kind of hard to avoid, kinda like that other famous guy who begs on the Plaza.
Beaufort the city attorney is a dick head and so is Clay. They can both stay home.
ReplyDeleteClay you have a lot of nerve even referring to sex with your record. How about the time when you were writing sexually charged notes next to women's names, addresses and phone numbers on petitions that you circulated. You got you PP slapped there. And how about the time when you worked for the company with all that rental property, and you were breaking in and raping renters? Yes, forcing yourself on the women after they told you NO repeatedly but finally gave in to get rid of you was RAPE. You should have been prosecuted then. You know what they do to RAPISTS in prison Clay. That is what you deserve -- prison JUSTICE.
ReplyDeleteTony, why do you take this guy seriously? He does not merit the attention.
ReplyDeleteClay promises that although he'll live in Virginia, he will commute to KC everyday on the Mothership to do his work as Mayor.
ReplyDeleteisn't that mothership thing what we put up with the past four years?
ReplyDeleteDelusions of grandeur ...
ReplyDeleteIn truth, Galen Beaufort is a very good person.
ReplyDeleteGalen is on drugs, just like Tony's client, JJ Rizzo.
ReplyDeleteGalen may be a very good person; but he's a really lousy attorney. He's like most of the rest of the gang at 12th and Oak who can make mistake after mistake and lose millions of taxpayers' dollars without any consequences whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteWould you like to fly with a pilot who's a really nice person, but not so good with the airplane?
Neither would I!
Everytime Clay surfaces, all the bored and snowbound start practicing pop psychology.
ReplyDeleteClay's doing this just to get some attention, Tee. Not unlike the co-mayor and Sarah Palin. You're not obligated to feed his need for attention.
Unless of course, you're desperate for material.
I think the City of KCMO should send Clay a bill for all the money he has cost us over the years with his personal agenda. That ought to get rid of him.
ReplyDeleteThank God media is ignoring him. Here's hoping they keep it up. Maybe if we all do, he'll finally go away permanently.
ReplyDeleteThere are some damn funny comments in this thread. Chastain is a joke, a crackpot, a nutjob, a whacko, a headcase and every other crazy name you can think of. He just needs to dry up and blow away. Maybe this blizzard will do just that.
ReplyDeleteCall me crazy (just like Chastain!) but I think Clay has a little Clint Eastwood thing going on... if Clint rode the short bus.
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