TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! TONY BOTELLO LEAVES TKC TO WORK FOR KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES!!!
I've found my calling.
Blogging is all about cynicism, snark and breaking news but, sadly, without much of a chance to make a real change.
To wit . . .
I'M QUITTING THIS DUMP IN ORDER TO DO MY BEST TO HELP SLY JAMES MAKE THINGS RIGHT IN KANSAS CITY!!!
The pay isn't as good as I thought it would be and there was some talk of volunteering at first . . . But I've found a way to make it work so that I can be the change I'd like to see in Kansas City.
Don't believe me?
THEN I INVITE SKEPTICS TO INUNDATE THE SLY JAMES ADMINISTRATION AND TRANSITION TEAM WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT TKC, TONY BOTELLO AND MY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES!!!
I think you'll be surprised at the response.
See, I took advantage of the Sly James Administration's offer to send a resume to their transition team website/campaign website . . . And I'm just lucky to have found a real vocation.
So, I'm giving up blogger pajamas and I'll now be wearing a suit . . . It seems like so many connections and contacts that I've made through this blog are now really gonna come in handy. In the next few days Kansas City bloggers of note will be getting e-mails and new contact info from me . . . Together with my new found calling I think I'll be able to better disseminate info about the groundbreaking changes that Sly James will make and STILL bring that content to the local Internet better than anyone else.
It really is a win-win situation.
Right now I'm thinking about using this site as a place holder of sorts and I've cleared some preliminary permission to keep tweeting. I'll be getting a new facebook presence as well.
This is an exciting time and I have to credit so many generous and kind readers and participants in this forum for my good fortune.
THANK YOU!
Seriously, I am so excited about the opportunity I have to work for the benefit of Sly James and Kansas City.
I really think that the work I'm gonna be doing for Sly James signals the start of a new era of increased cooperation and bold, new changes in Kansas City government.
Congratulations Tony!
ReplyDeleteGood Luck.
ReplyDeleteBest Wishes.
ReplyDeleteApril Fools
ReplyDeleteIf this is NOT an April Fools Joke, then...
ReplyDeleteWhy would you seriously leave a position you have created for yourself that speaks truth to power and handcuff your daily catharsis for a job that will be, and this is truth to naivete, irrelevance?
Bad move.
Your enemies (Legions of them!) are tossing their hats in the air.
So long Tony, welcome to the fuckin rat race.
Congrats Tony, I know you'll do great ;)
ReplyDeleteGood job Tony!
ReplyDeleteNO!!! I love you in cyberspace!!!
ReplyDeleteTony, your pretensions to political office, or future positions of importance (Mr. Botello, will NOT be going to Washington.), your opponents will have a Congressional Library of outrageous statements and positions to beat yo over the head with, from, oh, I don't know, THIS FUCKIN BLOG!!!
ReplyDeleteYou won't be able to take a shit in City Hall without oversight from some smarmy shithead who will cripple your initiatives and frustrate your proposed purpose, and that will be from people who LIKE YOU!
Like the fuckin Mayor is really gonna send someone so controversial to champion his cause onto the public stage with your baggage?
Get ready for a cubicle, that will have you fondly remembering the good ole days in mom's basement.
April Fools !!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete...but you'll still show up at burlesque events from time to time, yes? See you around, buddy.
ReplyDeleteFirst order from the administration to Tony Botello.
ReplyDeleteCITY HALL HACK: "Hey Tony, er, ah, yeah about your balls."
TONY: "What? What about my balls?"
CITY HALL HACK: "Your not gonna need 'em here, and some folks on the steering committee, think you should leave them in your mom's basement."
TONY: "Oh, ok, sure, I guess I can come back and get them later."
CITY HALL HACK: "Yeah sure, you can always get them some other time."
TONY: *reaches for machette* "Its gonna be great!"
Aw, dang. IT IS APRIL FOOL'S. Damn, Tony. You so funny.
ReplyDeleteApril fools.
ReplyDeleteBetter hope so, or Tony will bleed out from a self inflicted wound.
chuck must of had his application thrown out.
ReplyDeletewhat will chris moreno do if your gone? he will not have anyway to sell his worthless bullshit
ReplyDeleteThis has to be an April's Fools joke. Tony couldn't keep his mouth shut long enough to keep a serious job dealing with important issues for more than a week.
ReplyDeleteAnd Sly wants to change Kansas City, but as far as I know, FOR THE BETTER!
Maybe he should hire Darla Jaye and Tracy Ward too!
6:49
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment.
I can barely get work in the private sector with my surely uncooperative and nasty attitude. The folks at City Hall wouldn't let me clean the shitters.
For free.
Congratulations, Tony.
ReplyDeleteIf this is not an April Fool's joke, & you really do shut down, I will miss this place & I will miss you. I hope its not a joke. The problems that Chuck points out notwithstanding, I think you will do fine. Time to 'Launch'.
Vaya con Dios, mi amigo.
Good one. Better joke would have been to announce you're engaged.
ReplyDeleteI hate you with all my heart Tony, but I do look forward to your 4/1 posts!
ReplyDeleteI also think this is a joke. But i kind of hope not. Tony your talented and the city needs some talent. I will support this move if it is indeed not a joke.
ReplyDeleteDiana's Kansas City
ReplyDelete(She should finally put her name on it.}
Are you going to be Thusla Doom's personal dresser? We need more Thulsa Doom pics with Sly morphed. I miss the Creature from the Black Lagoon/Waldo Rapist.
ReplyDeletedamn I will have to go find my own Jordan Carver pics
ReplyDeleteYou had me, till I remembered the date!!!! Sly could do worse and probably will with his hires. The OLIGARCHY could benefit from your perspective.
ReplyDeleteIn that case Tony, man fuck you.
ReplyDeleteTerry Riley's Kansas City has a ring to it.
ReplyDeleteBullshit Tony! April Fool's!
ReplyDelete***
So how much cash does it take to get a special favor?
ReplyDeleteOne less Mexican in cyberspace!
ReplyDeleteaww, tony! don't be so cruel. i'm torn, my emotions are all over the place! is this true? well IF it is, i'm proud of you and excited to experience your "change". but, don't leave Tony, NO! please stay, i love you... this is starting to feel like an abusive relationship. i know you want and deserve better but i want to keep you in the basement all to myself. either way, HAPPY APRIL FOOLS! and, to Chuck, you are transparent in your anger/hatred/love rants. grief has well defined steps, google it.
ReplyDeleteoh, and, Chuck... maybe if they do make Tony lob off his own balls he can put them in a jar for you.
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO.......
ReplyDeleteLove it, Tee.
April Fools!!!!
ReplyDelete8:10-8:14
ReplyDeleteYou much mistake me gargoyle.
If Tony is BSing us with an April Fools joke, it is a credible lie because it is no stretch to think that City Hall wouldn't want someone as talented as Mr Botello on their team.
Your lost in my nuance Sling Blade. I am saying I think it is a bad career move.
There is nothing pejoritive in my comments.
Congrads its true my kick ass tipster told mt Tony wil be the driver for Mr.Terry Riley.
ReplyDeleteThis is almost as good as if we would have elected Michael Fletcher!!!!
ReplyDeleteand I still won't read Radio man blog......
ReplyDeleteCongrads its true my kick ass tipster told me Tony wil be the driver for Mr.Terry Riley.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Mayor-elect is playing an April Fool's joke on you Tony! After all, he doesn't call himself "Sly" for nothing. Better hold off on buying that suit until the day has passed!!
ReplyDeleteT might want to tell his mom that this is an April Fools joke, as she might try to rent out the basement now....
ReplyDeleteYou're a sick individual.
ReplyDeleteNo way anyone in local public service ever hires tkc; he's made himself more radioactive than japan...
ReplyDeleteLMAO damn tony this was funny as hell! Thanks for the morning laugh.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that Sly's yard needs cut.
ReplyDeleteYou got me you FUCK! Happy AF Day TKC.
ReplyDeleteCongrats from all us TKC Anonymous Sockpuppet Posters!
ReplyDeleteIf true it means you can be your own AWESOME KICKASS TKC TIPSTER.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be blog-cestuous?
Or just blog-terbation?
Blog-kakke!!!
ReplyDeleteRather then post 50 times in the next 30 minutes yahooing TKC's new gig I'll just say it once.
ReplyDeleteWay to go you big assed clown!
april fool's. but sly could be smarter than funk. hire tony, put him in a closet for 8 hours and close the door. no bloogging, because you think you had issuses with funk, you are going to have corruption with sly and riley.
ReplyDeleteTony, I have been discerning this, but if you keep the blog open and this is not an AF joke, I am going to buy an ad space from this blog.
ReplyDeleteUnlike, Moreno, I will actually pay you for publicity. I am, however, considering having Moreno be my ad agent because I think I will only have to pay for 35%!!!
laughing out loud @Tony for how easily Sly James was able to co-opt you just by waving some cash and promising employment. you sell-out.
ReplyDeleteI was kidding about the I will pay you part. Actually my brother will pay. He is rich and successful. He really is. Believe me. My brother Mike Fletcher is the richest and most successful person on earth. Therefore you should sell me that ad space for a lower price. If you do I will make sure he doesn't call you a racist.
ReplyDeleteTony I will buy an ad from you and if you sell me it you can live at my brothers house. I am too broke to let you stay at mine but my brother has a big California home. Just don't stay on Fridays or Saturdays. Those are the days he does drugs and beats his wife.
ReplyDeleteTony will be the Director of Planning, Development and White Folk Oppression. Great Work T. Happy April 1.
ReplyDeleteOh, Moreno. You need to resort to personal attacks why don't you just stand on the merits of your 35% and be proud of it???
ReplyDeleteAgain, Chris, what is the name of your consulting firm that was so instrumental in campaigns that garnered more than 35% of the vote???
I have refrained from pointing out that you look like Chet on Weird Science as a steaming piece of shit. So lay off the personal, Fat boy.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
ReplyDeleteCharles, I don't know you but why would you resort to attacking someone on a blog post that has nothing to do with that person?
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious to every reader that you mention the name Chris Moreno in an anonmyous post and then follow that up with attacks on him. Honestly, the more you attack Chris Moreno the more I like him--and I have never even met the young man.
It is becoming a litle tacky and childish if I might say.
Ted ( or Moreno ), the reason being that Chris likes to toot his own horn all the time about how great he is and I just want to remind him of his 35% success rate. If I need to post something, I will put my name on it.
ReplyDeleteThere are other folks out there much wittier than I smacking this fool down. Someone already posted about him and I am not the only one.
I am glad you like Moreno more and more. He can get you 35%!!!
Tony Bordello working for the Mayor? Regular readers KNEW this was BS instantly!!
ReplyDeleteAnother April Fool's headline could have read, "Alonzo Washington vows to become a humble man".....People!! some things you just know can't be true!
Charles, everybody in politics knows Sharon Sanders Brooks made more enemies than Kim Jong Il in the 3rd District. The very fact that Chris Moreno was able to both beat Michael Fletcher in primary votes and in the courtroom to get her to the general election was a success for him. Chris Moreno did a good job. Nobody expects you to accept that. Do us all a favor and stick to the topic. You annoying people does not help your cause.
ReplyDeleteMoreno got Mike Fletcher off the ballot 100%.
ReplyDeleteCharles did you ever think that it is equally possible the "self-promoting" comments you claim are by Chris Moreno, actually are comments by someone hoping a moron like you resorts to attacking him?
ReplyDeleteMost of us who have known Chris Moreno for a decade in politics realize this. That is why you are the only idiot dumb enough to fall for it.
P.S. Your brother is a racist who supports attempted cop killers.
1:03 ouch but so true.
ReplyDeleteOMG!!! IT IS TRUE!!!
ReplyDeleteWTF??
I NEED RED PRINT!!!
###%%%^^&&**##@!!!
Tony, you crack me up!!!
ADIOS....
Good Job Tony! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteWhat's todays date?
ReplyDeleteAPRIL 1, 2011
SOME JOKE, WE HAD ALL HOPED!
Alas, what shall we do?
attempted cop killers???
ReplyDeleteYou see guys in the world of political consulting, I would guess that your goal is to get you client elected - not just the first guy that your client would have lost to.
If Moreno had any brains he would have tried to take fletcher on instead of spending the entire campaign going to court. HAHA Who is the idiot?
You guys are the idiots hiding behind you anonymity. Consult with moreno and maybe he can advise you to get 35% of your identity out there.
Moreno had nothing to do with Fletcher getting off of the ballot. Does he have a law degree?
Anyway, have a great day anonys!!!
Sell-out, goodbye TKC.
ReplyDeleteGood going Tony but what about April 1? Is you being made a fool or is we being made a fool.
ReplyDeleteElvis didn't do no drugs!
ReplyDeleteScrew you people and your anonymous posting! My brother is rich and successful. Don't forget that. I am Michael Fletcher's brother people! Michael Fletcher's brother! That means something.
ReplyDelete1:03 you are spot on with the cop killer comment. Michael Fletcher made millions off suing police officers on behalf of drug dealers. He is a racist and whoever it was that was responsible for ridding the community of him should receive a Key to the City.
ReplyDeleteGet ready to do your best for Kansas City and the new administration. But what will I do to get the most factual gossip in town? Will miss your blog and for those who don't believe the announcement of your new position - Folk, it's the real truth that happened to be announced on April Fool's Day.
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