Following a familiar pattern . . .
Take a look at Mayor Sly's HUGE ASK for more Kansas City taxes and borrowing.
It gets better than just really beautiful photos and a nice bold design.
As always, click the photos for a bigger, better view . . .
THE EFFORT THE MAYOR SLY IS PUSHING MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE CLAIMS THAT RAISING THE LOCAL SALES TAX AND BORROWING HALF A BILLION BUCKS WILL CREATE 20K JOBS!!!
Obviously, there's nobody backing up the fuzzy math . . . But the poster-sized propaganda is really nice and pretty much the only thing to look for via snail mail as of late.
At least it was not sent via e-mail.
ReplyDeleteBut it should have been!
ReplyDeleteSo the Mayor has the bully pulpit and he can spend arbitrarily large sums of money in an effort to advance a tax measure. Pretty sweet deal there. The Mayor just gets to print and spend his way to victory.
ReplyDeleteBut what kind of victory do you achieve when all the people you claim to represent quit caring and become, in effect, zombies? I ask that because all the people I know say they have given up. They gave up on hope, they gave up on caring, and they gave up on YOU.
Nobody cares, Mayor. You are in that sense the perfect lawyer to lead Kansas City. The jury is snoring and you appear to be winning.
But your people are wrecked. The human beings are ignored and all you seem to be talking about are Narnia-like imaginary worlds of downtown business success (and other pipe dreams).
Maybe I have a naive sense of what leadership is supposed to be....
Well, the tax will pass, of course. And more businesses will leave. And more high-paying jobs will leave. And more cops will leave. And more young black men and women will find it impossible to get a job. And more white middle class families will want to escape the higher taxes and failing infrastructure and murder rate.
And you will propose a 2.2 mile train track; a shuttle for KC's last remaining rich people. It will run from Crown Center to the River Market.
Just imagine, no more driving from the Western Auto loft. Now you can hop on a $100,000,000 train to go spend $8 at the River Market!
Isn't it nice to know that you can move to Kansas yet still come to the Performing Arts Center?
Kansas City has true and amazing talent. You are so immersed in what I will call the "fag culture" of KC art that you have missed out on the best, most masterly art. Another F- in the leadership category.
And to be fair to myself, I have lots and lots of homosexual friends. I am not afraid of gay people. I just believe that you always have to call a spade a spade and honesty is preferred over inveigling.
Tony, I would love to work in Mayor Sly's office. I would report to him with a schematic of the entire city workforce and the load upon that workforce. I would show how the load is measured in energy and the cost is measured in dollars.
But, in contradistinction with the current Mayor, I would use the bully pulpit to fix the broken people.
J. W. Helkenberg
I second Mr. Helknberg's comments. KC is on the path to bankruptcy.
ReplyDeleteCan't we get a reverse TIF rubber stamped for this. Or making the City pick up the tab for their negligence in permitting everything to get to this point?
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to create 20K jobs with a tax increase. The problem comes with the 25K jobs that are lost.
ReplyDeleteMr Helkenberg is not only entirely correct, but also rather eloquent in expressing it.
ReplyDeleteSly was quoted as saying that "a speech never stopped a bullet" when he was asked about his silence on the appalling homicide rate in the city. But he's had as many press conferences about his diet contest with the Chamber president as he has had about street repairs, violence, water systems, code enforcement, the housing department or any of the many other things that are the basis of any municipal government and that are ignored and neglected in KCMO every day, year after year.
Leadership and administration are two different words because they describe two very different aspects of running an organization. And in KCMO there is no leadership; just behind-the-scenes administration and manuevering and actually designed to keep alternatives and decisions out of sight of the public until they're fait accompli. And those few times the public is needed (like elections) instead of leadership, the usual suspects tricksters are hired to mount a campaign to scare and trick the public into giving city hall what it wants.
Credibility=ZERO. Public policy=ZERO.
Leadership=less than ZERO.
Out of 460,000 residents, this is it?
It will create more jobs than you bitching about stuff.
ReplyDeleteThis silly notion about government "creating jobs" is pushed along by folks who don't seem to understand that their tax money will be used to fund these employees and that construction jobs will disappear after a project is over. Unless you want to pay MORE in taxes to undertake the next effort.
ReplyDeleteSince KCMO has ignored the sewer upgrade and instead focused on their usual priorities of subsidizing private companies and building things that are then ignored, not maintained, and at some poin t fall down, the Feds HAVE MANDATED that that these improvements be completed, so the notion that Sly is creating jobs is ridiculous. And however this project is funded by the KCMO taxpayers, it HAS to be done.
Plus, the city will get around $23 million MORE in general fund money than they're currently receiving. And how exactly will that be spent?
This is just another example of trying to scare and trick voters to overcome the utter lack of trust and credibility of KCMO government.
in addition to the disingenuous mailers and the illegal signs in the public right of ways, his campaign is now putting signs on private property without the permission of the property owners.
ReplyDeleteTwo things. 1. If TKC supported these ballot measures then they'd be gauranteed to go down in flames. 2. City workers will vote against them because it will mean more work for them. If they fail they can carry on as usual; their jobs are safe especially the head goblin in the city manager's office.
ReplyDelete10:40, which Waynette are you??
ReplyDeleteIf that mailer looked any older it would have a wheelchair. Who designed that piece, Betty White?
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