CELEBRATE KCTV5 STACEY CAMERON CALLING OUT "VOTER SUPPRESSION" AT WORK IN THE DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY "TOY TRAIN" STREETCAR MAIL-IN VOTE!!!
This is an important moment for Kansas City Democracy . . .
WATCH KCTV5 NEWSIE STACEY CAMERON CALL OUT "VOTER SUPPRESSION" DURING THE LATEST WEEK IN REVIEW EPISODE!!!
It's really comforting that a PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST sees what's at play here in Kansas City and how corporate greed is subverting local Democracy.
The IMPORTANT COMMENT happens at around 2 minutes into this clip.
Credit to Stacey Cameron to have the courage that unsigned editorials from Dead Tree Media lack . . . In no uncertain terms Mr. Cameron tells it like it is and reports the reality of Democracy in peril in Kansas City.
Guy deserves a medal.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you call it corporate greed? This is the work of rail enthusiasts and political ego. There are plenty of business owners that don't feel this is needed and that it is not going to do anything of substance for the city.
ReplyDeleteNot much bang for your buck.
ReplyDeleteI do think it is interesting that the lady thinks it would have passed on a regular ballot.
I am outta my pay grade here, but I just don't understand the arguments in favor of this initiative.
It is a ton of money.
You do great work! Glad someone was brave enough to speak up and call it what it really is!
ReplyDeleteTony is right. The reason for calling it corporate greed is that the patrons of our city council and our mayor are the construct ion firms and other special interests that will benefit from this boondoggle.
ReplyDeleteWhether I agree with Cameron or not, I sincerely appreciate that someone in this town's media has the courage to speak their mind- especially when it flies in the face of the corporate line and what the political/corporate establishment is shoving down the public's throat.
ReplyDeleteSpeak truth to power.
so if the light rail goes broke and there isn't enough money to pay off the bonds does downtown go broke or does everybody in the city have to pay them off?
ReplyDeleteIt's about time someone calls the city on this deal. I have a great deal of respect for the mayor (and I voted for him), but this deal stinks.
ReplyDeleteI am so tired of people in this town saying such-and-such is a great idea. Give me the money to build it. Hell, if it's such a good idea, build it yourself.
And 7:47: What do you think? We'll all be on the hook.
There are SO MANY opportunities for the meda to speak out on the outrageous decisions and behaviors that go on every day, but they mostly don't have the knowlege and especially lack the courage to do so.
ReplyDeleteSo good for folks like Ryan Kath and Stacey who make some serious observations and ask some very troubling questions of the usual suspects when they spout their usual crap to the public.
Now someone should ask Eric Wesson why he claimed that homicides on the east side were a results of neglect by the establishment until Forte' became chief and now there's nothing that can be done if one person wants to kill another.
Don't tell me that KCPT is actually going to have the guts to participate in a candid discussion about KCMO and public policy?
Not very likely.
Kostar,do you really want to go there with Wesson?
Delete$50 million dollars a mile. Horrible waste of money.
ReplyDeleteNotice, too, how Horse-ly defends the toy train....
ReplyDeleteOnce it's all complete the taxpayers will be left holding the bag again for a bad idea. Those that made the big money will have disappeared off the radar into their gated communities and security patrolled estates.
ReplyDeleteHow many times does this have to be pounded into peoples brains before they get it?
Stacey says, "voter suppression bad, fact suppression by kctv to boost ratings good."
ReplyDeleteThey don't want the Joe and Jane barbecues to vote on this for obvious reasons. They can't afford the tax hikes or being slowly bled to death when the long term operating expenses start putting the project into the red.
ReplyDeletePathetic waste of money. And it WOULD NOT pass on a regular ballot.
ReplyDeleteCameron is a dick.
ReplyDeleteI want to lick his taint.
ReplyDeleteWe have the worst Board of Elections in the United States.
ReplyDeleteSomebody agrees with Tony's crap and all of a sudden they are a "PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST". What would he have called Stacy if his opinion was different?
ReplyDeleteWe are at the point where no one is credible and nothing can be believed.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are dumb as shit. Transit is always paid for by taxpayers. Business shouldn't get a vote because their not people and voter suppression is just a code word for apathy.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best investment this city has made in 50 years.
Maanwhile, you guys chear JoCo and the Norhtland's continued wasting the entire countries money on uneccessary highway interchanges and tunnels to nowhere to serve non-existent suburban congestion.
We have the most highway miles per capita in the nation and not a mile of fixed rail transit and you fucking rubes are to simple minded and scared to know how backwards that is.
01:51 why does it have to be fixed rail? These mostly empty buses canvass the city all day and your numbnuts brain somehow thinks a streetcar will be chock full of people going, where exactly?
ReplyDeleteThe Max, is bigger, faster, more efficient, can carry bikes, and already exists.
ReplyDeleteDowntown will never have enough tourists to make that short Toy Train distance worth the money.
The city can use some of Nigro's trolleys for folks that want to move slowly so they can gawk at P&L's empty buildings.
1:51: Are you as dumb as your spelling indicates you are?
ReplyDeleteStacey is a pinhead. The people who have o pay the increased property taxes SHOULD be the ones to vote on the streetcar tax. This isn't some slick scheme as Cameron would have you believe. It makes sense. Channel 5 is always looking to cast aspersions on anything for a rating point, especially Stacey, who has a great face for radio.
ReplyDeleteIf the city has to pass bonds to fund this train, we all will have to pay. So everyone in the city should get the chance to vote, not just those in the TTD.
ReplyDeleteWe have something similar to light rail now. It's called a bus. Hipster d-bags who don't want to drive daddy's subaru around town can take the bus instead of the train.
ReplyDeleteFigure it out.
12:17, the City isn't passing bonds.
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