Polls are closed in Kansas City . . . Here's just a bit of what we learned . . .
- Voter turnout wasn't just bad, it was abysmal . . . We're talking the lowest interest Kansas City has seen in local Democracy in years.
- Political consultants and school board candidates trolling the GOP guy @ the polls was fun but a Rex Sinquefield, Crosby Kemper and Freedom, Inc. threesome might not be in the works right away. Seriously, that was the biggest election excitement today among insiders . . .
- Pressure is on Mayor Sly to win big . . . He should deliver but even the smallest blink in this rigged water bond vote will be cause for alarm among his "friends" who are ALREADY PLANNING THE NEXT TAX INCREASE.
Results should be easily counted up since only a few dozen people in this town voted.
Consider this AN ELECTION NIGHT OPEN THREAD . . .
DAAAMMMNN!
ReplyDeleteWater bond yes votes wipe out the no votes. I didnt think it would be that big of a difference.
KCMO Water Bonds
Yes 77% with 6315 Total Votes
No 23% with 1848 Total Votes
ZOMG, rigged vote, y'alls!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou had to GO to the FRICKIN spot ppl, talk abt disenfrenchfizement!!!!
I'm totes outraged and prolly startups a Facebooker abt. it!!
Save our protestant chruchez!!!!
Brookside is pizzd cuz sly bullied tham and made them go to pollz y'all.
This bullshit iz o.o.c., yolo swagadochious.
I speak for all my nabes y'alls!
Gerrymandered to the fullest...only KCMO ressys got to vote on the water james bondz yalls.
Patrick Touhey is going to bolg the fuck out of this shit, and Dan Coffey, emporer of white male BKSer over 50 sex this shit is toast.
Never Again yalls.
Water bonds kill our chilrren! Plus look black ppl., that shit is not good for yalls and yall don't know how to vote like I know.
Gimme yo' proxy, bros and sistahs!
I'll let Rexie tell me what I needz to know, ya heard!
I hope they spend it ALL on streetcar construction.
ReplyDeleteSince that's what you guys decided to "make it about", I feel like they should be able to claim a "mandate" now.
Russ is a commenting fool tonight
ReplyDeleteThe POS at 8:40 just has to be sucking at the public teat somehow.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt fat as fuck in a pair of Dockers.
Can't wait to see you crybabies august 9th.
ReplyDeleteHaha, Brybry and the anonymous outragers have sure got their finger on the pulse of KCMO...
ReplyDeleteTell us the one about how nobody in the TDD wants a streetcar again. I love that story!
So long, Joseph Jackson. Back into your hole where you belong. 109 votes. LMAO
ReplyDeleteShall the city sell $500 million in revenue bonds to expand and improve the waterworks system?
ReplyDeleteYes 16565
No 4323
Well Sly's lemmings all 16,565 turned out.
My finger may not be on the pulse of the town, but I still wouldn't recommend sniffing it rn.
ReplyDeleteWonder what the last water bond was?
ReplyDeleteOne billion officially just in Water Bond Debt now?
ReplyDeleteYou people in Kansas City are so easy to fuck over.
ReplyDeleteUm, okay. I knew the water bonds were going to pass. I voted against it to be stubborn.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to be a smart ass, let's put the streetcar to a city wide vote and see if it can get 77%. Hint; it'd be lucky to get 40% and you know it.
stupid fucking rubes.....
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction is surprise but Kansas City is really just a poster child for why democracies ultimately fail.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the yea to nay on the last vote on water bonds?
ReplyDeleteThe city has $450 million of GO debt and $1.1 billion of appropriation backed debt. The appropriation bonds are rated two notches below Kansas City's GO level by Fitch and Moody's due to the non-essential nature of many of the projects, while Standard & Poor's rates them just one notch lower at AA-minus.
ReplyDeleteOkay this was two years ago where are we now?
I think it totals about $5 Billion in the red or something.
ReplyDeleteSly said our water rates will go down if this passes.
ReplyDeleteYour an idiot if you believe Sly
ReplyDeletelol at 9:33
ReplyDeleteTony - you've missed the best election story of the night. I got elected in MethTown and we are finally going to get something done around here. I will use my super-hotness powers to clean up this place. No more dissing on MethTown or you'll have to deal with me. Just sayin'
ReplyDeleteCindy who? Alonzo who? Byron who? Glazer looks kinda cute for a 70's era shag carpet guy. Could work at Graceland as a prop and no one would know.
ReplyDeleteBear appears to be a person I would like to work in my administration. Need to tone down the racial overtones - for the good of the children.
Also, my stance on unsolicited bulk mail has always been to support it - good for the bankrupt Postal Service, good for the local independent trash services - overall it's good for Capitalism. Please vote early, vote often
I don't even live in KC, so I can't speak on the issue.
ReplyDeleteThat said, at what point does the whiners on this site, ask themselves, "maybe I am just a friggin loser, or if I am right, I should move"?