Here's the most interesting part about the fight betwixt Council Dude Jim Glover vs. Katy Shields . . . On a personal level, we hear they don't really like each other.
Still, the contest is close and here's the narrative that's playing out . . .
Council Dude Glover is the development guy. Sadly, he's really the only elected official at City Hall who can point to a longstanding legacy of jobs he has directly helped to create for low-income neighborhoods. The downside of this legacy is that all of the negative sentiments about the toy train, hotel and new airport will be thrust upon him.
Katy Shields is being sold as a reformer. She has done solid work with neighborhood groups and we think her new role as Kansas City's feminist champion for election season is a captivating rhetorical tactic.
So the contest is betwixt developers vs. neighborhoods, a Mayor Sly vote vs. a Local 42 loyalist and men vs. women.
On the flip side of this argument is the fact that both of these politicos have been working in local politics for nearly half a century and have spent their entire careers playing the KCMO election game . . . So, in the end, the choice might be nothing more than picking different side of same coin.
You decide . . .
Yeah, but at what cost??? Glover's legacy looks good for midtown but the northeast has paid dearly as the displaced section eight crowd has moved our way. I'll hold my nose and vote shields.
ReplyDeleteLesser of evils 2015
ReplyDeleteRumor is Mr. Glover worked for police support, but didn't get it. Sounds like Ms. Shields will get the police support and carry the northland.
ReplyDeleteGlovers legacy in midtown is a tearing down blocks upon blocks of irreplaceable homes
ReplyDeleteand replacing them with an ocean of parking lots that site vacant 90% of the time.
Good job Jim. The suburbanification of what used to be a real city'
The dream of the 80s is alive in
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Shields legacy = Housing scam.
ReplyDeleteFederal indictment?
ReplyDeletehttp://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Anthony_Cardarella
ReplyDelete5/24/15, 8:16 PM
ReplyDeleteMore important was Shields' bribe that sent Waris to prison.
http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/katheryn-the-grate/Content?oid=2177262
They are both with team Sly
ReplyDeleteWho did the Photoshop work in that pic of her.
ReplyDeleteFuck you 853. Glover's PIAC rep and campaign treasurer sends unsolisited naked selfies to women on Facebook. Which is the worse picture-crime? Now what kind of judgement does Glover show when he makes a naked selfie addict his representative?
ReplyDeletenever forget that glover's kids were taken away by a judge
ReplyDeleteGlover's legacy is a housing scam, too! He stole people's houses for Glover's Plan that still remains uncommitted fully.
ReplyDeleteMafia / Dumbshit = KC Screwed
ReplyDeleteEven our mafia is lame in KC
ReplyDeleteThey both suck! KC will be worse than Detroit. People understand we need Detroit! Inner city KC not so much. The suburbs have been carrying this town since 1980ish.
ReplyDelete11:28 has never been to Detroit, or probably outside of Poverland Oark...
DeleteIndeed! They need to address the problem that is bring America to its knees.
ReplyDeleteNiggers.
Stupidity and ignorance is destroying American, just look at most of these comments.
ReplyDeleteOf course niggers are not to blame. They are too stupid to think of anything as financially profitable for them as what we have now. If the fact that you had white skin entitled you to free money and food stamps and subsidized housing and health care and free schooling and easy government jobs with excellent fringe benefits for the rest of your life and the more white babies you put in the world the more money you would have, and the muds had to pay for it all, then it would be a white man's paradise. Who wouldn't take that deal? The niggers were offered it and they took the offer. It's the jews and their shabbos goyim minions who made the mess we have today. And of course the whites are to blame for not lynching the jews and their lackeys decades ago.
ReplyDeleteI'll stay with Glover. He is the Devil we do know.
ReplyDeleteAgain with that old false story at 9:05.
ReplyDeleteYou lost 4 years ago, John. Get over it.
Let's give Shields a chance. Glover has NOT done anything positive while in office ... beyond Costco, Home Depot, which he does not deserve full credit and poor urban design. He deserve full credit for millions dollar city subsidies give-aways to developers, demolition of historic kansas city buildings, and support of failed street car extension ...?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 12:53 And Glover fully supports the Mayor agenda, whatever that may be!
ReplyDeleteShields supports a more robust streetcar extension than Glover does -- and she is a crook.
ReplyDeleteGlover is a geek.
When choosing between crooks and geeks, always go with the geek.
Man it's weird how everyone who cares about the city and knows anything about city government supports something that show me shills and 2 crazy brookside ladies don't like!
ReplyDeleteBizarre.
Which one has the IQ to see how incompetent Troy Schulte really is?
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