TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! MIDTOWN KANSAS CITY BAINBRIDGE HOT MESS COMING BACK TO HAUNT COUNCIL DUDE JIM GLOVER REELECTION HOPES!!!
The only close Kansas City election coming up NOW features a Councilman facing push back for his actions against po'folk during his tenure.
To wit . . .
KANSAS CITY URBAN CORE INSIDERS REVEAL THE BAINBRIDGE APT. HOT MESS MIGHT HURT THE REELECTION HOPES OF COUNCIL DUDE GLOVER!!!
Quick review . .
Before anybody else, our blog community broke news of eminent domain confronting po'folk residents of this Midtown Kansas City apt. complex . . .
Ultimately, the po'folk were able to rally people to their cause but not before the threat of eviction with no help from the City Council hurt their opinion of the incumbent.
We put in a question to one of the low income advocates and here's what she had to say . . .
"I will make it my life's mission for the next month to see (Councilman) Glover thrown out of office. For what he did to us and what he failed to do, he deserves far more than just to lose an election. He represents the very worst of how gentrification can hurt a city. He needs to go."
Another expert who inspired this question remarked . . .
"Councilman Glover has some definite problems and Bainbridge is just the beginning. He has not been supportive of our community and we feel like we'll have better luck with Shields," remarked an insider from the 3rd District.
And so . . .
It doesn't happen often but now a Council Dude is being called out on his record . . . In fairness, there's a lot to say about his opponent's reputation as well.
STAY TUNED!!!
Glover wins by 5%
ReplyDeleteSo basically, Tony, you got a dispute between Section 8 tenants in high-crime apartments who don't vote vs. Hyde Park neighbors who do vote and want the thing rehabbed and redeveloped like other apartments along Armour.
ReplyDeleteGlover has taken the side of the people who do vote, and this is going to cost him the election.
Such impeccable logic, Tony.
Anything Glover has done or will do to help the neighborhood around the Bainbridge will help him.
ReplyDeleteAnd anyone who thinks Katheryn will do anything to help the situation never had to deal with the county when she was in charge there.
More breathless inside baseball trivia that even the vast majority of voters in KCMO could care less about.
ReplyDeleteAnd the 85% of the metro population which doesn't live in KCMO at all just watches this kind of endless crap, laughs, and thanks the gods that they live in much more successful and better governed communities.
Voter turnout will be less than 10% (again),
Whoever "wins" these elections, the residents will lose (again).
Thanks for playing.
The idea that poor people will show up to vote in an election at a high rate and impact the results isn't based on anything that has ever happened in this city. Ever.
ReplyDeleteIn this city, or any other.
ReplyDeletePart of the problem with living in the Tony Bubble is you think all of Kansas City's problems are unique to Kansas City.
Sly's son Malik James to follow in dad's footsteps? Future Mayoral run???????
ReplyDeleteTCK Insider Tipster Special Edition!
Slys (white) daughter in law Jessica James is an executive chef. And contributing writer to the Kansas City Star's food & drink blog.
ReplyDeleteAnytime the poor majority of Kansas City residents fight back against the corporate scumbags who run this town, it's a good thing. The best lesson that could come from this episode would be if the ruling moneybags come to understand that fucking with the poor ultimately gets you fucked. Peasants with pitchforks, baby.
ReplyDeleteTHere are a lot of reasons Glover doesn't belong in office. This is just one.
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ReplyDeleteLawdy Lawdy...
Whitey wants to take my free apartment from me...
Whitey OWES ME a free apartment.
Whitey OWES ME free food.
Whitey OWES ME a free flat screen so I watch Judge Judy all day...cuz I ain't gonna work cuz I ain't got no edumacation. BUT I want $15 an hour.
Whitey be da' DEVIL!!!
FROM PITCH LATE LAST YEAR:
ReplyDeleteIs the city done trying to oust a Section 8 housing developer from Armour Boulevard?
By Steve Vockrodt
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"I think the basic situation remains the same. Those buildings have always gone through various stages of management," says Jim Glover, a Kansas City councilman and Hyde Park resident. "Sometimes the management improves. Sometimes it doesn't. We've noticed that for 20 years. It's a long-term issue. We're concerned."
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As long ago as 2011, city leaders had begun to figure out how Eagle Point's properties might be shaken loose. Eventually, those leaders settled on a hardly used way to condemn Eagle Point's buildings so that they might be taken over by the city.
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A review of city documents obtained by a Missouri Sunshine Law request points more toward an organized effort to remove Eagle Point of its property interest and relocate the low-income residents, rather than just a bid to get the company to listen up.
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On November 22, 2012 (exactly a year after Marcason's aide suggested moving along with finding blight at the Eagle Point properties), the Bainbridge Working Group's agenda included several strategies that largely centered on running Eagle Point off Armour. One approach included trying to find a way to trigger a default on Missouri Housing Development Commission bonds, which were issued to help finance Eagle Point's redevelopment of the Bainbridge.
Another idea was for the city to file a lawsuit against Eagle Point, charging that it was a "nuisance owner." The idea fell flat when the Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development objected.
That same month, city staffers met with police officers to discuss the conditions at Eagle Point's buildings. Senior Kansas City planner Claude Page's notes describe the residents there as "All baby mamas with kids with the bus stop and gas [station] next door ... Groups of women who roam the halls like a college dorm, in groups/factions that change, boyfriends that change ... Baby may be from one gang member, when another gang is part of a group."
...Eventually, the Bainbridge Working Group settled on pursuing a blight designation for the buildings through PIEA, the development agency. PIEA meetings, held in the boardroom of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority's offices, at 18th Street and Troost, are rarely attended by the public but are popular among developers and their attorneys. The board almost never says no to their requests, and it has the power of eminent domain and can award tax breaks.
Eagle Point learned that the city was pursuing social blight when company officials read about it on a blog called the Midtown Post, which broke news about the process on December 23, 2013 — just two weeks before the January 7 City Plan Commission meeting, at which the study would be taken up publicly for the first time.
for full article:
http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/bainbridge-armour-boulevard-eagle-point-hyde-park-mac-properties/Content?oid=4958885&showFullText=true
Jermaine Reed/Melba Curls (Black) do the same exact thing as Jim Glover (White)... Reed/Curls get a pass. Glover gets crucified. hypocrisy
ReplyDeleteWhat a choice. You either get a fat, over-used, old bitch or a fat, little dweeb of a councilman. Either of these assholes are useless. Talk about sitting this one out....Oh yeah, why waste your time.
ReplyDeleteTony...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lovely place to consider after your mom kicks you out of her basement.
But I'd stay away from there on Father's Day...No doubt VERY CONFUSING.
I think 4:58 has the best take on this whole story.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteGod Damn ya Tony. I bet against you being able to sign up every friggin hateful discontent in KC, but behold, you have corralled all 20 of them.
ReplyDeleteTip of the cap.
Precisely the reason I will be voting for Glover! In fact will be calling for a yard sign and heck may even do some canvassing.
ReplyDeleteI may not agree with Glover on a lot of issues, but the Bainbridge is one I will back. I live one block from that hell hole and it is a rare day/night that the cops aren't called there for one reason or another. I have met young mothers that were former residents and they were so happy to finally be out of there. I always dread the nice warm weather because of the crap that happens around the BB. Here we go again with another summer.
ReplyDeleteIf you are going to keep Niggers in your midst you need to keep them in a single area. Stack them up like shit falls in a stool. Glover is a total fuck stick to try to move these turds out of the highrises where we keep them.
ReplyDeleteShut up if you think otherwise.