TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! SHOCK!!! KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN SUPPORTERS CAUGHT TOUTING NEW SECRET STREETCAR EXPANSION PLANS!!!
Kansas City voters overwhelmingly rejected streetcar expansion when a public vote was moved beyond a rigged cross-section of secret ballots distributed among only a few predetermined voters in what many call "the most corrupt election since the Pendergast era" . . . Now toy train supporters are trying their same old tricks.
To wit . . .
TAKE A LOOK THIS E-MAIL INTERCEPTED BY KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS REVEALING STREETCAR EXPANSION PLANS ALREADY IN DISCUSSION AS THIS TOWN STILL AWAITS THE DELAYED TOY TRAIN DOWNTOWN!!!
Thanks to the Citizens For Responsible Government for their work in helping to uncover this secret plan along with a few other AWESOME TIPSTERS speaking up against this clandestine move . . . Take a look:
The KCRTA (Kansas Regional Transit Alliance) is out NOW making a presentation for expansion in "private sessions” around town. We have requested a copy of the presentation but our request has been rejected. We are ramping up our request with Council Ladies Jolie Justus and Katheryn Shields since the expansion will be from Union Station to UMKC, which is their 4th district. We do believe it is subject to sunshine laws . . .
Here’s the heads up we received from one of our members:
“...The KCRTA is pushing again for the streetcar extension to UMKC and they intend to get it on the ballot this summer, they want to create a bastard TDD district like they did with the starter line that will be designed to get passed with as few voters as possible. Sly is behind it and the same actors are present. Sly backs it but wants to distance himself because he's got the vote on the earnings tax at the same time. The arrogance of Sly James is appalling.”
We requested a copy of the presentation and here is the response we received:
From KCRTA:
You have requested... "copies of a streetcar expansion presentation that was given at the Downtown Council's executive committee meeting. That presentation was produced by the KCRTA and is not subject to the Missouri Sunshine Law, thus it will not be made available to anyone from the public."
Let me know if you have any questions.
David Johnson
Vice Chair
Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance
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TKC is FIRST to publish these deets beyond e-mails circulating around Kansas City's elite . . . And what's clear is that this toy train plan has been kept under wraps given that OBVIOUS damage that the streetcar has inflicted on so many businesses and the undemocratic and secretive effort to keep this money train moving along.
Developing . . .
i thought sly james was against "political gamesmanship" and he wasted to make kcmo "best" in the nation?
ReplyDeleteIt seems like another secret vote is a game that he's trying to run on voters.
Just say NO to the streetcar
ReplyDeleteHere's what you need to work on TKC, there should be an ordinance that forbids the mayor from bringing up the same issue again and again until he gets his way. The voters have spoken, it's time for streetcar proponents to stand down.
ReplyDeleteKansas City secret ballots: Another reason to vote against the e-tax.
ReplyDeleteKansas City is still what it was in the Pendergast era ... a gangster operation.
ReplyDeleteSilly voters ... where did you get the idea that what you think matters? Your job is to shut up and pay.
7:44's got a point. I'm inclined to vote for the e-tax, but if the wishes of 60% of the voters are ignored to force this monstrosity on the public (before we get a chance to see what fresh hell the starter line brings), I may change my mind.
ReplyDeleteAnd I doubt I'm the only one.
Vote no on anything the city proposes....until Sly, troy and the rest of the corruption crew are gone!!
ReplyDeleteDavey Johnson, please stop your destruction of Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I want Main Street to be a toy train jug fuck clear out to UMKC.
ReplyDeleteI don't think "secret ballot" means what you think it means.
ReplyDeleteDear Public, This is none of your business. We will do what we want. You have no say. When it is a done and corrupt deal, we will let you know. All that you have heard before is complete garbage. We have you best interests at heart. And that is to shamelessly waste your money. We are in control.
ReplyDeleteSAY "NO" TO THE E-TAX RENEWAL!!
ReplyDeleteThe only way to stop the James Gang unlawful behavior is to pull their funding. Vote NO on the E-tax and tell Mayor James to stop expanding his office.....and go on a diet!!
If KCMO needed a shuttle service (ToyTrain) then private enterprise would have provided it. And Bill George would work with the city to monopolize it.
If KCMO needed a new convention center hotel, private investors would have already built it, and be enjoying their profits.
If KCMO needed a new airport terminal, private investors would have already built it, and be landing huge profits.
Apparently, there was money to be made off providing high-speed internet/TV service in the KCMO area as Google and others raced to install their infrastructure.
TONY'S INSIDERS IDENTIFY AN DOUBLE SECRET ENCRYPTED E-MAIL PROPOSING EVEN MORE RAIL SERVICE!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am appalled!
I should base my decision on an anonymous communication from someone who can't find a shovel and dig up a pair of balls.
If Trump were here, we would be infiltrating the KCRTA servers!
If you have not seen the Homer Simpson cartoon today, you are missing something actually funnier than the use of TOY TRAIN.
...And the murder rate goes ever higher while Sly, Burke, the developers, construction people, bond merchants, bond dealers and other enablers plot to further pillage and plunder the community.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile the scourge of crime: violent assaults, thefts and burglaries spread over the metro area beyond the inner city.
And the Star protects them.
Thank you, Tony for calling out the corruption of these liars and thieves.
Please keep naming them. Many of the usual suspects are known, while others remain in the shadows like cockroaches.
Who are Sly's special Machiavellian advisers that devise schemes like special election districts?
The sales tax rate in a very narrow Main Street TDD would have to be 20% to finance the extension. Think the Plaza is going to allow that? The property tax rate would have to be higher than that on the downtown TDD. Think the property owners are going to vote for that?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the Plaza is up for sale.
ReplyDeleteGotta say, I just do not get what the big deal is.
ReplyDeleteIf the folks from Crown Center to UMKC want to tax themselves and their neighborhood businesses to extend the streetcar route along Main -- something THEY actually voted for before -- why does anyone else care? Especially since any vote would be after those voters have had the opportunity to observe how the initial Downtown trial is going.
Nor, frankly, do I understand the RCRTA's reluctance to share. These are not exactly the nuclear launch codes or the plot for the next Star Wars episode. (FYI, Dave, the Downtown Council and its executive committee ARE members of the public. Just moneyed members -- most of whom cannot vote in KCMO.)
Not every one of the Mayor's ideas is terrific. But, neither is he a Neo-Stalin marching uncooperative peasants off to death camps in Siberia. By summer we will all have the opportunity to see how the streetcars are doing -- and voters can make an informed decision on whether they want to pay to extend the route.
One of the unique things about Kansas City government is that it does not represent the people. Of all things critical to the tax payers you can count a decade of projects that were priorities to tax payers on two fingers. Instead of serving, Kansas City government has learned to push to cram personal agendas down the public's pie hole until they get it through. This is why you see bullshit like E-Tax that lasts 20 years and recurring votes on pet projects all over town. It will happen on the train, the stadiums, whatever new museum some nutball dreams up or whatever. It doesn't not matter if you vote something down. The city will turn right around, play semantics and put the agenda before the voters again and again with new spin. It will go on until the tax payers slip up and approve it. No one in their right mind can possibly believe these shyster shenanigans represent the interest or desires of the citizens that pay the bills around here. The times there is no vote is when your vote isn't needed and there is no requirement to inform you before the fact.
ReplyDeleteWhat is needed are candidates who agree to clean up the city charter so that city government can not exercise the kinds of ruthless and bullying power it has been exhibiting for decades. How the city charter ever got tinkered with to the point that the citizens are subject of the King is above me, but it is far past time for this bullshit and conniving to stop.
Do not refer to the downtown-to-Crown Center streetcar as a "starter line." That implies that additional lines are inevitable after this one is completed. It a semantic trick originated by proponents of additional lines as part of their propaganda campaign. Next, they will distribute photos of streetcars filled to brimming with smiling "commuters," who just happen to be planted there by the same folks who gave you "starter line."
ReplyDeleteThe folks from Crown Center to UMKC are not the only ones that will "tax themselves". Businesses which have no vote, citizens who purchase goods and services, and property owners will all be taxed to pay for another boondoggle. Just like the 375 voters who raised taxes on thousands for the so called starter line.
ReplyDeleteIt's takes a set of big brass balls to be doing the Phase 2 roadshow with the e-tax fight just around the corner. This will do more to push voters into the "No" camp on the e-tax... unless the City believes their lobbyists in Jeff City will be successful in changing the e-tax renewal ordinance.
ReplyDeleteContact your state representative and make sure they know your position on the City's current effort to extend the e-tax renewal period to 20 years or more.
If voters are just now becoming appalled at Sly's arrogance, they must be on pychotropic medication that makes them catatonic. The slow bus as finally arrived. All aboard! Toot! Toot!
ReplyDeletePhil- What's the rush? Let's see how the first phase works out then let people have a vote. I'm not at all sure many people are going to want to extend the rails down Main Street and have the same issues with parking we're seeing downtown.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats scamming the taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this even considered news?
To say no to expansion vote NO on earnings tax.
ReplyDeleteVoting NO on things like this matters not in this shithole. Remember riverboat casino gambling? Remember how they finessed that and kept bringing it up for another vote after just having been voted down?
ReplyDeleteDon't expect to be listened to or for your vote to actually count around here, ever.
How would Cordish survive without holding us up for millions every year?
How will the new train survive without extending the line all over the goddamn place against our wishes, costing billions?
What will be the next stop for Sly? Will he retire? Or will he go on to greatness like that shit heel Cleaver?
Before expansion could streetcar people tell us how many new jobs were created in the original district?
ReplyDeleteStreet car people should tell us how many residents in Kansas city got a job on this project. Last i heard....the people who do these projects for the City create temporary low wage jobs for people who do not even live in or near Kansas City. The big money on these projects (out of Kansas City tax dollars) is usually given to out of town people. So there is no real economic benefit.
ReplyDeleteThat's one cool fucking train. Damn. Can't wait to see it streaming down by the Plaza, hoodrats hanging out the windows shooting at people on the sidewalks, and money blowing out to the people along the tracks. Enjoy that taxpayer boondoggie.
ReplyDeleteChoo Choo..............
We sent the alert out months ago, this corruption will not end till we as voters bring this city to a screeching halt.
ReplyDeleteThe council has been wooing Neighborhood Associations like Hyde Park Neighborhood association.
Holding gatherings at Tower Tavern for neighborhood elitists and social climbers looking to further their need for self riotous importance.
The city knows that any Property tax increase is a tough sell ,so they want a neighborhood by neighborhood vote, and allow renters to help push this through .
HPNA is one of several neighborhoods that sees no problem with multiple property tax increases, including a 10 to 12 % CID .
Jolie Justus is probably one of the most arrogant council members in recent history.
Justus never responds to anyone , except those in her own make believe world.
The Trolley District property owners , like South Hyde Park cannot afford yet another unnecessary property tax increase.
Hyde Park's homeowners are asking for help to stop the streetcar expansion and a neighborhood CID .
Lets give City Hall a good double flush ,and take out a few self appointed neighborhood leaders with 'em.
With what they've already built, it HAS TO be extended to the Plaza (and, really, UMKC). It ends there, though it ought to go right on down Brookside to Waldo.
ReplyDelete^^^^^ Powerful stuff you're smoking tonoght.
ReplyDelete6:27: "We?" You got a mouse in your pocket?
Voters said NO. Listen to the voters or lose your job. When are politicians going to learn?
ReplyDeleteThis is just one problem with TDDs; it allows unelected third parties to manage public works and public funds. And Mr. Carderella, I have no problem with creating a district to tax yourself for a service that you can provide with those funds, but when you're using PIAC, transportation funds, and general funds to supplement the building of infrastructure and operations from the budget every year... that's a problem. And if $ that could go to neighborhoods to repair their streets or sidewalks is prioritized to move utilities along Main Street, this also presents a problem.
ReplyDeleteBrace yourself Brookside, our street car fight is not a done deal. The Mayor's cronies are trying to get around the voters to bring the street car down Brookside blvd. Every Midtown neighborhood expect a property tax increase.
ReplyDeleteCity Hall, and especially Jolie Justus has been inviting neighborhood leaders to "meet'n greets" at area taverns. The purpose besides free appetizers,to hard sell the positives of the Streetcar system and how it will benefit your neighborhood. Absolute B S! Though the usual neighborhood ghouls and yuppies & guppies were there
ReplyDeleteEating it all up,along with the munchies .
2 things to watch out for, The Art District Expansion (eminent domain ) and The Streetcar District Expansion.
Fair elections are now a thing of the past
The Main Street Core is taking over block by block and charging $400=$600 to property owners and thus you will have the streetcar. And you get not vote on this CID.
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