TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! AFTERMATH: DIVIDED JACKSON COUNTY LEGISLATURE AFTER EXEC FRANK WHITE POWER SHIFT!!!
After TKC broke FIRST news of the Gary Baker appointment yesterday . . . We have a bit of insight from Jackson County Insiders as to the state of the Legislature under new management.
Checkit:
Again . . . Team Crystal stays losing and we hear her supporters might be making a useless "CONFLICT" power play against the new guy after her candidate was shut out.
But here's how folks who are more closely connected to the hot mess see the situation . . .
Lessons learned after Baker appointment to legislature:
1. Tarwater and Crystal don't have many friends at the county. The Star got it wrong, the vote was 6-1-1, not 6-2. The two legislators that showed themselves to be out in left field were Crystal and Dan Tarwater, each voting solo for their candidate as nobody else was willing to vote with them. Crystal's years of abrasive man-hating, and Dan's repeated reveling amid Courthouse Fed Investigations against colleagues he doesn't like have made each of them lonely islands.
2. Local 42 ain't what it used to be: When the president of that union (Billie Galvin) cannot get his wife to support or vote his own member (Theresa Galvin), it is a rather historic embarrassment.
3. Jean Baker continues to hide from all of the heavy lifting on the 11th floor: It was clear that she did not want Sherwood at any cost, but instead of actually weighing in, she hid on the 11th floor and let the legislators do the real work. At some point, she will not be able to rely upon the unwavering support of the lawyers whom she seems to favor in a great many ways. That day is coming as soon as they tire from her making them the heavies while she hides.
4. Frank White may be better at this than many thought: Scratch one up for the rookie. He got his man without drama or, frankly, any support in any way or form the other major county electeds in (Sheriff) Sharp or Baker. They both took a powder on Frank for political expediency (i.e.-they both have elections this year). Perhaps we can call this the Calvin factor, but Frank impressed.
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Developing . . .
Frank did good his first time up to bat. That is the real lesson here.
ReplyDelete"Mean Jean" nowhere to be found. Was there a homicide in chambers?
ReplyDeleteA lot of people are surprised by how this turned out. The tipster is right on one thing though, there will be a lot more fireworks from Jackson County with Mike gone. It doesn't matter what his enemies are saying in his absence, there is no arguing with the fact that he was a great promoter for the district.
ReplyDeleteLisa Honn marked herself for career liquidation by actively working on behalf of putting Crystal's friend "Pat" on the legislature. That kind of intervention into the Legislative side is a No No for staff.
ReplyDeleteUnleash the dogs of war.
ReplyDeleteI guess maybe Sharp and Peters-Baker and 10 or 15 others might have decided to have an afternoon orgy?
ReplyDeleteFrank would have been better served if he had kept Joan Dickey as his assistant. She knows so much.
ReplyDelete1/26/16
ReplyDeleteCalvin did not want someone as strong and smart as Joan around I am sure.
"As the World Turns" at the courthouse, and all at taxpayers' expense.
ReplyDeleteAnything at all take place that has anything to do with the actual residents and taxpayers of Jackson County, or has all the energy, intrigue, effort, emotion, and under-handed crap been expended on the same tiresome list of D-list celebrity wannabees and grifters?
As usual.
Who's going to lead the way to the COMBAT audit?
What a joke Mike is still in charge and Frank White is his Puppet
ReplyDeleteAgreed 2:13
ReplyDeleteAs an employee off the county of almost 25 years I can tell you that although I have not personally liked any executive in that time frame, but Sanders was the best manager that place will ever see. He was way too overly intense IMO, but shit got done. From the inside we already see things going back to the "good old days."
ReplyDeleteWhen will the Grifters and girlfriends go? Frank ask Sharp about his high paid car allowance college reimbursement lady friend. How many cars will she take from the deputies. For the sake of the hard working employees including Col Mills ask her to go or at least put in 40 hour work week.
ReplyDeleteYou Go Hugh Mills!!
ReplyDeleteMike Sanders could not even hold Bill Waris jock strap when it came to running the County. Waris was very up front and honest to the employees unlike Sanders.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Waris was a total fucking tool.
ReplyDeleteWaris (pay to play Bill) is dead. Good riddance!
ReplyDeleteFurther proving the only "people" low enough to still air their business on this blog is JaxCo government. No one in the real world cares about Jackson county government or Tony's "Kansas City".
ReplyDeleteThe slide into the pit of total irrelevance is complete.