The latest bloggy update from the best dressed politico in Kansas City spreads around the credit/blame for this EPIC entertainment district double down that totals around $100 MILLION since 1990. In the meantime, Councilman Reed remains the least likely council-member to ever hold another political office in this town for at least another 20 years . . . Councilman Reed accepts the City Managers plans for improving historic 18th and Vine District ‹ KC Third
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Just remember you can't dress up a pig Lets put money into a place people don't even go because of the crime. I was thinking maybe sly could buy part of iraq and put a bunch worthless shit there too Prob safer
ReplyDeleteIf they can't connect the Jazz district to the east side of the crossroads, this project will fail.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, nothing you're apart of succeeds without white people, huh? Don't forget to buy black.
DeleteMeanwhile, out of control and bigger taxpayer subsidies to the wealthy suburbs continue un-checked, unabated, and un-noticed by the "tax fighters" of Tony's Kooks and Cranks
ReplyDeleteCouncil should just move some emergency money from the Cerner trough. Or Circo's soccer field slush fund.
ReplyDeleteOnly one plan will improve the 18th and Vine area. If you don't know what that is, then you have told me you're as stupid as Schulte and Reed.
ReplyDeleteWas Reed one of the women shot last night on 37th Jackson?
ReplyDeleteBend over you 70 percent of KC that aren't coons. It's another black project, you get to pay for, while the coon king tells you how KC is in dire need of revenue.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone isn't terrified to see the words "Jermaine Reed" and "$27 million taxpayer dollars" in the same sentence hasn't been paying attention.
ReplyDeleteFor a very long time.
Despite the public braying among KC's consultant class to come together and work towards strengthening the region as a whole, here we find PROOF POSITIVE that KCMO's political status quo is the OBSTRUCTION.
ReplyDelete$100 MILLION already spent with very little to show for it...and they just need a little bit more? What LUNACY!
City Manager Troy Schulte has been emasculated, having shown his willingness to abandon any semblance of fiscal responsibility, as long as he personally gets to continue growing fat at the taxpayer trough. Please recall his example of leadership, negotiating a new lucrative recent contract while simultaneously freezing other city employees. Schulte is like that Italian ship captain, a few years ago, who was among the first to abandon ship after running aground, leaving his crew and passengers behind to fend for themselves.
Councilman Reed, for anyone who knows his background, is a poser who's really done nothing of significance since finishing school. The great bulk of his campaign contributions have come from outside his district and he's merely a temporary placeholder for an area which can't be bothered to put up a worthy representative.
There's a business term known as "opportunity cost." Simply stated, an opportunity cost is the cost of a missed opportunity. Applied to a business decision, the opportunity cost might refer to the profit a company could have earned from its capital, equipment, and real estate if these assets had been used in a different way. So, while KC leaders were squandering $100 million trying to force the square 18th and Vine peg into a round opening, all those projects that could have been completed with that funding went unfulfilled.
Before we dump more hard earned taxpayer money into this pit, how about an audit to find out where the millions paid so far has gone.
ReplyDeleteThe city will never permit any effort for outside accountability for the money poured into the "drain" called 18th and vine. Too many politicians, friends and family members have been paid handsomely out of this slush fund. The level of greed has been stunning....and the residents on the East Side have seen little benefit. Those who have been paid---do not even live in Kansas city, Missouri. Shell Corporations hide their names----and kickbacks to political officials. They are confident that the FBI will not investigate---due to key placements of a certain Congressman's friends and family members in the federal justice system covering this area. The corruption game rolls on...on-going projects with no ending dates and few results.
ReplyDeleteOut of that 100 million, I wonder how many $75k cars were bought for 'folks' in 'administration.'
ReplyDeleteHow many three piece suits at Penner's?
How many actual local Jazz musicians saw benefit from that 100 million?
They got used to sucking the tit a LONG time ago down there in the 'district' and there's no end in sight. Nobody pays their bills there. White musicians hate to work there and gamble their lives just walking their gear in and out of clubs.
I say "clubs" like there's actually anything going on down there.
Danny's will soon be closing up, and the Blue Room is just a miserable piece of shit wannabe jazz epicenter.
It's a stinking shit hole - always has been. Always will be.
Can't we collectively vote somebody into these positions that won't rape us?
You've got to be shitting me!! Hey city council, why don't you fire Troy Schulte and Sherri McIntyre and fix our streets. BASIC SERVICE PLEASE
ReplyDeleteNope...haven't seen a damn thing Reed has ever, ever, ever done for his community but take pictures and get hi ass in the paper or on the news. Worthless. No penner's suits...out the back of a trunk from a friend of a friend who has a side business. You know.
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