Actually, this is about as evenhanded as it gets as local pundits attempt to pitch the Mayor's plan that has already broken up in to more manageable sections i.e. a way for doggie loves to participate without sinking the city completely into debt . . . Dave Helling: Kansas City's bond proposal faces intricate challenges
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All this should have been done FIRST before ritzy luxury apartments made from Chinese materials starting going up all over the place.
ReplyDeleteLyin Sly and the crew should be able to bribe voters with some donuts.
ReplyDeleteSadly, instead of actually listening to hard-working real residents of east side neighborhoods and regularly and honestly responding to their concerns, the KCMO elected will once again grease the palms of a few grifter groups like Freedom Inc. in the hopes of getting votes for the bond issue.
ReplyDeleteThere will be just a handful of votes from the Third District and each vote will end up costing a ridiculous amount of money, but those paper bags with twenty dollar bills have worked from back in the 1950's and these folks just can't change what they do.
So for regular east side residents it comes down to, once again, who they want to be taken advantage of: The schemers at city hall; or the scammers right in their own neighborhoods.
No wonder people are frustrated and angry.
Urban core? Want to see opposition? Wait until the northland gets cranked up!!!! Just exactly what do we get out of this bullshit? We completely support the city. If we support millions of dollars for the urban core we pay the bill again. We get absolutely get no police protection north of the river. My neighbor is a police officer and he is telling all of the neighbors to vote against. Each of us are fed up with no services from the city, despite carrying a massive debt load.
ReplyDeleteIt's really a challenge to believe the $800 mil will actually go to infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteNorthland you get to pay for downtowns sewers. Because they only want to spend their money on toy trains.
ReplyDeleteHelling Writes: "The campaign for Kansas City’s $800 million infrastructure bond issue may be on a collision course with the politics of the city’s impoverished East Side, jeopardizing the bond plan in April. But less well known is a fourth tax increase on the April ballot: a one-eighth-cent, 10-year sales tax hike earmarked solely for East Side “economic development.” The sales tax is likely to be popular on the East Side. The tax would be collected citywide, but the $85 million raised would be spent only inside designated low-income neighborhoods to provide incentives for private business to locate there. A sweet deal, sure, but one supporters say is necessary and long overdue."
ReplyDeleteSo, Helling is critical of East-side leaders who are following KCMO protocol?
Too bad Mr. Helling completely missed the appropriate analogy comparing the "East-side economic development sales tax proposal" to the "KCMO 1-percent earnings tax"!
Why didn't Helling plainly state his true objective -- that everyone should get on board the Sly James $800M bond plan, quit your bitching, stay seated, and vote yes in April"?
Why does this impaired thinking and grossly oriented behavior of Sly and friends and council keep going and going .....clang clang toot toot. As we were taught in the 80's, "Just say NO".
ReplyDeleteTrump is taking a sledgehammer to the Obama legacy so Sly and crew may be getting even more desperate as we advance into 2017.
ReplyDeleteAll of those potholes will be repaired by a member of Cleavers church, he needs to maintain a certain amount of tithing for the infrastructure jobs he brings to KCMO
ReplyDeletevote no, until there's an anti-crime effort for the east side.
ReplyDeleteVOTE NO NO NO, until All the KCMO CITY HALL Crack Addicts are replaced !!!!
ReplyDeleteHelling goes from TV anchor to writer at a broke down legacy newspaper and he is worried that the city is making bad choices?
ReplyDeleteI'm VOTING NO! They lied about the speed of the slow slow street car ( I can walk faster than it moves).
ReplyDeleteThey lied about the PIAC funds! They lied about the water dept. I'M VOTING NO.