TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! BURNS & MAC #BETTERKCI NEW KANSAS CITY AIRPORT COMEBACK WITH LOVE FROM CITY HALL!!!
MSM and social media are calling today's presser "news" but our AWESOME TKC BLOG COMMUNITY talked about and predicted this inevitability last week.
To wit . . .
OF COURSE BURNS & MAC WANTS BACK INTO THE NEW AIRPORT BID AND TEAM SLY SEEMS TO BE DOING THEIR BEST TO RIG THE PROCESS AGAIN!!!
Check the round-up of "news" from City Hall dutifully transcribed in order to provide little options for voters after a rigged election revealed a systemic level of corruption in Kansas City.
What can we expect next???
Unions and The Heavies will endorse this bid but won't tell locals that they spiked Edgemoor's deal.
MEANWHILE THIS DECISION HAS NOW BEEN RIPPED AWAY FROM VOTERS IS NOW PART OF ELECTION SEASON CITY HALL DRAMA!!! #GOODLUCK!!!
Checkit the best links on the topic:
KMBC: AECOM, Burns & McDonnell teaming up on a renewed KCI bid
KCUR: The two firms weren't always so friendly — during the bidding process AECOM accused the selection committee of moving the goalposts to give Burns and McDonnell
Fox4: Kansas City's #2 choice to rebuild airport holds news conference; City manager sends out 16 tweets to explain conflict
You decide . . .
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ReplyDeleteBurns & Mac own the mayor and thereby the KCMO. It's was a good investment of only around 50,000.
DeleteSeems roughly like how progress goes in this city anyway. Could be a blessing in disguise like the failure of the "aerial gondola" transit plan was.
DeleteShady from the get go and it was irresponsible for Kansas Citians to vote for this without clear and precise detail.
DeleteThis documentary does a good job of explaining the whole mess: The KCI Affair: Triumph Or Fiasco?
DeleteKC should be very afraid of Burns & McDonell.
ReplyDeleteDid everyone forget they tried to force a no-bid contract on the city?
They literally said "here is a bid for a new airport but if you ask for a competing bid we refuse to do it" and then ran commercials how we should tell the city council to accept it because they "would do right".
Airport will cost 2 billion now. And will be small and less convenient. Thanks Sly!
ReplyDeletebeen telling you since beginning. burns and mac will build this (now with aecom). airport wasn’t getting built in kc without them. backroom deals got done, edgemoor will be out with $1.5m payoff. mark it down.
ReplyDeleteHow long before the FBI investigates the massive corruption in this process? The mayor and city council's motto should be "If you ain't cheatin',
ReplyDeleteyou ain't tryin'".
Better title: Corruption for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteWho is the Mayor, lame corrupt duck, quack quack
ReplyDelete@ 4:27, what makes you think a majority of Kansas City residents voted in favor of the "New" Airport? Don't forget who counts the votes.
ReplyDelete^^^ Sad but true.
ReplyDelete30.06 Stop cheating use. Honesty!
ReplyDeleteWhat bugs me about thus whole deal is how fast it has all moved. I mean we aren't buying a used car here.
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