Credit where it's due . . . This is a great round-up article of an ongoing mess along with a hint of the long-running myth that things will ever change or that it's time to rework the idea of County governance. Checkit:
Sex scandal in sheriff's office has some mulling future of Jackson County government
Two days before the public learned the full scope of the scandalous allegations against Sheriff Mike Sharp - kinky sex, big raises for his girlfriend, costly conflicts of interest - Jackson County legislators were briefed privately at the downtown Kansas City Courthouse.
Do you think the stars reporters will look back one day and realize just how bad they were at their jobs or how bad the paper actually was. I don’t even wanna start on their management, if sLIE wasn’t using our tax dollars to keep his personal mouth piece afloat they would have been gone long ago.
ReplyDelete8:26, I doubt that will happen. They don't regard themselves as journalists and the Star as a traditional newspaper, but rather themselves as Progressive crusaders and the Star as an agitprop organ. In those roles they are minor successes. Of course that reduces their credibility to near zero, but that is no longer a goal.
ReplyDeleteIn this story they even mention the Sheriff should have been out long ago. Maybe he would have if the local paper did its job.
ReplyDeleteI agree wholeheartedly 9:14.
ReplyDeleteThe paper sung Mike Sanders' praises for years and has only scratched the surface of what Frank White, Sanders'handpicked successor, has been doing. Like giving Caleb Clifford so much power that he is essentially the de facto county executive. Like treating the problems at the jail (rapes, beatings, gross conditions, even suspicious deaths) like they don't existence. The problem in Frank's eyes is only that the public has been finding out about what has been happening in his jail. He tried to brush one woman's rape off as "old news" and the rest as "stuff happens in a jail." The Star editorial board should have nailed him for that "old news" comment.
Then there's stealing from the COMBAT fund to, among other things, buy Caleb a truck. And handing out dicey contracts left and right. And suspending an employee who wouldn't sign off on some payroll fraud. Or trying to get his son a cushy job in the county finance department before pulling strings to get him an even cushier job at the KCATA.
All that (and there's more) on top of his personal finances and the mystery deal Sanders cooked up to bail Frank out of his foreclosure mess.
Forget "Home Rule" for the KCMO Police Department, don't we need a State takeover of the Jackson County Government?
ReplyDelete@ 10:04 I was at that meeting when Frank White called that poor woman's horrific rape "old news." My jaw dropped to the floor. Shame on the county legislators who didn't tear him a new one right then and there. Of course, The Star did no reporting on that disgusting comment and the callous attitude it revealed. It was before MeToo was a thing.
ReplyDeleteDon’t forget the Former Undersheriff who jumped ship to ATA to get cover from fallout at Sheriff Department, don’t they do background checks...?..If they had he would not have been hired..Who runs this place Do they not do backgrounds at all on upper management? Scary maybe they need investigated after hiring this “BoZo” and now being reported the County Excutive’s son has been given a PAD job.
ReplyDelete@ 11:03 One of Mike Sanders' old stooges runs the KCATA. Their board members from Platte, Clay, Johnson and Wyandotte counties must all have their heads up their asses.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if any Judges are involved?
ReplyDeleteFormer KC Star employees Dave Helling, Steve Kraske, Yael Abouhalkah and current employees Mary Sanchez and others too many to name here ... were and are willfully blind to the factual evidence they witnessed first hand during their time on the KC Star's clock.
ReplyDeleteTheir writings were subjective in support of the progressive agenda. Never considering the taxpayers dollars or holding the public servants accountably. Sad reflection. No doubt lead to the current county embarrassments and lack of leadership in the Mayor, County Executive, Former Police Chief, current County Attorney, the list goes on and on.
A couple of days ago, I predicted in this space that no one on the Star editorial board would have much to say about this latest DEMOCRAT scandal.
ReplyDeleteAs the entire editorial board serves as a partisan mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, they will gladly continue raking Trump/Greitens/Kobach over imaginary coals and burning them in effigy, while simultaneously turning a blind eye to Sanders/White/Sharp who committed crime while holding office.
As the Star editorial board propagandists have an aversion to truth, leave it to Hendricks and Vockrodt to wear the work boots and get the job done.
I was at one event where Frank White was speaking and it was just embarrassing. He was rambling and mumbling, trying to read what someone else had wrote and put in a three-ring notebook. More recently, he was reading from the same notebook another speech implying the county legislators were all racist.
ReplyDeleteI can see why Caleb and the crew want to keep Frank scripted, since he says shit like calling a woman's rape "old news" when he goes off on his own, but they really ought to hire a better script writer and an acting coach.
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ReplyDeleteLow functioning folks... without Affirmative Action promoting them, White, James, numerous council members would not be in those positions.
Sad reality. The consequences of these folks and their obvious lack of knowledge and being unfit to hold office, have proven to have long term effects.
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ReplyDeleteCorruption and incompetence is a black and white problem in Jackson County.
The entire metro is a shit hole.
ReplyDeleteKansas City Star is a circus, just not the kind people enjoy seeing.
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ReplyDeleteThe Star is a joke they were told years ago about Sharp chose to endorse him
so now they want to run a story, pathetic. Now from looking at several of those selected to the panel it's obvious the "FIX" is in to make Captain Rogers the next Sheriff...What Sharp had planned all along. Tell me how can anyone working there in upper management be taken seriously when not ONE of them had the INTEGRITY to report this to someone.... Exception,the Non-Political and honorable KCPD Police Chief,bet he finds out quick the fix is in and steer's clear in the future.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the Star Editorial Board on this asleep most likely would not want to accept some responsibility for Sharp staying in office contrary to all the information available to them by a reporter worth a shit that has been floating around the courthouse for ones taking. The real answer for now to this madness is for KCPD Chief Smith to loan out a commander to fill the temp position until the election.... but hey that would be the professional thing to do.....Soooooo No Way.