TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! CLAY CHASTAIN ANNOUNCES AIRPORT RENOVATION PLAN THREATENING TO DERAIL NEW KCI IF HE'S ELECTED KANSAS CITY MAYOR!!!
This is the silly season of promises from politicos wanting to garner power and prestige but one commitment from a candidate resonates above the rest.
To wit . . .
CLAY CHASTAIN SAYS HE'LL SAVE KCI IF ELECTED KANSAS CITY MAYOR!!!
It's a bold statement and a $4-BILLION turnabout for the biggest construction project in Kansas City history that has been mired in double talk and political posturing.
Here's his pitch . . .
Clay Chastain: Move to halt airport boondoggle and seek real honest election to save and renovate KCI
* KC needs a better airport, but not a multi-billion dollar plus better airport whose backers not only misled voters about its true cost, but also lied to voters about there being no taxpayer obligation.
* From the beginning, the establishment's push for a shiny new, amenity-sated single-terminal airport has been botched, misrepresented to voters and of a clandestine nature. It is an airport for the elite, not the everyday resident.
* This boondoggle seeks to replace an existing and convenient airport most residents love, is paid for and is a big money maker for the city in that it turns a tidy net profit of $45 million per year according to Moody's 2016 report.
* Engineer Clay will hold open discussions with the airlines and aviation committee to see what their needs and safety requirements are and then forge a reasonable cost-effective plan to renovate KCI and place before voters.
* Sly (along with Justus, Reed and Lucas of the council's Airport Selection Committee), have demonstrated major incompetence in the bumbling and secret handling of this ill-fated municipal project.
* Who on earth would lead our city to spend several hundred million dollars to landfill a solid piece of transportation infrastructure (that is making the city $45 million per year), and replace it with a multi-billion new airport that will spike passenger fares, ramp up parking fees and not turn a profit for 35-years?
Answer: The same bunch that has sabotaged the people's petitions, turned Kansas City into a gateway for greedy wealthy developers (usurping residents tax dollars away from civic and infrastructure needs) and who just billed our city's over-taxed residents with the unnecessary cost of changing the name of a long historic boulevard the honoree himself would never have approved of. All, while the city's horrific homicides and broken infrastructure are ruining citizen's quality of life.
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of our suffering city.
Mayoral candidate, Clay Chastain.
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You decide . . .
I don't agree with Clay's plan but I will say that he is the only one who has offered a real statement on the airport. All of the council candidates are just obfuscating the issue.
ReplyDeleteThat might be enough to get him into the primary. The airport is a disaster. We need a revote.
Delete^^^ I would be more hopeful if he actually lived in Kansas City.
DeleteThe gay boy wonder Lucas lives in Lawrence so......
ReplyDeleteThe mayor and city council should have already resigned over the misleading and lies with this airport debacle.
ReplyDeleteWhat pisses me off about Clay is I want him to win but he doesn’t even live here and he isn’t doing the ground game or public forums. Clay, get out here and start doing something.
The renovation plan was considered to be a bad plan by many of the Council because of the costs. That was when it the new airport had a budget of $1 billion. Now the new airport has a budget of $2 to $3 billion.
ReplyDeleteAn update of the current airport will keep costs significantly lower than a new airport. Smaller airlines would also stay...
Don't forget there are 13 candidates who don't have any name recognition. We need to talk about renovation for KCI instead of this stupid new plan. Actually agree with Clay on this one and I don't hear anything different from the other candidates.
ReplyDeleteBased just on his airport position, I'm sorely tempted.... but,
ReplyDeleteI’m not voting for anyone who is gay or black, or in one case, gay and black. So this airport thing gets Clay my vote.
ReplyDeleteIs Quinton really homosexual? I’d always heard he was sorta a man whore with the ladies?
DeletePut a bra addition on two of the three scoops of the Airport, Update, have Nate Berkus come brighten the place up and run a maintenance plan. Pay for it by firing half the jack asses who have messed things up.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of any Mega Engineering firm, which seems to be a modern disease upon this city, corrupting the politics.
Put some modern media and restrooms around, cheap and quick. Changes at the leadership of Marc and the ATA who let this debacle unfold on their watch as premier transportation and planning entities should round out a go forward. And no front lawyers for the utility or mega engineers please this time around.
10:20,, since the crop of mayoral candidates who actually live in Kansas City is so poor, maybe it's time we recruit nationwide for a mayor like big corporations recruit for a new CEO. Surely we couldn't do worse than the current stable of nags.
ReplyDeleteWhy the gratuitous swipe at the re-naming of paseo though? I 100% am with him about the airport but some potential friends may be turned off who support the re naming of paseo.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Radish
HEY EVERYBODY, LET'S PRETEND CLAY CHASTAIN IS REALLY A KANSAS CITY MAYORAL CANDIDATE!!!
ReplyDeleteHEY EVERYBODY LET'S PRETEND THE 'REAL' CANDIDATES AREN'T COMPLETELY INTERCHANGEABLE INCOMPETENT GRIFTERS!!!
DeleteIt's simple Radish, renaming the Paseo is on huge ass stupid idea which I would think you could understand being stupid yourself.
ReplyDeleteUnlike the current plan- which changes like the wind- this plan looks solid.
ReplyDeleteI would vote for him just based on this.
The original plan no longer exists. All the committees, sub-committees, steering-committees will never work.
Chastising Chastain because his plan looks good is like the editorial board continuing to throw knives at Catholics and Trump supporters and expectations that their stock will survive and not be lol digital within 12 months.
Vote Chastain and wave your middle finger at the status quo.
Hey idiot clay is real candidate and if you have to use caps in big letters you must be on some kind of drugs
ReplyDeleteEven though I pay taxes in Kansas City on property I have a partnership in I can't vote so in some ways I have no say on who gets elected, but at the same time who gets elected affects my pocketbook so say away I will. Clay is listed as a candidate and the track record with him as to where he lives must be better recorded somewhere than most of you think or he would have never got recognized as a candidate. I know it's confusing to me on the homestead part at times but what isn't confusing is his election promises which are greatly more about doing what's right in KC over the others who are seeking the Mayor's office. Many people in Kansas City have dual residency I have many friends that do and I can form a decent size list in my head in seconds of those people. Clay has also made the Virginia home an open book as to why it takes place and has never tried to cover it up. Lets put it this way, I think he is more open about his thoughts and actions than most of the so called list of people running for Mayor. Not saying I am fully endorsing Clay at this time but he so far is the one looking the best for the job.
ReplyDeleteSince you are not a resident dumbass, nobody gives a a fuck what you think! Next!
ReplyDelete12:22 nobody gives a fuck what you think dumbass
ReplyDelete^^I do?! I would rather read what he writes than anything you post. Retard.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I'm seriously going to vote for chastain and it's weird to even think that but at least with him we'd have some sort of idea about what's going on around here
ReplyDelete@12:46 is 12:22. Whack job.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely voting Chastain. His bullshit is way better than the usual bullshit.
ReplyDeleteWhat's really sad about KCMO government is that, even though the "silly season begins with the empty promises and outright lies of the campaign, IT NEVER ENDS.
ReplyDeleteAt least it would be funny watching these clowns perform over the years, except for the ridiculous amounts of tax money they regularly waste and the damage they do to the entire region.
The airport fiasco is only the most recent, most costly,and most obvious mess.
Anybody actually tracking the "progress" of the GO bond projects?
@12:59-Finkel is Einhorn! Einhorn is Finkel!
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ReplyDeleteVOTE FOR CLAY, anyone else is just a vote to extend Sly James, throwing money away on failing crap like 18th and Vine, pizza parties to reform young criminals, go bond money spent on wealthy developers, and on and on and on and on. Put a damn stop to it, give Clay a chance.
Excellent points!
Delete^^No. Fuck you. I vote for who I want.
ReplyDeleteWhere do I get my Clay Chastain yard sign?
ReplyDeleteAt least Clay is honest. He's got my vote.
ReplyDeleteMore common sense than the whole city council.
ReplyDeleteMetro
Loves
Klay
Tony; Thanks for so eloquently writing what is wrong and has happened to the current new airport proposal.
ReplyDelete@1:47PM-Your mother's bedroom she's fucking him.
ReplyDelete^^You are one sick fuck
ReplyDelete^^You are one boring pants-shitter.
ReplyDeleteListen to you shitheads, arguing over someone who's never gotten more than 6% of the vote in any one election. Hitler could get more votes than ol' Clay. At least he lived in Berlin!!!
ReplyDeleteBut go ahead and pretend Clay is a viable candidate, yes. Just don't expect him to even get one vote out of every ten cast.
Listen to you, shithead, trying to persuade people to vote for the atrocious status quo.
DeleteDon't you have a mouth job to give Mayor Bullhorn? Get to it.
I would vote for Hitler. He would eliminate our crime problem. Problems.
DeleteAn airport renovation is an option which should be back on the table. No to very little downside compared to the new airport option.
ReplyDeleteThere is nobody on this council that I would vote for over Clay.
^^Great! Thanks! Nobody asked you though..so there's that!
ReplyDelete2:38 you’re one boring shit eater
ReplyDeleteClay is the only candidate the developers won’t own.
ReplyDeleteWe need a trump like mayoral candidate to run and fix this town. Get a grip on the awful crime too.
ReplyDeleteI want 100 Clay yard signs.
ReplyDeleteCity minions are out in full force on TKC today.
ReplyDeleteEdgmoor remaining involved is inconsequential. They did work to gather subcontractors that does not have to change, just the project has to change. Very little work has been done in terms of the design, the work has been the contracts. Give edgmoor a new project scope, if they want to give that to Although SOM has gone along with this ridiculous plan, they did not put much of effort into it, maybe b/c they realized it was a ridiculous project as well, give the rubes what they want, and they had better things to do.
ReplyDeleteEdgmoor remaining involved is inconsequential. They did work to gather subcontractors that does not have to change, just the project has to change. Very little work has been done in terms of the design, the work has been the contracts. Give edgmoor a new project scope.
ReplyDeleteAlthough SOM has gone along with this ridiculous plan, they did not put much of effort into it, maybe b/c they realized it was a ridiculous project as well, decided to give the rubes what they want, and they had better things to do.
Quite a contrast from the avalanche of irrelevant minutiae and nonsense, spewing from city hall then onto our Screens.
ReplyDeleteClay is a hero!!!
ReplyDeleteClay is for the people!!
ReplyDeleteClay is a real man!!!
ReplyDeleteUnlike the idiots we have now and then there’s Jolie......... disgusting
Clay yard sign be ready in few weeks and flyers
ReplyDeleteJermaine Reed incompetent? No! You don't say? She's the dumbest girl around.
ReplyDeleteSo, if Clay is elected mayor would he still have to work with the same stupid council members that offered absolutely no critical analytical feedback about this issue? The half dozen attorneys on council who are trained in critical thinking? But are the EXACT cause of the current problem and its OUTRAGEOUS COST!!!
ReplyDeleteIs Clay married? Because I can see him and Teresa Loar hooking up. She is all about "renovating the terminals to their bones." She preached that crap for months/years and then was on the wrong side of the "single-terminal" issue. Does Clay know how much Teresa Loar drinks? If they do hook up he will have to make room in his life for her drinking and for all her cats: "Merlot, Riesling, Cabernet, Chardonnay and the grandpa tomcat - Mister Pinot Noir" Heads up, Clay. If we see cat hair on your clothes, we will know you've been at Teresa Loar's place. (Buy a lint brush.)
ReplyDelete@6:46, what is your problem?
ReplyDeleteWe can deduce from your past attacks on Teresa Loar that you are on the Airport Committee and therefore either a member of the Council, or possibly the City Manager or a member of his staff.
So, why not come out of the closet and admit who you are?
That way, as least, your constant petty whines about Councilwoman Loar won't come across as the futile mewling of a gutless, craven, worthless coward!
Show at least a slight skid-mark of self-respect and provide at least some indication that you are something more than one of the Mayor's ass-lickers shivering in fear of his displeasure and creeping about in hope of some crumbs of his approval.
Yeah vote for Clay, the ass-grabber.
ReplyDelete@7:22 petty “whines” no pun intended! LMFAO!!
ReplyDelete“a skid mark of self respect”. That’s great! Crass, yes, but funny phrasing.
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ReplyDelete@7:22 "come out of the closet" Yes, Quinton Lucas. Please come out of the closet. Be honest with yourself.
ReplyDeleteand somehow teresa's stained and cat-haired resume is still more impressive than the other airport committee members.
ReplyDeleteClay can't even convince his own sister to let him crash on her couch when he's in town, doubtful that his crazy ass will convince anyone to vote for him.
ReplyDeleteClay is better then other 5 'city councl running four mayors who said during the airport that one dime of the taxpayers money would be spent on the airport now these same council mender put up 6 million you hard earned money so who was a better candidate
ReplyDelete@343 Clay can always crash at Teresa Loars place as long as he brings a new bottle of wine for Teresa and a squeaky toy for each cat.
ReplyDeleteI like the Clay Chastain action figure look, if he can get rid of Troy and about ten other lifers at City Hall then he has my vote. Clay controlling the committee selections, ought to be fun. All the swells who like to play puppets might have a little tougher time on running their rackets with the Claymeister calling the shots, sounds like good tv
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