Mayor Q Stays Losing Defund Court Fight Vs. Kansas City Police!!!

A landmark decision today proves that a former university lecturer turned Mayor doesn't know the law as well as he claimed. 

The deets  . . . 

"In his ruling, Judge Patrick Campbell said Kansas City cannot change the police department's spending after appropriations without approval from the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners.

"Campbell issued a writ of mandamus that will require the city to put $42.2 million back in the police department's budget for this fiscal year."

Even better, we share the reaction from both sides  . . .

Check the word from KCPD: 

Statement on Ruling of Lawsuit

KCPD engages in the budget process six months ahead of when the budget year begins.  The police
department puts a great deal of effort into this process as does the city.  This budget process directly affects not only the police department and the city, but the members in our community.  We appreciate the court recognized the validity of the 2020-2021 budget process.

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In return, Mayor Q offers voters a HUGE helping of word salad defended by Twitter bots . . .

All things considered so far . . . 

THIS IS AN EPIC DEFEAT FOR MAYOR Q AND THE 'DEFUND THE POLICE' CROWD!!! 

What's worse is that the support for this movement was minimal and overplayed by social media. 

TKC fun fact that was always lost in this discussion . . .

Neither Mayor nor council offered BUDGET DEETS about what they planned to do with that money. (Hint: It was always going to be just another slush fund.) There was simply a promise to spend it on "community outreach" without any specific line items. 

Sadly, drilling down the the specifics of any budget is discouraged by most people who hold power in Kansas City.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news links . . .

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