Kansas City Mayor Q Against KCFD?!?!

Here's the thing about this story . . . Only the plebs and fools view it at face value.

Instead, let's think about WHO LEAKED THIS INFO AND WHO WANTS IT PUBLICIZED???

Mike Hendricks did a nice job with this report but we don't think for a second that this journalist on the cusp of retirement is out there scouring for news. 

Instead, we know that the newspaper is city hall's mouthpiece . . . And so here's the important part of the story:

Kansas City Manager Brian Platt signed a previously undisclosed agreement last summer allowing the fire captain who then headed the local firefighters union to remain on the city payroll and collect his $86,000 a year salary while working full time in Washington, D.C. . . . 

Platt signed off on the unprecedented arrangement on August 10, according to a document the newspaper obtained. It also exempts Tim Dupin from the city’s residency rules while earning more than $150,000 annually from his new job as the International Association of Fire Fighters’ director of political action at the union’s Washington headquarters.

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

Firefighters union chief collects city salary while working other full-time job in DC

Kansas City Manager Brian Platt signed a previously undisclosed agreement last summer allowing the fire captain who then headed the local firefighters union to remain on the city payroll and collect his $86,000 a year salary while working full time in Washington, D.C., The Star has learned.