Progressive Kansas City Pouts After 'Defund The Police' Demolished By Missouri Voters

Again . . .

Missouri puts into KCMO coffers . . . It's not exactly taxation without representation. 

Also . . . 

TKC now believes that a vote on local control is possibly a solution to so much Democratic Party lamentation and gnashing of teeth. STL did it and they were "victorious" right up until the point they became a murder capital of the USA.

Newsman JimmyC offers an apt summary . . .

"By a whopping 63-37 percent margin, Missouri voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that will force the city to appropriate five percent more of the city’s general-revenue budget to the Police Department. 

The outcome represents another hard-to-swallow escalation of state control of KCPD, and it could mean the City Council will have to spend millions of additional dollars per year on police operations. 

The bottom line politically is that what looked last year like the Council successfully ambushing the Board of Police Commissioners now looks like the Council having stepped into a bear trap."

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

Missouri voters and the General Assembly just kicked Kansas City in the teeth

From yesterday's election, it is now clear that a City Council action a year ago regarding Police Department funding has backfired badly. By a whopping 63-37 percent margin, Missouri voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that will force the city to appropriate five percent more of the city's general-revenue budget to the Police Department....

Overwhelming Missouri vote on police once again tells Kansas City: You don't matter

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Missouri votes to increase KC's police budget despite local voters' wishes

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You decide . . .