Kansas City Star Runs Activist MTG Tag Against Police Board Commish Heather Hall

No matter how locals might feel about the topic, this is important to document . . .

With no rebuttal . . . The Kansas City Star runs anti-police activist talking points regarding the political leanings of the new police board commissioner, former Northland council member Heather Hall. 

This week Pete Mundo did a great segment with Commish Hall and gave her a chance answer some of the criticism . . . 

Nevertheless . . .

We're disappointed with the so-called "paper-of-record" because they're being used/played as a press-release dispensary for anti-cop activists without providing readers context.

No, Heather Hall has very little in common with MTG . . . Check her legislative record and most of it involves working for better trash pickup and struggling to get more sidewalks for the Northland. 

Heather Hall has never talked about space lasers or jeered Democratic Party leaders during their speeches.

In fact . . . Just about everyone who has ever met Ms. Hall FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE, has remarked about what a nice and really thoughtful person she is . . . 

And so . . .

The activist tag is the worst kind of partisan politics that KC voters typically reject: It's stereotyping and mostly based on looks . . . MTG is a blonde and Ms. Hall also has blonde hair, they're both Republican and that's about the end of their similarities.  

At best the juxtaposition is lazy rhetoric and it's EVEN WORSE journalism to share without context.

And so we check the Star doubling down on their tacit activist endorsement . . .  

“Hall is a conflict of interest and everyone knows it. Shame on Gov. Kehoe,” said Lora McDonald, executive director of the Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equality.

Sheryl Ferguson, an organizer with It’s Time 4 Justice, called Hall “the worst appointment ever” and “Marjorie Taylor Green locally,” invoking the firebrand Georgia Congresswoman with a history of racist and inflammatory comments.

“There’s nothing wrong necessarily with being pro-cop, except for when you have cops that are vilifying certain neighborhoods in Kansas City,” Ferguson said.

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

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