TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! IT HAD TO HAPPEN SOMETIME: KANSAS CITY UNION BOSS LOUIE WRIGHT SUES TKC FOR DEFAMATION!!!



He was formerly Kansas City's most powerful Union Boss and now he's suing TKC according to a recent e-mail from the good folks at The Pitch.

Go check their PLOG because I sent just sent a nice quote their way!!!

The lawsuit is over a TKC TIPSTER claim and a Youtube video I posted . . . The second part of that statement makes me somewhat confident that I have a snowball's chance in Hell given that . . . Linking Youtube is not a crime - Case law backs me up on that. Oy.

But it's a fact: Without question the dude is the most powerful political force in Kansas City and I'm quite sure he can wipe out this blog without much effort.

I'll do my best to maintain and any defense I mount (no fish sticks) will be based mostly on free speech and the basic facts of TKC TIPSTER inside info that's always been pretty good.

ALSO IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THAT LONGTIME UNION OPERATIVES BASICALLY WORKING TO CRUSH ANY DISSENT TO THEIR ONGOING RULE OF KANSAS CITY!!!

But we know that lawsuits are basically battles about money and in that regard . . . I'm screwed.

Thanks to The Plog for letting me know first . . . Anybody know any good lawyers?

Update . . . Here's part of the quote I sent The Pitch too late for them to use:

"I am both ill-equipped and completely unprepared to face a lawsuit of any kind.

"Like every other elected official in Kansas City, I'm guessing that I will be forced to grovel at the feet of outgoing Local 42 President Louie Wright. This probably means the end of the blog. As for the people whom I owe money, he's gonna have to stand in line.

"The Corrupt and incompetent politics of the Local 42 leadership have decimated Kansas City's fiances and our ambulance service. I have no doubt this effort aimed at crushing even the slightest dissent at TKC - The Only Free Speech Zone in Kansas City - Will completely succeed."

Developing . . . 

Comments

  1. Buh-bye Tony.

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  2. the said you didn't respond when asked to comment, did you forget to hit send again?

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  3. So, guess your mom will have to rent her basement from Louie to let you live there now?

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  5. A post from 2009? Did he JUST NOW read it?

    His denial said that he received no money from United Way. I wonder if he was able to skim off the top before they even got the money.

    I just can't believe a union boss would do something underhanded......

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  6. "A post from 2009? Did he JUST NOW read it?"

    He waited until he retired. Why? I dunno, but that may have had something to do with it.

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  7. Sorry for your agita, man. Hang in there.

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  8. Maybe Mike and Mary know a good atteorney.

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  9. 5 days before statute of limitations ran out on a civil case. Original blog was 8-22-11.

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  10. Will the last person to leave please turn out the lights.

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  11. Tony, he's blowing smoke up your ass. It's a threat to make you shiver; a scare tactic nonetheless. Don't get a lawyer just yet. For one, aren't you unemployed to begin with? Don't donate precious blood to the vampires as it's soon to be determined. Why don't you check Missouri Case.net and check to see if they filed suit. Unless he's filed the lawsuit in Kansas, the docket has yet to appear in Missouri court public record. Google "Case.net". I typed in "Tony Botello" and an old case from the 90's was listed--so apparently it wasn't you. I then inserted "Anthony Botello" and no results were found as well. Finally, I just typed in your last name and 131 results were shown. None were listing your alleged lawsuit. Unless you have a different legal name, then it's another story.

    Just apologize to cover your ass. Fuck pride. You don't want this on your record as it will ruin your future as a journalist. We still need you to blog.

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  12. watch it, louie is a pretty good attorney, he wouldnt have done it unless he knew he was gonna win .... sorry dude

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  13. You need to get a Lawyer Tony. As in like this afternoon.

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  14. If he filed the lawsuit in Kansas, the statue of limitations is just one year....meaning he has no case about the 2009 post.

    On another note: Louie is a great name for a union boss.

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  15. just read article in question .... you are going to have to out your source to get out of this one, better let them know, any judge will order you to .... hate to say it, louie has a case ... ret. attorney

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  16. You might be able to settle out of court. You still need a lawyer regardless.

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  17. Louie will own this blog. It will earn him $17.50

    Bwhahahahaahahahaha!

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  18. Do you have the summons already?

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  19. 3:41 More like he'll own Tony and John Doe 1 and 2.

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  20. So what's that worth? $20?

    Bwahaahahahahahaahah!

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  21. 3:38 PM . . you are going to have to out your source to get out of this one, better let them know

    Like the man said better make those calls T.

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  22. Who's gonna start the Tony's Defense Fund? I got 50 cents to throw in. LOL

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  23. He's blogging posts above. Duh!

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  24. Use Social Media to raise money for your legal fees. Tonys legal Defense Fund! Hell what you got to lose at this point?

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  25. Bye Bye Tony. Get your ass down to Taco Bell and get a real job so you can get your lazy ass off medicaid.

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  26. Mike smirked8/17/11, 4:05 PM

    Wonder if the anti Louie guys are a little worried? Can't wait for John Doe one and two to come out of the closet. And thanks for the link to the pitch blog and all the articles about Tony.

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  27. hendricks, sanchez, and numerous others - maybe including the chiefs and royals - are gleefully cheering this.

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  28. Always wondered who these Tipsters are. Looks like were going to find out.

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  29. Get your Facebook friends to chip in!

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  30. For those siding with Tony, consider boycotting Nick Wright of 610. Wright is the son of this union thug. Switch to 810 or something else. The best way at getting this clown back is hurting his son's career.

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  31. Two things:

    1. Truth is a defense in defamation

    2. Having a low character makes some folks defamation proof. In other words his character is so lowly regarded the court should throw the case out....

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  32. Anon 4:14 gets it.

    Find dirt on this clown and use it in court. Character witnesses would be ideal.

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  33. Well it's been fun. Natch!

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  34. How bout some Jordan Carver Watermellons to ease the stress here today.

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  35. Maybe there are no tipsters and Tonys really John Doe 1 and 2.

    In that case maybe the Insanity Defense can be used.

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  36. yes. it's like if you called chris moreno a low life fat cock sucker and he tried to sue you for it, the judge would take on look at him and say "case dismissed"

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  37. I need to be paid for all the time I have wasted looking at the comments.

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  38. You need to raise at least $50,000 to defend in court Tony.

    If it's say $750,000 in damages you can worry about paying that later.

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  39. Actually you should probably just shut this blog down till this is over so others you've offended or slandered don't get any ideas.

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  40. Hey this what a person can get from the KCPD blog.

    he Jackson County Prosecutor today filed charges against 23-year-old James D. Kemp in the sexual assault of a woman on the Trolley Trail in June and an attack on a woman at a car wash near the trail a week and a half ago. We released a composite sketch last week of a possible suspect.

    KC man charged in Trolley Track Trail assaults

    By CHRISTINE VENDEL

    The Kansas City Star


    James D. Kemp
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    Investigators used DNA and fingerprints to link a 23-year-old Kansas Citian to recent attacks on two women, officials announced today.

    The suspect, James D. Kemp, lives less than five blocks from the Trolley Track Trail, where a masked assailant sodomized a woman in her 50s in June.

    This month, a man fitting the same description attacked a woman at a car wash a block from the trail.

    Jackson County prosecutors charged Kemp today with forcible sodomy, kidnapping, first-degree robbery and four counts of armed criminal action in connection with the two attacks.

    According to court records, he admitted to both attacks when confronted with the DNA and fingerprint evidence.

    Kemp, who works at a local fast food restaurant at 76th Street and Wornall Road, also drives a white 1994 Mercury Tracer, court records said. The victim reported seeing an older-model white Mercury in the area of the attack.

    Last week, police released a sketch of a man who attacked a woman getting ready to vacuum her car at a Waldo car wash one block from the trail. Police quickly began investigating whether that attack was connected to the sexual assault reported along the trolley trail in June. In both cases, the attacker used a knife and wore a black ski mask and black clothes. His mask came off in the recent attack.

    The first reported attack happened about 5:45 a.m. June 16 near 85th and Main streets along a relatively desolate section of the trail. The assailant bound the victim’s hands behind her with duct tape, and taped her mouth, before sodomizing her. He also threatened her with a knife, according to court records

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  41. After all that from the Chiefs BLOG what a few Public servants addresses?

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  42. What a sad man to go after a blogger in his retirement.

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  43. 4:30 PM I think your either on the wrong Website or wrong thread.

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  44. Your best bet is just to SHUT UP till this is over.

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  45. TKC has 1861 FB friends heck a buck a piece might cover two hours in legal fees. Use the Social Luke!

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  46. How bout trying the Race Card that sometimes works against this kind of thing.

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  47. 4:14 is right. Further, if Louie's a public figure defamation comes with the territory. After all, Ben Bernanke was called a traitor this weekend by an idiot who is running for the Republican nomination for president.

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  48. His son should be sued for his dumb ass radio show.

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  49. looking forward to Louie's Kansas City

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  50. I don't really know if Tony's attack on Local 42 for its pervasive and pernicious control over the city is justified.

    I DO know, that if rich fuckin ass Louie Wright is takin time out to sue Tony, than it gives credence to Tony's point of view, and his accusations.

    Tony's blog is an entirely egalitarian tool, used by poor folks like me, to express our opinions.

    Fuck Louie wright.

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  51. Amen, Chuck.

    Contact ACLU. They may even do Pro Bono. Don't Panic: You can always do it later.

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  52. Tony, For all the water you have carried for the Rizzo gang I would think Henry owes you one. I say you should invite Louie down to the Caddy Shack for a cold one and let things get taken care of the old fashioned way.

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  53. Louie would qualify as a public figure under Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts. He would have to show actual malice on Tony's part which would be next to impossible. I think Tony is fine here.

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  54. I hope he takes you for the 5 dollars you are worth. You are a racist who hates white people and people with jobs! Dick!

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  55. And who's money is ol'grampy louie going to use to fight Tony? Probably that $80 a month this half-assed union has been taking from us.

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  56. Its about time to understand your not Howard Stern and poor sources will get your ass buried. Oh and maybe if you sell out your sources and grovel like a good little piggy then you might still have a pot to piss in when this is said and done!?!?

    Might be a good time to shut your yap about it, cause Louie has already won its just what he decides to take you for. If you make this more personal your gonna end up in trouble.

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  57. As TONY would say "does it really add anything to the conversation?

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  58. Can't wait to find out who John Doe #1 and #2 is.

    This should be a real hoot!

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  59. Maybe Gloria Funkhouser can offer Tony some legal advise.

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  60. Louie likes anal.

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  61. Hard to believe Wrights this upset over that idiotic kindergarten level video and the idiotic post also.

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  62. Saw Louie at the Strand giving free ones away...all he wants is your protein.

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  63. Wake me when democracy throws me out of office8/17/11, 7:14 PM

    it took the man two years to figure out that he was defamed by a rumor?

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  64. Oh and to all you dipshits, he isnt a public anything. He is the President of a Organization that in no way has anything to do with you. His job was to protect safe work environments, and negotiate work standards. So that doesnt qualify him for public office status or a pass because he did his job well. Tony grab your ankles its coming in hot and hard

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  65. I, too, have been on the wrong end of a Louie Wright lawsuit. gave up my job and moved to a 3rd world country to shut him up.

    Good Luck

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  66. 7:42 PM You move to KCK Or East KC?

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  67. The ACLU won't touch this... it has nothing to do with government suppression of the Constitution.

    This will cost Tony serious up front money. and he's going to have to prove that Mr Wright was on the take. Wonder of Wright's really after john doe 1 and 2 and will talk TKC into giving them up to get off the case.

    Lets see if Tee will go to jail for contempt, to protect his awesome tipsters.

    I'm surprised he hasn't been sued for allowing a lot of lewd comments about women who are NOT really public persons in here. I think Ms Squitero has a case too.

    NOt a happy day here, I don't expect.

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  68. Team TKC! Tony you should make t-shirts for legal cost!

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  69. This isn't some Judge Judy show this is the real deal Tony best lawyer up.

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  70. 8/17/11 7:27 PM

    Elected officers of Unions have long held that they hold the status of public figures because they are democratically elected.

    Nice try.

    In addition, Louie has served on multiple boards, commissions etc, in which he has cloaked himself as a public figure.

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  71. Tony just Lawyer up so we don't have to sell Free Tony t-shirts next year.

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  72. Tony just Lawyer up so we don't have to sell Free Tony t-shirts next year.

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  73. I heard that this lawsuit might be coming about a year ago. I think Wright was waiting for his union career to end before he did it.

    My feelings on this are mixed. I'm an ardent defender of free speech. But at the same time, free speech isn't absolute cover to say anything you want. Bloggers like Tony have liked to earn journalistic merit when it suits them but when trouble arises, they say they're just bloggers with an opinion, or more laughably, dissidents.

    Tony's been hankering to be recognized as someone who spreads the news. Along with that recognition comes the responsibility to back up what you write.

    This may be somewhat new ground in libel and defamation law. I haven't seen the lawsuit so I don't know exactly what nuance is being argued here. True, Louie is probably a public figure, and as such has a higher standard to reach.

    That having been said, Tony may find himself in the uncomfortable position of having to fess up what he really knows and when he knew it regarding Louie's kickbacks. So Tony may have to reveal the information he had in hand when he published what he said, or he may have to reveal who supplied him with this information. In either respect, I suspect the result could be greatly embarrassing to this blog.

    I hope Tony can get some kind of low-cost or pro bono representation. This isn't going to be an easy fight.

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  74. So he didn't want to do this in front of his union "brothers and sisters." Union leaders are the biggest threat to democracy and capitalism.

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  75. Nothing ground breaking about it. This is a private defamation lawsuit with three parties (two unknown) as defendents and the complaint is quite clear and the person who filed suit is seeking damages.

    Get a lawyer

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  76. Anonymous said...
    8/17/11 7:27 PM

    In response, my point is public figure, I think not. He isnt appointed to anything by the public or voted into a specific office by the public. It is the same as if it was a CEO at Cerner. You cant run your mouth and hide behind a "tipster". That has cost many news people in the past, the only difference is they carry millions of dollars insurance for such events. This blogger doesnt have the luxury and will most likely lose everything because he wanted to pretend to be Howard Stern and Glenn Becks ass baby!

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  77. If Tony loses everything, it'll only set him back a couple of weeks.

    Bwahahaahahahaha!

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  78. Gee, I'm no genious but, John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 are...

    Lesa Gonzalez and Marissa Hermsen.

    Case solved.

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  79. Obviously you are no GENIUS because you can't even spell the word. Once you idiots realize that you're all being fucked by Louie Wright, the world will be a better place. All of his minions are no better than he is. Him suing tells me he is guilty of all accusations and should rot in hell where people like him deserve to go.

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