TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! ZOO SALES TAX STAYS WINNING THANKS TO KANSAS CITY COLLABORATION BETWEEN POLITICAL STRATEGISTS JEFF ROE AND PAT O'NEILL!!!
Jeff Roe and his Axiom Strategies group strike fear into the heart of Democrats across Missouri.
And Pat O'Neill has been the Gold Standard among Kansas City's Democrat elite for more than more than a quarter century.
However . . .
LAST NIGHT THESE TOP TIER KANSAS CITY POLITICAL STRATEGISTS FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM WORKED TOGETHER TO HELP THE ZOO!!!
So many elections in KC Proper are supposed to be non-partisan but we all know that's just a pleasantry.
Nevertheless, a tireless Zoo supporter told me this . . .
"I think the Zoo was so important for Kansas City that people put aside whatever ideological differences they had in order to support it."
Last night political insiders also noticed Former Council Dude Terry Riley talking in the "war room" at the offices of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce @ Union Station.
Without question . . . A lot of people got together and I should have known Mr. Roe was part of this pretty clever penguin mailer . . . It seems just as cheerful as this bit of local cooperation.
And now it's all said and done . . . Except the part where this town pays for it.
Love the zoo, don't get me wrong, but I don't get this vote. At a time when KC has a top unemployment rate and the city is broke, why did this make the cut? After all, it is an enhancement of the zoo, nice but far from a priority. A sales tax increase to support food kitchens and help people pay their heating bills would have been in better form.
ReplyDeleteIt puzzles me why KC is always so quick to increase taxes when they are not exactly wealthy on average. Maybe that's why OPKS stays winning; they spend their money wisely?
Having said that, I supposed all those unemployed will have penguins to make them smile on a bad day now.
Democrats, Republicans, good ideas, terrible ideas, people like Roe and O'Neill will always show up as long as someone throws some bucks on, or under, the table.
ReplyDeleteNone of these votes, not the e-tax, public safety sales tax, or much of anything else could ever win on their merits, so these guys are necessary to trick or scare people enough to vote, and then the city goes back to the same old routine. And the sales tax increases penny by penny, and the taxpayers' money gets spent by the insiders on the same old crap. And the voter turnout decreases every year. What's the point?
Mission Accomplished!
The poor will always vote for tax increases if its put to them as only pennies a day. One of the reasons they will always be poor.
ReplyDeleteRoe did all the work on this, O'Neill was tacked on in order to open Jim Nutter Sr.'s checkbook.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Star pics of the Zoo Tax Celebration. Kathy Smith and the other ladies live in Johnson County...naturally, they play and we in Jackson County pay!
ReplyDeleteThis was totally Roe's campaign. O'Niell was added for window dressing. Great guy, but shallow when it comes to something like this (especially in this economy). Roe needed him, but only for cover in a big D city.
ReplyDelete8:01 and 8:59: So far off base you can't even see the base.
ReplyDeleteSince my county is populated with guilty white people someone help me out.
ReplyDeleteThe tax is supposed to generate $14.2 million annually for the zoo into infinity. Do Clay and Jackson counties have taxable sales of $11,350,000,000 today? It's going to take that level of taxable sales to gin that kind of revenue.
How come the annual amount didn't change when Platte and Cass didn't join the scheme?
Excuse me, 7:11, but what "scare tactics" were used on this campaign?
ReplyDeleteNearly everything I heard, read and saw was positive --- this is what we will do if the tax is approved.
I heard nothing even close to "Vote for this or we'll shut down the zoo and start shooting monkeys."
Thank goodness this passed. Now the Council can funnel more general fund dollars to their friends and family. I think we should double E-Tax. Cindy needs a new community center in the 5th district.
ReplyDeleteJust a great example. The spending never ends with Republicans or Democrats.
ReplyDeleteVote Ron Paul.
Jeff Roe strikes fear in to the heart of a cheeseburger and that is ALL. What a loaf of shit this guy is..
ReplyDeleteYou are impressed way too easily Tony, get out of the basement.
ReplyDeleteHi there, a very good read and it sometimes just takes someone to post something like this to make me realise where I’ve been going wrong! Just added the site to my bookmarks so will check back now and then. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteTony, that picture of Jeff Roe really creeps me out. What a contrived pose. He just oozes vanity (which is amazing considering how fat he is.)
ReplyDeleteByron making personal insults about the way someone looks? Sort of out of character for you isn't it? Personally, I think Jeff Roe is hot, but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteByron is free to insult anyone he wants but if you call him out on it, he gets upset and has a meltdown in the comments.
ReplyDeletePointing out that a fat man is fat is not an insult. The picture does creep me out. Mr. Roe is a public figure. I don't get upset when people 'call him out on it'. I get upset when anonymice pretend to be me & say vulgar things.
ReplyDeleteI agree that I shouldn't have made the comment. On this one, I should have kept my personal opinion to myself.
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