TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! MAYOR SLY AND CITY COUNCIL SOON TO FACE CONTROVERSY OVER THE HIRING OF A NEW CITY CLERK!!!
Take an advanced look at a controversy brewing among the Mayor and City Council over the hiring of a new City Clerk.
KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS tell us . . .
LOOK FOR A MAJOR CONTROVERSY OVER THE UPCOMING CITY CLERK HIRING DECISION!!!
Sadly, with Mayor Sly's "win at all costs" mentality and style of leadership the decision looks to be even more contentious and could further decimate long suffering morale at City Hall.
The sitch:
MAYOR SLY AND HIS HOMEBOY CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN McGURK ARE REPORTEDLY PUSHING FOR A WHITE DUDE FROM JOCO TO TAKE THE JOB AS KCMO CITY CLERK!!!
Background talk is running rampant on this decision and the scuttlebutt is that the guy might have some experience in Shawnee or some other dusty corner of JoCo but he's really just up for the job because he's now neighbors/buddies with Mayor Sly's Chief of Staff McGurk. In the corporate world, friends helping friends find jobs is common practice . . . HOWEVER . . .
Neighborhood and community leaders object to this perceived bit of cronyism.
Furthermore, for the past few years the job of City Clerk has been performed dutifully by minority females and it offers one of the few points of access into top tier City Hall governance for this important constituency that often lacks political power due to systemic discrimination.
Beyond mere demographic considerations . . . There's also the question of continuity.
Community interests and neighborhood leaders hope that Acting City Clerk Marilyn Sanders will be selected for the job.
Mayor and City Council will be interviewing candidates and discussing hiring options this week. Thursday will most likely feature a heated closed door session on this hiring process.
But here's the kicker and something for EVERYONE to watch . . .
TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THIS DECISION AND WATCH FOR MAYOR SLY'S DECISION THAT WILL EITHER SIDE WITH COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS AND PROMOTE A MINORITY FEMALE FROM WITHIN OR OUTSOURCE WITH SOME WHITE DUDE FROM JOCO!!!
Maybe this choice isn't as grand as King Solomon "splitting the baby" but it will offer an insight into a yet another divisive Kansas City debate between two factions struggling for influence and our Mayor forced to decide which side will lose.
DEVELOPING . . .
McGurk is wearing the tribal dress of an African Chieftain that hangs in Sly's office in that photo. He looks sharp!
ReplyDeleteMarilyn does deserve the job. I hope she prevails. We're rooting for you, Marilyn.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn is painful to listen to reading stuff. Hence the outside hire. The City Auditor inside hire was a bad idea. When was the last substantial audit released?
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to "majority rules"?? Why should we be forced to hire a minority?
ReplyDeleteIt's sextist to say it a females job. What ever happened to the most qualified person to get the job. Tony's mad because they wont listen to him
ReplyDeleteJohn McGurk will find a way to screw it up. He's married to a Republican party operative, and sucks up to attorneys close to Kansas Governor Brownback.
ReplyDeleteHow the hell did he get that job?
Just hire the best qualified person and FUCK everybody else.
ReplyDeleteSo you would be happy with an all Chinese city hall? I think not.
ReplyDeleteWhite dude's from JOCO rock, and they are the source for like, half of the city's special project funding.
ReplyDeleteKCMO, wouldn't be SHIT without JOCO.
Sly has a white wife, why not a white clerk too?
ReplyDeleteSo the main qualification as far as "community leaders" are concerned, is race first, sex second, and actual ability to do the job is an after thought. Not unlike our current POTUS. Hows that working out?
ReplyDeleteIf he gets the gig that makes what, 4 white people working in city hall. That is outrageous. Unfair. Racist. 2 white people per city administration. Anything beyond that is clearly racist.
ReplyDeleteTHE CITY CLERK. What an overpaid job in every city in the nation. A virtual office manager in a RECORDS DEPARTMENT, worth about $40,000 a year or a little more in every company in America.
ReplyDeleteTony's nose is SOO FAR UP CITY GOVERNMENT's ASS, you can SMELL it!
City CLERK is a perfect job for somebody's SISTER-IN-LAW!
Who is this McGurk guy? I like the cut of his jib.
ReplyDeletewhy not hire a johnson county then he wont have to move into missouri. just like genaldo a blue springs resident
ReplyDeleteRadical Idea: Hire the most qualified candidate
ReplyDeleteNo hire Sly's wife with Kyle as her right hand person be a sure fired way to get King Sly thrown out on his ass
ReplyDeleteAs the old folk song says, "Johnny McGurk, who was scared stiff of work"
ReplyDeleteHire another black chick, its not really a job, anyway.
ReplyDeletePut Black Barbie in there
ReplyDeletePut the best candidate in! I'm sick of this "it's gotta be a black" or "it's gotta be a woman" shit. Why not go for a quality person regardless of color or sex, for a change? God knows the City Auditor hire was a disaster, and Gary White is horrible. Let's not repeat history with more bad decisions. If the best candidate is a white dude from Mars, then hire him!
ReplyDeleteSly would at least look natural in that nigger clown suit instead of those silly bow ties!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the mayor embracing all cultures!
ReplyDeleteIs that guy with the mayor a representative of the Kansas City circus clown community?
ReplyDeleteI know the so-called " white guy from JoCo," and he's very qualified for the job. An important job, too, that is primarily responsible for some core aspects of government. KCMO would be LUCKY to get him.
ReplyDeleteCome on TKC...is black woman the only thing that means diversity? How about a gay white male who has lived in Kansas City downtown for several years and has experience as a city clerk on the Kansas side of the border!
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