TKC EXCLUSIVE KC SCHOOL BOARD QUESTION!!! Will Airick Leonard West attend the coronation of Marilyn Simmons?

Tonight there is a sexy party for the Queen of the Kansas City School District.

School Board President Marilyn Simmons will be honored by a bunch of Kansas City big wigs at a party in the Urban League Complex at 1710 Paseo Blvd.

The pricey shin-dig is, of course, sponsored by some of the most important people (mostly lawyers) in Kansas City. Names that you'd recognize like:

Husch Blackwell Sanders
McDaniel Hazley Group
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne
Fields and Brown
Clinton Adams Law Firm
Urban League of Greater Kansas City

The list of people who support the event goes on and on as well . . . But TKC didn't see a spotlight for one name that's extremely popular in the local blogosphere . . .

I guess I wondered if Airick Leonard West would attend (even though he's on the guest list) because:

AIRICK LEONARD WEST ABSTAINED IN THE VOTE FOR MARILYN SIMMONS TO BECOME SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT!!!

That fact wasn't reported (at all) in the mainstream media but it will have a great deal of impact on not only Mr. West's career but also the future of the School Board.

See, the talk is that the lack of support from Mr. West was a direct affront to the lady who will now be in charge and that puts a lot of his talk of "change" in jeopardy even if those sentiments are constantly championed by local bloggers who don't really know how things work in Kansas City.

Put simply, rumor has it that Mr. West is an excellent human being and therefore has ALREADY BEEN SHUT OUT of any significant decision making at the School Board. Actually, that's not too hard to believe . . . TKC made contact with Mr. West for this post but I never got back in touch with him because that would be way too much like actual work . . . It's better to just blog the gossip because that's way more interesting and far more reliable than what is reported in newspapers or local media.

And the word is out as far as the Kansas City School Board is concerned: Nothing has changed, the same old patronage is the rule of the day, all dissenters will be isolated or politically destroyed and maintaining control of the district by the Black Political Elite in order to ensure perks is far more important that educating students or improving the desperate situation at many KC Schools.

So far there's really only one solution to this mess and that's for any parent who can afford it to run as far away as possible from the KC School District for the sake of their children or find ANY OTHER alternative. The only way this district can't screw up something is if they don't have any control over it . . . And, sadly, even their parties seem crooked, contentious and nothing but an occasion to lament one of Kansas City's worst embarrassments.