There's nothing I love better than a good old fashioned debate regarding race, privilege and discriminatory rules and regs . . . To wit, an e-mail blast regarding this week's dress code battle went out today . . . It was an impassioned plea in the fight against a Dress Code Ordinance . . .
But everybody got that . . .
It turns out that there's also an EXCLUSIVE TIDBIT FROM A CONFIDENTIAL KICKASS TKC SOURCE which is even more captivating than old school Kristen Bell bikini photos in Vanity Fair this month.
Check it:
A GROUP OF LOCAL BUSINESSES, NOT JUST CORDISH, ARE PREPARED TO FIGHT BACK WITH LAWSUITS AGAINST KANSAS CITY OVER THE DRESS CODE ORDINANCE ISSUE!!!
Like everybody else . . . They're also pissed at Councilman Terry Riley over the way the Dress Code Ordinance has been handled and they're claiming the ordinance passed out of committee was completely different than what was agreed too . . . I wasn't quite sure of my source on this but after a few calls to other local biz owners getting KC money and possibly impacted by this dress code nonsense . . . They tell me, yeah, this thing could come to a lawsuit from folks who don't want Riley running their business. There are also complaints of "lack of legal precedent" along with other assorted grumbling.
I don't need to remind folks that Riley went "off the reservation" from the rest of the council on this one and seemed to be negotiating on his own . . . Sadly, it was a bold move that now seems to have backfired.
And this dress code controversy . . . Sadly, it's just getting started and could threaten to cost this town millions.
They can fight all they want but they can't enforce illegal racism.
ReplyDeleteWhat does this have to do with the d-bag and the yogurt shoppe?
ReplyDeleteI still don't get how clothing can be racist.
ReplyDeleteYou keep blaming Riley but wasn't this whole thing started by Beth Gottstein's grandstanding? She has established herself as the poorly written, directed at specific issues, ordinance queen. Isn't her attack on the Nelson trying to prevent them from using their own private property going to end up in court too? Beth is second only to the Funk in causing KC expensive litigation.
ReplyDeleteI think the City needs a "no middle-age, too short skirt, ho, city councilmember ordinance."
ReplyDeleteNobody answers the question: If people dress like gangsters, how will people know the difference between a gangsta & someone who just wants to look like one?
ReplyDeleteWhat and how many businesses? More then 5, more than 10? What kind of businesses?
ReplyDeleteSome actual details might be fun.
tony-parkville, when they pop a cap in yer arse, you'll know!
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the perfectly legal signs in every establishment in the USA?
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE
OK, here's one for the Power & Whitey District. Just make the patrons swipe their driver's license to read the barcode to gain admittance. That's what they do in Pennsylvania.
Oh yeah, the bangers ain't got one...
I've never heard of such a brutal and shocking injustice that I cared so little about.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that Beth is leaking things to Tony left and right, don't expect him to be saying anything negative about her in the near future.
ReplyDeleteWell at last...others are figuring out what a complete liberal Brooksdie skank the Beth is. If it's true that she a source of TKC's shit then we're done here.
ReplyDeleteWell at last...others are figuring out what a complete liberal Brooksdie skank the Beth is. If it's true that she a source of TKC's shit then we're done here.
ReplyDeleteDid anybody read the post?
ReplyDeleteIt said that Cordish is ready to fight back.
Is that true?
I think they could get fierce lawsuit going if they cooperated with a few more businesses.
Kudos to 6:56
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I'll go on the record. Dress codes are to establish a look, a way of behavior...and yes, to exclude the riff raff who can't afford to be there.
ReplyDeleteI'm fine with it. I support it, and yes, there are places I don't go in town because I can't afford them and I don't have the look they're looking FOR. I'm okay with that. I do not require access to every square inch of splace on this planet to be happy.
I think the minorities who push this are going to find a subtle backlash that will hurt them economically. Like the Mexican flag and the crazy shit that happened a few months ago in California. I'm now in favor of bouncing the illegals out, or if not that, then to declare demonstrators who are illegal as potential terrorists and send them to Cuba to cool their heels.
If they want in, they can learn OUR way of doing things and join the club. I'm also in favor of air strikes in northern Mexico by drone aircraft just like we're doing in Pakistan!
I loved that line in Clear and Present Danger after the smart bomb strike... "The Americans are here!"
What do you think of that Tony?
Trust Radioman to leave the stupidest comment in the whole thread.
ReplyDeleteBeth is the best thing to happen to Kansas City. She is a credit to the City Council.
ReplyDeleteActually, there is a lot that radioman says that I agree with.
ReplyDeleteFYI, the AP (a solid news outlet, unlike the Pitch or the Star) is reporting that Dem. Minority leader Paul Levota is in some major trouble with the feds for the "pay for play" corruption investigation going on in Jeff City. This could get REAL ugly for the dems.
ReplyDeleteHouse Minority leader denies accusations of bribes
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 | 9:12 p.m. CDT
BY Emily Coleman
JEFFERSON CITY – A report by The Associated Press naming the House Democratic leader as the a subject of FBI questioning prompted a hasty closed-door caucus of House Democrats Tuesday.
Democratic Leader Rep. Paul LeVota, D-Jackson County, told reporters afterward that he told his caucus he knew nothing of any FBI investigation involving the legislature.
On Sunday, the Kansas City Star cited unnamed legislators as saying the FBI had questioned them about "pay for play" schemes in the legislature. On Tuesday, The Associated Press cited two unnamed legislators as saying they were questioned about LeVota and linkages between campaign contributions and committee assignment.
The caucus was held just a few hours after The AP story broke.
"I told the caucus that the AP reporter came in, mentioned that two lawmakers mentioned my name to the FBI," LeVota said. "I told the caucus what I told the AP reporter that I don't know anything about the FBI, never talked to the FBI, never been a target of the FBI."
He denied the accusations and said he thinks caucus members are behind the accusation.
"I think that there are disgruntled members of the caucus who are fabricating things against me," LeVota said. "...either committee assignments or anything else. It could be a number of things. When you're minority leader, you've got to make some decisions that not everybody's happy with," LeVota said.
Ted Wedel, chief of staff to the office of the Minority Leader, refused to comment on the matter.
The Jackson County Democrat said no vote was taken during the caucus meeting.
A few lobbyists and legislators said they would not be surprised if there was a corruption investigation because of activities between lobbyists and a few legislators in the past couple of years.
Rep. Brian Yates, R-Jackson County, said that he is not surprised by the news.
"In the previous administration of our speaker, I believe there was some ethically challenged things going on, but I don't have any evidence of an actual crime being committed," said Yates.
At the time, Rep. Rod Jetton had run a political consulting company at the same time he had been House Speaker. He accepted consulting payments from legislators whose bills were assigned to committee by Jetton.
K.I.S.S. = keep it simple stupid...No Niggers.
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ReplyDeleteK.I.S.S. = keep it simple stupid...No Niggers.
3/31/2009 10:41:00 PM
..for the record this comment indirectly includes (W)iggers....
N E Way....
Who will the dress code hurt? Thugs who may bring the thug mentality? This is a good thing by the way...If you wanna look like you're from the streets then "Keep-it-Real" in the streets. Not in the Power and Light District...
Here's the text of the actual AP article on Levota and the FBI's ongoing investigation of him. Look's like Paul has had his hand in the old cookie jar down in Jeff City:
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By DAVID A. LIEB – 4 hours ago
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The FBI is questioning Missouri lawmakers about allegations that legislative leaders demanded campaign contributions in exchange for prestigious committee posts, legislative sources told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Two lawmakers said they specifically were asked about House Minority Leader Paul LeVota, a Democrat from Independence. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing probe and because they didn't want colleagues to know they had spoken with federal investigators.
In an interview with the AP, LeVota said he has not been contacted by the FBI. He denied any wrongdoing and suggested the accusations stem from a disgruntled political rival.
The Kansas City Star first reported Sunday, citing anonymous sources, that the FBI is investigating alleged pay-for-play scenarios at the Missouri Capitol.
Bridget Patton, a spokesman for the FBI office in Kansas City whose jurisdiction includes Jefferson City, said Tuesday that she could neither confirm nor deny a public corruption investigation at the Missouri Capitol.
The investigation into alleged political favors dates at least to 2008, when House Speaker Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, was in charge of the chamber. Jetton, who did not seek re-election last year because of term limits, said he had not been contacted by the FBI.
One of the lawmakers who spoke on condition of anonymity told the AP he had been contacted by the FBI multiple times in 2008 and 2009 with questions about pay-for-play scenarios in the Capitol, including whether House committee assignments were offered in exchange for lawmakers contributing money to campaign committees. The lawmaker said the FBI's questions focused on LeVota and others in legislative leadership positions.
Another lawmaker told the AP about an interview with the FBI that occurred several weeks ago in the Capitol. That lawmaker also said the FBI asked specifically about whether LeVota had made committee assignments contingent upon lawmakers contributing money to Democratic campaign committees.
The lawmaker also said the FBI asked about an e-mail sent last year by LeVota on the letterhead of the Missouri House Democratic Campaign Committee.
The Sept. 22 letter, obtained by the AP, asks for donations of between $50 and $250 to help Democratic candidates. But instead of listing the address for the committee, which helps all Democratic House candidates, the bottom of the letter directed donations to LeVota's personal campaign committee in Independence.
LeVota told the AP that he "never asked anyone to give an amount for a committee spot whatsoever."
He said his personal campaign address was listed because it was sent under his mass e-mail account.
"Hindsight tells me I should have took it off for that request," said LeVota, who later added: "It was my intent to try to raise money for the HDCC."
LeVota's campaign committee contributed $35,000 for the 2008 elections to the House Democratic Campaign Committee, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
LeVota said he believed the FBI's apparent questions were prompted by a "political rival who's trying to throw me under the bus."
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
If you enforce a dress code, you get what, a whole lot less non-paying people milling around, drunk from the Steel Reserve they had on the bus ride over? How does that have any economic impact?
ReplyDeleteThe City Council and other citizens of KCMO are pissed off that the P&L District has not brought in the revenue expected since its opening in late 07 early 08. What do they expect will happen when the dress code is gone and KCMO gangbangers and thugs start working their way down to P&L, just to strike fear into the guests and to let KCMO know that the dress code ordiance was a victory for the gangs. A few shootings and several robberies later, the city will be wondering why the revenue generated by P&L has been cut in half, from the shortfall it already was. I firmly believe that if the dress code is dropped, crime will increase because of 2 reasons:
ReplyDelete1. Previously unwelcomed guests aka thugs will mix with the JOCO and Northland crowd who goes to P&L, and that will not be a pretty picture.
2. The other reason crime will increase, is because the city council and the media have made this issue so race and ethnic related that the gangs and thugs who already terrorize other parts of the city will go to P&L and committ crime simply to put forth the message that the dress code ordinance was a win for them.
P&L revenue is already lower than expected. My expectation...
Drop the dress code...Increase the thugs...Increase the Crime....Lower the revenue.
Lower revenue because of increased crime should wake up the citizens and city councilmen and women that the city's money invested in P&L should have been dealt with a little bit more carefully.
I think Power & Whitey District can have a dress code when they meet their sale projections and don't need any tax subsidy to cover their loans. Therefore, the P&L needs every minority they can fine,even the ones carrying Mexican Flags to buy their 8 dolla beers.
ReplyDeleteThe blood from the first shooting by a punk in a giant white t-shirt and pristine work boots (the thug uniform) will be on Beth Gottstein's Red Bull gripping hands.
ReplyDeleteThe only businesses that the DRESS CODE pertains to are the businesses that HAVE TAKEN T.I.F. MONEY to get their business going. This attempt to attract white money just lets you know how scared the CITY COUNCIL is about the Cordish fiasco going broke.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather let them go broke and ride them out of town on a train.
Rus Johnson could fix this get him to TALK IT TO DEATH. Help him call people names like he did with White Rail.
ReplyDeleteThe city should have sent it's human relations department in undercover to see if the thing was being enforced against everyone or just a few people, then issued a report. If it was discriminatory enforcement then they should have fined the offending businesses and told Cordish they risk losing their TIF status.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who felt discriminated against should have sued rather than try and solve the mess through legislation, but then again, maybe they knew they didn't have a case.
Let them ban cowboy boots, tight jeans, big belt buckles, plaid shirts, and cowboy hats and then you will see how banning a certain style of dress can disproportionately affect a particular group. Yes, the business can say that they will not allow blacks, asians or hispanics who dress like that, but it wouldn't take a genius to figure out that whites were the targeted group. And it is an amazing coincidence that all of these dress codes ALWAYS have the same language. If it were random, wouldn't some of the dress codes affect hip hop style, some punk rock style, some motorcycle style, some country western style, some corporate style, some goth style, some country club style? When are we going to see dress codes targeting all the angry white males that keep shooting up schools, malls, and office buildings? Never. We ALWAYS see the style of urban black males. And when you see patterns, you can interpret that there is an intention. And ask yourself this, what difference does it make if the law says you can't use your dress code to discriminate, when you claim you are not using your dress code to discriminate in the first place? If Cordish has clean hands, they have nothing to worry about.
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