PUCK TAKES APART KANSAS CITY COUNCIL LADY CATHY JOLLY CHEERLEADING FOR A FAILED AND FLAWED ORDINANCE!!!

TKC Note: Just yesterday an ordinance supposedly dealing with "home safety" was stalled. Meanwhile, PUCK HAS THE INSIDE SCOOP on the many flaws with the measure that speak to Council Lady Cathy Jolly's bad judgment.

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Cathy Jolly Fights the Boogeyman

Puck can be a bit manic at times, so he completely understands the need to rush about and get things done. But City Ordinance 100346 and the speed it is being rammed through by Miss Cathy Jolly have even the Puck-ster puzzled over the perceived pressing need of its passage. Puck has found that when Council members try to rush an ordinance through without floating it past co-workers, they ordinance usually has a stench. When an ordinance that deals with building restrictions and should be placed through the Planning and Zoning Committee is wrenched into Miss Jolly’s seemingly pointless Neighborhoods and Public Safety Committee, Puck’s nose twitches even more at the aroma of deals being cooked and citizens being burned.

Cathy-Poo has decided that people in Kansas City need really strong doors to keep out the big bad boogey men that plague our town on occasion. When she’s not bouncing around City Hall (which admittedly isn’t often), she is demanding that new doors that are bigger and stronger than she is be installed in every new home. While the price of these rough and tough doors is not official, Puck’s pals are telling him the doors will add a minimum of $600 to the developer’s cost of a new home. By comparison, crowbars or “burglar sticks” cost just a few dollars and are reportedly just as effective.

Now here is the interesting twist, my twisted little readers. These doors are made in only ONE place in the entire U.S. of A. The SOLE SUPPLIER of these super-duper doors is a place called Edward Wayne, Inc., a security and investigations firm located in OVERLAND PARK, KS and owned my Friend of Cathy Ronald Olberding. If Little Miss Cathy is going to demand that every new house have Mr. Olberding’s door in them, you’d think she could at least have found a supplier in KCMO. And you would think Miss Bright Eyes might turn around and ask the Home Builder’s Association, who sort of know the business of home building, about these doors and determine if they are truly necessary and worth the added cost. But the hard-charging councilwoman, determined to change the world one gimmicky piece of legislation at a time, says damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead… she doesn’t need to talk to the HBA, or other council people (standard courtesy, unless you’re Cathy).

We all know that Cathy J. lets Steve Glorioso bend her ear and pull her marionette strings. And since Glorioso makes a killing off “helping” certain companies do business with the city (such as Trozzolo), the thought of him helping Edward Wayne, Inc. does not take a huge suspension of disbelief? Or does that other Jolly-phile, Phil Scaglia, have the inside track on this door debacle?

Cathy's behavior at her own Neighborhood and Public Safety meeting was troubling to Puck as well. Nearly all of Wednesday’s testimony came from Ron Olberding’s company! Cathy provided no fact sheet on the ordinance, no crime stats that show these doors reduce crime… basically her argument was empty. Even John Sharp, long a pal to the cutesy Cathy, was unhappy that only one company demo’d their project.

Puck has no plans to go breaking down doors any time soon. It hurts, and it might wreck his new manicure. But Puck knows this, dear readers, and wants you to remember it, too. Miss Happy-Go-Lucky Cathy does not make a move or open a door without Steve G. telling her what to do and when to do it. If she is pushing these new doors there is a reason besides her supposed concern for the safety of citizens. You can bet there is someone who is close to Cathy J. getting paid to push the business. Government for the citizens? Nah. If Cathy-kins wishes to indulge her new-found fascination with doors and such, let her get a job at Home Depot. She is certainly not doing a good job for the citizen’s of Kansas City.

Links:

Kansas City Council members want to reduce home burglaries, but are divided over how

Committee Wants To Make Homes Safer

KC Proposal to Require Home Builders to Build Better Doors

Kansas City leaders push to improve home security