TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! CO-MAYORS FUNKY AND SQUITIRO SCREW UP THE MAYOR'S CHRISTMAS TREE FUND ONE MORE TIME!!!

The Mayor's Christmas Tree is going to be another hot mess this year.

Even worse, once again Gloria Squitiro's meddling ruined what could have been an inspiration during harsh times.

Of course, the Mayor's crew wanted to turn the event political . . . A great many of you d-bags have noted that local GOP hot shot Cathy Nugent was in charge of the hot mess . . . Her fee was quite a bit more than a lump of coal and YES, she is allegedly a friend of GOP consultant Jeff Roe.

It gets worse, the "celebrity" guest for the event is Celina Tio (???) some high priced chef that might be familiar to a great many old women watching The Food Channel.

And there's where it gets really sad . . .

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY, MANY YEARS THERE ARE NO MAJOR SPONSORS AND NO MAJOR GRANTS FOR THE KANSAS CITY MAYOR'S CHRISTMAS TREE FUND!!!

As time goes by, we're getting further and further away from the legacy of Jerry Cohen, the chairman of the Mayor's Christmas Tree fund-raising committee for more than 45 years. Cohen kept politics out of the mix of this fund and had a much more stable record than the disaster the local institution has become under Mayor Funky's watch.

Go ahead and blame the recession . . . Everyone even remotely involved runs away from this thing screaming to the hills that Co-Mayor Squitiro is nearly impossible to work with and seriously hurts progress.

The only bright spot in all of this is that my homegirl Darla Jaye will be hosting and promises to keep politics out of this beloved holiday event . . . It really is a nice holiday tradition that has been horribly twisted and neglected under the leadership of Kansas City Co-Mayors Funky and Squitiro.