Kansas City Toy Train Courtroom Strong Arm Tactics: $20 Mil Appeal Bond Motion To Uphold Less Than 500 Gerrymandered 'Yes' Votes!!!
Kansas City is finally getting a good look at the "win at all costs" mentality that Mayor Sly has brought to local government.
Check it:
KC Biz Journal: Kansas City wants the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging its streetcar plan to post a $20 million bond while the suit’s dismissal is on appeal.
More importantly . . .
MAYOR SLY'S LEGAL PROWESS TRUMPS HIS RESPECT FOR LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND THIS IS REALLY A COURTROOM INTIMIDATION TACTIC TO THWART VOTER PARTICIPATION!!!
Remember that this move is championed and even foreshadowed by Mayor Sly James when he casually dismisses Toy Train opposition.
DEVELOPING . . .
KC Loves Sly!
ReplyDeleteMore police, no streetcars.
ReplyDeleteCitizen initiative petition anyone?
ReplyDeleteCity Hall does care what the citizens want. This is certainly a unique form of government.
ReplyDeleteNo streetcars, fewer firemen, and more police.
ReplyDeleteFewer consultants!
ReplyDelete$20 million appeal bond for a $30 million bond issue. This insults the intelligence of the court. Sly and Russ better take a grade school math course.
ReplyDeletePay no attention to the Polsinelli behind the curtain.
ReplyDeleteSly Sold Us Out.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Warren Buffett, who gave a big thumbs down on the Omaha Toy Train as a "loser" can get in the game and take on Sly and His Corrupt to the Core Cabal.
ReplyDelete$20 million would be nothing to him.
Shame on you people. This is like a public lynching of Sly and no one here mentions that he's just doing the best thing to keep Downtown revitalization going.
ReplyDeleteAbuse of Power loves a dumb and obedient populace. The Reich occupying city hall won't be satisfied until they control all aspects of public and private life here in KC and that's obviously what they are not only pushing for but doing one step at a time. They seem surprised there is resistance whats that tell you?
ReplyDeleteHe's starting to make give-it-away Kay look downright frugal.
ReplyDeleteIf the Street Car was a stock traded on Wall Street I would be planning on shorting the stock big time!
ReplyDeleteLook at the smart side there's still time to get the fuck out of this city
ReplyDeletebefore Sly and the crew leave the taxpayers holding a steaming bag of shit they will never be able to get rid of!
Good. 2 non-votes shouldn't hold up the overwhelming will of a majority of voters.
ReplyDeleteThat's democracy, kids. If you don't like it, move to JoCo where only ou of town property owners get to vote on TDDs that fund empty mall parking lots...
Buffet sure didn't mind the TDDs and ridiculous tax subsidies that prop up Nebraska Furniture Mart.
ReplyDeleteHipocrisy is he name of the street the rich live on.
Fuck Sue and Stretch and their secret corporate backers...
ReplyDeleteEverybody knows who's bankrolling the lawsuit and its not the Fake Philly Kid and the Northland Filter Queen...
Save Our Surface Parking Lots!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDon't invest in Transit Infrastructure, at least 1 right wing think tank says its bad to use tax money on public projects (when it could get funneled to private corporations)!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteOnce the Toy Train is running, and we become hip, the Showtime cable network will choose KC as the new location for the series Queer as Folk. Can prosperity be far behind?
ReplyDeleteThe Curse of the Creative Class
ReplyDeleteBy Steven Malanga
Google it. Everything you need to know about KC's new spend spend spend agenda is there.
About time for Sly to come out of the closet.
ReplyDeleteWhere are these peoples' parents??
ReplyDeleteI don't want a street car because I am afraid of the digging. We all know we got some crazy little gas lines down below that can cause some big azz problems. I mean if google is afraid to come to Mo. because of the gas lines, it may be time to reconsider ripping anything up under the mid town streets.
ReplyDeleteAlso, detroit has a rail line which is a depressing joke. Detroit's toy train is like a road to blight. Does City hall want us to be like detroit?
Look, I'm all for public transportation, but this is not the right time. I kinda know people that study this stuff for a living and public transportation only works in some communities. The data is out there, and our core population is not appropriate. I also think the metro buses are good. This will benefit very few, as the data from many towns in america demonstrate. If you want, I can pull up the data and demonstrate good public transportation systems.
Good comment 12:05. The toy train will just be a transportation system to move people from one trash pile to another.
ReplyDeleteThe Metro lost their utility when their definition of suburbs was "out to Waldo". In the 1950's when people moved out to JoCo and other environs, the Metro did not follow. Suddenly the family needed 2 cars. It is impossible to get the genie back in the bottle.
It would be cheaper to just give poor and handicapped people a taxi
account.
KC's core is a dense and as big as a host of other cities with functioning public transportation. In fact, it was built around excellent public transit (streetcars).
ReplyDeleteIt's denser than Tuscon, Charlotte, Phoenix, Memphis, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, etc. and as dense as St Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, etc.
Public transit infrastructure is expensive, but its also the smartest and most progressive infrastructure investment a city can make.
It works almost everywhere it gets built. The evidence is overwhelming and, outside of libertarian and right wing think tanks, easily found.
The point is this people. The Mayor is MAKING us take this toy train. That train that only travels two (2) miles is a JOKE! We the people of KC voted for a rail train to take us out north to the airport and perhaps to the Plaza. Why the HELL are those NUTS in City Hall pushing this MESS at us is not understandable. You really want to steal this idea and put your name on it - huh SLY??
ReplyDeleteBet Bill George Sr is behind this MESS!
ReplyDeleteSounds like the Sly James method of negotiation alright.
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