THE TKC SATURDAY NIGHT PLAYLIST!!! CELEBRATE STINGY, BROKE-ASS X-MAS WITH KANSAS CITY TOP 5 SCROOGES!!!
Tonight we take a moment to lament the decline of the stock market and the economic bubble about to burst around the world and in Kansas City as well.
And so in this season of discontent, class warfare and a great deal of local murder . . .
CHECK THE TOP 5 KANSAS CITY SCROOGES FOR 2015!!!
Deserved or not, these locals earned a reputation for tightfisted economic tactics which earned outcry throughout the metro.
Take a look:
Petitioners Say Bah Humbug To Mike Burke And His Downtown Convention Hotel
Massive subsidy and MILLIONS worth of financial risk from City Hall to pay private investors is seen as a stingy tactic from this longtime civic player who has served as a symbol of criticism of so many insider Kansas City deals.
School District Supporters Cast Shirley Helzberg As Scrooge Despite Her Many Civic Contributions
This socialite and her family have funded a great many education and artistic endeavors in Kansas City but in a fight over controversial Crossroads TIF, Ms. Helzberg is playing the bad guy because many KCPS advocates want the tax cash thrown their way and then down the drain.
County Workers Feel Like Bob Cratchit Amid So Many Budget Cutbacks By Executive Mike Sanders
Over his tenure, Jackson County Exec Mike Sanders has consistently cut budgets to County Workers while padding his own support staff with some disastrous hires like Cathy Jolly. At the top of the pyramid, this politico has more than earned the contempt of many of his underlings this holiday season.
Ardent Fans Say David Glass Now Plays Scrooge With Royals Purse Strings After World Series Victory
Recent trades and the World Series team of the Kansas City Royals now in shambles have ardent fans crying foul and maybe showing a bit of ingratitude amid the holiday season as the realities of money ball are revealed amid the countdown to Spring Training
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback And Tax Cutting Tactics Continually Touted As Miserly Every Month Of The Year
Gov. Brownback has played the bad guy for more than a year after his reelection against some empty suit who was defeated soundly. Meanwhile, just about every Dead Tree Media columnist in the nation has taken aim at the embattled politico. The reality is that Gov. Brownback and his tax cuts might be responsible for helping job growth in Kansas but, again, he is the symbol for progressive rage that seems aghast over the mere thought of lowering taxes and possibly threatening the social safety net.
And so, all these characters inspire our scrooge-y playlist tonight as we speed toward yet another broke-ass x-mas.
As always, thanks for reading this week and have a fun and SAFE Saturday night.
A non partisan list. I like that some Democrats are being called out as scrooges. Usually, the media just labels any conservative as a grinch.
ReplyDeleteI'm not fan of trump but if you look at KC, you will see some very scrooge like characters like the Mayor who keeps giving his lawyer friends all the city's money.
way of the world, people without money will always hate those who have it.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Kansas City's streetcar recession.
ReplyDeleteGrinches are everywhere in KC but mostly in Johnson County.
ReplyDeletekc = city of scrooges.
ReplyDeleteThis is the real list of the power elite. Why just make believe that you run the place when you can actually OWN the town.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to vote to renew the e-tax.
It's important.
Where would an unemployed blogger with no sense of accuracy fall on this list?
ReplyDelete^^^^^^^^ No Shit.....
ReplyDeleteThat fucking Skippy. Thought he was in jail.
Had a murder today ? Chuck will be along to tell Tony and Ernest Evans that he predicted it.......
Burke stands head and shoulders above the rest as a no money scam artist!!! Show me your money, Burke, before you ask for over $150 Million from KC taxpayers!!!
ReplyDeleteYou, guys don't know what's good. Until your company charges a quarter a billion a year to kcmo,you're small town. Sorry.
ReplyDelete11:59 pm you are absolutely correct. Someone needs to become a scrooge with the KC taxpayer dollars. Burke, and all of the other hand picked political friend developers and "pre-developers" that get paid millions for doing nothing...need to be stopped in their tracks. Citizens and taxpayers in this City have been ripped off for years through the City Hall/EDC corrupt machine with the no-bid contracts. When exactly was the bidding opportunity for persons interested in developing the downtown hotel???? It was a no-bid- back room----or over the lunch deal to provide revenue streams to political friends and supporters of the City Hall/EDC Machine.
ReplyDelete"Gov. Brownback has played the bad guy for more than a year after his reelection against some empty suit who was defeated soundly. Meanwhile, just about every Dead Tree Media columnist in the nation has taken aim at the embattled politico. The reality is that Gov. Brownback and his tax cuts might be responsible for helping job growth in Kansas..."
ReplyDeleteWho writes this pap? "...some empty suit who was defeated soundly." Check the election results again bub, but Sambo didn't win by a huge margin. Then there's this genuis statement not at all supported by any facts other than the ones you pull out of your bung hole: "The reality is that Gov. Brownback and his tax cut MIGHT BE RESPONSIBLE for helping job growth in Kansas..."(Emphasis added). You could just as well put in "sort of", "maybe" or "possibly". Second, what job growth in Kansas? The whole piece is fantasy b.s.