Kansas City Downtown Stadium Opposition Campaign Honcho Tim Smith Takes Center Stage

This week the campaign against the Royals downtown stadium sales tax extension renewal debuted with a welcomed press event that distracted us from mass shooting news. 

Here's their clunky slogan that I keep getting spammed with on social media:

We've covered most of their arguments already and here's our hot takeaway . . .

"Save The Crossroads" is much easier to remember and might help drive voter turnout. If they end up using my idea . . . I will be sending an invoice. 

Moreover . . . 

Insiders stress: 

CAMPAIGN MANAGERS SHOULD NEVER "BE THE STORY" FOR VOTERS!!!

That's an elementary lesson and brings us to the main point of this post: 

Who is campaign manager Tim Smith?!?!

We're guessing that most people in the Crossroads don't know. 

Formerly he was described as . . . 

"Campaign manager for former Lee’s Summit school board member Megan Marshall"

I didn't know school board members needed campaign managers.

Actually, he's her sweetheart and that's kinda nice that an aspiring political boss took a backseat to a 20-year Marine veteran and her political ambitions that started on the Lee's Summit school board, reached the courthouse and might soon find a new landing spot across the street.

Accordingly . . . 

NOW IT'S TIME FOR TIM SMITH TO GARNER THE SPOTLIGHT!!!

 Never mind that insiders kinda think he helped to "box in" Jackson County Legislator Megan Marshall on Exec Frank White's high property tax assessment political team.

Others might not remember that he ruffled a lot of feathers in Lee's Summit. 

The big question . . .

Is Tim Smith capable of uniting the Crossroads with Eastern Jack against the sales tax extension that will include EPIC community benefit payouts AND secure the teams for Kansas City?!?

If so . . .

It'll be a GAME CHANGER for the local political landscape and will, once again, put the breaks on "momentum" in and around the downtown loop. 

There is no denying growing opposition to stadium plans coupled with increasing doubt in pro-sports gatherings in the aftermath of the Super Bowl rally mass shooting. 

Still . . .

The group doesn't have a lot of cash right now. 

Accordingly . . . We'll share a quote and more reporting on this campaign for the fate of hipsters in the Crossroads . . . Check-it:

"There's been some effort to sort of minimize the animus that exists against the sales tax on the ballot — as if it's just a handful of people who are against downtown baseball, and that the overwhelming majority of people want this," said campaign manager Tim Smith. "In fact, the opposite is true."

Smith said opposition against the proposed 40-year extension to the 3/8th-cent sales tax is particularly fierce in eastern Jackson County, in places like Blue Springs, Lee's Summit and Grandview. The Royals and other supporters of the tax and the proposed Crossroads location are "foolish" to not recognize that, he said.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

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Developing . . .