Report: Mayor Q Team 'Not Honest' About Kansas City Royals Polling

A truism for Friday the 13th, 2024 . . .

It's rarely the misdeed that causes trouble for politicos, it's always the lying and coverups that endanger formerly promising careers. 

And so a silly push poll that didn't convince anybody has come back to haunt Mayor Q.

Even worse . . .

Now, Mayor Q's denials have been DISPUTED in public and ON THE RECORD.

For informed voters this story is important and demonstrates a very real pattern of deception. 

However . . . It's our jorb to be REAL with our KICK-ASS TKC READERS and remind everybody that we're still talking about a boring campaign finance story . . . If this was the worst thing that Mayor Q ever did, he could still run for Pope with no problem. Hint: This isn't even close to the most fun that the current administration has enjoyed in office.

STILL . . . Let's remember . . .

The Biz Journal picked up a portion of this story last week.

And in an even better hot take . . . A Fox4 reporter straight up asks Mayor Q: "Did you lie to me???"

 This passage gives a good hint about the answer to that question with our highlight for emphasis . . .

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas initially denied knowing who paid for a poll seemingly designed to sink North Kansas City’s chances of landing a new Royals baseball stadium.

But newly obtained documents show the poll was commissioned by Lucas’ own re-election campaign.

The poll was released in August 2023 and showed 70% of Clay County voters opposed a new sales tax to fund a stadium in North Kansas City. Rumors swirled about who paid for the poll, and Lucas side-stepped a television reporter’s questions at the time . . .

Lucas, a Democrat and attorney who was elected mayor in 2019, insisted in an interview last week that he would not have known how United We Stand spent its money because Missouri law prohibits him from coordinating with the PAC on spending.

Records show, however, that a staffer for Lucas’ campaign actually requested United We Stand pay for the poll. Tom Keating, who was doing ethics compliance for both the PAC and Lucas’ campaign, later received the request from the campaign staffer and was asked to process the payment. He said he and other staff were misled about the purpose of the poll.

“They weren’t honest about it from the get-go with their own people,” Keating said. “They put their own people in harm’s way about this, and then they weren’t honest with the public about it.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

MO INDIE: Campaign committee controlled by KC mayor requested poll he denied involvement in

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