Okay, here's what's wrong with the Mayor saying our streets were cleared, cleared well and cleared quickly.
It isn't true.
We covered that earlier. In fact, lots of local blogs have covered that, I think.
But for further proof of the fact that they weren't cleared well and properly?
The Kansas City Missouri School District was closed today.
WTF?
Yeah. It seems, from what I understand, the buses can't get down the side streets they need to--along with these single-digit temperatures which no one can control, of course--so school was cancelled.
This is proof of that domino theory, Mayor. Frequently in bigger cities, one thing done poorly really does effect other things. The streets weren't cleared well so school gets shut down.
Want proof?
Look no farther than the Kansas side of the metropolitan area.
Time and again in the city, people notice it's obvious that the Kansas side clears its streets of snow better.
Missouri side?
Not well at all.
And proof of that?
The Kansas schools districts are open--Shawnee Mission, virtually all of them.
The thing is, I think if we get better, competent leadership in the Mayor's office, we'll make this city workable once again.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
And then, while we're at it, let's put a quick kabosh to even the thought of annexing 300 more homes in a subdivision up North.
We have to learn how to take care of what we have first.
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Wasn't Kansas City Auditor of the Century Mayor Snowplowhead supposed to use his 15 years on the public dole and insider knowledge of what was wrong with how the City before he came to power to fix things, be smart with the money and MAKE THINGS BETTER for all of us.
Well a feckless buffoon who comes to a televised press conference about snow removal and doesn't know if the city has budgeted money for snow removal at all is either not very smart at all and/or JUST PLAIN STUPID. And what were the $750,000 dollars worth of Mayoral Staffers doing while their Feckless leader was being exposed for being clueless about the delivery of an essential City service and safety issue? Gloria is unpaid and unarguably stupid (nor was she the co-auditor of the century) but the other people are supposed to know these things!
And on the issue of making things better and giving us a city that works... well, whatever excuse he and Jeff Roe and anyone else can come up with, Mark Funkhouser promised us to make the City better and the truth is that things are worse than before not better and the City is not working!
He is, however, still collecting his salary which has gone up every year he has been in office. We can promise him something that we can deliver on (without a doubt)... come next election we will rid ourselves of him!
well said. thanks for writing.
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