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Thursday, November 2, 2017
12 great movies this Sat. only at KIFF film fest--from aliens to evil Monsanto to sneak peek six weeks early of the Churchill movie: Darkest Hour. Free ticket offer!!
KIFF film fest Fri night opener: High School 9-1-1, where Darien CT teens run ambulance service on deadly interstate! Glenwood Arts 5:30, one showing only
Experience a heart-stopping, inspirational year with Darien EMS-Post 53, the only ambulance service for the 20,000 residents of Darien, Connecticut, as it covers one of the deadliest stretches of Interstate-95, responds to over 1,500 emergency calls, and is run by high school teenagers.The foundation of Darien EMS 53 is the empowerment of young people through adult and peer mentorship. Posties are taught a multitude of managerial, critical thinking and emergency medical skills and then empowered by being given the responsibility to implement what they have learned by actually running their own EMS organization. The goal of the film is to inspire and empower young people as well as motivate the adults in their lives: parents, educators, school administrators, community leaders to create opportunities for them to learn by doing and make a difference in their communities.
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| Call friends and government officials to come meet filmmaker Friday at 5:30, 95th & Mission (lower level/Ranchmart), one showing only at Glenwood Arts, first film of this year's KIFF-- Kansas Intl Film Festival. What if we started doing this in Kansas City and suburbs? |
Friday, October 27, 2017
Desperate stealth campaign for NewKCI can be beat! From $1 million now $1.6 million, including extorted $ from Edgemoor without contract. And Southwest refuses to admit their ruse to leave town.
The campaign manager for Yes on NewKCI is in HideFromThePublic mode. Mark Nivens of The Dover Group ("I work for Sly James"), is furiously and very PRIVATELY courting the 18% of KCMO residents who even use KCI.
With polling in a statistical dead heat (just 51%), his strategy is to give up on changing minds. Just browbeat the silk stocking districts 4 and 6 (river to 435, State Line to Troost) into voting yes.
The Yes campaign is bloated with cash and hopelessly short of time. They reported today (at a Chamber Centurion (brainwashing/KumBaYahhhhh) campaign update session which did not allow discussion of Burns&Mac corruption or Sly James' mismanagement) that they now have soared to $1.6 million in campaign slush, which will be spent at a preposterous rate of "96% direct voter contact"!!!!""
Plus, his fees, of course. Which might also kick back, eventually, to Nevins' perpetual sugar daddy boss, Sly James, for future campaigns. Or who knows? Perhaps a lifetime salary or stipend of payoffs since James is a lame duck with no future jobs on the horizon.
So what do the desperate business and labor goons get for their $1.6 million?
(Higher by far than the $900,000 they just forked over to pass 123GO Bonds)--
Well, off the top, cash bribes of $65,000 to Freedom (they clearly sold out too cheap)
and now 10 promised postcard mailers (deforestation of three counties in Missouri)
leaves what:
4% for TV, since that is NOT "direct voter contact".
This NewKCI campaign is a desperate effort to fool SOME of the people (18%) some of the time.
The late Steve Glorioso begged Sly James to wait till April to run this campaign.
The council delayed, insisting that the public wanted to know who the contractor was.
(Sly was stubborn--he and cohort in crime Jolie Justus rammed thru Burns & Mac, financed by Mike Merriman's dinky insurance company downtown--worth only $6 billion and no airport experience, strutting around claiming they could easily finance $1 billion?)
Enter Southwest Airlines. Their threat is proving hollow.
They secretly told Sly James that if he didn't get this done this November, they would PULL FLIGHTS FROM KCI.
Yet today it was revealed, Southwest is unwilling to hold a press conference to say that.
Their rush job was clearly a big bluff. No way is Southwest gonna piss off KCI passengers before Christmas! And they're not leaving, giving up their Russian fist style control of half of our gates. In fact, their long term goal, in cutting down the gates to 35 from 68 we own now, and offering to finance the bonds, is to drive OTHER airlines away! And drive up rates. Holding us hostage.
So stick with the strategy:
If someone phones you (or knocks on your door), LIE and say, "Of course I'm voting yes!"
Then gather friends and family and go to the polls Tuesday Nov. 7 and VOTE NO.
The city will be forced to come back with a much better plan.
YOU CAN DO THIS!
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| Can Sly James' $1.6 million man fool the 18% of KCMO residents into voting for the corrupt New KCI?? |
With polling in a statistical dead heat (just 51%), his strategy is to give up on changing minds. Just browbeat the silk stocking districts 4 and 6 (river to 435, State Line to Troost) into voting yes.
The Yes campaign is bloated with cash and hopelessly short of time. They reported today (at a Chamber Centurion (brainwashing/KumBaYahhhhh) campaign update session which did not allow discussion of Burns&Mac corruption or Sly James' mismanagement) that they now have soared to $1.6 million in campaign slush, which will be spent at a preposterous rate of "96% direct voter contact"!!!!""
Plus, his fees, of course. Which might also kick back, eventually, to Nevins' perpetual sugar daddy boss, Sly James, for future campaigns. Or who knows? Perhaps a lifetime salary or stipend of payoffs since James is a lame duck with no future jobs on the horizon.
So what do the desperate business and labor goons get for their $1.6 million?
(Higher by far than the $900,000 they just forked over to pass 123GO Bonds)--
Well, off the top, cash bribes of $65,000 to Freedom (they clearly sold out too cheap)
and now 10 promised postcard mailers (deforestation of three counties in Missouri)
leaves what:
4% for TV, since that is NOT "direct voter contact".
This NewKCI campaign is a desperate effort to fool SOME of the people (18%) some of the time.
The late Steve Glorioso begged Sly James to wait till April to run this campaign.
The council delayed, insisting that the public wanted to know who the contractor was.
(Sly was stubborn--he and cohort in crime Jolie Justus rammed thru Burns & Mac, financed by Mike Merriman's dinky insurance company downtown--worth only $6 billion and no airport experience, strutting around claiming they could easily finance $1 billion?)
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| Is Southwest Airlines hiding something from its captive KCI passengers?? Do they want to hold us hostage to huge fare increases??And what's so hard about fixing the bathrooms?
That doesn't cost $536 million.
A handyman from your church could do that...
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They secretly told Sly James that if he didn't get this done this November, they would PULL FLIGHTS FROM KCI.
Yet today it was revealed, Southwest is unwilling to hold a press conference to say that.
Their rush job was clearly a big bluff. No way is Southwest gonna piss off KCI passengers before Christmas! And they're not leaving, giving up their Russian fist style control of half of our gates. In fact, their long term goal, in cutting down the gates to 35 from 68 we own now, and offering to finance the bonds, is to drive OTHER airlines away! And drive up rates. Holding us hostage.
So stick with the strategy:
If someone phones you (or knocks on your door), LIE and say, "Of course I'm voting yes!"
Then gather friends and family and go to the polls Tuesday Nov. 7 and VOTE NO.
The city will be forced to come back with a much better plan.
YOU CAN DO THIS!
Voters WILL defeat corrupt NewKCI. How Bartle Hall passed by 18 votes thanks to Bernice and the Good Old Girls
This just in, on Ch. 41 news:
Edgemoor donated $60,000 toward the YES campaign, which has raised $1 million.
They do not have a signed contract with the city.
So is this a case of extortion by the campaign committee? (I am implying that it is!--one more use to go...)
This whole campaign stinks. I love that the YES people, Sly and the council and labor and Freedom, and the contractor are so uncertain about the virtue of their proposal that they are throwing $1.6 million bucks (this just in as of 9:30 am 10/27/17 per Mark Nevins the yes vote campaign chairman).
The polls must be showing it is losing or close to losing.
When you get your nightly polling phone calls, push whatever numbers on your phone you must to IMPLY that you are on board with this pig of a proposal. Then in the privacy of the voting booth, vote NO.
The pollsters will INFER that you are for it. Ha!
You are so close to defeating this. Mike White won his county commission seat by one vote. We call him Mandate Mike.
And Bartle Hall passed by 18 votes, but those were kinda stolen votes. Back in the day, they had real machines with wheels. Sometimes reading the numbers on the wheels was in question. So my former business partner, politico Jerry Jette, (who taught Pat Gray EVERY trick in the book) was dispatched by Mayor Wheeler to go to the election board while the election staff peered at the numbers stuck halfway between a higher and a lower number.
Jette knew EXACTLY how many votes he needed. Fourteen. And gave himself a cushion of four more. He flirted with the old gals in the Election Board office, "Hi Bernice--how's your son George doing? I hope that summer job we got for him helped you out! He hugged, he cajoled, and he counted. All the while, Bernice and Agnes and Carmella and the Good Old Girls from Redemtorist Parish and St. Elizabeths were deciding--is that a 7 or a 6?
"Jerry, I think...hmmmm...(dramatic pause and a wink) I'm gonna say it's a 7!"
"Good girl, Bernice!"
Of course it was completely arbitrary. Like hanging chad in Florida. No money changed hands. It was all flattery and comraderie and friendship and years and years spent at neighborhood parishes and St. Patrick's Day events and St. Joseph's tables, etc.
The minute Jette scored 18 more votes, he said, "Gotta meet the Mayor at Italian Gardens for lunch!" Hugs all around.
And that is how the city of KCMO won that election to build Bartle Hall on a cold December day.
So what's a little white lie to a phone surveyor or someone knocking on your door.
Vote NO and force the city to come back with a much BETTER PLAN. They are IMPLYING they will just give up for the next 50 years. That's bullshit.
Vote No for something better.
Edgemoor donated $60,000 toward the YES campaign, which has raised $1 million.
They do not have a signed contract with the city.
So is this a case of extortion by the campaign committee? (I am implying that it is!--one more use to go...)
This whole campaign stinks. I love that the YES people, Sly and the council and labor and Freedom, and the contractor are so uncertain about the virtue of their proposal that they are throwing $1.6 million bucks (this just in as of 9:30 am 10/27/17 per Mark Nevins the yes vote campaign chairman).
The polls must be showing it is losing or close to losing.
When you get your nightly polling phone calls, push whatever numbers on your phone you must to IMPLY that you are on board with this pig of a proposal. Then in the privacy of the voting booth, vote NO.
The pollsters will INFER that you are for it. Ha!
You are so close to defeating this. Mike White won his county commission seat by one vote. We call him Mandate Mike.
And Bartle Hall passed by 18 votes, but those were kinda stolen votes. Back in the day, they had real machines with wheels. Sometimes reading the numbers on the wheels was in question. So my former business partner, politico Jerry Jette, (who taught Pat Gray EVERY trick in the book) was dispatched by Mayor Wheeler to go to the election board while the election staff peered at the numbers stuck halfway between a higher and a lower number.
Jette knew EXACTLY how many votes he needed. Fourteen. And gave himself a cushion of four more. He flirted with the old gals in the Election Board office, "Hi Bernice--how's your son George doing? I hope that summer job we got for him helped you out! He hugged, he cajoled, and he counted. All the while, Bernice and Agnes and Carmella and the Good Old Girls from Redemtorist Parish and St. Elizabeths were deciding--is that a 7 or a 6?
"Jerry, I think...hmmmm...(dramatic pause and a wink) I'm gonna say it's a 7!"
"Good girl, Bernice!"
Of course it was completely arbitrary. Like hanging chad in Florida. No money changed hands. It was all flattery and comraderie and friendship and years and years spent at neighborhood parishes and St. Patrick's Day events and St. Joseph's tables, etc.
The minute Jette scored 18 more votes, he said, "Gotta meet the Mayor at Italian Gardens for lunch!" Hugs all around.
And that is how the city of KCMO won that election to build Bartle Hall on a cold December day.
So what's a little white lie to a phone surveyor or someone knocking on your door.
Vote NO and force the city to come back with a much BETTER PLAN. They are IMPLYING they will just give up for the next 50 years. That's bullshit.
Vote No for something better.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Lie to any phone pollsters. Claim you are voting YES on KCI. Then phone 3 voting friends. Vote NoNov.7. This can be accomplished as underground campaign.
It's clear that the city of KCMO has gone over the cliff--and cannot be relied upon to support its citizens. They have sold you out and are in LaLaLand listening to wind chimes they ordered (on your credit card) from Amazon.
YOU can defeat the poor plan for KCI--with a DIY underground railroad campaign.
This has been done before, when we the taxpayers defeated the bloated giveaway to multi-millionaires that would have been BiStateII. And we did it again when we the taxpayers defeated the even crazier Big Soccer giveaway to multi-millionaires.
We had no signs. In each campaign, we spent a total of $12,000 on postcards, thanks entirely to Taxpayer Crusader and movie maker Phillip Klein, and my working for free to badger the news media and respond to news outlets and demand the opposition voice be heard.
It's all about voter turnout.
One household, one neighbor at a time. Call three friends and meet with three neighbors--but make sure first of all that they are even registered to vote... Get them to promise to vote, and follow up with them. Drive them if need be. Support one another in voting NO. Make a homemade yard sign. Or not. (See below).*
The good news? Steve Glorioso is dead. The Yes campaign has written a big ass check to Big Ass Jeff Roe--who is doing nothing but eating Twinkies. Just like Steve Glorioso and Pat Gray, many times those so-called politicos are paid off just to keep them from working for the opposition. That appears to be the case this time.
More good news: Channel 9's Micheal Mahoney is starting to challenge the preposterousness of the YES folks' lies--that KC "needs" more flights. And so is the only decent reporter at the STAR: Steve Vockrodt. When the ballot issue would build just 35 gates, down from the 68 we own, and the 45 we currently operate.
Clearly, the Edgemoor "tossed salad/copycat plan" is a copy of the Burns & Mac Trojan Horse. Build LESS but call it more. And just keep lying through your teeth to the voters and the cowed KCMO City Council and the naive news media--and hope you can squeak through.
It's pretty obvious to a third grader that if they were so sure they're gonna win, they wouldn't need to send out postcards that lie.
So here's another secret strategy: If you get a phone call from an anonymous survey company? LIE RIGHT BACK AT THEM. TELL THEM YOU ARE VOTING YES! The voting booth is still secret--I don't think Russians have found Kansas City Missouri yet.
*Take the yard sign that the Yes committee offers you--and hide it in your garage-- till after election day. That milks them out of $3.95 hustled from the Gimme coalition. Don't trash it till AFTER the election.
We can do this. How do you think slavery got outlawed? The underground railroad. Long before the Lying Ass KCI Contraction Billed as an Expansion.
YOU can defeat the poor plan for KCI--with a DIY underground railroad campaign.
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| Never underestimate the power of determined people to saved a loved one. In this case, KCI that needs remodelling, not destruction. Load your voting friends in your car--and VOTE NO! Find a way! No need to advertise it. Just GitErDone. |
This has been done before, when we the taxpayers defeated the bloated giveaway to multi-millionaires that would have been BiStateII. And we did it again when we the taxpayers defeated the even crazier Big Soccer giveaway to multi-millionaires.
We had no signs. In each campaign, we spent a total of $12,000 on postcards, thanks entirely to Taxpayer Crusader and movie maker Phillip Klein, and my working for free to badger the news media and respond to news outlets and demand the opposition voice be heard.
It's all about voter turnout.
One household, one neighbor at a time. Call three friends and meet with three neighbors--but make sure first of all that they are even registered to vote... Get them to promise to vote, and follow up with them. Drive them if need be. Support one another in voting NO. Make a homemade yard sign. Or not. (See below).*
The good news? Steve Glorioso is dead. The Yes campaign has written a big ass check to Big Ass Jeff Roe--who is doing nothing but eating Twinkies. Just like Steve Glorioso and Pat Gray, many times those so-called politicos are paid off just to keep them from working for the opposition. That appears to be the case this time.
More good news: Channel 9's Micheal Mahoney is starting to challenge the preposterousness of the YES folks' lies--that KC "needs" more flights. And so is the only decent reporter at the STAR: Steve Vockrodt. When the ballot issue would build just 35 gates, down from the 68 we own, and the 45 we currently operate.
Clearly, the Edgemoor "tossed salad/copycat plan" is a copy of the Burns & Mac Trojan Horse. Build LESS but call it more. And just keep lying through your teeth to the voters and the cowed KCMO City Council and the naive news media--and hope you can squeak through.
It's pretty obvious to a third grader that if they were so sure they're gonna win, they wouldn't need to send out postcards that lie.
So here's another secret strategy: If you get a phone call from an anonymous survey company? LIE RIGHT BACK AT THEM. TELL THEM YOU ARE VOTING YES! The voting booth is still secret--I don't think Russians have found Kansas City Missouri yet.
*Take the yard sign that the Yes committee offers you--and hide it in your garage-- till after election day. That milks them out of $3.95 hustled from the Gimme coalition. Don't trash it till AFTER the election.
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| These folks are not running from a distant parking garage to catch a flight at a new, far-less-convenient KCI, where folks are herded like cattle for the convenience of cheap airlines cramming us into their 14 inch wide seats. Nope, these are voters voting NO on November 7! Because that is the message we need to send to the bought-and-paid-for KCMO City Council. BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! WE ARE ONTO YOUR SLUMLORD TACTICS! Stop letting our convenient airport run down. Fix the bathrooms at Southwest Airlines! And stop lying to the voters that building 35 gates rather than the 45 we operate now and the 68 we OWN, would be "progress"!!! |
We can do this. How do you think slavery got outlawed? The underground railroad. Long before the Lying Ass KCI Contraction Billed as an Expansion.
Sunday, July 9, 2017
James B. Nutter's final resting place: EAST OF TROOST! Visitation/ aka wake: Wed. 5-8pm, Unity Temple on Plaza. Funeral, Thurs.10a at Country Club Christian, 6101 Ward Pkwy. McGilley's Midtown coordinating
This just in--
the fine folks at McGilley's Midtown are coordinating services for James B. Nutter Sr. Since a huge crowd is expected they selected two large venues.
WED. JULY 12
5-8PM
Unity Temple on the Plaza
707 W. 47th
5-8pm
This is a "visitation", rather than a formal religious ceremony.
Folks pass by the casket, (optional) then gather in small groups for refreshments and sharing of memories, informally. (Catholics call it a wake.)
THURS. JULY 13
10AM (Approx. one hour)
Country Club Christian
6101 Ward Parkway
This will be a formal church ceremony
with a program, a sign-in book, and list of key speakers and music.
Burial of the casket will be immediately after that, 11:30am, Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery--
6901 Troost.
So imagine that, folks! From a great man who loved and served and shaped the future of Jackson County his whole life:
A classic Jim Nutter move--he will be buried EAST OF TROOST!
Expect parking to be in short supply!
Our hometown funeral experts, McGilley's Midtown, did a sensational job last summer for Dutch Newman, who was celebrated and loved by so many of the same folks. Dutch's sendoff was at Visitation Catholic on Main. And of course, James B. Nutter was there--greeted in his wheelchair by all, photographed by me and of course, Mayor Dick Berkley. A who's who for Kansas City and Democrat politics. And a motorcycle patrol of 14 of Jackson County's finest men in blue.
the fine folks at McGilley's Midtown are coordinating services for James B. Nutter Sr. Since a huge crowd is expected they selected two large venues.
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| Major domo Jackson County Dem chair Lonnie Shalton, Senator Claire McCaskill, James B Nutter Sr and former staffer to Congresswoman Karen McCarthy, Jan Hodgson, last summer at the funeral services for Hila B "Dutch" Newman. |
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| All these key Dems expected to be at Nutter's visitation and funeral this week-- Jaxco Commissioner Scott Burnett, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, (x/help!), Commissioner Theresa Garza and far right (LOL only in photos, never in opinions!) former regl dir, Dept of Energy and now campaign coach Mary O'Halloran. |
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| Dem Chair Lonnie Shalton, James B Nutter and world traveller Rita Leifhelm--last summer at the services for Hila B "Dutch" Newman. |
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| One of a kind mouth of the Third District, former state rep and KCMO Councilwoman Carol Coe attended Dutch Newman's services last summer, and is expected at James B Nutter's grand send-off, this Wed. July. 12 at Unity and Thurs J. 13th @ Country Club Christian, and then to proudly welcome Nutter to his final resting place, EAST of Troost! |
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| Former mayor backed by Nutter, Richard Berkley, and former Congressional staffer Jan Hodgson, with photo of Dutch Newman and Hillary Clinton, at Dutch's funeral last July. This is a rare photo--since usually Berkley TAKES 400 photos a week! Expect to see him at Nutter's visitation Wed. at 5pm, Unity and the funeral, Thurs. at 10am at Country Club Christian. |
WED. JULY 12
5-8PM
Unity Temple on the Plaza
707 W. 47th
5-8pm
This is a "visitation", rather than a formal religious ceremony.
Folks pass by the casket, (optional) then gather in small groups for refreshments and sharing of memories, informally. (Catholics call it a wake.)
THURS. JULY 13
10AM (Approx. one hour)
Country Club Christian
6101 Ward Parkway
This will be a formal church ceremony
with a program, a sign-in book, and list of key speakers and music.
Burial of the casket will be immediately after that, 11:30am, Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery--
6901 Troost.
So imagine that, folks! From a great man who loved and served and shaped the future of Jackson County his whole life:
A classic Jim Nutter move--he will be buried EAST OF TROOST!
Expect parking to be in short supply!
Our hometown funeral experts, McGilley's Midtown, did a sensational job last summer for Dutch Newman, who was celebrated and loved by so many of the same folks. Dutch's sendoff was at Visitation Catholic on Main. And of course, James B. Nutter was there--greeted in his wheelchair by all, photographed by me and of course, Mayor Dick Berkley. A who's who for Kansas City and Democrat politics. And a motorcycle patrol of 14 of Jackson County's finest men in blue.
Friday, July 7, 2017
Burns&Mac running false radio ads on 4 stns! Deceives public! Lobbies KCMO Council for their NoBid "New KCI"!! Goals: a) avoid public vote b) skim addl $140M financing profits and c) head off Katy Shields' smarter plan: local revenue bonds
Bottom line: if Burns & Mac will lie to the public NOW, what else will they conceal? Or attempt to sneak past the KCMO City Council?
This is a clear case of deceptive lobbying. Burns and Mac is spending thousands of dollars on what's called The Assumed Close.
They struck their deal with Mayor Sly James. It's been blocked. The council wisely caved into public pressure, to at least invite a few others to bid. And best of all, Katy Shields came up with a better plan, selling Airport Revenue Bonds, which will save the taxpayers $140 million in interest, since public bonds are sold at a lower interest rate than what Burns and Mac's secret moneybags, Michael Merriman at Americo will charge rich investors, (eg backers of Sly James).
But who would be surprised at the temerity of telling an untrue outcome? At B&M's IGNORING the facts that is, their Pearl Harbor sneak attack to spend a billion bucks to build a SMALLER airport may have been thwarted??
Who would be surprised at Burns and Mac now lobbying falsely by running radio spots AS IF THEY ALREADY WON AND BUILT THE "NEW KCI"??????
The splash page of Burns and McDonnell's own website is our first clue to an altered sense of integrity. It starts with some X-files worthy music, and this apocryphal quote:
It can happen right before your eyes.
And at first, you might not even notice.
I hate liars. So when I heard this unsourced radio spot on my favorite station, 980 KMBZ, claiming the city already built a new KCI, paid by Burns & Mac, I investigated. Because the FCC says all spots must make it clear, who paid for them. This one doesn't.
Turns out it IS Burns and Mac paying the bill. But could just as easily have been a lobbying group promoted and funded by their benefactor, Sly James. Or Michael Merriman at Americo Insurance, the secret financier who hides from all reporters, and stands to make $140 million in higher bond rates.
Burns & Mac has 5 registered lobbyists, according to James Klahr, Director of the Missouri Election Commission. He shared with me, Missouri law is very weak on disclosures--re issues coming up on a ballot or a candidate: just for printed materials.) But the FCC says on every spot in America for any purpose: reveal to the public, (which owns the airwaves), exactly who is paying to dish out this narrative, in this case, a false one.
The spot states, "...in 2017, Kansas City made history, with the first ever privately built airport in the nation...built and financed locally...every pilot is talkin' about that new privately built KCI..."
It's simply not true! It's wishful lobbying.
Listen here: KCI Pilot radio spot on
4 Entercom stations
The spots are airing this week and next, thousands of dollars on a heavy schedule on four major Entercom radio stations: AM 980 KMBZ; 98.1FM (think EJ& Ellen and Dana and Parks); KCSP610 Sports, and 98.9 KQRC the Rock (Johnny Dare et al) .
This is a clear case of deceptive lobbying. Burns and Mac is spending thousands of dollars on what's called The Assumed Close.
They struck their deal with Mayor Sly James. It's been blocked. The council wisely caved into public pressure, to at least invite a few others to bid. And best of all, Katy Shields came up with a better plan, selling Airport Revenue Bonds, which will save the taxpayers $140 million in interest, since public bonds are sold at a lower interest rate than what Burns and Mac's secret moneybags, Michael Merriman at Americo will charge rich investors, (eg backers of Sly James).
But who would be surprised at the temerity of telling an untrue outcome? At B&M's IGNORING the facts that is, their Pearl Harbor sneak attack to spend a billion bucks to build a SMALLER airport may have been thwarted??
Who would be surprised at Burns and Mac now lobbying falsely by running radio spots AS IF THEY ALREADY WON AND BUILT THE "NEW KCI"??????
The splash page of Burns and McDonnell's own website is our first clue to an altered sense of integrity. It starts with some X-files worthy music, and this apocryphal quote:
It can happen right before your eyes.
And at first, you might not even notice.
I hate liars. So when I heard this unsourced radio spot on my favorite station, 980 KMBZ, claiming the city already built a new KCI, paid by Burns & Mac, I investigated. Because the FCC says all spots must make it clear, who paid for them. This one doesn't.
Turns out it IS Burns and Mac paying the bill. But could just as easily have been a lobbying group promoted and funded by their benefactor, Sly James. Or Michael Merriman at Americo Insurance, the secret financier who hides from all reporters, and stands to make $140 million in higher bond rates.
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| Mike Merriman's Americo Life secret downtown financing partner for Burns and Mac's No Bid billion dollar, smaller"New KCI". He may have paid Burns & Mac to run the false radio spots. After all, if he snags this No Bid contract, he makes an extra $140 million, because private investments earn 1 1/2 to 2% more interest per year than publicly financed Airport Revenue Bonds. |
Burns & Mac has 5 registered lobbyists, according to James Klahr, Director of the Missouri Election Commission. He shared with me, Missouri law is very weak on disclosures--re issues coming up on a ballot or a candidate: just for printed materials.) But the FCC says on every spot in America for any purpose: reveal to the public, (which owns the airwaves), exactly who is paying to dish out this narrative, in this case, a false one.
The spot states, "...in 2017, Kansas City made history, with the first ever privately built airport in the nation...built and financed locally...every pilot is talkin' about that new privately built KCI..."
It's simply not true! It's wishful lobbying.
Listen here: KCI Pilot radio spot on
4 Entercom stations
The spots are airing this week and next, thousands of dollars on a heavy schedule on four major Entercom radio stations: AM 980 KMBZ; 98.1FM (think EJ& Ellen and Dana and Parks); KCSP610 Sports, and 98.9 KQRC the Rock (Johnny Dare et al) .
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