18 Comments so far

1. craig davis on March 22, 2006 4:57 pm

   will barf bags be available?

2. keanon on March 22, 2006 5:05 pm

   “Here’s your chance to call a Johnson County resident and ask a Dallas resident about spending Jackson County’s money.”

   OH SNAP!

3. ChrisM70 on March 22, 2006 7:31 pm

   The rolling roof has “captured my imagination!™”

   I hope you Jackson County people pass this thing so you can pay for it, and one day (yet to be determined) your children will get to see a Super Bowl and an All-Star Game – on tv.

4. Dave C. on March 22, 2006 8:18 pm

   That was funny… I’m a jackson county resident and I say FU to lamar and your rolling roof! FU to JOCO and you can have the chiefs and you can pay for it.. I’m done…

5. KCMORES on March 22, 2006 9:13 pm

   HERE F’ING HERE

6. Andrew Murphy on March 22, 2006 9:25 pm

   I’m voting NO - the Royals non press-conference today was a joke, but then so are they.

7. ChrisM70 on March 22, 2006 9:59 pm

   Dave C,

   I think your FU shouldn’t be directed at JoCo, but at your
   OWN county. They are the ones trying to give
   YOUR money to millionaire owners.

   This time, JoCo has nothing to do with this…

8. Derek on March 23, 2006 8:55 am

   Whee… another drowning by the Save Our Billionaires campaign!

9. Mark on March 23, 2006 9:16 am

   Is anyone interested in the fact that KCPT has frozen out the oppositions appearance on their station. Please remember that when it coms time for them to beg for money. Two appearances –Hunt and next week Glass before the vote and NO time for the opposition.

10. Ben Dover on March 23, 2006 12:07 pm

    Um not to be overly divisive here, but “JoCo has nothing to do with it” is a misnomer. The Kansas Star, most radio talking heads in this town, and 99% of the tv “journalists”, i.e. the opinion-makers in Kansas City are actually JoCo residents. This is an exceptional deal for Kansas: we pay, then our tax rate is too high for KC hotels to compete with Kansas hotels for the business of fans attending this event. What could be better? While it’s true that we don’t need to leave Jackson County to find boogeymen in this fiasco, let’s be up-front that much of the cheerleading for this tax is coming from outside the county.

11. ChrisM70 on March 23, 2006 1:09 pm

    Ben Dover, you are right.

    I was only referring to the fact that this renovation tax wasn’t JoCo’s plan, and therefore not responsible for it.

    I do agree that there are plenty of people who live in JoCo who probably do see benefit to this vote and are backing it, just like WyCo and other outlying counties who would benefit from JaxCo’s mistake.

12. Harrison on March 23, 2006 1:40 pm

    Mark writes: Is anyone interested in the fact that KCPT has frozen out the oppositions appearance on their station. Please remember that when it coms time for them to beg for money. Two appearances –Hunt and next week Glass before the vote and NO time for the opposition.

    Incorrect. KCPT has had opposition on KC Week in Review before and will have them on again before the vote.

    Talk Back Live with Steve Rose, yes, has not had opposition on camera, but you certainly heard opposition on the phones during the show last night. Frankly, Lamar wasn’t a very good guest. Kinda ‘milk toast’ IMHO.

13. Craig Davis on March 23, 2006 9:35 pm

    lamar hunt’s response to steve rose’s question last night on whether the the chiefs will leave “if this doesn’t pass.” hunt: “we are not interested in going anywhere…” if that is so why are the proponents shouting “keep the teams?”

14. john tancredi on March 23, 2006 11:25 pm

    Shields and her camp are spreading misinformation that it only costs every Jackson county man,women, and child $18.00 a year(or less than a nickel a day) to support
    question 1 on 4/4. I’ve done the math and she is off base. There are 670,000 county residents. 670,000×18x25= 301.5 Million dollars. She states that nearly 40% of the sales tax revenue come from out other county taxpayers (wrong). Okay, the final price tag according to her lousy math would be slightly over 500 million dollars for the whole 25 years. Even the STAR admits that the final price tag for question 1 will be at least 750 million dollars. I am very disappointed with our leaders in Jackson county.

15. Ben Dover on March 24, 2006 7:45 am

    I’m disappointed in our county, city, and civic leaders. I’d be disappointed in the Star, but truly, this has all been par for their course. I have a question, as an aside to all the current hoopla and scare tactics. Does anyone else remember the Bi-State II vote? I don’t recall there being any threats from the owners, no panic stricken SAVE OUR TEAMS banter from radio talking heads and Star columnists, no promises of Super Bowls or All-Star Games neatly arranged on cue, and certainly no constant stream of Star propaganda masked as news on the front page (see today’s edition). In fact, the whole thing went off with about as much fanfare in the media as a water district bond question in rural Cass County. Now, here’s what I DO recall. I recall the Star only tepidly endorsing the plan (you could just tell they hated it, but the Star’s Editorial Board gets the shakes whenever it even considers opposing any tax), and rightly lambasting Kathryn Shields for excluding Kansas politicos from the planning stages. Now this current deal was thrown together in secrecy, but after initially calling for open meetings and being ignored, the lapdogs at the Star fell in line. My question is, why the big difference between the way these two plans have been treated by the local media?

16. Jim on March 27, 2006 10:56 am

    Im glad I dont live in Jackson Co. You would have to be a complete moron to vote yes. Let the millionaire owners pay for it. How with they repay you. Higher ticket prices for less that average teams. why pay high ticket prices, high vendor prices, high parking prices, stand in line for bathrooms, listen to foul mouth, drunk fans and above all…watch a crappy, bad coached team.I would rather stay at home and watch it on my big screen with people I like. You chiefs season ticket holders should have your head examined!

17. Jim on March 27, 2006 10:58 am

    let’em leave…who cares…..and I love sports!!

18. Craig Davis on April 2, 2006 6:39 pm

    two udates to above posts: 1) a week after mr hunt appeared, david glass was on steve rose’s show. when asked the same question about leaving, glass responded, “we have never considered leaving kansas city.” he also said that the rolling roof is “not important to us” which explains why they are not making a financial contribution to it.

    2) ChrisM70: the person who called in and stated the rolling roof “captured my imagination” was former city councilman john sharp. he is paid by sos to call in with some inane cheerleading statement such as that. prior to him doing this the show is prepped…with cash of course or a threat…to watch for his phone number on their called ID and to give him airtime. have you ever wondered why it is so difficult for YOU to get on?