@BlogKCStar columnist Mike Hendricks has a very tough column telling KC first lady Gloria Squitiro to vacate her volunteer position in the Mayor’s office. But as far as we know, Hendricks is not a Kansas Citian. He lives in Johnson County.
Maybe she should go. Maybe shouldn’t. Either way, it’s a matter Kansas Citians, not suburbanites like Mike. If he and others like him have such strong opinions, then they should move into the city and become voters.
If that’s your belief, then you must cease from making any comments about Johnson County or any other metro area city, or any place on earth that’s not Kansas City.
Since you don’t live in JoCo, any opinion you have about it must be worthless, right?
This is a STUPID argument. People who live in the metro area CARE about KCMO. Everyone understands that downtown is the heart of this area, and what happens with KC government, the Funk and his administration effects us all.
I don’t live in KC proper, but I’m not going to let you or anyone else tell me that I can’t voice my opinion about KC.
I completely agree with Chris. I’m a JoCo resident, and what happens in KCMO affects me. It’s the anchor city for the entire region, and its politics affect all of us.
Perhaps he should refrain from commenting on St. Louis’ or Emporia’s policies, but certainly not on Kansas City’s.
Besides, your flippant dismissal that he should “move into the city” ignores a whole host of legitimate reasons people may have for NOT living in the city. Would you really want all the resident of the metro to move into the city limits? Would you want the city limits to encompass us all? Don’t be daft.
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You don’t live in Kansas, so stick to writing about Blunt, ok?
jezzzz, it’s an argument made in jest…but I say JoCo residents can start writing about internal political staff members of the mayors office when they start contributing financially to support KC proper. Lets start with the stadiums and then move to light rail, then we can go to the CSO problem caused in part by poor upstream watershed management.
I do contribute financially to Kansas City.
I spend money at Union Station, Power & Light, Royals’ games, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Sprint Center, City Market, etc.
And I’ll keep doing it unless you would like me and everyone else that lives outside of KCMO proper to stop coming over and spending money?
Thats great. Don’t stop. I spend money in all of those places in addition to having a significant portion of my tax revenue going to support the operating and construction costs of these facilities. That’s the difference between us.
The difference is that you think that paying taxes in KC makes you special.
It doesn’t.
Believe it or not, I pay taxes too – but they go towards the city THAT I LIVE IN. That’s the way it is supposed to work.
With that said, I have no problem with Bi-State taxes and getting the rest of the Metro area to help, but KC needs to put together information and plans to explain WHY this needs to happen (like with a metro-wide transportation plan) that everyone can get behind.
well I agree that KC should be the leader on metro-wide issues and that just hasn’t happened. When it does have a chance to happen like with the stadium taxes the first time, JoCo votes against it. In that specific case, we later picked up the check so the suburbanites can enjoy the nice new HD scoreboard. It’s really nice, huh?
This is heading off in the weeds of urban planning, but the relationship between the original urban core and the suburbs that later form around the core is not vis-à-vis. Suburbs can’t and don’t exist without a larger central city. Suburbs do help cities in many ways, but they also hurt them in many ways too. These issues and gentrification in general is plaguing all older cities similar to KC.
I’m not of the opinion that the burbs owe KC anything except for those cases where it truly is a metro-wide issue. Transit, CSO, etc. Given you last paragraph, I suspect we agree more than disagree on this…
JoCo was against the stadium taxes (at least I was) because it’s a waste of money. If KC had done the right thing and built a new stadium downtown instead of pouring money into old stadiums that sits out in the middle of NOWHERE and will need probably more renovations in about 10 years, I think there might have been more support. Plus, the taxpayers give too much money to the sports teams to help billionaires make obscene amounts of money.
With that said, the new scoreboard is really nice. If only HD quality images could be converted into baseball victories…
You preach coming together with bi-state taxes and the suburbs helping the city and then turn around and spite someone for trying to help without uprooting from a suburb?
shameless.
@ Morgan: Are you referring to me? I didn’t think it was ‘spite’ in any sense of the word….
The biggest critics of the Funkhousers have been outside of KCMO. If JOCOers want to get more involved, participate in light rail. This whole Funk thing is stupid.
Maybe he pays KC, MO taxes from working down there. Haven’t you advocated taxation without representation? Let him have his voice since he can’t vote. Lastly, don’t be a stupid baby.