TKC MUST READ!!! KICK-ASS FIRST REVIEW FOR THE TKC E- BOOK!!!

The response to our e-book has been OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTIVE AND AWESOME . . . THANK YOU TKC BLOG COMMUNITY for continued encouragement!!!

On just the first chapter post we've had over 20k unique user page views and quite a bit of feedback, questions and discussion already.

Of course we want to keep the conversation going, and continue to let our blog community know about the only INDEPENDENT analysis of Mayor Sly's tenure so far.

If you haven't bought the e-book yet, please consider supporting our blog community, taking part in our ongoing conversation and picking up a copy.



Even better . . .

CHECK OUT OUR FIRST REVIEW FROM A KICK-ASS AND KNOWLEDGEABLE DENIZEN OF OUR BLOG COMMUNITY!!!

Lots of great insights and deets shared about the Mayor in order to keep our conversation going!!!

We're gonna keep featuring these responses to the book because they're some of the best insights that we've seen from our blog community in years. Take a look:

1st PUPPET KING E-BOOK REVIEW!!!

I first want to say I enjoyed the e-book. It is a great start for a book at the end of his term. This is make or break year for Sly. At the beginning of the year you will have to rank the favorites for 2019 Mayor.

The bow tie gimmick was a through back to Mayor Wheeler and Mayor H.Roe Bartle. They used wardrobe to project an image. I have lived in KC my entire life and both my parents families lived in KC from the early 1900s. I never met or knew Mayor Bartle but many people I knew and some deceased former council members would think HE WAS THE BIGGEST CHEERLEADER FOR KC because he got Lamar Hunt to move the Dallas Texans to KC in which paves the way for the A's to move to KC.

I first met the Sly during the Bi-State campaign . . .


Jack Harry had sports program on channel 38 at 7pm and he could not resist having a little forum. It was friendly. I cannot remember the other people on the program. I think then we met again on the public radio station when it was just a Jackson County panel. Kraske first asks before going on air are we going to have civil discussion, Kraske not knowing that we had previously met and Sly says something like "he is more interested in facts than anyone." I did not say anything. It was uneventful.

During the first mayoral campaign people were always asking who do you support for Mayor. My answer was always: No comment.

You mention the Chamber of Commerce- Why not the Civic Council?

You mention Brownback and the never ending attack by Barb, Yael, Lewis and the KS Star. The comment that I might say about KC tax policy is that Gov. Brownback learned every regressive tax policy trick from the KC democrats. One of the first things Gov. Brownback did was make a temporary sales tax permanent and gut progressive income tax rates. Exactly like KC with the Earnings Tax: Taxing only income for the working poor. The only way we fund KC and Jackson County is a never ending increases of regressive sales tax. Now we are proposing a $800 million bond issue that is funded by a new property tax increase on homes and small business while creating a new TIF, 353, etc., revenue stream and allowing the big business (Cerner, H&R Block, Cordish, Burns&McDonnell, Freightquote, etc.) not having to pay for any capital improvements for the next 20 years.

The Mayor is saying this is a big ask ($800 million bonds) . . . Well how about having the big boys and girls at the Greater KC Chamber of Commerce and Civic Council ante up?

These issues like the minimum wage and gun control are just political grandstanding. If the Mayor is really concerned about income inequality, he should be doing something about what he is responsible for like the regressive e-tax.

I have always been 100 per cent against light rail or streetcars (gentrification). I have been 100 per cent in favor of the MAX bus lines (mobility) even proposing lines going east to west on 75th Street from I-71 to I-35, 95th Street from Blue Ridge to I-35.

The only way crime or murders will be reduced is through economic opportunity. But some of the Mayors cronies in downtown do not want a work force that has economic opportunity to get to higher paying jobs in Johnson County then they would have to increase wages. They could not afford to live in Johnson County so that is not the issue but increasing wages and the losing of a captive work force (East side) is.

The problem of KC's so-called development policy is that the 99% are not benefiting so is it time to end the gravy train for the 1%.
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