And EPIC Sunday screed by the author of the only CITYWIDE STREETCAR PETITION INITIATIVE ENDORSED BY THOUSANDS OF KANSAS CITY VOTERS right now. Take a peek:
Clay Chastain calls out Mayor Sly James' hypocrisy, wrong doing and the Star's role in providing him cover and trying to turn the people against me
Mayor Sly James was quoted yesterday (by KCUR public radio) as saying this about the city's $800 million infrastructure bond issue slated for the April 4 ballot..." I will not change, and will not support anything that is unbalanced and does not provide benefit to the entire city."
Is that so mayor. Then...Why Mayor Sly James do you support the city's streetcar expansion plan (seeks to use a RESTRICTED ELECTION to build a limited Frou Frou line to the Plaza /UMKC), over my streetcar initiative (promotes a CITYWIDE election to build a rapid CITYWIDE streetcar system) that would obviously "provide (more) benefit to the entire city"?
And Mayor Sly James, what is your political position on the sales tax increase for the eastside you just voted to place on the April ballot? Does using a citywide sales tax for targeted improvements in just one part of the city, "provide benefit to the entire city"?
And Mayor Sly James, are you going to support placing that eastside petition initiative on the April ballot (along with, of course, the city's $800 million bond issue) but not support placing the following other two valid initiatives on the same April 4 ballot...
(1) the streetcar petition initiative that seeks to transform the city's downtown streetcar system into a more rapid, useful and citywide rail system to "provide benefit to the entire city;" and
(2) the petition initiative requiring the city to place any streetcar expansion plan before CITYWIDE voters and not lock citywide voters out of participating in such an issue of importance to the entire city?
And Mayor Sly James (I almost forgot)...Do you think your deliberate legislative action to delay a 2011 light rail initiative election and then sabotage the ballot language of that light rail initiative (when it was finally ordered on the ballot by the Missouri Supreme Court three years later), upheld the public trust and provided "benefit to the entire city"?
And Mayor Sly James, did you direct former City Attorney Bill Geary to pronounce to the Kansas City community and voters (without offering one iota of proof) that the 2016 light rail initiative was "likely illegal" and thus could be repealed if approved by voters? And do you think that lie provided "benefit to the entire community"?
And where is Kansas City's news media, who should be asking these questions? Forget the Star, it is no longer "a paper for the people," rather a paper that seeks to control the people, push a liberal-oriented agenda and treat the people like mushrooms... keep them in the dark and feed them manure.
And speaking of the Star, here are two recent examples of the Star's on-going role in trying to turn the people against me by making me look crazy and unstable...
(1) Star reporter Tony Rizzo recently wrote a story about my lawsuit against Anne Hodgdon for her Facebook claim I sexually assaulted her 20-years ago. Mr. Rizzo (who never contacted me before he wrote his article) said I withdrew my lawsuit. True. But Mr. Rizzo deliberately failed to report to readers that I did so ON LY AFTER accepting an out of court settlement with Anne Hodgdon! The story made it appear the whole thing was just a slight misunderstanding between two people, we kissed and made up and I merely went overboard in filing the suit.
(2) Star reporter Lynn Horsley recently wrote a so-called news story about my new streetcar initiative in which she mocked me for breaking my word not to bring another "light rail scheme" before voters. The article begins..." Clay Chastain promised this fall that if his November ballot issue failed with KC voters, he was done with his light rail schemes. He also said prior to the light rail election that streetcars were a poor substitute for light rail.'
Does the Kansas City Star and reporter Horsley not understand that a streetcar initiative is not the same as a light rail initiative?
Star reporter Horsley also failed to inform her readers that my new transit initiative is designed to transform the city's traditional streetcar system into a more rapid rail system (streetcars would now be running in exclusive transit greenways separated from traffic) and thus no longer a "poor substitute for light rail."
If Kansas City had another reputable daily newspaper in this town, it would be lonesome.
Clay Chastain...leader of the people's streetcar initiative.
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You decide . . .
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