BARNES GOES BALLISTIC

In yet another episode of Bizarro Kansas City, Mayor 'Briarcliff' Barnes about blew a gasket over the T.I.F. performance audit just released.

Barnes is trying to blame mayorial candidate Mark Funkhouser for HER and the present City Council (Al Brooks included of course) putting the city on the verge of bankruptcy.

In one of the most lack-of-class performances I've seen in years, Barnes has the nerve to tell the citizenry that the audit numbers are WRONG - and that somehow, someway, Funkhouser has manipulated the audit report.

Mayor Barnes- how much of this bullshit do you expect the citizens of this city to believe???

Funkhouser has tried to warn the Mayor and her do-my-bidding City Council (Al Brooks included of course) that they were running the city into financial ruin, but Barnes turns around and draws a line in the sand - and sticks her head right into it.


This mayorial election is all about responsible leadership. Nothing more.

Tax-increment financing (TIF) was originally intended for blighted INNER-CITY areas. Mayor, is your Briarcliff neighborhood inner-city blighted????

Oh, and you are only into us taxpayers for $86 million instead of nearly $200 million?

Al Brooks SAT on that City Council for 8 years and LET his fellow council people do this.

Oh- and what has Mr. Brooks- ON the Council for 8 years now- done about this city's crime rate?

Pontification and candle vigils.

Giving tax monies to upscale developments sure provides a lot of security (police) for the crime-ridden inner-city.

And what are YOU doing about crime Al?