Showing posts with label Is Proposed KC-MO Convention Hotel A Money Pool for Politicians' Friends To Dip In?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Is Proposed KC-MO Convention Hotel A Money Pool for Politicians' Friends To Dip In?. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Is Proposed KC-MO Convention Hotel A Money Pool for Politicians' Friends To Dip In?

A story that appears in today's online edition of THE PITCH and written by David Martin exposes a KC-MO councilwoman's role in getting her friends a piece of the money pie surrounding a proposed 1000-room convention hotel.


Martin's story is about "public-relations specialist Kim Carlos-"  a woman who "advised" (and I can bet you not for free) Cindy Circo's 2007 election campaign to the council.

Carlos drew a $40000 salary for doing (virtually no) PR work for the convention hotel committee- which is chaired by Circo and other KC-MO business fatcats who stand to benefit financially from such a 1000-room monstrosity.


Circo- according to THE PITCH's story "distanced herself" (at finger's length?) from appointing Kim Carlos to do virtually nothing for that $40k- but can we REALLY believe that BS?


CSW has been closely following this convention hotel money-sucking black hole for about the past year.

Strapped KC-MO finances hasn't stopped nearly a million taxpayer dollars from being dumped into this worthless project that will require- even according to THE PITCH's story- "substantial public assistance" i.e. taxpayer-supported corporate welfare.
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