WWJD?

I wonder how receptive LaRaza will be to smartass female journalistas when you Lefty crab lice get your way and the America we used to know has vanished. The only friend the freaks down at the Pitch will have is Godamned Minute Men and Gal types. La Raza...the Race? You really throw in with the best CJ...What..was The Order and The Klan not good enough for you? How you get by pissing in the face of the very people who buy your ads and keep you going astounds me. Whats the La Raza equivalent of Sieg Hiel? If we meet I'd like to know how to adress you.lol kinda

I agree with CJ, dump Semler. I voted for Funkhouser because he offered sound solutions to our cities problems, and he would help out the local economy by getting our priorities straight. I didn't vote for him to "make a statement" on a national debate. If it were just La Raza that had a problem with the Semler appointment I'd understand the Mayor's stubborness, but there are a lot of local citizens that have a problem with it too. Add the NAACP, and countless other future conventions that are watching this situation too, and I'd say it's about time to just get Semler out and move on with our plan to re-vitalize downtown. We've been trying to get our downtown out of third world status for a LONG time, and now we are finally getting closer, making some actual progress towards that goal, and we're going to let something like a Parks Board appointment get in the way? Sounds foolish. DUMP SEMLER ALREADY!!

Where are LaRaza and the NAACP when we really need them? Misuse of public funds has a much greater impact on their constituents than the public stance of a park board member. After all, what is the worst that Semler can do in her position? Keep illegals out of the parks?

In today's world, it is economics that will move disenfranchised people to a higher standard of living. The stale protest of fingering a single, low-level public servant is impotent at best. Why not call out those City Council blacks and Latino members of the EDC Task Force who are not just as loud to demand a transparent accounting of tax dollars spent. We needed these two groups to:

1. Demand public notification of SuperTIFs during the application process.

2. Demand mandatory clawbacks to help taxpayers recover from unrealized projected revenue, especially if the TIF recipient leaves KCMO. Unpaid TIF is made up for by an increase in taxes to cover the loss.

3. Demand for third-party feasibility studies to substantiate or refute claims made by prospective TIF recipients who use outlandish projections to gain large TIF contracts.

4. Set aside a portion of TIF for KC residents who endeavor to become entrepreneurs, especially in the Jazz District. Even if the same monies cannot be available, many of the provisions of TIF should be extended to small business owners who live in KCMO.

I am SO sick of groups like the NAACP using non-impact issues such as this as opportunistic publicity spots. They continue to detract the attention of their constituents from real opponents to our progress. But attacking real opponents to our progress might bite the (corporate and/or organized labor) hand they may one day want to feed them.

Where are LaRaza and the NAACP when we really need them? (Janovy, WWJD? Pitch Sept. 13-19)Misuse of public funds has a much greater impact on their constituents than the public stance of a park board member. After all, what is the worst that Semler can do in her position? Keep illegals out of the parks?

In today's world, it is economics that will move disenfranchised people to a higher standard of living. The stale protest of fingering a single, low-level public servant is impotent at best. Why not call out those City Council blacks and Latino members of the EDC Task Force who are not just as loud to demand a transparent accounting of tax dollars spent. We needed these two groups to:

1. Demand public notification of SuperTIFs during the application process.

2. Demand mandatory clawbacks to help taxpayers recover from unrealized projected revenue, especially if the TIF recipient leaves KCMO. Unpaid TIF is made up for by an increase in taxes to cover the loss.

3. Demand for third-party feasibility studies to substantiate or refute claims made by prospective TIF recipients who use outlandish projections to gain large TIF contracts.

4. Set aside a portion of TIF for KC residents who endeavor to become entrepreneurs, especially in the Jazz District. Even if the same monies cannot be available, many of the provisions of TIF should be extended to small business owners who live in KCMO.

I am SO sick of groups like the NAACP using non-impact issues such as this as opportunistic publicity spots. They continue to detract the attention of their constituents from real opponents to our progress. But attacking real opponents to our progress might bite the (corporate and/or organized labor) hand they may one day want to feed them.

If USA, Canadian, and Mexican politicians & law enforcement entities would enforce immigration & contraband laws already on their books (and citizens of the world would abide by those laws), there wouldn't be any need for a USA minuteman organization patrolling USA borders. Besides, the minutemen are trying to ensure ILLEGAL people are stopped, not people who have LEGAL status to be here.

Im forced to agree with the comments from Legal Citizen. If you are to remove the member of the parks board based specifically on her being or have been a part of the minuteman organization, then it would be for purely political reasons. That would be a sad day. I may be a resident of Kansas but I will be moving to KCMO soon. I have followed Mr. Funkhousers progress and I really think he has the best intentions in mind. I would be disheartened if he were to be influenced by political reasons whereby abandoning what he thought was true, honest and most importantly, fair play. The only just causes for removing this person should be performance based. To remove her based solely on the fact that some organization doesn't like her being a part of another organization would defeat the principles that put Mr. Funkhouser where he is today.

Thanks for something besides bastardizing Mr. Funkhouser. He doesn't deserve all the crap from the Star...it's hard to be a stand up working man of the people. Barnes never did much for anyone but developers or the silver spooners. I think the mayor deserves respect and support, his ideas and hard work are admirable. God Bless Jerry.

do what you belive in show the board out the door and start over. IT seems there against every thing you belive in .

Funkhouser shouldn't aquiesce to the demands of groups like La Raza or NAACP on the issue of his appointment to our Parks Board. NAACP doesn't even belong in the discussion. So what if Frances Semler is a member? Have we forgotten exactly WHY the Minutemen came into being? Semler is a Patriot in a good sense, not a la GWB's definition.

La Raza has some nerve. So they come to KC and throw their money around. Has anyone bothered to discover what their agenda is? Straight from their website: "Private, non-profit, and non-partisan organization focused on reducing poverty and discrimination, and improving opportunities, for Hispanic Americans." What better opportunities than to open the border between America & Mexico! Non-profit? Does anyone know the difference between non-profit and not-for profit? And I guess non-partisan is a sham as well when you consider they're now throwing their weight around and seeking to (adversely) influence our fair city's mayor. DON'T DO IT, FUNK! DON'T GIVE IN TO OUTSIDE INTERESTS! Instead, get the Chamber together, send out your minions and sell the hell outta KC. Don't let this one test stop you in your tracks, and don't give in!