BREAKING: Sanders out as KC mayoral candidate

I didn't think he even resided in KC, I thought he lived in East Jack somewhere.

headway at the county level and he would probably be making a real stupid decision to take on all the ills of KC. It shows that perhaps we have one person who is an actual representative of the people out to make a difference rather than just another politician.

Like Mike or not, the only folks who thought he might run for mayor of KC were at The Star. The City Charter has a residency requirement. Mike is, after all, a lawyer likely to pay attention to such details.

While Georgia might make a dandy First Lady, Mike was eligible to run in KC only in Kraske's fevered imagination.

Maybe we will hear that Mark Parkinson is running next....

Oh yeah, he owes it to many people to stay where he is at. Nothing gets done very well in the county unless they all walk in lockstep.

Legislators already promised their support to Sly James for letting them off the hook for the Ethics Complaint. If Sanders would have run for mayor, he would not be able to get the endorsements needed and the STAR would have been left holding the bag for running the stories trumpeting "ALL IS WELL IN JACKSON COUNTY".

Apart from all of that is that Callahan has decided to remain in his role as State Senator or he is sand bagging it hoping that McCaskill will get tapped for some slot in the Obama adminstration.
BOBZILLA

Based simply on who would be the most qualified mayoral candidate, Mike Sanders is far and away better than anyone who has been mentioned thus far. Its too bad we can’t have someone of Mike’s caliber as mayor. He would have made a dandy one. BTW, Funkhouser is at the bottom of my list.

I know there aren't any real journalist's at the Star, but could they at least hire someone who could read a map? Sanders has lived in Eastern Jack for as long as anyone can remember.

We need to get Funk out of the mayor's office before the election. I can foresee a really scary scenario in which Funk actually gets elected.

With so many potential candidates in the race, it could easily come down to a Funk vs. Terry Riley general election. Riley has the name recognition and if the black community unites behind him and Funk has enough support in the Northland to survivor the primary, it comes down to a "who do the white voters dislike more" election. Now toss in campaign strategey a la Jeff Roe and we could see one of the dirtiest, most racial divisive campaigns KC has ever seen.

I'd probably write in "the Green Power Ranger" if those two were my only choices.

Or Clay Chastain, or any other person who doesn't live here. Did you really write this and did Funkhouser laugh when he called to give him the news? Sure, he's a good candidate but HE DOESN'T LIVE HERE