The Funk may be doing a committee shuffle

Does the mayor play musical chairs with the committees every time someone pisses him (or Squid) off?

But why knock a Northlander off a powerful committee? I thought all was sweet with nerdy Johnson when he got on his knees to funkhouser and Local 42 on the MAST fiasco. Putting Riley in place is just weird. I realize that P&Z is pretty much dead because of the economy, so is this dream team afraid of a Riley run for mayor? Are they trying to bring Riley into the failed mayor's fold?
Dear business leaders, you can not sit out this mayoral race. If too many people get in the race our terrible mayor could sneak back in. He will run again. Yes, he will. He is very vain and very arrogant for a loser. Business leaders and everyday citizens must work together, at least during the primary, to insure that funkhouser does not ghoulishly make it into the general election. I am willing to trust business if we have this common goal.

The best way to deal with Funkhouser is for the city council to be united in NOT cooperating with his committee reassignments.

Council members should not be complicit in undermining each other, and each other's districts, especialliy when this move is the result of Jeff Roe's involvement.

Funkhousershould hear 12 "No" responses.

Cookingham, Junior

rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?

Below are the councilmembers who handed out half a million dollars to the developers and consultants of the damn socialist hotel but oppose to fund $200,000 to the program for the city's poor kids- the future of our city.

I am doing a fundraising and will launch a campaign against these puppies of the rich to run for any office in KC and MO.

These puppies are:

Ed Ford, Russ Johnson, Jan Marcason, Cindy Circo

SAVE OUR KIDS,SAVE OUR CITY'S FUTURE

"but oppose to fund $200,000 to the program for the city's poor kids- the future of our city."

The future of your city? Unless they move out of the indoctrination camps (ie KCMO schools) the only future the city's poor kids will have is providing JOCO's fast food restaurants with an ample hiring pool for the foreseeable future.

This mayor is a joke.

Johnson, Circo, Ford, and Marcasson are doing the right thing by not peeing away that 200k. Why not use it to maybe mow the streets or pick up some of the dumping all over the place.

Unlike the majority of those clowns, Johnson and Circo aren't career political hacks who are on their eighth or whatever term in public office.

The last time Funk changed committee chairs he pulled the trigger almost impulsively. This time he is taking his time. Has he learned something or is he using it as a threat or carrot to get something he wants? Or maybe he is dangling it out there as a promise he doesn't itend to keep?

The difference is this time the Funk is being guided by Big Jeff Roe. Everything the Puppetmaster Jeff Roe is doing is with one goal and one goal only... to get his puppet Funk re-elected if at all possible. Not that the Funk ever thought about what's good for the people but now, the indifference to that as well as the single mindedness when it comes to getting re-elected is transparent. It is sort of ironic that the failed and former leader of the Orange Revolution came to power in part by promising to lead a transparent form of government and now the only thing transparent connected to this repulsive loser is his transparent urge to get himself and the Squid another four years in the Mayor's Chair. The internal City audit which criticized him for being resistant and unresponsive is/was yet another reminder of this.

Long live the Orange Revolution, the Orange Revolution is dead!!! You will always be remembered for this Funk... you and the vile Squid. One of the too numerous to mention awful things you perpetrated on those who started out as your supporters.

"Circo said she was asked to come to the Funkhouser home to meet with the mayor, his wife, Gloria Squitiro, and Blackwood."
Nepotism. It's all laid out in the EEOC depositions. Get off your Keister Koster!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

She was also the first to have an office in the West Wing of the White House in addition to the usual First Lady offices in the East Wing.[45][115] She was part of the innermost circle vetting appointments to the new administration, and her choices filled at least eleven top-level positions and dozens more lower-level ones.[116] She is regarded as the most openly empowered presidential wife in American history, save for Eleanor Roosevelt.[117][118]

Some critics called it inappropriate for the First Lady to play a central role in matters of public policy. Supporters pointed out that Clinton's role in policy was no different from that of other White House advisors and that voters were well aware that she would play an active role in her husband's presidency.[119] Bill Clinton's campaign promise of "two for the price of one" led opponents to refer derisively to the Clintons as "co-presidents",[120] or sometimes the Arkansas label "Billary".[81][121] The pressures of conflicting ideas about the role of a First Lady were enough to send Clinton into "imaginary discussions" with the also-politically-active Eleanor Roosevelt.[nb 7] from the time she came to Washington, she also found refuge in a prayer group of The Fellowship that featured many wives of conservative Washington figures.[122][123] Triggered in part by the death of her father in April 1993, she publicly sought to find a synthesis of Methodist teachings, liberal religious political philosophy, and Tikkun editor Michael Lerner's "politics of meaning" to overcome what she saw as America's "sleeping sickness of the soul" and that would lead to a willingness "to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the twentieth century, moving into a new millennium."[124][125] Other segments of the public focused on her appearance, which had evolved over time from inattention to fashion during her days in Arkansas,[126] to a popular site in the early days of the World Wide Web devoted to showing her many different, and much analyzed, hairstyles as First Lady,[127][128] to an appearance on the cover of Vogue magazine in 1998.[129]

Moving Terry Riley forward is a mistake. Nice guy, good heart, but he over does it with personal/political guarantees. On the other side, Russ Johnson, has avoided the heated debates recently. But, I do thin RJ is doing a good job, and trying to best navigate this mayor. TR would be overwhelmed, by stepping into the position anyway. RJ is the best choice.