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2023 KCMO Election
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
Add in Wes Rogers for District 2 In-District to this listAlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 4:32 am I did some research on the candidates running for council - here were the best pro-development candidates I found:
Lindsay French- District 2 at-large
She mentions several times on her page about the value of density along transit corridors. Seems very very pro-KC in general as well, no attitude about "the northland/eastside deserves more!" or anything like that.
Darron Story-District 3 at-large (challenging Ellington)
Straight from his site: "We need to focus on urban planning that aligns with our Transit-oriented Development Plan, incentivize companies to locate in our urban core already served by existing transit options and pursue innovative projects that can attract federal funding and the young professionals who will want to live here and help us grow the smart way."
Justin Short- District 4 at-large
Michael Kelley- District 5 at-large
And of course you all know these two
There were other candidates that had potential to be pro-dev but I wasn't fully clear. Some good names up there though.
- normalthings
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
Lucas calls KCTenants out on their “BS” on Twitter.
- im2kull
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
He's now full bore feuding with them. This is excellent to watch.
- Chris Stritzel
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Someone in power needed to call them out. Didn’t think Lucas would be the one to do it
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
They accused him of being bought out by developers for a few thousand worth of donations, so apparently that's where the draws the line. LOLChris Stritzel wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 2:07 pm Someone in power needed to call them out. Didn’t think Lucas would be the one to do it
- AlkaliAxel
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
I know alot of you don’t like Mayor Q but we need him to win re-election. I think he gets it on urbanism now. He’s also done a good job at raising KC’s national profile over his 4 years- he’s on national TV a lot. And if he loses it’s probably to someone much worse.
- normalthings
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I don’t think there are any real opposition candidates. There are potentially better people who could run but no one is running.
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
I could see someone from east side challenging him on "he said he would support us and he neglected us for big developers"normalthings wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:00 pm I don’t think there are any real opposition candidates. There are potentially better people who could run but no one is running.
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
Emphasis on the “real” opposition candidates.
- Anthony_Hugo98
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This entire exchange is making me unreasonably happy. Mayor Q has a pretty solid and agreeable demeanor, so for them to be this aggressively hostile towards him is really hurting what good will they have built.
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Working in Q's favor is that if I'm recalling correctly there's only been one mayor since term limits were enacted who didn't win a second term, and say what you want about Lucas but he's not nearly the disaster that Funk was.
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- AlkaliAxel
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- normalthings
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
KCTenants stoped tonight’s show at the StarLight to protest Mayor Lucas.
https://twitter.com/kctenants/status/15 ... 9ME0uxWOVA
https://twitter.com/kctenants/status/15 ... 9ME0uxWOVA
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
This is example of self defeating behavior, they’re only pushing people away from their message with actions like this.normalthings wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:22 am KCTenants stoped tonight’s show at the StarLight to protest Mayor Lucas.
https://twitter.com/kctenants/status/15 ... 9ME0uxWOVA
- Chris Stritzel
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
What a bunch of losers. Honestly. They’re pissed at the mayor and next thing you know, they’ll have one of their own running for mayor. These types of antics only make people pissed off at them because they’re ruining someone’s night out.
- im2kull
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- normalthings
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
I have yet to see KCTenants counter to the fact they have halted housing construction
- beautyfromashes
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Re: 2023 KCMO Election
Lucas has to take a little heat for engaging and giving KC Tenants the spotlight early in his term. How successfully he marginalizes them will be a metric in grading his second term.