By JASON HARPER
It's finally happened.
Politicians have run into trouble when their marital indiscretions came to light. But in this city of 450,000, the question is different: Does the mayor love his wife too much?
This is the question posited on Wall-Street Journal's Web site, in an article dramatically headlined Kansas City Gives Mayor's Helpmate the Heave-Ho From City Hall Wife Was an Unpopular Office Volunteer; His Honor Is Suing to Get Her Back by His Side
The piece is a good primer for Americans unaware of the high jinks of KC's uxorious mayor and his peculiar bride. Why, it has it all -- from their galvanizing campaign triumph through the series of embarrassments that immediately ensued: the Honda Civic, the Minutewoman, the prostate-exam Christmas card, Mammygate and so on.
It's all old news to us, of course, but the pictures sure are neat!
The WSJ illustrator was kind to our mayor, thoroughly de-Vulcanizing him. Luckily, the article comes with a bonus shot of Funk and Squit lounging in the den like castaways on a sea of patrician household textures.
And so we turn to you, readers: What is fair Gloria whispering in her true love's ear? Tell us in the comments.
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C'mon Funk, let me tell you some more ways you can embarrass the citizens of Kansas City, lose money, and blow the budget.
It will be so much fun!
Late is bettah than nevah!
�Your blue jeans are giving me blue balls.�
�Does my lacy slip make me look fat or is it your scrawny arse?�
�Betcha can�t guess how many miles of cable it took to knit this sweater?�
�I�m gonna Squit the Funk outta you.�
so did i win?
and good call anonymous, but sometimes an easy target feels good to smack
I'm forgoing your request for quotes for the picture (you're taking aim at an easy target) to point out to Mayor Funkhouser that his Michelle Obama analogy is a poor one, due to the fact that if Mrs. Obama were to be sued as Funk's wife is, it's quite possible congress would have to create a new policy pertaining to volunteers as this city has done. The Funkhousers have the unique inability to ignore the fact that this policy created by City Council was not DIRECTLY aimed (indirectly, certainly) at keeping Gloria out of office, but instead was created to protect the city from future lawsuits of this kind. The Funkhousers mistakenly continue to see it as a personal attack.
I regret having ever voted and supported the guy. I didn't realize I was voting for a couple to occupy the Mayor's office.
"Did you lay out my nightthings?"
"Can I put my feet in your mouth?"
"Do you want to cook dinner, or shall you do it?"
"Did you remember to call the mothership about those malfunctioning slave-droids?"
"I would like to sit on this couch forever, until my skin becomes enmeshed with the fabric."
"Do you love me as much as you will after I tell you that you, along with these reporter-droids, are merely a construct of my mind, which itself is actually a cloud of energy-vapor, floating in a dimension of nothingness?"
"I pooted."
So ya think Cuz is gonna file a formal recall petition? That's AOK, more time with me!
"for years i tried to squeeze in the other end. maybe this one will work better."
i can't stop!
"pssst, funk. maybe if we install some kind of douchebag symbol we could summon alonzo washington to solve KCs crime problems!!"
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