KMBC Channel 9's Micheal Mahoney reports that the effort to recall Kansas City's oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser has come up short.
Mahoney's super-secret sources tell him that the recall "fell a couple hundred signatures short." The recall group needed 16,950 signatures from Kansas City voters.
The results will be announced later Saturday afternoon.
The recall group had predicted victory earlier this week.
In his "State of the City" speech, Funkhouser said: "I know that there are some people who wish it were my last, but let there be no misunderstanding, I will be giving my third 'State of the City' address this time next year."
Not sure what type of legal challenge the recall group could mount, but I'd bet they'll seek a recount if Mahoney is right.
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It's like 1998 all over again. The script never changes:
1) progressive (or at least more so than the alternative) politician seeks and wins office
2) progressive (OALMSTTA) politician tangles with entrenched pro-development elite interests by attempting to impede, however slightly, the fleecing of the public
3) pro-development elite interests respond by jimmying up bullshit "scandal" of some sort, which is then
4) eagerly flogged by media, because let's face it: scandals, even phony ones, draw a lot more public interest (and resulting advertiser dollars) than straight reporting.
And so it goes.
I'll go out on a limb here and predict that should the recall be successful, Kansas Citians will be every bit as happy with their new mayor as Californians have been since they tossed out Gray Davis for Ah-nuld. After a short honeymoon, it will be back to business as usual.
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