Mayor Mark Funkhouser released this statement Saturday night on the results of the recall effort:Every day since I have been elected has been a challenge. Every issue I have tackled has had opponents. As I said in my State of the City Address, change is hard. My critics, the organizers of this effort, clearly do not like the status quo being challenged. But that is the reason I was elected to begin with. I plan to continue carrying out the agenda I laid out in the State of the City.To those of
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 pe
From left: Shawn McVicker, Matthew Cunningham and Vincent WainrightThursday was day two of community activist Rachel Riley's three-day camp out in front of City Hall. About a dozen people held signs, grilled food and talked about the city's violent, crime-infested east side.
