No, there will not be a shootout on Shawnee Mission Parkway. No gunfight at the OK Corral. No guns blazing. No standing at the train station waiting for the bad guy to arrive.
That is the deadline for candidates to file for next year's municipal election.
Now some folks would say that that is almost nine months away. That is really not that long. Especially when one considers that four of the current council members are up for reelection (should they choose to run again). And, in my opinion, three of them need to be voted out if they do run. That is why I'd like to see 3 viable candidates file for those spots.
Ward 1: Ahhh yes..........Dan Pflumm. Fact.........when he ran for mayor he got tromped. The voters in his own ward handed him a resounding no confidence vote for his bid for mayor. Can he be an effective representative for them? Does he truly care about representing folks or is it all ego with this man?
Ward 2: Frank Goode has served the city for over 30 years. It's time for Frank to take a break. For quite some time now a variety of his actions and comments at council meetings have some folks wondering what he is thinking.
Ward 3: All one has to do is to attend a council meeting and they can find out for themselves why this person is the closest thing to being the class clown of this governing body. Most recently his wasting the council, the public and staff's time over the "rubber froggies". His recent second, that's right, second, (and very solid) defeat for De Soto USD 232 school board might just be a wake up call that his days as an elected official are numbered. If he is smart he won't even run for reelection.
