Nieman Road Signage - Deplorable

 After many years of delays, millions of dollars spent, tens of thousands of residents and visitors inconvenienced this is the signage that appears at Nieman Road and Shawnee Mission Parkway.  Photos were taken today but the signage has been there for quite some time now.

Who approved it?  Somebody had to sign off on it.  I would have asked our overpaid neophyte city manager but he has a history of not responding with clear, specific answers.  Tijuana two stepping is his modus operandi.

Anyway, here are the pics, day and night.  You can click on the images below to load a larger view.

Note that in the day image, from a distance, it is difficult to read "Shawnee".  Try it for yourself.  Drive by and see if you can read it clearly.

The evening picture is wild.  Those LEDs look like a bad string of Christmas tree lights.  One member of the community told me he thought that it looked like the wording on a marquee for a gentleman's club.  Check it out for yourself some evening.

Day image:

Evening image

Hillary Clinton Disgusts Me

 I've been holding back, but something that came up today could not be ignored.  Hillary Clinton has said on her podcast that the thought of Trump winning reelection made her sick to her stomach.  Well Hillary, the thought of you ever being President of this country is a horror film.

Hillary Clinton, who didn't care about our guys in Benghazi.

Hillary Clinton who told State Dept employees they could not use private emails for government business and then did it herself.

Hillary Clinton who used that private email for classified documents.

Hillary Clinton whose campaign paid for a phoney dossier that resulted in a multi year and multi million dollar investigation that proved absolutely nothing (except that Trump did NOT collude with Russia)

Hillary Clinton who has spent the better part of the past four years undermining the President instead of trying to work with him and who has blamed everybody but herself for losing the election.

Below is a list of names of the individuals who lost a presidential election since 1952 (the earliest one I can remember).  There is only one name on the list that has spent the time after the election belittling and denigrating the individual who won.  That name is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

1952 - Adlai Stevenson

1956 - Adlai Stevenson

1960- Richard M. Nixon

1964 - Barry M. Goldwater

1968 - Hubert H. Humphrey

1972 - George McGovern

1976 - Gerald R. Ford

1980 - Jimmy Carter

1984 - Walter Mondale

1988 - Michael Dukakis

1992 - George H. W. Bush

1996 - Bob Dole

2000 - Al Gore

2004 - John Kerry

2008 - John McCain

2012 - Mitt Romney

2016 - Hillary Rodham Clinton

 

Jeff Meyers - King of Nepotism - Bad for Shawnee and the County Commission

 Jeff Meyers is running for County Commissioner in JoCo to represent mostly Shawnee.  He does have name recognition.  Former council member, mayor and football coach.

He has also shown a proclivity to engage in nepotism, not always in the best interests of the citizenry.

As the result of a vacancy created by a resignation on the Shawnee city council various individuals applied for the position.  The position eventually went to Alan (Jeff Meyers' uncle by marriage) Willoughby.  The circumstances behind  Willoughby's appointment met with a scathing rebuke by the JoCo DA.  You can read about it here from a posting on January 30, 2013 which also includes a link to an article from the Shawnee Dispatch (yepper it is still up there).

Eventually Uncle Alan actually ran for the office and was defeated.  OK, then what?  An opening occurs on the city's Planning Commission.  Enter his cheerful nephew (by marriage) who appoints Uncle Alan to the Planning Commission.  the appointment has one stumbling block.  The council votes to a 4-4 tie on the appointment.  So, what does Meyers do?  He breaks the tie and Uncle Alan winds up on the Planning Commission.  You can read more about it in this post from December 10,2013

In November of 2014 Meyers was fired as the football coach at Olathe East when his team had their first losing season in 15 years.  Huh?  Fifteen years of winning seasons, lose one season and get sent packing.  And he then wound up in the Independence, Missouri school district.  Something does not seem right here. Really strange after all of those winning seasons.  By the way, did/does any of his campaign literature mention the time spent in Independence.  Anyway, his firing from Olathe was reported by the KC Star on November 25, 2014 and can be read by clicking here.

Anyway. methinks the folks of Shawnee would be best served by voting for Rob Patterson, a small business owner who knows what it takes to make things run. Especially in these trying times.

5700 King Street Apartments, Constance and Chalfie.......Something Strange

 Strange things happening regarding the apartment building development for 57th & King.

Where do I begin?  First, the project was to come before the council on 9/28/20.  A request to postpone it for two weeks came about because Council Member Jenkins was undergoing surgery.  Surprise, surprise, it never did show up on the agenda 2 weeks later (10/12/20) nor is it on the agenda for four weeks later (10/26/20).  Why not?

Now let's look at some other interesting items relative to that project.  Many folks who live in the area of the project are not happy with it.  One of the things that they tried to do was to get Council Members Lindsey Constance and Jill Chalfie involved with their cause.  I recently found out that four (4) meetings with them were cancelled because one or the other could not make it.  They (the council members) had a requirement that they had to appear together and this finally happened last week.  Huh?  Constance and Chalfie would only appear if they could do it jointly?  Many times various members of the council have met with citizen groups without a requirement that another member be present.  This just solidifies, IMHO, that these two are joined at the hip and that Chalfie cannot act independently.  Is she a puppet for Constance?

Now, back to the delays of the vote on the council for this project. I can just guess as to why it has been postponed.  If the vote had been taken 10/12 or 10/26 and Constance had voted for it (Chalfie will mimic Constance), the folks in that area would have most likely voted against her candidacy for State Senate.  Hmmmm, would that have an effect on that candidacy?  Did somehow Constance get this item postponed until after the election?

I don't know.  Right now it's speculative.  But, if I lived in that area I wouldn't trust Constance to represent me in the State Senate.  The 10th State Senate District encompasses virtually all of Shawnee and a small segment of Merriam.  As a matter of fact, I don't live in that area and I still don't trust her to represent me in the State Senate.  I classify her as part of the Democrats/Socialists movement out to destroy our country from within. 

Edited 11/5/20:  When I said I did not live in that area, I was referring to the part of Shawnee where the apartment project is being proposed.  I most certainly do live in Shawnee and within the boundaries of the 10th State Senate District.

One Half of Shawnee City Council Ignores Their Responsibilities

 I previously posted about this on August 30th, 2020.

Below is a copy of an email I sent to the governing body on 10/6/20.  You will note that it references a previous email from 9/28/20.  It is pretty self explanatory.

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Mornin’

On 9/28/20 I sent an email covering two items.

One of the items is listed below.

How about an answer?

Council meetings

If folks can still go to city hall for council meetings why can’t “business from the floor” be brought back into the agenda?

More importantly, when are we going back to in person council meetings?  Like OP, Lenexa, Olathe, and the BOCC?  Five on the dais, (Thomas, Jenkins, Mayor, Knappen and Chalfie, with or without movable barriers)  four at tables in front of the dais. City manager and city attorney in the gallery, where they belong.  Staff should be able to figure this out.  Instead of making excuses as to why it can't be done how about finding a way to do it?  Just gave you a starting point.

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Other citizens have given info on how the necessary electronic hook ups could be done.  But staff should be able to figure that out

So, what do we have?  We have:

The "good":  The four council members who show up willing to be a true city council.  These are Eric Jenkins, Mike Kemmling, Tammy Thomas and Kurt Knappen.

The "bad":  The four council members and the mayor who still sit out at home using Zoom.  Matt Zimmerman whose specialty seems to be to lecture the other council members with an arrogance reminiscent of former council member Jeff Vaught.  The difference?  Zimmerman does it in a softer speaking tone.  What a rip off!!!  Lisa Larson-Bunnell...............whose hypocrisy on this item has already been covered in another post.  Lindsey Constance........a little bit of two faced actions.  Can't bring herself to show up at city hall for a meeting but wants to be a state senator where they have been meeting in person.  A poor choice as a council member, an even poorer choice to be a state senator.  Jill Chalfie whose only claim to fame appears to be as a puppet for Constance.  The mayor?  All kinds of excuses.

The "ugly":  The over paid frat boy city manager Nolan Sunderman who can't seem to advise the council on how this can happen.  What are his underlying motives?

Election Choices for 11/3/20

These are my choices.  Some of them I will go into detail in specific posts within the next few days.

President/Vice President:  Donald Trump/Mike Pence

US Senator:  Roger Marshall

US Representative:  Amanda Adkins

KS Senate-District 10:  Mike Thompson

KS Representative Dist 17:  Kristine Sapp

KS Representative Dist 18:  Cathy Gordon

KS Representative Dist 23:  Jeff Shull

KS Representative Dist 39:  Owen Donohoe

District Attorney 10th District:  Steve Howe

County Commissioner Dist 2:  Rob Patterson

Sheriff:  Cal Hayden