Bob Dyche, challenger for Dawn Kuhn's Ward III city council seat is misleading folks in that ward on his website.
On the page: http://bob4shawneecitycouncil.com/5.html Mr Dyche makes the following statement, concerning Dawn Kuhn, that she:
"Voted against the smoking ban on 3 votes; then voted for it"
That is so misleading that, IMHO it borders on being an outright lie.
Now, let's talk about what happened. The council authorized the mayor to form a task force to look into the smoking issue. That was being done.
One evening, Dan Pflumm walks in and literally (that's right, literally, not figuratively) pulls the Overland Park smoking ordinance out of his back pocket and actually demanded that the council act on it. Mr Pflumm was attempting to circumvent a process that a majority of the council had voted for. He actually wanted Shawnee to pass the OP ordinance with no review by staff, no review by OUR city attorney and no review by the council. This same thing happened two more times, alternatively by Mr Pflumm and Mr Straub.
Did Dawn Kuhn vote against a smoking ban? No way. She voted against a spoiled brat trying to force another city's ordinance down the throat of Shawnee. She voted to preserve the process that the council had placed into being. She voted to preserve the integrity of the council and the city. And, apparently, a majority of the council agreed with her, that the process needed to be allowed to go forward to its conclusion. That we are Shawnee, NOT Overland Park.
After the task force did its job (to include a public hearing), and staff presented various proposals (with OUR city attorney's review), then she voted for what she thought was appropriate.
If Mr Dyche thinks that Ms Kuhn was wrong for her actions, and if he thinks the actions of Pfrick and Pfrack were appropriate then I feel sorry for the voters of Ward III if he was to be elected.
