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Two of the three candidates called Brooks were defeated.

Funkhouser said government of the people, by the people, for the people, was "not just good rhetoric, but a damn good idea" in his victory speech.

He said his opponent always has had the best interests of Kansas City at heart.

Almost an equal number of civic-minded residents care about heart as do care about logic.

The city's slim majority selected someone non-native to this city to lead it.

Personally, I think it was an interesting tactic for him to state at a forum both his starting salary as our city auditor and what it was 18 years later when he retired - the same information anyone hiring someone would have at hand from their application.

People like to be told true things upfront without having to dig for them.

I guess this place is still to be a "tale of two cities," although maybe one half can be joined with the other.

I found out that my neighbors downstairs don't vote because they can't or haven't tried to reinstate their rights (post justice system participation issues). But, if a former prostitute can do it, so can they!

My other first-floor neighbors can barely walk and need to learn how to do absentee by mail.

A bit of work cut out for me for the summer. . .I think we're voting next in renewing PIAC.

PS - Saundra McFadden-Weaver, finally! Maybe people are waking up. . . .or, perhaps they figured that since Troy Nash was out, why not start all over with two newbies (though certainly both no strangers to state politics). . . .

. . . anyway, to all of you - I better not be disappointed this time.