Regular readers of this site know that we like to check in on Mayor Funkhouser’s blog, Funk’s Front Porch, from time to time to keep up on news and notes from our city’s bearded overlord. We were reading it this morning to get the latest updates on the mayor’s lawsuit when we came across the latest mayoral newsletter, composed by — who else? — pseudo-co-mayor and budding romance novelist Gloria Squitiro. The stuff about the lawsuit is pretty dull (though we find it comical that his “top priority” remains “establishing a good working relationship with the Council,” because, you know, lawsuits are such a great way to do that), but the newsletter does contain one juicy nugget of entertainment. Apparently the parasitic members of KC’s media are cruelly torturing the family dog.
As if it wasn’t enough to question the mayor’s decision to shift City Hall activities to his cozy Brookside bungalow, the media now takes to annoyance of canines? Oh, and pay special attention to yet another passive-aggressive volley from Gloria at the end:
On a More Personal Note:
Funk came home for a meeting on Wednesday to find a Kansas City Star photographer parked in front of our home. Funk knew the photographer as he’s worked with him for many years at city hall. But the poor guy looked sheepish on this occasion as he was following orders to stake out the Mayor’s home and photograph the comings and goings of people that the Mayor was meeting with that day. And then before 7 a.m. this morning a radio reporter pounded on our door, sending pitiable Maria The Poodle into guard-dog fits. Fortunately, they only woke up the Poodle and me as the Mayor was already out the door for the day. Are meetings at the Mayor’s home unusual? No. Funk has been holding meetings here since the beginning of his term in office. It’s just that no one has cared to notice before. Some people have told us that an old-fashioned witch-hunt is going on. We wouldn’t know about that. Call this old-fashioned on our part, but the Mayor just has his sleeves rolled up and his nose to the grindstone, trying to solve the city’s crime, education, housing and transit problems.
Why can’t you just leave poor “Maria The Poodle” alone, dastardly reporters?!? Isn’t it enough that she’s been cursed with a tri-capitalized name? Either way, we’re so very glad that these are the issues drawing the mayor’s attention these days.
