A pesar de su falta de entrega de juegos de azar a sus columnistas de periódicos favoritos, el senador estatal del condado de Platte, Tony Luetkemeyer, continúa estando en el radar de la oficina estatal. El Missouri Times recientemente colocó a Tony como "el primero en salir de la banca" en su clasificación de republicanos y carreras estatales que se acercan en 2024.
The Times informa que el equipo Tony tiene $955,466 a la mano con su comité de acción política que tiene otro cambio de $309,202 disponible. Eso le comprará a su perro Truman mucha comida para perros. The Times menciona a Tony como un candidato potencial a fiscal general, lanzando su sombrero como candidato a la Corte Suprema de Missouri o simplemente sentado, contando su dinero y esperando que se abra la oficina estatal adecuada.
They didn’t say anything about “counting his money,” I added that part, but somebody’s gotta count it and Truman doesn’t have thumbs.
En el lado demócrata, el Times clasifica al alcalde de Kansas City, Quinton Lucas, como su número 2 desde el banquillo. Informan que el alcalde Q tiene $706,186 disponibles después de recaudar $1,081,161 en el último ciclo antes de pasar a otro mandato como alcalde. El Senado de los EE. UU. sigue siendo el camino previsto para Lucas, donde sería un desvalido pero dejaría la carrera con un perfil nacional, independientemente del resultado.
The Times destaca su destreza para recaudar dinero y tener el "mayor carisma" en el partido como atributos que podrían llevarlo de alcalde a una posición estatal.
I feel like reporting on players coming off the bench is something I am well qualified for, which is why Foley assigns me these tasks. I was third or fourth off my JV basketball team bench, depending if eight or nine players showed up. I’d like to remind you though that I once scored 10 points against DeKalb in 1982 in a hotly contested JV matchup. I’m no Scott Wedman, but I could ball on occasion.
Q and Tony could make it rain with that kind of cash. I’d like to get those guys together and we could throw some $1 bills around and talk about police funding and stuff. That’d be fun.
I got my city fix in last week. Took the streetcar for the first time and went down to the NFL Draft setup prior to its opening. Speaking of money, the NFL apparently has a bunch of it because they built an entire city within the city and then just packed it up and went home. The entire thing impressed me. I’m still a little streetcar skeptical of the cost benefit, but Kansas City really did shine and it was an incredible national showing. There were a ton of pretty people in town and they seemed to enjoy it, and so I’m assuming we can call it a success.
Just so you don’t think I’m getting weak kneed with Kansas City pride, I will remind you that Kansas City Fraternal Order of Police President Brad Lemon tweeted out these stats last week: “KCPD’s full staffing is 1412 sworn officers, but today we have 1090 officers, 322 fewer than needed. With a decrease of 23% sworn staffing and 55-year low KC now has 57 homicides, a 24% increase over 2020 which was the most deadly year in our history.” That’s probably not good, no matter how many NFL Drafts that the city hosts, but I’m not an expert, seek your own opinion.
(Guy Speckman can be reached a gspeckman@me.com or offering to count politician’s cash on the weekends)