Our TKC blog community believes it's important to offer a quick glimpse of his involvement in this election and recent anti-tax crusades in order to offer a broader perspective on how voting really works in Kansas City and the players who really power the local discourse but mostly go unmentioned in MSM reporting. Klein also has much harsher critics who have attacked his caustic and often abrasive style throughout the course of his activism. Every community should have a Phil Klein." Phil exhausts himself to try to even the score. The 'haves' have more resources to get things done. He spends hundreds of hours, perhaps thousands, to help communities and neighborhoods and businesspeople gain an equal voice with the power brokers who can afford lawyers. In the end, all he cares about is the city. Sometimes his style might rub people the wrong way. But CFRG has subsisted on paltry $20 & $50 dollar donations for nearly half a decade.ġ7-years ago, The Pitch offered the best write-up of the activist and here's the money quote from one of his fans: Compared to the $1.6-MILLION donated by just about every corporation in Kansas City to the "Better KCI (KC3T)" campaign. and a documentary moviemaker but his struggles against Bi-State II, The P&L District and a soccer stadium in Kansas have earned him most of his notoriety.Ĭurrently he has provided most of the funding for Citizens For Responsible Governmentover the past year with middle-class contributions totaling around $55K and probably just a bit more after this airport election is complete.
Phillip Klein earned a name for himself among Kansas City political denizens about twenty years ago as a gadfly of local government overspending.
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