Mario Vasquez Doesn't Have Much Connection To Kansas City Latino Community

Mario Vasquez Doesn't Have Much Connection To Kansas City Latino Community

And that's a good thing. In fact, most local Latino leaders don't have any connection at all to Mr. Vasquez and that kinda proves that at least "community pressure" didn't help to win his job . . . The reality, he's a favorite of Mayor Q and proved to be an effective way to outsmart his East side colleagues given so-much racially-charged avarice over this jorb. And so . . .Mr. Vasquez doesn't have much involvement in local Latino organization. N…

Mario Vasquez is Kansas City’s New City Manager: Here are Three Key Issues that He Will Confront in the First 100 Days

*Article provided courtesy of The Beacon Kansas City* Josh Merchant Reporter, The Beacon KC Mario Vasquez has become Kansas City’s 16th city manager after the City Council voted 11-2 to approve Mayor Quinton Lucas’s recommendation on Thursday. (Councilmembers Ryana Parks-Shaw and Darrell Curls, both representing the 5th district, were the votes against Vasquez.) The decision came nine weeks after the council suspended — and ultimately fired — fo…