“I’m just interested in a little bit lower, little bit smaller government,” Duffy said. He also said he would like to focus on speeding, “gang activity” and improving sidewalks. “We'll look back into a rule on taxes, trying to lower our mill levy, obviously the housing assessments are problematic as they keep going up,” Duffy said. He also would conduct an audit on the city, which he said he believes would reveal a surplus. “It's an appointed position, and yet he seems to have more power than the mayor, or the commissioners,” Duffy said, “and how can someone that's unelected represent the people in a position? It doesn't make any sense. His agenda, if elected, would include taking a “really close look” at Bach, who holds an unelected position. “The only way to upset the fruit basket is to upset the fruit basket, if you will,” he said. “We need to learn how to love one another, how to be there for one another, you can always learn another lesson,” she said.ĭuffy said his “primary drive” to run for mayor was to do something in the community that politicians haven’t been doing for six decades – “actually serving the people.” “We have a transition team that is prepared to walk in day one, and give to the people of this community what they deserve, and that is love and happiness.”Īdditionally, soft skills are needed in the city, according to Witt. He's passing the wealth in this community to outside individuals, to big conglomerates, to corporate attorneys, to big business… “He has absolutely ripped the heart out of this community.

He's gotta go,” she said of the county administrator. If elected, Witt said she plans to “fire Doug Bach” on her first day in office. Wyandotte County, according to Witt, is “the poorest county in the state” and has buildings sitting empty as businesses like American Dairy and Cerner leave the area. “We have small businesses in Wyandotte County that have packed up and – who are planning on packing up and leaving if we don't get something different,' Witt said. When it comes to the KCK Board of Public Utilities, she said some residents are having their service “turned off for pennies,” while large organizations aren’t paying for BPU bills.

“Our leadership is completely ignoring us.

“We would like to be all warm and fuzzy about it, but there is nothing warm and fuzzy about it,” Witt told KSHB 41 News. Witt said she has been “continually asked” to run for office to give people a voice. The fifth candidate, Tyrone Garner, declined an interview. KSHB 41 News spoke to four of the five mayoral candidates: Alvey, Chris Steineger, Janice Witt and Daran Duffy. 3, in the primary election.ĭavid Alvey has been in office since 2018, and filed for reelection. Five Kansas City, Kansas, residents will vye for the mayoral post on Tuesday, Aug.

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