Pat Gray signs up with Al Brooks

   Pat Gray, one of the best-known political consultants in town, has signed up to work on Al Brooks' 2007 campaign for mayor.

   His frequent sidekick, Steve Glorioso, remains neutral and is still working for Mayor Kay Barnes.

   Gray and Glorioso ran Barnes' two successful campaigns for mayor.

Posted by Steve Kraske

Comments

[BeProudAmerica]

This is good news that Pat Gray won't be running a campaign for Kathryn Shields for mayor. I feel a lot better about the future of Kansas City this morning.

[eric]

So I guess we know now that Al Brooks will have one of the dirtiest campaigns and if he loses it will somehow be St. Louis' fault.

[william]

I guess Gray likes old candidates. He worked for Wheeler and now Brooks.

[Pete]

Barnes is neutral?? She is not going to be for her old Chief of Staff Joe Serviss? I bet Greg Williams on her staff is helping his mentor.

[craig]

Thank God I live in Grain Valley

Alvin is lucky to have signed PatGray. I'd want him as my guy if I was running for KCMO mayor!

Al, unforunately, just sunk himself.

[KCHotDog]

What would be the perfect early Christmas gift for KC voters? That's an easy one. Maureen Galey and Chris Werner running Katheryn's campaign. Two losers and a toad. Add in a little Glorioso to provide "expert" advice. Oh, and Mr. Katheryn Shields providing the necessary sleaze, mud slinging and character attacks on Al Brooks. Sometimes dreams do come true. Santa, are you listening?

[George]

Where is KC Cicero? One wonders if the self-annointed "Great One of KC" must be busy this morning, (or off sputtering to himself in a corner)? Otherwise, Himself surely would be blogging away on this thread, misleading us about the obvious as usual. I miss him.

[concernedkccitizen]

It is interesting that Pat Gray would commit this early. Al Brooks does some good things but do people know that he makes over $100,000 working for Move-Up and he did not report this on his Missouri Ethics Financial Disclosure form from 1999 to just recently.The only thing he reported was his Council salary. Polls show that people like Al but when you switch that to being Mayor they are soft. But Pat will start his dirty campaigns against everyone else soon and try and change that. It is surprising since Pat's good buddy Joe Serviss is thinking of running and his other good buddy Kathryn Shields is thinking of running. I guess Pat feels he can make more money from Al. Oh well, Pat has a good record with bond issues but not so good with candidates recently. This should be an interesting season in the City.

[marty]

Al Brooks will be a very strong candidate and with Pat Gray experience in city politics, its a sure bet he will make the runoff and win. Say what you want about Gray his track record in city races is very good . Also dont think he made this decision without a very good poll .

Mr. Brooks is now a lock to win the runoff and is overall the #1 candidate in the mayors race.

[arewethereyet]

Pat Gray and sidekick may be with Brooks NOW, but if a better candidate comes knocking on his door, you bet your boots he'll jump ship. Many candidates hire him so they don't have to fight him. Who ever Gray is working for I am working against. As for the Brooks candidacy, well Mr. Brooks is a very nice man. But the baggage from his long years will come out. He will end up like Wheeler. Hopefully his image will not be as tarnished. With the large population shift to the North and Freedom Inc's lack of real power, this race will be a hard ride for Brooks.

[Dan]

I like Mr. Brooks very much, but hiring Gray doesn't exactly reflect well on him in my book. I think Brooks has done great work in the community in the past, but probably isn't the person to be mayor. I follow the city council meetings on occasion and, other than that crime commission, I can't think of anything government-related he's actually done for the years he's been there. Same goes for just about all the candidates on the city council. Brooks shouldn't get a pass just because he's been a decent activist...

[BeProudAmerica]

Just curious, can anyone point to specifics about Gray's 'dirty tactics'.

I hear people say that all the time, but I don't see any substance to back up the statements?

Basically I am trying to determine how much is 'dirty tactics' and how much it is 'sore loser'.

[concernedkccitizen]

Be Proud America you got to be kidding. Go back in hisory to the late Dick King's race for Mayor. He and Pat Gray got in an argument, Pat left his campaign for Brice Harri's and that became one of the dirtiest campaigns in recent history. Ask the many candidates who have had one of Pat's last minute mailings against them. Today, the only one that does better at it may be Jeff Row. Be Proud America you must be a political rookie around this town. Pat did not get the title of Darth Vader for nothing.

[BeProundAmerica]

I have only lived in Kansas City for 6 years so I don't know about the Dick King race.

You pointed out two instances

1) The Dick King race which I will check into. - I could be wrong but from the tone of your comment, it sounded like the tactics were dirty from both sides?

2) And last minute mailings against a canidate - How is that dirty or different than any other campaign around town???

[George]

Where is KC Cicero?

It\'s been almost 24 hours since this bombshell was posted about Brooks signing up with Pat Gray, and still nothing from Philip the Cardarella? Which candidate loses the most from this little announcement? Of course, it\'s Katheryn Shields. But still... where is KC Cicero? At this point, I have to assume whimpering in a corner, muttering about stupid peons who won\'t listen to the enlightened ones, the intelligencia, the chosen.

It\'s always someone else\'s fault.

[John]

Everyone knows Charles Wheeler runs his own campaigns and is notorious for thinking he's the smartest person in the room. Werner and Glorioso were pleading to Wheeler to go negative but were rebuffed by the Senator. Glorioso's credentials are well known and Werner ran the North side of Chicago for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama so they both have immeasurable talent. You can't do much when the candidate refuses to let you operate. I could only imagine what these two would have done to Sanders if the handcuffs were taken off them.

[get real]

John the only handcuffs wheeler had were his own voting (or lack there of) records

[JT]

Has anyone seen any polls? The important question is who will the voters trust.

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