I smell a payoff. I heard Ed was getting tired of being the whipping boy for the Blunt’s and was close to reaching some kind of agreement with Scott Eckersly’s lawyers.

Whatever the reason you can tell Blunt doesn’t care about his public image anymore. Appointing a bigot like Ed “Bunch of Mexicans” Martin to any post is plain crazy. Wonder if he’ll be in jail before his term on the park board expires?

Ed Martin is a joke! I can’t wait until Eckersly’s lawyers have him on the stand sweating through one of his five chins. There should be no place in government for people who have such hostile views towards anyone who doesn’t have blond hair and blue eyes.

Park Board? How replete with symbolism! In Kansas City wasnt there a Park Board appointee - member of the Minutemen- resigned in disgrace? Hmmm, What did he have to say about our friends south of the border?

Only the most intellectually dishonest or completely stupid observer would think that there is not a particular national origin for most of the illegal aliens in the United States. Since Ed Martin did not use a racial slur in his comment, what was it that he said that was so offensive? Are you not supposed to refer to Mexicans as “Mexicans?” How about if he said they were “Swedes?”

Good post sceptical. I have supported Blunt since he ran for Secretary of State and I think Ed Martin and his insane behavior are the reason Blunt isn’t running for re-election. He deserves to go to prison for what he and Rich Chrismer did to Scott Eckersly and I hope he goes their soon!

He has single handidly destroyed the Republican party in this state and he will always be remembered for doing so.

Happy Pants–you and Martin must wear matching Klan hoods and robes and “happy pants” if you think he didn’t mean what he said in a racially offensive way. You really should work through these issues you have over latin Americans with a therapist it is very unbecoming and totally 19th century.

What a comeback for Ed Martin! Relegated to the park board! What an honor for such a dishonorable cuss.

First Jonathan Bunch, the guy Ed fired for sexually harrassing a co-worker, turns up as the ringleader for the new right-wing group that wants destroy our judicial selection process and now this.

What’s next? Will Fred “Fingers” Ferrell be brought on to give taxpayer funded symposiums on how to get away with sexual harrassment for nine months while still getting paid???

Now that he cant help throw Mitt over the 3rd place finish line here, a Park spot isnt all bad for Ed. Higher ups inJeff City have long advocated an Inquisition to to root out “individuals that hang out in Park Mens rooms doing who knows what. Didnt he work for the archdiocese before, too. A perfect match for this key position.

Chad,

Sorry, I didn’t understand the rules. So “Mexican” can be either “racially offensive” or an innocent identification of a person’s country of origin, depending on how you assess the intent of the person that used the terminology? Thank God we have thought police people like you around, to make sure everybody is politically correct. Please know that if I ever refer to you as an “American,” I don’t really mean it as an insult.

Tsk tsk tsk, Oh Happy Pants. You seem to take this racially offensive think SOo personally. Mayhaps you, too were flushed for getting caught?

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