Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee

  • Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee
    Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee
  • Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee
    Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee
  • Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee
    Councilmembers Apply Pressure on Mayor Lucas to Remove Loar as Chair of TIO Committee

Kansas City Missouri Councilwoman Teresa Loar, who represents the 2nd District- at-Large, came under fire in August for an alleged racist comment she made to her City Council colleague Melissa Robinson who represents the city’s 3rd District.

Loar’s remarks to Robinson were made during a City Council meeting and a video of the City Council meeting was shown as news of the incident was covered on various local news networks. The remarks Loar made to Robinson as Robinson was on the council floor speaking about the KC Pet Project, implied that Robinson was apparently not smart enough to have written the statement from which she was speaking.

Since that time and while Loar later issued an apology to Robinson and other council colleagues during a City Council session, Robinson and two other councilmembers Eric Bunch and Kevin O’Neill on August 18 sent a letter to Mayor Quinton Lucas asking him to remove Loar as chair of the council’s powerful Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations (TIO) Committee because of “her unprofessional, racist and unethical behavior.” Loar is white and Robinson is black.

 

 

 

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