Minutemen Controversy Raises Questions of Clarity and Transparency – Kansas City

At first, I just wanted the saga of the grandmother Minuteman member to go away.

I knew early on that this story was bad news. It had the potential to bring negative publicity for my hometown of Kansas City. It promised undue publicity to the Minutemen organizations. And I could see it becoming so mired in emotion that the very real issue of immigration reform would be sideswiped.

All that and more happened when the cycle of news began to unfold. It began in June, after Kansas City’s mayor appointed a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps to a prominent city board. The appointment, and its aftermath, seeped into the pages and Web site of The Kansas City Star. It has been quite a ride, with challenges for nearly every section of the newspaper.”*

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