Funkhouser pushes for Kansas City Chamber

The Kansas City Business Journal reports that the future of a Kansas City-specific Chamber of Commerce hinges on the re-election of Mayor Mark Funkhouser.  The Kansas-friendly Greater Kansas City Chamber has consistently endorsed programs that favor the business interests of Kansas at the expense of those in Missouri, most recently and notoriously the so-called PEAK program, which the mayor re-designated as "Poaching Employers Across Kansas City."  If re-elected, Funkhouser will likely lead the effort to create a KC chamber.  If not, it is unlikely that anyone else will.  One suspects too that a Kansas City chamber will not be paying its president $600,000 a year as GKC Chamber did to its past president, Pete Levi.