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Frank White, the former\u00a0Kansas City Royals<\/strong> second baseman who has been Jackson County executive since 2016, was overwhelmingly recalled<\/a> by voters on Tuesday, largely because of That\u2019s a pretty complicated political dynamic, and \u201cvoters want a county executive who will move quickly to fund new Royals and Chiefs<\/strong> stadiums\u201d doesn\u2019t really seem like the message at all, given the sales tax vote results. Unless you\u2019re KSHB-TV, which led its coverage with this:<\/p>\n With Frank White Jr.\u2019s days as Jackson County executive numbered, his successor \u2014 whoever that might be \u2014 faces a tight deadline to try and keep the Chiefs and Royals in the county.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n They do? The article declares that the teams\u2019 stadium situations are \u201cexpected to be settled within the next nine months,\u201d which presumably refers to the June 2026 deadline for the team owners to decide whether to accept $750 million apiece in stadium subsidies from the state of Kansas, you know, the one that was a June 2025 deadline until Kansas legislators decided to give everybody another year<\/a>. At last word, Sherman was still kicking tires to see which county might offer him even more subsidies<\/a> on top of the $700 million being offered by the state of Missouri or his $750 million Kansas offer, so really there\u2019s not much rush here at all.<\/p>\n Which KSHB eventually got around to saying as well:<\/p>\n The Royals haven\u2019t put forth a new plan after the Crossroads plan flopped at the polls. The club has denied multiple requests, including several in recent weeks as the 2025 Royals season came to an end, to speak with Sherman or other club officials for an update.<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to see everybody talking publicly about what the options really are, because I don\u2019t think, as a voter, we know much of anything other than rumors, and we don\u2019t even have very good rumors,\u201d [Kansas City, Missouri voter Sandra] Handley said. \u201cI\u2019d like to see some open discussion about this and some explanation of what\u2019s happening and what the choices really are. \u2026 I\u2019d like to hear from somebody with the Royals about what they\u2019re thinking and where they\u2019re going with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n So maybe it\u2019s Sherman who faces a tight deadline to decide what to do? Leverage<\/a> is so confusing!<\/p>\n White\u2019s successor will be chosen by Jackson County Legislature chair DaRon McGee, who may appoint himself<\/a>, saying that wouldn\u2019t be a conflict of interest and he appoints himself to stuff all the time<\/a>. McGee is memorable for having asked Sherman for Royals tickets<\/a> at the same time he was readying the measure for the sales tax vote, something he also defended as something he does all the time. Conflict of interest is so confusing!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.fieldofschemes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frank White, the former\u00a0Kansas City Royals second baseman who has been Jackson County executive since 2016, was overwhelmingly recalled by voters on Tuesday, largely because of his sub-.300 career on-base percentage anger over rising property tax assessments and a campaign by a dark money group with ties to the construction industry. White had also pushed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2064643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Frank-White-recall-leaves-RoyalsChiefs-stadiums-even-more-up-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064644,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064642\/revisions\/2064644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}his sub-.300 career on-base percentage<\/a><\/strike> anger over rising property tax assessments<\/a> and a campaign by a dark money group with ties to the construction industry<\/a>. White had also pushed back against Royals owner John Sherman\u2019s demand<\/a> for a 40-year sales tax hike to pay for a new stadium \u2014 he offered a 20-year hike instead \u2014 which led to lots of stadium proponents blaming White when voters overwhelmingly rejected the tax hike<\/a> in April 2024, likely leading to the funding of the recall campaign.<\/p>\n\n
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