File 05 · The conflicts
A conflict raised in 2011. Another one in 2026.
In 2011 her husband resigned from a nonprofit that took nearly $200,000 a year from the county, after the county attorney flagged the conflict. In 2026 she pursued a job with a company whose multi-million dollar county contract she was a decision maker on. “Anyone could see that is inappropriate and unethical.”
Associated Press, Feb. 8, 2011 · the LeVota letter, page 1
The Conflict-of-Interest Playbook
Once is a mistake. Twice is a method. Three times is a career. Lay the conflicts side by side and the playbook writes itself, get close to public money, get warned, cry persecution.
2011 · Jackson County Legislature
Source: Associated Press, Feb. 2011 · The Pitch
2026 · County Chief of Staff
Source: The LeVota letter, Apr. 2026, read it on this site
Today · Raytown Board of Aldermen
OngoingSource: her own LinkedIn profile · City of Raytown utilities page (Spire is Raytown's gas provider) · LINC Commission announcement, Aug. 2025
2025–26 · Chief of Staff + Raytown Alderman
Source: correspondence on file, full letter to be published
The signature, the same moves, every time
Public money within reach
2011: $200K/yr in county funds to her husband's employer. 2026: a multi-million dollar county contract for her would-be employer.
Warned about the conflict
2011: the county attorney spells it out. 2026: her own boss puts it in a termination letter.
Deflect, never own it
2011: cries political retribution, then admits she has no proof. 2026: private calendar entries, a hidden second Facebook page, then a discrimination complaint the county executive called “trying to build a case for a lawsuit.”
Warned in 2011. Fired in 2026. And the same conflict has sat on the Raytown Board of Aldermen, until her Spire employment ended, on the payroll of the utility it regulates.
Promise vs. Record
Read down the spine: every promise on one side, every documented answer on the other. The gap between them is the whole story.
Campaigning for the county legislature, she makes ethics her brand: "It was very rarely heard that you heard the words 'ethics' and 'county government' in the same sentence. And if you did it was kind of a joke."
Source: KCUR, Aug. 1, 2010
Weeks into the job, the county attorney warns that her husband's employer, a nonprofit taking nearly $200,000 a year from the county, creates a conflict. Her offer to simply recuse herself: rejected. She calls the fallout political retribution, then admits to the Star she has no proof.
Source: Associated Press, Feb. 2011 · The Pitch
A glowing press release welcomes her to the LINC Commission, listing board seat after board seat, award after award. What it never lists: a single thing any of those seats delivered for the public.
Source: LINC Commission announcement, Aug. 2025
Appointed Chief of Staff to the County Executive at $199,000 a year, the salary of someone expected to guard the public's money, not shop for their own next job.
Source: The LeVota letter, Apr. 2026
She pursues a job with CBIZ while serving as "a decision maker" on its multi-million dollar county contract, hidden in private calendar entries and a second Facebook page. The termination letter's verdict: "Anyone could see that is inappropriate and unethical."
Source: The LeVota letter, Apr. 2026, read it on this site
Trusted with the ward's future, its investment, its growth, its voice at City Hall.
Source: City of Raytown
Staff recommends approval. Planning & Zoning votes 7–1 to approve. She tallies the votes needed to bury the Dobbs Tire permit anyway, and supplies one of the three no's herself.
Source: City staff report · Board of Aldermen, Aug. 11, 2026
She answered her dismissal with an official complaint accusing the county executive of discrimination and a hostile work environment. The Star also reports he had told her of an anonymous email accusing her of illegal activity and recommending her firing. Back in 2011 it was a retribution claim she admitted she couldn't prove. Deflect, never own it.
Source: Kansas City Star, Sept. 2, 2026
The ethics reformer of 2010 would recognize the record of 2026 instantly. It's the kind of joke she warned us about.
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