Clay Chastain doesn’t live in Kansas City, but he wants to be mayor

Kansas City’s favorite political gadfly/light rail pusher Clay Chastain doesn’t live here anymore. But that’s not going to stop him from running as a write-in candidate for mayor.

The relentless self-promoter and mass transit disciple, who also unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 1991 and 1999, sent out a press release yesterday that claims a “slew of petition signers” have pleaded with him to return from Virginia, where he lives now, and save Kansas City from itself.