Mike Burke vs. Sly James: How will it go when it inevitably goes negative?

The next month will be chock-full of cordial lawyer-on-lawyer action, if you believe this morning’s predictions about the upcoming campaign to become Kansas City’s next mayor. Mike Burke, development lawyer, and Sly James, personal-injury attorney, are apparently friends and are basically vowing to keep the rhetoric rational between now and March 22.

“You’re going to see an unprecedented dialogue,” political activist and Burke supporter Mary O’Halloran told the Star’s Steve Kraske. Somehow, though, I have to believe these guys end up throwing some ‘bows.