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Mark Funkhouser

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I grew up in the hills of West Virginia, where my father worked in a chemical factory and my mother was a nurse. I'm the oldest of five siblings. While teaching at Salem College, I met my beautiful wife, Gloria Squitiro. We've been married over 25 years and we have two kids, Tara and Andrew.

I'm the newly elected Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri.

Please visit my Official Campaign Website , and my blog .

Why orange?

My Interests

my children, my amazingly fun & gorgeous wife, politics and government, cities and urban governance, football, basketball, pinball, chess, sitting on the porch with a beer, my wife, and my children's friends, walks, coffee, chuck taylor's, getting back to my roots at our cabin, making my family happy, my wife's cooking

I'd like to meet:

Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton Jane Goodall

Music:

Bob Dylan, John Prine, old time country and western; folk songs, songs my father sang when I was growing up and watching my wife listen to her favorite music, Slick, the Grateful Dead

Movies:

Stuff with Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life

Television:

Football, Basketball, Lost, Everybody Loves Raymond, the news, Becker, Wheel of Torture (this is what we call it) Who Wants to be a Millionaire when it was hosted by Regis Philbin

Books:

Books by Malcom Gladwell, James Carville, The Wealth of Cities, The Work of Nations, Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, Crystal Cave series by Mary Stuart, Robert Caro series, Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man & Reason for Hope, Guns Germs & Steel

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, My father Chester Funkhouser