Strong stance puts mayor in new light
By MIKE HENDRICKS
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/264110.html

Technically, it’s not blackmail that La Raza and the NAACP are engaged in as they try to force Frances Semler from Kansas City’s park board.

The precise term is coercion.

Let’s use it in a sentence: “The two human rights groups are trying to coerce the mayor into dumping Semler by threatening to cancel their Kansas City conventions at a loss of millions in tourism dollars.â€