KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser is famous for driving himself around town in his personal car, an older Toyota Corolla.
In the wake of the move to suspend the city manager, the mayor traveled with security and police in plain clothes are driving him in an SUV.
Funkhouser has used security only rarely.
Once it was because he received threats during the controversy over Francis Semler, a parks board appointee.
Friday, he refused to say whether he had been threatened because of Wayne Cauthen's suspension.
"I'm telling you, I'm not going to discuss it," said Funkhouser.
The mayor would only say that he sometimes has security and it's just more noticeable.
