Kansas has the country’s second-slowest GDP growth rate
(0.4%) for the three years ending 2015, and is one of just nine states to
actually have negative GDP movement between Q4 2014 and Q4 2015. Unemployment
is low, but job growth has been anemic. Tax collections have fallen short of
projections in 22 of the 30 months ending this past May, prompting deep and
sudden spending cuts in everything from highway infrastructure to education. A
bipartisan coalition of four former Kansas governors is even
raising money “to help educate Kansas voters about the destructive
policies of Sam Brownback and his supporters in the Kansas legislature.”
I see not much has changed. Bless that link in the pasted piece, tho.
Four former Kansas governors and other state leaders have
announced an effort to raise money to oppose policies and laws created in
recent years by Gov. Sam Brownback and the Kansas Legislature.
The Save Kansas Coalition, which sent out a news release
Friday, includes former Republican governors Mike Hayden and Bill Graves, and
former Democratic governors Kathleen Sebelius and John Carlin.
The group also includes former Kansas Senate presidents Dick
Bond and Steve Morris, and other political leaders past and present. Another
member: Barry Flinchbaugh, a professor emeritus at Kansas State University who
has helped write national agriculture policies.
The group issued a public statement on Friday, asking for
money “to help educate Kansas voters about the destructive policies of Sam
Brownback and his supporters in the Kansas legislature.”
And the criticism of this group:
Graves doesn’t even live in Kansas anymore, said Kansas
House Speaker Ray Merrick, R-Stilwell.
“So he ought to be quiet.”
Good Lord, why would he not want to live there?
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