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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Moderate Kansas Republicans Rebel Against Gov. Sam Brownback

What's the matter with Kansas?

Governor Sam Brownback and Tea Party policies. 

The saner members of the Kansas Republican Party have had it with Gov. Brownback's destructive Tea Party policies:  tax cuts for the rich, no expansion of Medicaid for the poor, and deteriorating public school education, just to name a few.  One hundred plus GOP politicians are backing the Democratic candidate, Paul Davis, for the governorship.

The extremist T-GOPers will ignore this or, as is their usual behavior, blame President Obama for Governor Brownback's policy failures.  But facts are stubborn things, and  these stubborn things  have turned his own party against him.

Here's the report:



More than 100 Kansas Republican politicians and activists Tuesday threw their collective weight behind Democratic governor candidate Paul Davis, a move designed to inspire other rebellious Republicans to action and weaken the re-election bid of GOP Gov. Sam Brownback.

Public expression of support for Davis by Republicans from across the state at a Topeka news conference exposed a new civil war within the Republican Party between moderates and conservatives. The endorsements also reflected Davis' effort to frame his campaign in bipartisan tones.


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The 104-person list of Davis backers included former Senate Presidents Bud Burke, Dick Bond and Steve Morris, one-time Kansas House Speakers Wendell Lady, Jim Braden and Robert Miller, former Lt. Govs. Gary Sherrer and Shelby Smith, former U.S. Rep. Jan Meyers, prior Kansas GOP chairman Bill Falstad, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger as well as national GOP delegates, local school board members, mayors, and city and county officials.

"This election should not be about electing a Republican or a Democrat as governor," Bond said. "It must be about electing a moderate, common-sense Kansan for governor. It's time for us to say, 'Enough is enough.' "

"Kansans know that Sam Brownback will try to distract and mislead throughout this campaign. He wants to blame the mess in Kansas on Barack Obama," Bond added. "From our stalled economy to his ill- advised tax policy to our struggling schools -- to the Kansas drought. But the only person to blame for this mess is Sam Brownback

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Republicans joining Republicans for Kansas Values were motivated by disappointment in Brownback's policies to aggressively reduce state income through tax cuts, withdraw resources dedicated to highway projects, block expansion of Medicaid, undermine judicial independence and resist funding of K-12 public schools.

"The place where many of us see and feel the devastating impact of the Brownback experiment the most is in our public schools," said Carol Rupe Linnens, a former member of the Kansas State Board of Education.


22 comments:

Jerry Critter said...

Sounds like the tea party is the best thing to happen to Kansas Democrats in a long time.

BB-Idaho said...

Brownback is rated-
100% by the Cato Institute
100% by the US Chamber
100% Pro-life. -he is devout
(some say Opus Dei) fundamentalist
and proponent of ID as biological
science. We observe how his naivety is trusting BigBiz to
grow the economy of Kansas has
predictably backfired. (Kansas
prospered under governor Kathleen Sibelius, BTS) Thomas Frank nailed the Kansas electorate as one voting against its own interest.

Les Carpenter said...

How could Kansas be in such bad shape?

Doesn't the Wizard of Oz still have influence? : -)

Infidel753 said...

This is particularly good news since Brownback is perhaps the ultimate representative of the grim totalitarianism that now prevails in the Republican party. I actually first heard of his name due to my interest in medical research.

Back when he was a Senator, Brownback proposed a law which would have not only barred federal funding for somatic cell nuclear transfer and other stem-cell technologies now under development, but would have criminalized work in the field, threatening scientists -- and, incredibly, even patients who later benefited from the therapies thus developed -- with prison sentences. Luckily the bill failed to pass, but clearly Brownback is such a totalitarian that he makes Khomeini and Lenin look like freedom-lovers. I pity Kansas languishing under his Governorship, and congratulate those Republicans who have recoiled from supporting such a monster.

Ducky's here said...

Don't miss Charlie Pierce on this one

okjimm said...

what RN said.....funny!

"This election should not be about electing a Republican or a Democrat as governor," Bond said. "It must be about electing a moderate, common-sense Kansan for governor. It's time for us to say, 'Enough is enough.' "

looks like an outbreak of Common Sense....somebody notify Rush or the CDC or Pat Robertson.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Jerry Critter, a commenter emailed me to let me know your identity was stolen by someone who comments @AOW's blog.

The people who frequent her blog do this all the time. It's some sort of mental problem with those who do this. They come here, steal the IDs of people who comment here, and post them all over conservative blogs.

Dog only knows why these mental midgets do it. I'm guessing it's because they're not smart enough to come up with their own ideas and opinions, so they steal from others.

Sadly, most of the hosts and hostesses of these blogs are suckered into allowing the jerks to get away with it.

They are, remember, FAUX NOOZ followers, and probably believe everything they read on the internet.

okjimm said...

hold it.....you mean....stuff on the internet MIGHT not be true??

ohohoh...an other illusion shattered.

next thing, someone will say donuts and beer are not a good breakfast combination.

sheesh.

Jerry Critter said...

Thanks Shaw. I will wear it as a badge of honor. After all, they must think I have some influence if they want to copy me.

As far as AOW goes, I have no interest in her blog.

Jerry Critter said...

I find it interesting that they would email you instead of emailing me directly. My email is no secret.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Jerry, the person who emailed me brought to my attention another matter and mentioned that you were being impersonated. I told them I'd alert you.

Les Carpenter said...

next thing, someone will say donuts and beer are not a good breakfast combination.

Helps cure the hangover AND gives ya an energy jolt at the same time eh... :-)

Shaw Kenawe said...

I don't know what those poor dear conservatives would do without my blog and the liberals who comment here. They've copied and pasted Dave Miller,and they've impersonated him as well as Liberalmann and they've impersonated me at least nine different times. They are dedicated to my blog and read it EVERY DAY.

Yes, Jerry, it is a badge of honor, since they wouldn't bother doing this to someone who didn't piss them off so regularly.


Shaw Kenawe said...

I forgot to mention that they even do this to people who tend to the right, like RN USA. Les isn't a con-bot, so they don't like his independent thinking. He not on anyone's team, so they trash him

KP said...

I think America (left and right) is going to find out in the midterms how powerful thinkers are.

Pa‘ahana is diligence in Hawaiian.

Not the same as ideology. More closely; hard work.

Les Carpenter said...

Les isn't a con-bot, so they don't like his independent thinking. He not on anyone's team, so they trash him

I'd like to think I'm on Team USA, which is after all the team we all should be on.

Unfortunately political thinking has become so ideological single track and therefore polarized today the attitude is "either you're for us or you're against us." Of course in the eyes of the right autobots to which you refer Shaw this means you MUST support everything or you're are, well you know.

Dervish Sanders said...

Proof that austerity makes for extremely bad economic policy... contrary to what the Conservative Right and Libertarians say.

Les Carpenter said...

Fiscal sanity, fiscal responsibilty, and measured frugality is decidedly NOT bad economic policy.

Jerry Critter said...

"Fiscal sanity, fiscal responsibilty, and measured frugality" mean different things to different people. Without clear, understood, and agreed upon definitions, they are NO economic policy at all. They are simply meaningless buzz words.

Dervish Sanders said...

RN: It certainly could be. It all depends on what is considered "sane", "responsible" and what one is being frugal in regards to. And I'm sure we'd disagree on all three.

Les Carpenter said...

As defined by a dictionary, preferably an authoritive one, not an urban phamplet.

Les Carpenter said...

See above.

However, if you consider sane to be all your views, responsible to be all that you consider responsible, frugal to be what you conside frugal, then yes, for once you might be right. I would disagree. Based of course on your musings, which are numerous and I have read. Now, I realize there is always an outside chance but...