This is an opinion piece that contains news, and cites. Also, all Republicans are not Magas, but they’re still Republicans. This is important.
Snippet (it’s not a long piece, and it’s full of info.)
Let’s be clear about what Kansas Republican legislative leaders are doing with their planned overhaul of budgeting: They are launching a personal and political power grab against Gov. Laura Kelly.
They have never accepted or respected her mandate. Despite Kelly winning a second term and having two years left to go, they have continually attempted to usurp the executive branch’s authority. They have tried a constitutional amendment and prohibiting her ability to negotiate Medicaid contracts. Now they’re going after her yearly state budget proposal.
Usually, the Legislature begins its yearly budget process with a proposal from the governor. Her office submits it when lawmakers arrive for the annual session, in January. Now an interim committee wants to start the process earlier, as soon as October of the previous year.
In this new process, the governor’s budget would be a suggestion, not a starting point.
And never mind that it’s a direct attack on Kelly. House Speaker Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, assured the audience that these changes had nothing to do with the governor.
“This process has nothing to do with the governor,” he said at the meeting earlier this month, according to Kansas Reflector reporter Tim Carpenter. “If you’re going to focus on the governor, probably not the wisest thing to do, because this process has happened over time with many, many different governors.”
He was contradicted by Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, who let the proverbial cat out of the figurative bag.
“You’ll have a Republican governor, for example, or somebody you trust, and you trust the administration to build the budgets, and then you kind of rubber stamp stuff,” Masterson said. “And, then, you switch, and you have (the) opposition party and then there’s all that same power.”
Oh. So it’s like that, then.
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I think what appalls me the most is their blatant disregard for the constituency ion their quest to destroy anyone or anything that opposes their own views. Keep on defecating on the voters and eventually you will lose your job. sheesh
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Eventually, yes. It sure takes a while in this state, though! It’s as if voting R is genetic here (I was born in Northern Illinois.)
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I was born and raised in northern Va…lots of military and embassy kids all around me. Mostly independents instead of right or left voters. the inability to debate without violence or name calling was actually taught to us by parents and teachers alike. So I find it difficult to understand HOW the far right or far left can take a stand and never move from it. compromise seems to be a dirty word to them. Where I live now, I’ve found about 1/3 of the population is capable of compromise but there’s a really loud 1/5 that simply can not and makes life difficult for everyone else.
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🙂 I worked on a Dem party platform committee one time, this committee being charged with producing an equality plank to the state party platform. There were 3 of us,. another woman, myself, and a gay man. Each of them wanted some specific items, phrased specifically, and were trying to work out how they each could have what they wanted. The additional monkeywrench was, there is a limit to how long a plank can be, and how many words. Don’t ask me who made that up!
So, I’m at least 10 years old than either of them, first, and have been awaiting woman equality far longer than they (not to mention watching nobody get very far in truly being equal to white straight men,) and had learned some about working with people who don’t want to do things. I ventured in, saying, “How about we word it for general equality? The point is that we each and all want to be equal with all the other people. We could fit that into a plank easily, and it will pass. If it’s obviously in favor of equality for every human, no Dem will not vote in favor.”
Well, I was thanked for my input, and they gave me a page to edit and make more brief while they argued their positions with each other. It turned into a cat fight, culminating in their decision to ask for a bigger plank (sometimes that can happen, if another plank elsewhere is shortened.)
So, of course the answer was no, and we ended up having to wait for the next convention to get an equality plank in. I’m not aware if we ever got that done. A Black legislator, who’d been in office for years and years and had age on all of us, then said, very kindly as wise people do, for us to look at a bigger picture-full equality for all people-to get a plank.
I was disappointed about the plank, but humbled and encouraged at the same time. Party work could be gratifying, sometimes. But one burns out. I also don’t get why the greater good doesn’t come out over and above everything else.
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