Voice For Liberty

Category: Sedgwick county government

  • Goddard City Website Campaigns for Its Mayor

    For about the last week, the City of Goddard, Kansas, has been using its website to campaign for its mayor in her race for the Sedgwick County Commission. The website, located at www.goddardkansas.us, usually looks like a typical city website, holding general news and information, with links to city departments. But around October 21, according…

  • Marcey Gregory Letter Fact Check

    A letter in the Wichita Eagle on October 26, 2008 contains a few inaccuracies — okay, lies — and I’m surprised it made it past the editors. The Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce has said several times that Karl Peterjohn, in his interview before them, was confused about the Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition and…

  • Marcey Gregory Letter Fact Check

    A letter in support of Marcey Gregory for Sedgwick County Commissioner printed in the Wichita Eagle on October 26, 2008 requires a correction. A lie in this letter is this “… Gregory, as mayor of Goddard, has a record of keeping Goddard taxes low.” The actual record is that in her approximately 1.5 years as…

  • Karl Peterjohn, Lobbyist and Advocate for Kansans

    Karl Peterjohn, candidate for Sedgwick County Commission, is being criticized by his opponent for being a paid lobbyist. It’s a timely slur, as lobbyists are never popular. Lobbying legislators and testifying at the state house is a form of speech that is protected by the First Amendment. Advocacy is one of the ways that people…

  • Karl Peterjohn is not bad for business, after all

    In the story Wichita businesses not leaving home after all, Kansas Liberty finds that criticism of Karl Peterjohn by some Wichita business leaders is a little over-the-top.

  • Karl Peterjohn is Sorely Needed in Sedgwick County

    Wichita business leaders support Karl Peterjohn. The recent opposition by certain Wichita aircraft executives to Karl Peterjohn — a well-respected and strong candidate for Sedgwick County Commission in District 3 — is ill-informed. Peterjohn, an economist by training, has long been an advocate for fiscal prudence and has fought, on behalf of the Kansas taxpayer,…

  • Sedgwick County Employees Grow Faster Than Population

    Here’s a chart that shows the number of Sedgwick County residents for each Sedgwick County employee: Although there have been ups and downs, the trend is that Sedgwick County employee count is growing faster than the county’s population.

  • How are Tim Norton and Marcey Gregory For Low Taxes in Sedgwick County?

    Richard Taylor, President of the Building and Construction Trades Council of South Central Kansas, in a news story stated “Marcy Gregory and Tim Norton are for low taxes and they are for jobs and people.” I don’t know where Mr. Taylor learned about these two candidates, but stating that both are for low taxes must…

  • Marcey Gregory Ad Fact Check

    A recent advertisement by Sedgwick County Commission Candidate Marcey Gregory in the October 12, 2008 Wichita Eagle contained a few points that deserve comment and clarification. First, the ad, as part of a checklist of attributes or characteristics of Gregory, has the item “Lower taxes.” If she’s proclaiming that we need lower taxes, voters only…

  • What Ray Frederick Forgot to Include about Marcey Gregory

    Editor’s note: the original version of this article contained an error in arithmetic, which has been corrected. In Sunday’s Wichita Eagle, Wichita businessman Ray Frederick wrote a letter supporting Marcey Gregory for the Sedgwick County Commission. In listing her qualifications, he wrote “Gregory is for low taxes.” That doesn’t square with Gregory’s recent actions. On…

  • Are airlines pilots the best judge of airline economics?

    I’m not positive about this, but I’m sure that the demand for air travel between Wichita and Oklahoma City is very low. Google maps tells me that the driving time from one city’s downtown to the other is two hours and 30 minutes. The drive to a city’s airport, arriving way early to make sure…

  • Being Open and Transparent: A Sedgwick County Commissioner’s View

    Yesterday (August 27, 2008) I testified briefly at a meeting of the Sedgwick County Commission opposing the formation of a tax increment financing (TIF) district that will benefit a Wichita political insider. My concern that I wanted the commissioners to be aware of is was that the applicant, Wichita school board member Reverend Kevass Harding,…