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Nov

Kansas economy debated in Wichita

Last Thursday at a meeting of the City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers Association of Kansas, the effectiveness of the federal economic stimulus and the Kansas economy were discussed. Americans For Prosperity National Director of State Operations Alan Cobb and Kansas Secretary of Revenue Joan Wagnon were the participants, with Dale Goter, Wichita Governmental Relations Manager, as moderator. Wagnon started the debate by reciting the distress that the economy has experienced over the past year. She said that these conditions said to the new president "You need to do something." She said that about 10,000 jobs were picked up in…

Apr

By Bob Weeks

Steineger responds to critics. They’re not persuaded.

Kansas State Senator Chris Steineger, a Democrat from Kansas City, has reached out to the "other side" several times this year. He spoke at Americans For Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Wichita in January (see Kansas Senator Chris Steineger on Redesigning Kansas Government.). On April 15, he spoke at the tea party protest in Overland Park. Kansas blogger Jason Croucher in his Kansas Jackass post KS-Gov: Chris Steineger Takes in a Tea Party, mildly criticized Steineger for his tea party appearance. The comments left to this post, however, were vicious. Today Croucher publishes a message from Steineger in…

Feb

By Bob Weeks

Steineger introduces Kansas county consolidation bill

Kansas Senator Chris Steineger, Democrat from Kansas City, has introduced a bill whose aim is to reduce the number of counties in Kansas. The bill is Senate Bill 198. It's pretty short to read at just two pages, part of that being the list of counties to be merged. I've covered this idea in earlier posts based on listening to Sen. Steinger speak in public, and in private. See Kansas Senator Chris Steineger on Redesigning Kansas Government and Redesigning Kansas County Government: Follow-up. Sen. Steineger also had an op-ed piece in the Wichita Eagle at Sen. Chris Steineger: Modernize Government.…

Jan

By Bob Weeks

Redesigning Kansas County Government: Follow-up

Last week I reported on a talk that Kansas Senator Kansas Senator Chris Steineger, Democrat from Kansas City, delivered to some 300 citizens at Americans For Prosperity's Defending the American Dream Summit in Wichita. One of the things Steineger believes is that Kansas has too many counties, a legacy from the days of travel to the county seat by horseback. So I got to thinking about the consolidation of two counties into one and some of the issues that would be involved. In a follow-up call with the senator, he mentioned that even ten to 12 counties could join together…

Jan

By Bob Weeks

Kansas Senator Chris Steineger on Redesigning Kansas Government

On January 10, 2009, Kansas Senator Chris Steineger, Democrat from Kansas City, spoke to some 300 citizens at Americans For Prosperity's Defending the American Dream Summit in Wichita. Steineger said that we should look at the current budget crisis in Kansas as an opportunity to redesign and reinvent Kansas government. He asked "why do we have 105 counties?" The answer is that made Kansas counties small enough that everyone could have a one-day horseback ride -- the mode of travel in 1861 when Kansas was formed -- to the county seat. But today, we have cars, highways, telephones, cell phones,…

Jan

By Bob Weeks

Americans for Prosperity — Kansas to hold second Defending the American Dream Summit

Event to kick off 2009 Kansas Legislative Session TOPEKA -- The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity-Kansas will hold its second statewide Defending the American Dream Summit in Wichita Saturday, January 10, 2009, just two days prior to the start of the 2009 Kansas Legislature. “This event will serve as a kick-off for the new legislative session,” said Americans for Prosperity-Kansas state director Derrick Sontag. “Going into the 2009 Legislature, we see an opportunity to help change the way elected officials seem to view their obligations to taxpayers, and how our state budgets its funds.” The event, held at the…

Jun

By Bob Weeks

Wasteful Kansas statehousesSpending

Wasteful Statehouse Spending By Karl Peterjohn, Executive Director, Kansas Taxpayers Network Wasteful spending at the Kansas statehouse is nothing new. What is new is the wasteful spending on the Kansas statehouse. This building still has the ugly look of a construction site with a soaring price tag. In 2007 a bipartisan group of legislative moderates are intent on continuing this unlimited statehouse spending spree. When the legislature enacted SB 660 in 2000 authorizing $40 million in bond funding for the statehouse remodel that did not seem too terribly out of line. That had followed six figure appropriations for remodeling the…