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It is what we have come to expect from Kansas (and Wisconsin)
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Well, whew, for a minute there it looked like a potential conflict of interest. It still is, it just doesn’t matter.
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On today’s episode of “What’s the Matter with Kansas”…
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When Marco Rubio got elected to the Florida House, he immediately go hired by a law firm that tripled his salary…and sure enough, next cycle, he was made Speaker of the House. But no conflict of interest existed at all…
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Brunk: What I am doing is no different than before. Previously I was exclusively legislating whatever Kochs told me. Now I have a variety. Keeps me active.
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Are there any rules left being an elected representative and public servant for all your constituents, on the taxpayer’s dime (even ones that didn’t vote for you), or is corruption in office to be an acceptable norm from here on out now? Or, is it just fucking Kansas that’s so full of shit. Just pathetic. Lobbyist? “I won’t be a Lobbyist”, he says. Yeah, bullshit buddy. Its a conflict of interest, plain and simple.
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I guess his “LEGISLATOR FOR SALE” sign can come down now.
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Oh, KS isn’t a special snowflake… this stuff is rampant these days, and becoming more so.
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Brunk could be Drunk.
With power.
I know. These kind of articles about people testing the boundaries of their position or the law, especially to advantage themselves while oftentimes pretending to be doing it for others, is what makes me so fed up. This is where we see how badly being in politics is such a rigged game in many respects…and how corruption has become the fucking norm.
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What part of "Conflict of Interest" does Brunk and the people of Kansas not understand?
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Somewhere, in a dimly lit room, Wayne LaPierre is taking notes.
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Brunk: I we arm the fetus, I bet there would be no abortion. I will work with the pro life nonprofit organization to make it happen. Planned Parenthood will just disappear as babies will revolt.
When corruption reigns (whether politics proper or its supporting arm, the MSM) people are presented the choice whether to go along with the system or challenge it. It is a rare person who challenges a system knowing that the person either tasked with supporting him or following him will not do so.
Chuck Todd is a Toad. Were he to have an epiphany, his bosses would fire him and select a person as compliant as he was.
This why voting is so important. It is the one vehicle which is supposed to respond to the masses or people
This is why leaders are so important. Their personal force, charisma and organizational capabilities can make people believe that others (besides themselves) will also follow and support.
With regard to the potentials of the people…the first item (voting) has lost its favour, perhaps because of despair, and perhaps because of other things we have all commented on. The second item (leaders) took a serious hit in the 1960s.
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This is the point where the people of Kansas have to demand, most emphatically, that he step down. It won’t do any good for me, in NYC, to do so. That this extremely blatant conflict of interest appears to be going unchallenged should let every potential company thinking of moving their business to KS that it’s not a place for civilized people.
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As Americans, we’d better find some favour with voting because it seems to me we have 1 of 2 options:
The power of the vote OR the power of armed insurrection. Personally, I have no desire whatsoever to get shot.
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Most state legislators have “real” jobs, its pretty much always been that way. Being a state legislator is almost always seen as a “part time civic duty”. Some have rules against being a lobbyist, but really…if you run say, a gravel company, and are a state legislator, aren’t you going to always support your industry/company anyway? And probably a hell of lot more effectively than a lobbyist, who is lobbying for multiple companies/industries.
And basically, that’s what this guy is doing to skirt Kansas’s law…he is working for a non profit which probably isn’t technically listed as a lobbyist.
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As you know, I have been sounding the alarm.
We have limited time.
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It is what we have come to expect from Kansas (and Wisconsin)
Please do not lump WI with KS. We have our issues with a very evil and distructive Gov and Assembly, but the Dems are gaining a few glimpses of hope, i.e Russ Feingold’s strength against the doofas Johnson. Our other Senator, Tammy Baldwin, is amazing.
Is there any sign of hope in Kansas?
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