“In the same election that put Democrat Laura Kelly in the governor’s office, Kansas voters also elected a more conservative Legislature.”
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With conservatives in control of the majority party, Kelly will likely have to make concessions on Medicaid expansion to get enough support to pass the Legislature. One could be a work requirement for recipients, something other Republican-leaning states have imposed.
Ask Arkansas how well that’s going. Hint: not good at all.
Geez, even Nebraska voters approved expanded Medicaid. KS is soon to be a wasteland, a welcoming haven for all types of self saboteurs.
Conservatives will grind Kansas into fiduciary dust… Kansas becomes distressed asset … falls into receivership… bought at auction by Koch …
It seems schizophrenic to elect a Democratic governor, while increasing the Republican majority in the legislature. Leads me to believe the only reason a Democrat won (like in Alabama) is that the Republicans nominated the worst possible candidate in Kobach. Almost anyone else would have probably won. So they’ve stabilized the bleeding, but the patient is still critical and on life-support.
They’ll never have it. And who gives a shit about Kansas? How long have we debated “What’s the matter with Kansas” while Kansas continues to submit itself to cruel government? Fuck them. And why not? They vote to fuck themselves. Enough about Kansas.
Actually, we elect R governors all the time here in Massachusetts, which is otherwise as blue as blue can be…though our R’s tend to be D-lites compared to most others. Six R governors and only two D in the 40 years I’ve lived here. I think there’s a desire to have some sort of balance of power, but the populace’s strategy has always confounded me.
These Kansas republicans are the same crew who taught Trump how to blame windmills for dead birds… their penchant for producing poorly worded and thinly veiled legislation that is nothing more than a middle finger to the mystic left on both coasts is one of their most proven capacities.
The way they come up with vapid, sometimes openly ignorant arguments to defend denying healthcare to hundreds of thousands of their own voters is mind-boggling, their circular logic controls their wording and the end result is typically outrageous regulations.
There is one regulation that makes it illegal to study the dry-cleaning pollution in Wichita… a law that states that outright, to protect wealthy polluters. Feedlots have more protection than citizens in this state.
Kansas has numerous laws like that on the books, their ability to make a law sound like a conservative hit list is astounding.
Their arguments defending their entrenchment against Medicaid expansion should be just as outrageous. They’ll spin it every which way but truth, when they are simply protecting our struggling billionaires from taxes and nothing else.
call us chopped liver…
that’s history, not prophecy…
The Reactionary Party always talks about spending on healthcare and any support for low-income people as money poured down a hole instead of what it is, investments in your own people which increases worked hours and tax revenue and creates jobs in the healthcare and other sectors. They impose silly work requirements on people who are already working. Why not impose some wage requirements so working people don’t need public assistance? Their willful obliviousness to economic reality, or any kind or reality, actually, is a mind disease.