KS governor refuses health care money but wants help with drought relief

[proud2BlibKansan]

Hypocrite isn't a strong enough word.

TOPEKA -- Gov. Sam Brownback has asked for federal disaster declarations for 37 more counties hit by drought, heat, high winds and wildfires.

The governor's office said Friday he has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to declare 37 more counties disasters, making farmers there eligible for USDA disaster assistance programs.

The request includes Atchison, Brown, Chase, Cherokee, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Ellis, Ellsworth, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Johnson, Leavenworth, Lincoln, Marion, Miami, Mitchell, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Osborne, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Republic, Riley, Rush, Russell, Saline, Shawnee, Smith, Wabaunsee and Wyandotte.

If the 37 are approved, that would mean 103 of the state's 105 counties are primary federal disaster areas. The two that are not, Marshall and Washington, border primary counties and would receive disaster declarations as contiguous counties.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/20/3715460/governor-seeks-more-kansas-county.html#storylink=cpy

[russspeakeasy]

1. Do you think he has more friends who own farms, or more friends

who need medical care ?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. It's freakin Kansas. The farmers voted him into office.

[russspeakeasy]

11. that was my point.

[bluestateguy]

2. I think the feds should say no

No money for Kansas's drought until they take the Medicaid money. The feds are not obligated to provide that money, after all.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I'd like to agree

but I'm afraid that would just give more ammunition to the right wingers who support our idiotic governor.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Actually, I think they should......

move in and open disaster relief medical centers in every county. Free medicine for all.

Then, when the rains come, ask Kansans if they want them closed or not.

[DURHAM D]

6. The governor is just like most of the farmers in Kansas - DENIALISTS.

Federal aid and the farm bill have been providing welfare checks to them for over 70 years but yet they hate Democrats/New Deal programs/Roosevelt/easterners/blue states and poor people with a passion.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I spent some time last year looking at that farm aid coming into Kansas

The reddest counties got the most aid.

Go figure.

Also one of the most rabid conservatives I know comes from a family that is the recipient of the largest check in their county in central Kansas.

[DURHAM D]

10. Which county?

The Yoder family by any chance.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. LOL no

I think it was Dickinson?

[benld74]

7. Uh sorry BB, the drought funds are contingent on the ACA funds

[valerief]

9. Mustn't let corporations suffer. People, yes. Corporations, no. nt

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Alaska has a Republican governor who refuses health care money,

but wants federal disaster relief because of crashing king salmon stocks, while he still pushes for all the offshore oil drilling he can and the horrendous Pebble Mine project. They're all schizo.

[xmas74]

14. Every single county in Missouri has already been declared a disaster

due to the drought. Difference between Brownback and Nixon is that Nixon wants the money for both. He's ok with the health care act-it's the backwoods reps who are not.