Backlash in Kansas Ousts at Least 11 Conservative Lawmakers

[riversedge]

Source: abc




By john hanna,

TOPEKA, Kan. — Aug 3, 2016, 5:56 AM ET




A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative Kansas legislators have lost their seats as moderate Republicans made GOP primary races a referendum on education funding and the state's persistent budget woes.

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce was among the lawmakers ousted amid a backlash against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies.

The voting occurred against the backdrop not only of the state's fiscal woes but ongoing legal and political disputes over funding for public schools. The state Supreme Court could rule by the end of the year on whether the Legislature is shorting schools on their state aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. .............

................Democratic Rep. Ben Scott, of Topeka, lost his seat to a former state lawmaker and Topeka-area political veteran, Vic Miller. The district has no GOP candidate in November.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/backlash-kansas-ousts-11-conservative-lawmakers-41087710

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I wish WI voters would do the same.

[wolfie001]

1. Brownstain can't be pleased about this turn of events!

[leftynyc]

2. Maybe Kansas is getting sick

of people wondering what the hell is wrong with it.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. DUzy! Well done!

[leftynyc]

10. LOL - thanks but

That was a softball right over the plate.

[lindysalsagal]

15. Naaaa.

They don't even know the rest of us exist.

[GulfCoast66]

3. Looks like the results

Of the 'Kansas' experiment are in.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Pity so much damage was done along the way

ALEC has to be concerned, too.

BrownStain did win his re-election, so Dorothy's tornado is still lurking and causing damage.

[GulfCoast66]

5. All true

Hopefully the voters will reject the experiment entirely and vote Democratic. But I have a feeling most of them will just choose to switch to half bat shit crazy rather than full bat shit crazy.

Someday perhaps they will choose sane and vote Democratic.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. but even that is a step in a healthier direction

BrownStain must be . . . .well, not shitting bricks, but feeling the cold breath of failure down his spine.

[LynneSin]

7. Kansas is a fricking mess and yet other conservative states will try the same exact thing

Because these awful lawmakers will make it about the '3 G's' - Guns, Gods and no-Gays. The idiot voters will think that is more important than their health, their lack of bank accounts and their education.

[Gothmog]

8. There may be hope for Kansas

[mopinko]

9. on to wisconsin.

primary is next week. get your cheese on, people.

[SwankyXomb]

11. As long as Gov. Brokeback

and the rest of the Koch whores are still running the state, things won't change.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. "political disputes over funding for public schools"

That issue is what helped us in PA take out Corbett in 2014. I am glad that it was found to be as potent in Kansas as it was here in Pennsylvania as a referendum. We need to finish the job here in PA however, and take back at least one of the legislative chambers (State Senate is more do-able in relative terms, compared to the State House).

[Hekate]

14. It's a start