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Kansas Democrats elect Repass

Feb 25, 2023

Kansas Democrats this afternoon elected Jeanna Repass, Overland Park, as chair of the Kansas Democratic Party, 122-107 over former state Sen./ Lt. Gov./State Treasurer Lynn Rogers, Wichita. The vote at a packed Washington Days Democrat convention at Ramada by Wyndham Topeka Downtown saw Repass, an unsuccessful candidate for secretary of state in the 2022 election, …

Brown narrowly wins GOP chair

Feb 11, 2023

Kansas Republicans late this afternoon elected Mike Brown, Overland Park, as chair of the Kansas Republican Party over longtime party worker and official Helen Van Etten, Topeka. Vote was 90 to 88 for Brown, closest vote for a party leader in recent memory. The Brown victory brought his entire team to run the party which …

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It’s ESG week in Senate

Mar 06, 2023

The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee this week will spend two or three days grappling with one of the most complicated — and politically divisive — issues of the year: Prohibiting Environmental/Social/Governance (ESG)-based investment of government funds. The issue deals with the liberal-to-moderate political leanings of some investment advisers to put state surplus funds …

Where’s the Kansas Legislature headed?

Feb 27, 2023

Turnaround Day has pretty well described just where the Legislature is headed this session, with miniscule tax cuts for the poor and sizable cuts for the middle income-or-better and a new direction for discouraging abortions that the Kansas Supreme Court has held as a basic constitutional right of women. There is also a clear direction …

It’s Turnaround Week

Feb 20, 2023

After six weeks of committee hearings and debate, most House and Senate bills have to be voted out of their originating chambers across the rotunda to the opposite house by Friday. Dozens of bills in each chamber must move this week, save for those from House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means and both chambers’ …

GOP swings further right

Feb 12, 2023

The Kansas Republican Party leadership moved further to the right this weekend, with the 90-88 election of Mike Brown, Overland Park, over former Republican National Committeewoman Helen Van Etten, Topeka, at the annual GOP convention. The effect of the razor-thin victory is that the party likely will be less attractive to its members who believe …

Week 5: Some action, finally

Feb 04, 2023

The Legislature opens the fifth week of the session with some actual – though not stirring – bills to debate, and finally filling committee hearings with actual discussion of bills, not explanations of how state government works. Senate Tax opens hearings on Social Security taxes – at what Kansas-taxable income the SS exemption ends, and …