Kansas lawmakers override vetoes on taxes, guns, elections

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

By JOHN HANNA and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD
40 minutes ago

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Monday cut Kansas’ income taxes, lowered the age for carrying a concealed gun and tightened state election laws by overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of those measures.

A series of votes in the GOP-controlled Legislature demonstrated that its Republican supermajorities can control policy — and push the state back to the right — if they hold together. Centrist and left-of-center activists took Kelly’s election in 2018 as a sign that voters were repudiating conservative management of state government, but elections in 2020 moved the Legislature to the right.

“They listened to folks back home,” House Speaker Tem Blaine Finch, an Ottawa Republican, said of GOP lawmakers. “It’s because of, really, the grassroots in their communities telling (them), ‘Hey, this is important to us.’”

But Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes, a Lenexa Democrat, derided the “veto override-a-rama.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kansas-personal-taxes-elections-gun-politics-laws-f3dd335006fc321a08bc1716b211e418

[House of Roberts]

1. "They listened to folks back home"

Code for 'Charles Koch wanted a bigger tax break'.