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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:03 PM Oct 2014

Rolling Stone: The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-kansas-tea-party-disaster-20141023

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Extremist Republicans turned their government into a lab experiment of tax cuts and privatization. And now they may be losing control of one of the reddest states in the nation.
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Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-kansas-tea-party-disaster-20141023#ixzz3HUm8a7EJ

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Rolling Stone: The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster (Original Post) LiberalElite Oct 2014 OP

Excellent article. I also posted it earlier, glad to see it posted again for visibility. It's RKP5637 Oct 2014 #1

Chris Krispy did the same for N.J. It will just take about 10 years before it hits the fan. Hoppy Oct 2014 #2

RKP5637

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1. Excellent article. I also posted it earlier, glad to see it posted again for visibility. It's

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Tue Oct 28, 2014, 10:07 PM

Oct 2014

the best article I've read on the Kansas mess under Brownback and his cohorts. Damn, I hope he is gone. He has literally destroyed Kansas in so many ways.

Hoppy

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2. Chris Krispy did the same for N.J. It will just take about 10 years before it hits the fan.

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Oct 29, 2014, 07:33 AM

Oct 2014

Yes, Christy Whitman began the fiasco and they were helped by Corzine and McGreevy but those two ..... one baked the cake and the other put the icing on it.

When the N.J. pension bills come due, we're sunk.

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