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RKP5637

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8. I just don't get it. I have friends there, they don't get it either. The guy has been a disaster to
Fri Dec 26, 2014, 12:01 AM
Dec 2014

most Kansans the entire time he's been in office, and I would say the same if he were a democrat. He has no concept of what is needed in Kansas other than to screw the majority of the people. I think some vote in Kansas as robots and hit the R vote. Some people have told me that some in Kansas still think they're voting for the old time republicans, they just don't seem to get how the republican party has changed. Yep, the polls showed he was losing. Below is what to come for those Kansans that seem to love him, guess they just love punishment.

The win, experts said, clears the way for Brownback to pursue those goals and more, such as further income tax cuts, more reductions in state spending, expansion of school choice and limits to state regulations on business. He might even get more aggressive on social issues.

“Brownback will take this as confirmation that he is steering the state in the correct direction. Indeed, the fact that he has won suggests the voters agree,” said Joe Aistrup, a political science professor at Auburn University who has written a book on Kansas politics. “He will even move even more directly to implementing his red-state vision.”


http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/election/article3564878.html

But yet the kansans were deluded enough to vote Brownback back into office. I guess they RKP5637 Dec 2014 #1
Wow... Every poll I saw showed Takket Dec 2014 #4
I just don't get it. I have friends there, they don't get it either. The guy has been a disaster to RKP5637 Dec 2014 #8
Why was Brownback re-elected? Simple: OldRedneck Dec 2014 #11
You nailed it. silverweb Dec 2014 #14
It is so damn frustrating! And then often those that sit home on their butts later RKP5637 Dec 2014 #19
It's not the vote, it's who counts the vote aspirant Dec 2014 #17
Hopefully he can be reelected again. Kansas will be a famine ridden wasteland. Katashi_itto Dec 2014 #13
It's not tax evasion. It's a pyramid scheme. Initech Dec 2014 #2
Yep. Or just pay back for campaign funding. RiverLover Dec 2014 #5
And the Koch Bros. are playing us for chumps. Initech Dec 2014 #6
Cities are doing this as well daredtowork Dec 2014 #3
Crooked and criminal, one and all. SoapBox Dec 2014 #7
That, is the crux of the problem. Most of the citizenry is clueless and the rest are stupid, and a RKP5637 Dec 2014 #9
Where to go for funds? Cut pensions and schools. Never reinstate taxing the rich. Kablooie Dec 2014 #10
It's because they watch and listen to slick, corporate propaganda. Most of the people who know Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #12
Fuck the state workers, I don't get a pension, and teachers get every summer off! rufus dog Dec 2014 #15
"And I don’t like it, but it’s kind of what’s your other option" NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #16
This nation lacks the political will to tax the people who have all the money. Scuba Dec 2014 #18
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