By SJ Otto
The big race here in Kansas is the contest for governor.
Some races, such as the James Thompson-Ron Estes race will affect the whole
country. President Donald Trump needs all the yes-men he can get. He will need
and depend on mindless flunkies such as Estes. And Estes is just right for the job—he
is a passionless dupe who lacks any real ideas or agenda of his own. Less
nation-wide is the governor race.
Republican Kris Kobach is running against Democrat Laura
Kelly. Kobach has made quite a name for himself. He started his career out
by traveling around the country and looking for ways to suppress voting, with
such restrictions as requiring IDs to vote.
According to CNN’s
Jeffrey Toobin on Kobach: “Kris has devoted his career to stopping black people and
poor people from voting.”
“Kris Kobach Is the G.O.P. at Its
Worst”
And I believe that is right. I’ve already had a
few articles on Kobach and the governor’s race. By now it should be a
no-brainer. There are the usual hot button issues, anti-abortion, gun rights
and anti-gay bigotry—all issues championed by the Republicans. But the real
issue in this campaign is Sam Brownback and his legacy. Those of us who lived
through Brownback’s miss-rule remember how it was. Schools were seriously
damaged. There were shortages of supplies, teachers were fired, days were lengthened
to try and save money. The states infrastructure was damaged. All this was
based on Brownback’s huge tax cuts for businesses. It was a tax experiment that
went terribly wrong. Despite the failures of these policies, Brownback would
not turn back. He was an ideologue. He was determined to stay the course and
over eight years, he destroyed the state’s ability to function.
It is hard to imagine that anyone would want to return to
those dark times, but Kobach does. He is determined to bring back the destructive
tax cuts that brought this sate to its knees. He doesn’t care what the cost, he
is determined to cater to the corporations he has put so much faith in. No
matter how much damage those tax cuts cause, he is determined to bring them
back. He also wants to follow Brownback’s determination to destroy any kind of
health care for the poor. Brownback refused to expand Medicaid, as other states
had done. He sent back grant money that President Barack Obama sent to the
state of Kansas because he wanted nothing to do with Obamacare (Affordable Care
Act.)
Kobach wants to follow in Brownback’s foot-steps. He wants
to give us eight more years of state destruction based on a seriously flawed
ideology. It is hard to imagine anyone who wants to return to the bad ol’ days
we just went through. But Kobach is in a dead heat in the polls. For whatever
reason, many Kansans want to return us to those miserable days.
To avoid this disaster we need everyone who isn’t crazy to
go out and vote for Laura Kelly. She is a moderate centrist and has something
Kobach seriously lacks—common sense.
Idiots of a feather flock together!
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