Members of Game On’s leadership group (including parents, teachers and other community members) didn’t set out to be political activists. We just became fed up with policies and perspectives that fail to adequately support our public schools and the children they serve. Case in point Devin Wilson is featured in this article:

“WITHIN 12 MINUTES of meeting me, Devin Wilson whipped out his Android phone to proudly show a stopwatch app that keeps track of how long it has been since he became politically active: 519 days, 22 minutes, 4 seconds. Wilson grew up on a farm in Burr Oak and later moved to the suburbs of Kansas City when he got married. Typical of his small-town roots, he was a Republican by default and voted for Brownback in 2010. ‘Growing up in Kansas, you’re born a Republican. It’s on your birth certificate,’ he said. ‘You go to the polls and it’s assumed you check the box next to the R. I think Kansas has got by doing that a long time when we had a lot more moderates. It was good enough. But it’s turned extreme.’

“A soft-spoken environmental scientist, Wilson doesn’t seem like your typical fired-up political organizer. But 519 days prior he decided that he’d had enough of Brownback, whose tax cuts had impacted all aspects of the state budget but took a particular toll on school funding. . .

“Johnson County is hardly the first place you’d envision as the epicenter of anti-Brownback organizing. . . Yet he won’t fare nearly that well this time around if Wilson and a crew of local public school parents can help it. They have banded together to form Game On for Kansas Schools to fight the governor’s tax-slashing agenda [and other harmful education policy]. Kansas teachers have joined Game On’s cause, incensed by the cuts and Brownback’s effort to kneecap their union and erode their job security. In 2013, he signed into law the Paycheck Protection Act, which barred public-employee unions—including the 23,000 member Kansas National Education Association—from letting their members contribute money directly from their paychecks to political action committees. Under the new law, says KNEA chief lobbyist Mark Desetti, the war chest of his union’s PAC is down by about two-thirds.”

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/sam-brownback-kansas-paul-davis