“Our local elections should remain non-partisan. They should stay in the spring so that voters can focus on really important issues in their communities and not worry about partisan politics…
“But this won’t happen, because a bill written by Republican extremists is pending right now in the Legislature to move all elections to the fall — even though no one at the local level in Kansas asked for it. No one…
“A decade from now, when we see our local races bogged down in politics, rather than in discussion of important issues, voters will be sorry. They’ll wish those in Topeka had kept their hands off our local elections.”
Read more here: http://www.marysvilleonline.net/articles/2015/04/22/opinion/doc5537a9f5d428a134856969.txt#.dpuf
Update: The bill to move local elections to the fall has passed the House and Senate.