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Scrolling through our old posts on our Facebook page, we found this from May 10, 2012: “Yesterday the House hijacked the political process and sent a tax bill to the governor’s desk the Senate did not intend to be its final say on the matter. The parties will return to the table, but the threat of unmanageable tax cuts and corresponding funding cuts loom large immediately after the legislature looked poised to pass between $50 and $75 million in increased funding for education. Remember this in August and November.”...

“Current GOP legislative leaders and Gov. Sam Brownback risked this trouble by decimating the tax base in their misguided 2012 effort to eliminate state income taxes. The constitution cannot be set aside, along with students’ best interests, because the state is now struggling to cover its budget. And complying with the court would be no problem, of course, if the Legislature and Brownback maintained the 7.5 percent ending balance required by state law and had $485 million to spare.” Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article80579302.html#storylink=cpy...

“No Kansas Supreme Court justice has lost a retention election since the judicial system took its current form in 1958. However, there is an unprecedented level of hostility emanating from the Legislature, governor and many organizations that decry the court’s recent rulings on anti-abortion laws, death penalty verdicts and school finance. This is why delegates at the state Republican convention declared their intention to campaign against the retention of four justices this year: Carol Beier, Dan Biles, Marla Luckert and Lawton Nuss. “After exhausting every other method to undercut the Supreme Court, its most powerful opponents will likely...

Our opinion in January, 2014 and now. “Before you claim our courts are undemocratic and Kansans should let our governor select our Supreme Court justices, know that many Kansas parents are grateful to have one branch of government that can’t be bought or bullied and is bound to protect our strong public-school system, even if the majority of the 23.2% of voters in the last primary election were willing to sacrifice it on a gamble with large income-tax cuts.” http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303947904579339240495815388...