Our legislature is refusing to listen to us, accusing us of being misinformed and threatening to change the courts if they dare to uphold the constitution rather than make our children pay the price for tax cuts that aren’t working. “If the courts want to insist on this course of action, it could well cause a constitutional crisis in this state,” said state Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Republican who supported the block grant bill. “’We certainly have the right to legislate in this body how we’re going to fund schools. If the courts think otherwise, they’re sadly...
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Block grant bill passed by the Senate
On March 16, the Senate passed SB 7 (block grant bill repealing the current school funding formula) 25-14. On roll call the vote was: Yea – (25) (Are they representing you?) Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, King, Knox, LaTurner, Lynn, Masterson, Melcher, Olson, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, Smith, Tyson, Wagle, Wilborn, Wolf. Nay – (14) (Thank them) Bowers, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Hensley, Holland, Kelly, Kerschen, Longbine, Love, McGinn, Pettey, Schmidt. Absent and Not Voting O’Donnell...
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Game On community, please know that in addition to our website, we maintain a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/gameonforksschools. The blog on this website is a compilation of most of those posts. Did you also know that the blog on this website is searchable? f you want to get more information on an issue, you can plug a term into the search box and pull up all the posts we’ve done on that issue....
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Leave a Comment Hays Daily News awaits court action to restore rule of law
“Thank goodness we have three co-equal branches of government. It appears it will be up to the judiciary to help rein in executive and legislative branches not acting on behalf of the people they are supposed to be serving. “The 64 House members doing Brownback’s bidding on Friday have had their moment in the sun. So will the Senate when it passes this horrific piece of legislation next week and sends it to the governor for his signature. “Then it will be the court’s turn to halt the lawless lawmakers in their tracks…The Kansas Constitution requires lawmakers to...
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