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PAC’s continue to target school boards using culture wars

In case you thought the assault on our school boards was over, Ryan Girdusky, the New Yorker who leads a PAC using culture war issues to take over school boards is coming to Kansas this month. The filing deadline for nonpartisan school board races is today at noon. The following is from the Sunflower State Journal, which we highly recommend subscribing to. “Political strategist Ryan Girdusky, founder of the 1776 Project PAC, will give the keynote address at the Kansas Republican Party’s annual Bob Dole Dinner in Lenexa in mid-June. While from New York, Girdusky gained some notoriety...
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Big Beautiful Tax Loophole

“‘Donate’ $10 million in stock to charity, purchased for $6 million — then get all $10 million back in tax credits and avoid more than $1 million in capital gains taxes. Massive benefits for already rich individuals — you gotta love it. And it’s all created by House Resolution 1 in Congress — the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Kansas Reps. Ron Estes, Tracey Mann and Derek Schmidt all voted yes for it… “The federal voucher would benefit families with incomes at or below 300% of the area’s median income. In Johnson County, this includes families earning over...
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Oppose the election of Supreme Court justices!

We strongly oppose electing Supreme Court justices and hope you will, too. It is a way to undermine public education funding. Read more here: “Sue Bond isn’t squeamish about partisan politics. Her late husband, Dick Bond, spent four years as the Republican president of the Kansas Senate after all. But Bond, 89, doesn’t think politics should determine who sits on the bench of the state’s high court. That’s why she’s speaking out against the Republican plan to switch from a merit-based system to a model where voters directly elect the seven justices of the Kansas Supreme Court —...
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