I thought it had been pretty much starved down to the bone.

Kansas is losing population, with significant brain drain. Parents are having to choose between homeschooling their kids or sending them by bus 2 hours away every day because the rural school spending means districts are having to close and consolidate schools. Counties can't afford to maintain farm to market roads, so they're reverting to gravel. Rural fire departments were never well funded, but much of the plains are a lightning strike from firestorm.

You can see the line, crossing at Goodland on I70. Eastern Colorado is empty and rural, but it's not dying.

At least the legislature finally pushed back - in the meantime, Brownback is signing nonsensical bills putting up ridiculous roadblocks to abortion.

We have always had a spare bedroom listed with several reproductive rights organizations, since I live relatively close to the Boulder clinics that can do later term abortions, and women coming from Wyoming and Kansas may need a safe, supportive, private place to crash for free. We used to only get a call once or twice a year. For the past year, it's been more like 3-5 times a year.

And I'm hearing from my plains in-state students that there's a significant number of Kansas parents sending their high school age kids to cousins and aunts and uncles across the border to Colorado for school. I'm glad the kids are here, and we can afford to educate them, but no parent should have to make that decision.

I know Kansas can fix this - they're not stupid and they're angry - but I pray that Brownback's vision of hell opens up just long enough to claim him for all the cruelty he's visited on people.

No, no parent should have to do that, and no caring government should be dividing families.

Doubling down on those policies doesn't seem a winning strategy.

but even if he gets in, he'll have an uphill battle to roll back the tax increases. Brownback had the whole damned state starting to shut down, amenities disappearing and services following close behind. Kansans are not in a mood to welcome a whiplash return to making the Kochs richer at their expense.

...The tide has turned in kansas and we won't elect such a contemptible bastard.

And you've been there for, what, eight years now?

Dumbass.

But Neo cons idiots like KKKobach love to tell their lemming voters over and over how illegals pay NO taxes and suck down welfare checks month after month.

Both FALSE.

Secretary of State it.

You might expect people from various places to know the governors of other states, even far away states.

But I cannot think of any other Secretary of State who I can identify by name if someone asks me: "Who is the Secretary of State of (fill in the blank).

Kobach is frightening man. Can you imagine if he ever became president? I am sure that he wants to run some day.

Does the name KATHLEEN SIBELIUS ring a bell? Hilary won in Yoder's district, right? Stereotyping unflattering no matter who does it.

Public schools so starved for cash they were going close early next year but since that ZERO tax rate for Corporations was rolled back they should be able to do a full year. KDOT cancels bids in Jan for work that could have been done in summer. But much better to bust up the front end of your car on crap roads and then take it to a repairs shop that pays ZERO State income tax.

That POS nor ANY Republican doesn't need to be Gov of this State for YEARS until we can repair the Brownback disaster.

He certainly seems to have it in him to do the job. He is Donald Trump's go to guy when he wants to claim that 3-5 million people voted illegally.

He's got the voting system down.

It seems like that is all they care about in Kansas

...in a State that already is heavily white. That is his claim to fame. He suppresses what little minority vote there is in Kansas to begin with. Trump is not the cause of systemic Republican racism, but a symptom of it.

He, or someone like him, is the inevitable end result of the road that the GOP has taken us down.

However, I think it is safe to predict that Kobach will emerge as an anti-choice crusader, both on the campaign trail and during his tenure as governor, assuming he is elected.

As I wrote above, Kobach is a good bet for future dictator of America. I worry that just as we say that Goldwater paved the way for Reagan, someday we will be saying that Trump paved the way for Kobach.

over Trumps total were 100% cast by illegals. Not ONE shread of proof but that's KKKobach for you,in his little world the truth doesn't matter.

love to watch him go down on his attempt. Moderate republicans have firmly and soundly rejected Brownback and the Koch brothers,,