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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
LIBERTARIANISM :
WAR ON WOMEN :
WAR ON THE POOR :
BUDGET DEFICITS :
UNITED STATES: STATES: KANSAS:
State of State Ignored Fiscal Problems
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State of State Ignored Fiscal Problems
The governors failure to speak frankly about the states fiscal reality was
remarkable.
Orlin Wagner AP
RHONDA HOLMAN
Eagle Editorial Board
Wichita Eagle
JANUARY 12, 2016 6:08 PM
http://www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article54400070.html
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More information is due Wednesday, when his office releases a follow-up
proposal to the 2016-17 budget passed by last years Legislature. As it is,
the shortfalls are projected to be $14 million and $170 million this
fiscal year and next, respectively.
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But the governors failure to speak frankly Tuesday about the states fiscal
reality was remarkable, if consistent with a speech that was equal parts
questionable boasting and Obama bashing.
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Brownback dropped any lingering pretense of being open to Medicaid
expansion, instead assigning Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and a working group to
take as much as a year to find a Kansas solution that improves rural
health care access and outcomes. What about the urban as well as rural
hospitals and the 150,000 uninsured Kansans in need of Medicaid expansion
now?
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Brownback failed to acknowledge that the much-reduced welfare rolls were
due primarily to his administrations tightened eligibility rules, not from
Kansans lifting themselves out of poverty. He also continued his call for
a new education funding system, including merit pay, and for changing a
Kansas Supreme Court justice selection system that has served the state
well.
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And it took some gall for Brownback to join the Legislatures crusade
against property tax increases when he signed the largest tax increase in
state history last year, and when other state decisions have helped drive
local property taxes higher.
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Kansas Cutting off Medicaid Funds for Planned Parenthood
By JOHN HANNA
AP POLITICAL WRITER TOPEKA,
Kansas January 12, 2016, 9:20 PM ET
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/
kansas-cutting-off-medicaid-funds-planned-parenthood-36251890
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http://tinyurl.com/zx7cvzf
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Kansas will prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving any funds through
its Medicaid program, Gov. Sam Brownback announced Tuesday in a State of
the State address that encouraged state legislators to enshrine such a
policy into law.
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The Republican governor also spent part of his speech before a joint
session of the GOP-dominated Legislature criticizing Democratic President
Barack Obama on national security issues. Brownback said Kansas is
prepared "to thwart every action" by the Obama administration to move
prisoners being held as terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to
Fort Leavenworth.
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In addition, Brownback said he favors tightening limits on local property
taxes approved last year and putting them in effect before 2018, as
previously planned. He urged lawmakers to design a new formula for funding
Kansas' public schools that includes bonuses for exceptional teachers.
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Brownback used his speech to outline a broad legislative agenda on
multiple issues and announced his action against Planned Parenthood near
the end.
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"We have become the shining city on the hill and the champions for life,"
Brownback said in remarks prepared for delivery.
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Brownback's 30-minute speech did not mention the issue that could occupy
much of the legislative session: closing a projected $190 million budget
deficit for the fiscal year beginning in July. His administration planned
to release budget proposals Wednesday.
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Democrats were quick to note the omission and the unusually strong
criticism of a president by a governor in a State of the State address.
Veteran Democratic Rep. Tom Sawyer of Wichita, called the speech a "waste
of time."
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Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, said: "That is
a classless performance."
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Elise Higgins, a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and
Mid-Missouri, said attacking her group is an attempt to divert attention
from Brownback's policy failures. She said Medicaid funds of about $61,000
a year reimburse its clinics for providing health exams, cancer screenings
and birth control services for poor women.
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"We intend to fight this," Higgins said.
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