To the editor:

From top to bottom, the Republican Party is morally and politically bankrupt. Republican voters chose Donald Trump, who is a con man, according to Republican Marco Rubio, and a phony and a fraud who doesn’t have the judgment or temperament to be president, according to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

It is extremely rare for prominent members of a nominee’s’ party to issue such condemnations. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s favorability is lower than a snake’s belly because his economic policies are a miserable failure, leaving our state dangerously short of revenue.

Republicans in the Kansas Legislature again refused to adequately fund our schools until they faced the wrath of the state Supreme Court. And Rep. Lynn Jenkins has been right in the thick of Republican obstructionism in Congress.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives refuses to raise the minimum wage, they refuse to fund repairs to America’s infrastructure (which would provide many thousands of jobs), and they refuse to adequately fund our national parks.

Republicans like Jenkins won’t close tax loopholes that enable the rich to avoid paying their fair share. What Republicans have allowed a vote on over 60 times is repealing Obamacare, knowing that the bill wouldn’t pass the Senate.

It is a party that refuses to do its job. As the party of business, they should expect to be fired for that.

The Democratic Party offers positive alternatives, including acting to prevent climate catastrophe, protecting women’s reproductive rights and background checks for all gun sales.

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