Editorial: Service optional?

I don't think I have ever seen a legislature and a political party consistently, actively working to harm its own constituency, day after day after day after day.

At some point the rural voters have to figure this out, right? Right? Or will they keep voting GOP as long as the Brownbackians are sticking it to the gays and the helpless?

March 27, 2013 at 3:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

House approves bill requiring KU Medical Center to establish stem cell research center

So they are

A) Ordering KU to do something, but
B) Providing no funding, and
C) Cutting funding by 2-4%.

The legislature is completely incoherent. They are just flat stupid in addition to sadistic.

March 26, 2013 at 4:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Senate advances bill giving private health clubs property tax break

Let's review:

Tax breaks for private gyms GOOD
Support for special education, autism, disabled services BAD

These are the priorities of the Kansas legislature and the Republican leadership.

Immoral cretins.

March 26, 2013 at 1:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Advocates for people with developmental disabilities alarmed by bill before the Senate

Still waiting for the coward and paid liar Dave Trabert to show up here and explain how non-verbal autistic and developmentally disabled people are supposed to negotiate with insurance company caseworkers.

March 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Advocates for people with developmental disabilities alarmed by bill before the Senate

All they care about is money and profit.

March 23, 2013 at 5:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Advocates for people with developmental disabilities alarmed by bill before the Senate

The Kansas Republican Party is controlled by sadists and sociopaths who want to harm the weakest members of our society: people with developmental disabilities.

Dave Trabert? Where is Dave Trabert? I'm still waiting for the free-market solution to autism and DD.

Sadistic bastards.

March 23, 2013 at 5:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Advocates for people with developmental disabilities say they want to stay out of KanCare

Anyone who thinks kids with developmental disabilities should be placed at the mercy of the free market is a fool, and ideologue, or cruel.

March 20, 2013 at 10:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Collective bargaining issues expose open rift among education lobby groups

Still waiting for Dave Trabert's explanation on how cutting budgets for public schools will help developmentally disabled and autistic children like my son.

The Lawrence district does a good job with him, but many other districts would not have the resources to do so. Trabert and ALEC's agenda would make it even more difficult.

What is the free market solution for middle and lower class parents dealing with autism, Dave?

March 18, 2013 at 7:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Legislature considering measures to move local elections to November, allow partisanship

I doubt this would change much in Lawrence, given the way we vote in national and state-level elections.

However, moderate/liberal local candidates in the rest of the state, who can still survive at local levels now due to retail politics and non-partisan elections, will get bulldozed by the big money boys and the rightwingers.

Many voters in rural and western Kansas voted to destroy their own communities by voting for Brownback and the legislature.

March 15, 2013 at 11:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Commission approves increase in water and sewer rates; city on path to build $64M sewage treatment plant

Sounds like socialism to me. Where is Dave Trabert with his free market solutions?

If the city really needed a water plant, it would build itself. (sarcasm)

March 12, 2013 at 9:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )