The U.S. House and Senate approve the spending of taxpayers’ money, but how well do members of Congress manage their own offices? How do House and Senate committees, and leadership spend money as part of their legislative jobs? In the past such information has been a bit difficult to find unless you travel to Washington, [...]
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A recent Wichita Eagle article said the payout to former K-State football coach Ron Prince would be $4.4 million instead of only $1.2 million.
Combined with the related $1.9 million payout to former K-State athletic director Tim Weiser, the $6.3 million in wasted salaries at K-State is staggering.
Why not fill all 50,000 seats at Bill Snyder Family Football [...]
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The editorial in today’s Kansas City Star, “Wanted: Fiscal responsibility in candidate plans,” compared proposals by Senators Obama and McCain:
Experts say both candidates’ economic proposals would increase the federal deficit. That’s unacceptable. The country is ready for a president who will model fiscal responsibility.
The topic of this editorial is welcome, but why [...]
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Ken Marrero from The Sam Adams Alliance greeted right-center bloggers from Kansas at SamSphere Kansas held yesterday in Topeka. The SamSphere “About” page describes the Samsphere meetings held in Chicago in March, and in Denver in April and yesterday in Topeka:
SamSphere is a new media forum, hosted by the Sam Adams Alliance, [...]
First-term, Democratic State Rep Gene Rardin continues the use of tax-payer funded mailings for his re-election campaign. In the last seven weeks, FOUR franked mailings have been used to put Rardin’s picture in front of potential voters. While Rardin was directly responsible for Mailing 3 (see below), which is common for all [...]
Like Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, you’re against that dirty coal power plant in Western Kansas polluting our air with carbon dioxide? But being “green” is something for others especially when you can fly with the Governor on the State’s plane to a sports event?
Let’s start this story with a trip to New Orleans to watch KU [...]
Update on Franking Abuse by Kansas Senate Minority Leader Hensley: $53,564 on 161,277 franked pieces
A recent Meadowlark article gave preliminary information about franking abuse by both Democratic House Minority Leader, Dennis McKinney, and Kansas Senate Minority Leader, Anthony Hensley. Additional information about McKinney’s mailings is not yet available, but details from the Legislative Administrative Services show how much was spent by Senator Hensley on joint mailings on behalf of [...]
Recently both the Kansas House Minority Leader, Dennis McKinney, and Kansas Senate Minority Leader, Anthony Hensley, abused their generous budget to mail items to Kansas voters. These mailings had less to do with helping inform constituents about what is going on in the Kansas legislature, and more to do with getting certain Democrats re-elected this [...]
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Why did the Kansas press give this new information resource such little coverage? No article about KanView can be found by the Kansas City Star. Read the rest of this entry …
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