Kansas Statehouse is a model for Congress?

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is featured in an op-ed piece by Washington Post columnist David Broder in today’s Eagle. Sebelius was in Washington, D.C., this week for a meeting of the National Governors Association. She spoke on the bipartisan effort at the Kansas Statehouse this session to find a school finance solution. Broder used this as an example of cooperation that Washington politicians should model. It’s great that Kansas and Sebelius were praised in his column. But this positive effort — which was forced by a court order and a state audit — does not a bipartisan, solutions-oriented state government make. In fact, what makes the school finance progress this year so amazing is that it is such an aberration from past sessions.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

4 Comments

  1. mrcontroversy
    Posted March 2, 2006 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    This is a SCARY thought.

  2. Joe Williams
    Posted March 2, 2006 at 6:29 pm | Permalink

    There is still no solution and there hasn’t been one since 1999 when the lawsuits were first filed.

  3. JWink
    Posted March 3, 2006 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

    Once again in this 2006 legislative term, the school finance issue is being swept under the rug. The theory seems to be that perhaps somebody will dream up an acceptable solution while everyone is sleeping. My prediction is nothing will be done and a special session will again be needed.

  4. Marvin Reality
    Posted March 4, 2006 at 9:41 pm | Permalink

    Once again tax raise Mays is hiding behind another skirt. He has not been able to get anything done on his own and now that he is leaving the legislature he wants to leave Kansas with a debt they cannot pay. Way to go Dougie!!!!