Don’t hold your breath waiting for dark conspiracies to be revealed by the Kansas House committee looking into whether there was broader contact and collusion among Kansas Supreme Court justices, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and other lawmakers to cut a deal on the school finance plan.
According to reports, early testimony by state Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, and others didn’t add much beyond what we already know about the brief ill-advised lunchtime conversation between Justice Lawton Nuss and Senate President Steve Morris, R-Hugoton, and Sen. Pete Brungardt, R-Salina.
“Right now, it seems like an incredible waste of taxpayers’ money,” Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita, one of 10 serving on the investigation, told the Associated Press.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Nothing to see here. Move along.Ward’s explanation makes complete sense.The court upholds the legislative plan (and perhaps pleases conservatives by offering a smackdown to Alan Rupe over his latest brief). Otherwise, the Landwehr crowd whines because something successful happened beyond their control trip.Sotheysaid, Ruby, whichever multiple personality you are this week, bring it on. I’m waiting.
Ruby is MIA so far. This “investigation” is SOP for the majority party in Topeka. It is the same phenonmenon as when the Republicans failed during the 90-day legislative session to answer the school-funding question, thus necessitating a special session that cost taxpayers $400,000 in additional payments to legislators. When in private industry do we pay employees overtime because they are too lazy to get their job done in the normal work week? Mike O’Neal is being a Republican Party loyalist and is trying to make a gubernatorial campaign issue out of the Nuss Fuss, even thought the only legislators Justice Nuss met with were Republicans! How does this become an issue in the gubernatorial campaign – unless it would be in the Republican primary?
Mr. C. and Kelly: Good thoughts. Forget the Nuss thing. Lets not go on another detour. Hopefully everyone has learned from it. NOW GET ON WITH THE BUSINESS OF KANSAS GOVERNMENT.
MC – What are you waiting for?
You to try and spin this.It seems I may have underestimated you.Apparently, you’re smart enough not to try.
Ya Mr. C, she has that neocon habit of abandoning the field when someone might actually challenge her idiocy. Look at outie on the “waiting to burn” thread or outie on the sex ed thread.
Hand them their butts, and they disappear. Funny how that workds.