So they said

“The budget is the No. 1, 2 and 3 issue. We’re not going to waste a lot of time and protracted debate on issues du jour.” – Incoming House Speaker Mike O’Neal (in photo), R-Hutchinson, on 2009 legislative priorities
“There are very few clean hands here. Everybody in this building knew that 9 percent (spending) increases were unsustainable.” – Alan Cobb, state director of Americans for Prosperity, as Kansas borrowed $250 million last week to pay its bills
“They’ve always been fat and happy over there compared to other agencies.”- Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, on a report that the Kansas Department of Commerce is more top-heavy with managers than at least five other state agencies
“How much does a guy have to pay for a mistake of personal proportions? You can beat a dead horse forever but for what purpose?” – Former Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan, hoping people will move on now that former Attorney General Paul Morrison has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing in a sex scandal

4 Comments

  1. JWink
    Posted December 21, 2008 at 6:52 am | Permalink

    How did the State government of Kansas “borrow $250 million last week to pay its bills?”

    Kansas has a cash basis law dating back some 60 years or more which requires approval by the state’s voters to borrow money. Would an enterprising reporter explain how this can happen.

    A half billion here, a half billion there, a quarter billion to let Kansas pay its bills which somehow wasn’t seen coming ….. pretty soon these taxes collected off the backs of hard working Kansans are going to add up to real money.

  2. Chrisfrommactown
    Posted December 21, 2008 at 8:37 am | Permalink

    Morrison was not cleared of “criminal wrongdoing”, he was let off scot free by his cronies who are grateful for him taking out Phill Kline.

  3. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted December 21, 2008 at 9:08 am | Permalink

    I wonder if mr. mactown would like a little cheese to go with that whiiiiiiiiiine?

  4. Herbert_Spencer
    Posted December 22, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    Morrison was not cleared of wrongdoing. The prosecutors decided it wasn’t worth the trouble to his victim and the expense to the county to prosecute him. They also questioned whether they could get a conviction and for anyone familiar with the collection of left wing hacks on the JOCO bench, you’d know why. Unlike Sedgwick County JOCO’s lawyers control the process there and so there’s no way Morrison would have gotten convicted even if he’d sodomized Carter on the steps of the courthouse – again.

    As for Stephan, who drug that old sleaze out of mothballs?