So they said

“It’s like the budget being Mount Everest and coal being Sunflower Mountain, or whatever the highest point in Kansas is.” – Rep. Pat George, R-Dodge City, on how the budget crisis is expected to overshadow even the Holcomb coal plants during the legislative session that starts Monday
“For the next eight or 16 years, Republicans will dominate the statewide offices.” – Christian Morgan, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, after Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson’s decision not to run for governor in 2010
“I come from a farming background. I have to have the 2009 crop in the bin before I worry about the 2010 crop.” – Dennis McKinney (in photo), asked just after he was sworn in as state treasurer whether he’d run for governor in 2010

6 Comments

  1. Maggotpunk
    Posted January 11, 2009 at 6:30 am | Permalink

    Yup, Republicans will dominate because Kansans just don’t know better. No surprise the states that are the worst off are the ones that vote Republican consistently.

    http://www.whatsthematterwithkansas.com/trailer.html

  2. JWink
    Posted January 11, 2009 at 7:26 am | Permalink

    Which Republicans? The conservative right wing OR moderate Republicans who used to represent Kansas Republicans? Actually, I think Kansas Democrats have a similar split … the Harry Truman Democrats vs the big government Democrats.

  3. Phantom
    Posted January 11, 2009 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    That budget has got to be serious if it’s going to detract from the repub. golden grail, the coal plant.

  4. LonnythePlumber
    Posted January 11, 2009 at 9:54 am | Permalink

    Many democrats want the living wage jobs and alternative energy sources that the Holcomb plants will provide. We want renewable and independent energy but not so fast that we may have to do without.

  5. lindainks55
    Posted January 11, 2009 at 10:18 am | Permalink

    “Which Republicans?”

    ——

    Kansas seems to have an overabundance of those you politely refer to as, “The conservative right wing.”

    And Kansans keep electing and then reelecting them, so who should be given the blame and credit? Maybe Kansas is truly well represented by the nut jobs!

  6. Regular
    Posted January 11, 2009 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    Fiscal conservatism is a good thing for either party and we better start practicing it at both state and Federal levels.