Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry endorsed “enhanced interrogation techniques” in a GOP presidential debate Saturday. Cain said he opposes torture but would reinstate water-boarding and would leave it up to the military to decide what constituted torture. Only candidates Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul denounced water-boarding. Huntsman said: “I’ve been an ambassador for my country three times. I’ve lived overseas and done business. We diminish our standing in the world and the values that we project that include liberty and democracy, human rights and open markets when we torture. We should not torture. Water-boarding is torture.” Paul also criticized other GOP candidates for supporting the assassination of U.S. citizens who are suspected of terrorism, which President Obama has done. “They’re giving this power to the president to be the prosecutor, the executor, the judge and the jury,” he said.
Pearce had support from Brewer and dozens of other elected Republican officeholders, but he was dogged by disclosures that he accepted numerous free trips from the Fiesta Bowl to out-of-state college football trips. He said he took the trips at the bowl’s request to help support its economic role in the state.
While Lewis’ campaign drew support and contributions from hundreds of Mesa residents, Pearce outspent his 54-year-old challenger by more than a 3-1 ratio.
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Kansas labor officials declared victory when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker canceled a Wichita fundraiser that had been scheduled this week with Gov. Sam Brownback. Kansas union members and others had planned to protest the event. Walker’s anti-union measures have made headlines across the country. “But Kansans are facing some of the very same attacks here courtesy of Gov. Brownback,” Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation president Judy Pierce said. Working Kansans are trying to make a living and pay their bills, she said, “but there are people in powerful positions in this state who would just as soon make that harder to do.”
The Kansas State Board of Education learned last week that at least 185 music education positions have been cut in the state in the past three years, as districts deal with less per-pupil state funding and with demanding testing mandates in math, reading and writing. “Some schools are no longer doing musicals or have marching bands,” Mike Quilling, a Deerfield teacher and the Kansas Music Educators Association’s vice president, told the board, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. “Hopefully, the storm will pass and things will get better.” Board member Ken Willard of Hutchinson suggested local volunteers and donations could sustain music programs. “I believe our community members will step up if they know,” Willard said. “The money is important, don’t get me wrong. But volunteerism is going to get us through these tough times.” Board president David Dennis of Wichita suggested that cuts to art and drama programs were at similar risk.
Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry endorsed “enhanced interrogation techniques” in a GOP presidential debate Saturday. Cain said he opposes torture but would reinstate water-boarding and would leave it up to the military to decide what constituted torture. Only candidates Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul denounced water-boarding. Huntsman said: “I’ve been an ambassador for my country three times. I’ve lived overseas and done business. We diminish our standing in the world and the values that we project that include liberty and democracy, human rights and open markets when we torture. We should not torture. Water-boarding is torture.” Paul also criticized other GOP candidates for supporting the assassination of U.S. citizens who are suspected of terrorism, which President Obama has done. “They’re giving this power to the president to be the prosecutor, the executor, the judge and the jury,” he said.
