A senior Boeing official reportedly told Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, that the company intends to finish the new tankers in Washington state and not in Wichita — this even though the company told Kansas officials both during and after it won the government contract that the deal would lead to 7,500 new jobs in Kansas. “The company’s refusal to ‘dance with the girl who brung them’ on the tanker contract is incomprehensible, and I urge Boeing’s senior leaders to reconsider this decision,” Pompeo said in a statement.
Gov. Sam Brownback told the Lawrence Journal-World that he plans to revisit the arts in his proposed budget next year, though he wouldn’t provide any details. He should undo the disastrous decision he made this past legislative session to veto state funding for the Kansas Arts Commission and to lay off all its staff. He said at the time that private funding could fill the gap and that the budget cut would not affect federal funding. Neither proved true, as private fundraising has lagged and the National Endowment for the Arts and regional arts groups determined that Kansas was ineligible for grants.
Secretary of State Kris Kobach was among six Republican secretaries of state to join Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., earlier this month to warn against the national popular vote movement, which was motivated by Al Gore’s 2000 loss of the presidency despite winning the popular vote. Eight states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation pledging to award their 132 electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nationally, even if another candidate wins the majority in their states. For the initiative to take effect, states with a total of at least 270 electoral votes would have to sign on. McConnell called it an “absurd and dangerous concept” that could lead to endless recounts and litigation and a constitutional crisis. Kobach warned that if the national popular vote prevails, “the incentive for voter fraud increases dramatically overall because you can just go to the state that is the weakest link in the chain and has the lowest protections against voter fraud and run up a huge number of fraudulently cast votes in that state much more effectively than going to a battleground state.”
A senior Boeing official reportedly told Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, that the company intends to finish the new tankers in Washington state and not in Wichita — this even though the company told Kansas officials both during and after it won the government contract that the deal would lead to 7,500 new jobs in Kansas. “The company’s refusal to ‘dance with the girl who brung them’ on the tanker contract is incomprehensible, and I urge Boeing’s senior leaders to reconsider this decision,” Pompeo said in a statement.
