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Daily Archives: Aug. 30, 2012
Brownback was correct first time about welfare claim
Aug. 30, 20121:14 p.m.
It was refreshing when Gov. Sam Brownback appeared to acknowledge Wednesday that Mitt Romney is wrong in claiming that President Obama is dropping welfare work requirements. Though the claim has been thoroughly refuted by fact-checkers, Romney’s campaign has continued to make it. When asked by MSNBC if he agreed that the claim was false, Brownback said, “As far as I have seen, but I don’t know all of the basis to it.” But as news of his comments spread, Brownback’s spokeswoman said that Brownback “believes the Obama administration allowing states the ability to opt out of the very work requirements which have proven successful over the past 15 years is alarming.”
State chose not to suitably fund schools
Aug. 30, 20126:00 a.m.
Closing arguments in the state’s school-finance lawsuit were heard Wednesday, and the three-judge panel hearing the case is unlikely to announce a decision for several weeks or months. But it is difficult to imagine how this lawsuit will end differently from the last one. The Kansas Supreme Court already ruled in 2006 that the state was not suitably funding K-12 education, as required by the Kansas Constitution. The main defense the state made this time was that it can’t afford to better fund schools because of the down economy. But that argument was undermined by the tax cuts the Legislature passed this year. Clearly, the state could spend more on schools. It chose not to.
