Kansans Find Out They’re Screwed After Brownback Reelection
The news came, conveniently for Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, a week after he was reelected. His state has a $1 billion shortfall.
Click here for reuse options!The estimates also said the state will use up $380 million in reserves and still have to cut another $280 million for fiscal year 2015 to balance the state’s current budget. In addition, in 2016, revenues are expected to be $436 million short of expenditures according to the forecast.
Altogether it was the latest bit of bleak news for Kansas and Brownback, who won re-election a week ago, defeating House Minority Leader Paul Davis (D).
In late October, just before the election, data showed Kansas’s October tax revenue was 15 percent below previous projections. Tax collections were $23 million short of projections,according to the Associated Press.
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Bunya November 13th, 2014 at 22:48
I have no sympathy for these people. First of all, it’s Kansas. Not the sharpest state in the union, and second, these same people who witnessed Brownback screw up their state, re-elected him. They deserve what they got.
Jealith November 14th, 2014 at 15:24
I have to feel sorry for the ones who didn’t vote for him. We have the same thing here in Ohio. The idiot who is screwing everything up got reelected. I didn’t vote for him. But then most people didn’t bother to vote at all.
Bunya November 14th, 2014 at 15:43
I live in Illinois – a true blue state. Voter turnout was so bad that Rauner, the republican (who’s known for shipping jobs overseas, and laying off hundreds of workers) won the election. That’s pretty bad.
cestmoi November 14th, 2014 at 04:36
How nice for them. Merry Christmas Kansas.
cestmoi November 14th, 2014 at 05:36
How nice for them. Merry Christmas Kansas.
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 06:55
Here was a state who put Brownback’s opponent way ahead in the polls, and even had Republicans endorsing the Democrat… until it came out that his opponent had been to a strip joint when he was 27.
Then the polls flipped.
You get what you vote for.
allison1050 November 14th, 2014 at 07:35
Aren’t they a strange group of people? Anyone living in Kansas now who can explain this?
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 07:43
Thomas Frank; What’s the Matter With Kansas.
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 07:55
Here was a state who put Brownback’s opponent way ahead in the polls, and even had Republicans endorsing the Democrat… until it came out that his opponent had been to a strip joint when he was 27.
Then the polls flipped.
You get what you vote for.
allison1050 November 14th, 2014 at 08:35
Aren’t they a strange group of people? Anyone living in Kansas now who can explain this?
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 08:43
Thomas Frank; What’s the Matter With Kansas.
AnthonyLook November 14th, 2014 at 08:32
It is official, Kansas voters are not very intelligent.
bhil November 14th, 2014 at 14:10
No I would say they just voted for what they felt were their best interests and the republican experiment continues, all hail saint Ronnie!
AnthonyLook November 14th, 2014 at 16:54
No, ” what they felt were their best interests and the republican experiment continues”— equates ignorance. The majority of economists, indeed the majority of Americans roll their eyes and mock this Brownback election result. Speaks to the minions of Kansas unintelligent.
AnthonyLook November 14th, 2014 at 09:32
It is official, Kansas voters are not very intelligent.
bhil November 14th, 2014 at 15:10
No I would say they just voted for what they felt were their best interests and the republican experiment continues, all hail saint Ronnie!
AnthonyLook November 14th, 2014 at 17:54
No, ” what they felt were their best interests and the republican experiment continues”— equates ignorance. The majority of economists, indeed the majority of Americans roll their eyes and mock this Brownback election result. Speaks to the minions of Kansas unintelligent.
Martin Screeton November 14th, 2014 at 12:22
I don’t know anything about Kansas… other then its all Red like Indiana… and as a result has some of the poorest people in America. ;)
Martin Screeton November 14th, 2014 at 13:22
I don’t know anything about Kansas… other then its all Red like Indiana… and as a result has some of the poorest people in America. ;)