By SJ Otto
It is election season and the worst political candidate since Donald Trump is running lots of ads here in Kansas
They tell me that insanity is doing the same thing over and over yet expecting different results. So if Kobach wins, we can easily say that the voters of Kansas are insane. Of course they use that cliché mainly when it comes to drinking, warning alcoholics that trying to drink and control it over and over again, without success is insanity. But drinking makes more sense than voting for Kobach.
Kobach says in his ads he wants to limit all school financing to 75 percent for class room use only. Schools need buss drivers, cooks, and janitors. Do the people of Kansas really want their children to use bathrooms that aren't cleaned very often? Kobach has probably never spent much time in an actual school. I work in a school as a substitute teacher so I could see the results of Brownback’s tax cuts when he was governor. Unlike me, Kobach doesn't know how schools operate. The reality of his policies will be disaster.
Kobach wants to return to all the tax cuts that had to be curtailed after Brownback instituted them. Kobach says that Brownback didn't implement spending cuts—wrong! That is exactly what Brownback did and he destroyed much of the states infrastructure. That includes the destruction of our schools.
Now is the time to remind people that Kobach wants to finish the hatchet job that Brownback only started. We don’t need to return to the bad ol’ days—or worse.
Here is what others are saying about Kris Kobach:
Kansas Republicans appear to have thumbed their noses at the party establishment on Tuesday in the primary for governor, failing to persuasively back the sitting governor, Jeff Colyer, and instead leaving room to elect Kris Kobach, the state’s secretary of state — and quite possibly the most pernicious public official in America.
Kobach is running for governor on a promise to “Make Kansas Great Again.” (#MKGA!) If it holds up, his primary election win, bolstered by a last-minute endorsement by Trump, will be another reminder that the political currents that delivered us this president still rage within the Republican base.
If Donald Trump has a Midwestern avatar, it is almost certainly Kris Kobach. A former George W. Bush official infamous for, among other things, toting a “shocking” fake machine gun in a city parade, Kobach made his name as an early opponent of illegal immigration, an issue he believes is closely tied to voter fraud. While G.O.P. veterans wrung their hands at the thought of Kobach becoming their gubernatorial candidate, Trump positively doted on Kobach, appointing him vice chairman of a commission to investigate the “millions of people who voted illegally” in 2016, thereby unjustly robbing him of the popular vote. The commission, of course, turned up jack squat, with several states ignoring Kobach’s (possibly illegal) demand for their voter I.D. rolls and the Social Security numbers of their residents.