Kevin Yoder runs from the press over DUI scandal
Kansas Republican Congressional candidate, and overall spineless politician, Kevin Yoder runs from the press when confronted by KMBC TV 9 reporter Micheal Mahoney over Yoder’s involvement in a...
View ArticleBad Democrat attacks Labor
This year across the Nation and in the Statehouse we have seen attacks on the Labor movement by Republicans. Yesterday Deborah Swank, a city councilwoman in Topeka, launched a negative campaign against...
View ArticleWorking Kansas Alliance talks jobs, Kansas Legislature’s focus on anti-worker...
Wednesday the Working Kansas Alliance held a press conference in the Kansas Statehouse asking Governor Sam Brownback and the members of the Kansas Legislature to end the war on workers, focus on...
View ArticleThe attack on workers is being extended to their paychecks.
Today in the House Commerce committee Chairman Anthony Brown and his fellow Speaker O’Neal lead conservatives are taking a break from directly attacking worker’s rights and refocusing to take a day to...
View ArticleHelp Stop Karin Brownlee’s Court-Packing Scheme
Daily Kos Community,Working families in Kansas need your help. We are trying to generate calls into some State reps over the weekend urging them to vote no on Kansas HB 2531 which will likely be up for...
View ArticleWalking Conflict Of Interest, Marvin Kleeb, Is Always Willing To Help Himself
Although Overland Park voters send Marvin Kleeb to the Kansas House of Representatives to look after their best interests, Kleeb serves another master in Topeka. This week Kleeb may have an opportunity...
View ArticleKansas House Republicans pointing fingers after failing to read 2 page bill
Two weeks ago the Kansas House did the unthinkable. With a 122-2 vote they passed a property tax cut authored by Democratic Representative Jim Ward (Wichita). While Governor Brownback and the House...
View ArticleKansas Senator Wagle going for extra credit on business votes
Susan Wagle, chair of the Senate Commerce committee, simply can’t help herself. She can’t keep herself from going after workers rights and continuously doing everything she can to make big business...
View ArticleSec. Brownlee attempts to circumvent the Kansas Senate to get her way.
Today in House Commerce we saw a complete disregard for a fair legislative process when the Secretary of Labor, Karin Brownlee, and her Deputy of The War of Workers Secretary, Kathy Sparks, suggested...
View ArticleKansas House Commerce tees up anti-worker bills
Late Friday night after 6 hours of budget debate the Kansas House finally adjourned and Rep. Anthony Brown, Chair of the House Commerce Committee, decided to hold a meeting where the Committee then...
View ArticleBrownback demands it his way. Business over Kansans.
Having it both ways is becoming a daily occurrence in the legislature.After killing the Governor’s plan to give tax breaks to corporations and wealthy Kansans early on Wednesday a phone rang in the...
View ArticleKansas Chamber Lies. Here's The Truth.
Today just after lunch the Kansas Chamber of Commerce sent out an email dripping with lies and urging people to contact legislators in regards to certain extremist anti-worker legislation. We wanted to...
View ArticleBrownlee watch: Workers take cover.
Last week, we met with a representative of the Kansas Senate leadership; Kansas Sec. of Labor Karin Brownlee; representatives for several business interests, such as the Kansas Chamber of Commerce,...
View ArticleDevastating Policy & Political Thuggery in Kansas
Last night we told you about the unprecedented procedural moves by Kansas House Speaker Mike O'€™Neal and House conservatives that sent HB 2117, a massive corporate tax break bill, to Governor...
View ArticleKansas SB 416: Brownlee's Anti-Labor Omnibus
After weeks of waiting and at a time when the majority of the State has directed their focus on Brownback's catastrophic tax plan and the infighting between republican legislators, Sen. Susan Wagle...
View ArticleGov. Brownback's Nuclear Tax Plan Explodes
There is nothing quite like seeing a sore loser in action, especially when this sore loser is threatening to put the citizens and the future of Kansas at risk.Today the Kansas Senate voted to keep a...
View ArticleThe end of Kansas as we know it
If the governor now signs the tax bill on his desk there will be no money for anything. Public education, state employees, roads, KPERS, police and firefighters. Nothing.Click here to add your name to...
View ArticleBrownback associate stalks, attacks Senate candidate's daughter on Twitter
Late Monday evening, four days after filing for the Kansas Senate, the daughter of State Senate candidate Keith Humphrey was attacked on Twitter by a known Brownback associate."I served my country with...
View ArticleKansas Secretary of Labor, Lana Gordon, is stacking the deck against injured...
As if the Kansas workers compensation law does not already work hardship on injured workers and their families, Kansas Secretary of Labor Lana Gordon, along with the Chair of the Senate Commerce...
View ArticleKansas Legislature to injured workers: That's your problem.
A recent report by the AFL-CIO on workplace safety, Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, showed a growing problem in Kansas. In 2011, 78 workers were killed on the job in Kansas, a rate of 5.9 deaths...
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