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Wednesday’s attempt to pass the Healthcare Freedom Act in the KS House falls short again

From the Kansas House Journal, March 24, 2010, beginning on page 1275 (page 21 of the pdf)

INTRODUCTION OF ORIGINAL MOTIONS
Having voted on the prevailing side, Rep. Peck moved, pursuant to House Rule 2303, that the House reconsider its adverse action on HCR 5032 in not adopting the resolution under that order of business, Final Action on Bills and Concurrent Resolutions (see HJ, page 1226). Roll call was demanded.

On roll call, the vote was: Yeas 75; Nays 47; Present but not voting: 0; Absent or not voting: 3.

Yeas: Aurand, Bethell, Bowers, Brookens, A. Brown, Brunk, Burgess, Carlson, Craft, Crum, DeGraaf, Donohoe, Faber, D. Gatewood, George, Goico, Gordon, Grange, Hayzlett, Hermanson, Hineman, C. Holmes, M. Holmes, Horst, Huebert, Jack, Kelley, Kerschen, Kiegerl, King, Kinzer, Kleeb, Knox, Landwehr, Light, Lukert, Maloney, Mast, McLeland, Meier, Merrick, Morrison, Moxley, Myers, O’Brien, O’Neal, Olson, Otto, Palmer, Patton, Pauls, Peck, Pottorff, Powell, Prescott, Proehl, Rhoades, Schroeder, Schwab, Schwartz, Seiwert, Shultz, Siegfreid, Spalding, Suellentrop, Swanson, Tafanelli, Vickrey, Wetta, Whitham, Williams, B. Wolf, K. Wolf, Worley, Yoder.

Nays: Ballard, Barnes, Benlon, Bollier, T. Brown, Burroughs, Carlin, Colloton, Crow, Davis, Dillmore, Feuerborn, Finney, Flaharty, Frownfelter, Furtado, Garcia, S. Gatewood, Goyle, Grant, Hawk, Henderson, Henry, Hill, Kuether, Lane, Loganbill, Long, Mah, McCray-Miller, Menghini, Neighbor, Peterson, Phelps, Quigley, Rardin, Roth, Ruiz, Slattery, Sloan, D. Svaty, Swenson, Talia, Tietze, Trimmer, Ward, Winn.

Present but not voting: None.

Absent or not voting: Fund, Johnson, Neufeld.

The motion of Rep. Peck to reconsider action did not prevail.

note:
Reps. Fund and Johnson were excused on verified illness.
Rep. Neufeld was excused on legislative business.

All votes on this issue in the last week (House votes & Senate Judiciary Committee) can be found on this Kansas Liberty webpage.

Listed below are those who voted against letting the people’s voice be heard. If you know a good candidate running in one of these districts, post their website link in the comments section. If you live in one of these districts and don’t know of or see someone good running, help us find the right candidates so we can change the Kansas House in 2010!

  • Grant, Robert, registered Democrat, District 2, County: Bourbon/Cherokee/Crawford
  • Menghini, Julie, registered Democrat, District 3, County: Crawford
  • Feuerborn, Bill, registered Democrat, District 5, County: Anderson/Franklin/Miami
  • Brown, Tony, registered Democrat, District 10, County: Douglas/Franklin
  • Rardin, Gene, registered Democrat, District 16, County: Johnson
  • Quigley, Jill, registered Republican, District 17, County: Johnson
  • Neighbor, Cindy, registered Democrat, District 18, County: Johnson
  • Furtado, Dolores, registered Democrat, District 19, County: Johnson
  • Benlon, Lisa, registered Democrat, District 22, County: Johnson
  • Talia, Milack, registered Democrat, District 23, County: Johnson
  • Slattery, Mike, registered Democrat, District 24, County: Johnson
  • Bollier, Barbara, registered Republican, District 25, County: Johnson
  • Colloton, Pat, registered Republican, District 28, County: Johnson
  • Frownfelter, Stan, registered Democrat, District 31, County: Wyandotte
  • Ruiz, Louis, registered Democrat, District 32, County: Wyandotte
  • Burroughs, Tom, registered Democrat, District 33, County: Wyandotte
  • Winn, Valdenia, registered Democrat, District 34, County: Wyandotte
  • Henderson, Broderick, registered Democrat, District 35, County: Wyandotte
  • Long, Margaret, registered Democrat, District 36, County: Wyandotte
  • Peterson, Mike, registered Democrat, District 37, County: Wyandotte
  • Crow, Marti, registered Democrat, District 41, County: Leavenworth
  • Ballard, Barbara, registered Democrat, District 44, County: Douglas
  • Sloan, Tom, registered Republican, District 45, County: Douglas
  • Davis, Paul, registered Democrat, District 46, County: Douglas
  • Mah, Ann, registered Democrat, District 53, County: Douglas/Shawnee
  • Kuether, Annie, registered Democrat, District 55, County: Shawnee
  • Tietze, Annie, registered Democrat, District 56, County: Shawnee
  • Gatewood, Sean, registered Democrat, District 57, County: Shawnee
  • Lane, Harold, registered Democrat, District 58, County: Shawnee
  • Hill, Don, registered Republican, District 60, County: Lyon
  • Henry, Jerry, registered Democrat, District 63, County: Doniphan/Atchison
  • Carlin, Sydney, registered Democrat, District 66, County: Riley
  • Hawk, Tom, registered Democrat, District 67, County: Riley
  • Roth, Charles, registered Republican, District 71, County: Saline
  • Trimmer, Ed, registered Democrat, District 78, County: Bulter/Cowley
  • Finney, Gail, registered Democrat, District 84, County: Sedgwick
  • Loganbill, Judith, registered Democrat, District 86, County: Sedgwick
  • Goyle, Raj, registered Democrat, District 87, County: Sedgwick
  • Ward, Jim, registered Democrat, District 88, County: Sedgwick
  • McCray-Miller, Melody, registered Democrat, District 89, County: Sedgwick
  • Dillmore, Nile, registered Democrat, District 92, County: Sedgwick
  • Barnes, Melany, registered Democrat, District 95, County: Sedgwick
  • Swenson, Dale, registered Democrat, District 97, County: Sedgwick
  • Flaharty, Geraldine, registered Democrat, District 98, County: Sedgwick
  • Garcia, Delia, registered Democrat, District 103, County: Sedgwick
  • Svaty, Don, registered Democrat, District 108, County: Ellsworth/Dickinson/Saline
  • Phelps, Eber, registered Democrat, District 111, County: Ellis
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