A shocking video from Wichita Liberty tonight highlights just how badly the education lobby and other taxpayer funded groups want a tax increase. At the Wichita School Board meeting, Harold Schlechtweg, business representative of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 513, outlined the union’s efforts to pack a Sedgwick County legislative forum. The effort was [...]
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State Rep. Hineman, not KEPC, requested pro-tax study
A KansasWatchdog article this morning reveals that Kansas Representative Don Hineman (R-Dighton), and not the Kansas Economic Progress Council, requested the pro-sales tax study released Monday by Wichita State University. The study concluded that a sales tax increase would cost private sector employment, but would fuel government jobs, thus saving close to 2,000 in the [...]
Tevis: For special interest money before he was against it
Related: > “Netroots Nation used to “buy” Kansas State Rep District 15 in Olathe?” by Kansas Meadowlark > KRA follow up: “Tevis: For special interest money before he was against it” > “Tevis opens up his warchest” from PrimeBuzz Following the posting of my findings of Sean Tevis’ July and October 2008 campaign finance reports, [...]
Democrat Tevis criticizes opponents PAC donations, takes $500 from KNEA, has yet to raise $1 from his own district
Related: > “Netroots Nation used to “buy” Kansas State Rep District 15 in Olathe?” by Kansas Meadowlark > KRA follow up: “Tevis: For special interest money before he was against it” > “Tevis opens up his warchest” from PrimeBuzz Sean Tevis, husband of Michelle Tevis, former editor for the Kansas City Star, and a candidate [...]