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Kansas – mixed message

04 Thursday May 2023

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abortion, anti-choice, billboard, Kansas

Along I-35 in Kansas:

For everyone? Or just for a single issue, apparently?

Previously:

In Kansas (July 26, 2022)

They’ll be back (August 2, 2022)

The message (August 3, 2022)

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2020)

Chutzpah (Kansas)

04 Thursday Aug 2022

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abortion, chutzpah, Kansas

“…A vote for [yes] the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion…”

Via the Kansas Secretary of State:

Yep, “Yes” lost. Bigly.

Excuses:

Value Them Both Releases Statement on Election Results

08.02.22 — Over the last six months, Kansans endured an onslaught of misinformation from radical left organizations that spent millions of out-of-state dollars to spread lies about the Value Them Both Amendment.

Sadly, the mainstream media propelled the left’s false narrative, contributing to the confusion that misled Kansans about the amendment. While the outcome is not what we hoped, our movement and campaign have proven our resolve and commitment. We will not abandon women and babies. [….]

Chutzpah.

Group behind misleading abortion amendment texts tied to former Congressman Tim Huelskamp, report says
Andrew Bahl
Topeka Capital-Journal

A PAC led by former Congressman Tim Huelskamp was behind a misleading text message urging support for a proposed abortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The messages, which were sent Monday afternoon to registered Democrat voters, inaccurately implied that voting yes on the amendment would protect abortion rights in the Kansas Constitution, when in fact the opposite is true. [….]

Yep, chutzpah.

“Hey patriarchy, get your religion off my body”

Previously:

In Kansas (July 26, 2022)

They’ll be back (August 2, 2022)

The message (August 3, 2022)

They’ll be back

02 Tuesday Aug 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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abortion, Kansas, Roe v Wade, social media, Supreme Court, Twitter

Abortion will remain legal in Kansas.

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Thing I never thought I would say….thank God for Kansas.
9:11 PM · Aug 2, 2022

“…A vote for [yes] the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion…”

Via the Kansas Secretary of State:

Constitutional Amendment

Precincts Reporting: 3025 of 3994

Votes %

Constitutional Amendment – “YES” 300,815 39%

Constitutional Amendment – “NO” 463,414 61%

Total Votes 764,229

[emphasis added]

They’ll be back. You can count on it.

Previously:

In Kansas (July 26, 2022)

In Kansas

26 Tuesday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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abortion, bumper stickers, Constitutional amendment, Kansas, Roe v Wade

On the ballot in Kansas on August 2, 2022:

Anti-choice:

“…A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion…”

Who the hell knows?:

Pro-choice:

“…A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and could restrict the people, through their elected state legislators, from regulating abortion by leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion…”

As usual, in America

04 Friday Mar 2022

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gun violence, guns, Kansas, Olathe, school shooting, Sharice Davids

Rep. Sharice Davids (D) [2019 file photo].

DAVIDS STATEMENT ON SHOOTING AT OLATHE EAST HIGH SCHOOL
March 4, 2022 Press Release
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement after reports of a shooting incident at Olathe East High School:

‘I have been in touch with Olathe leaders, school administrators, and law enforcement as we process and respond to the tragic incident at Olathe East earlier today. This was a traumatic event for our community, and we are all hoping for the speedy recovery of those injured as we figure out how to best support each other and our students. I want to recognize our local law enforcement, particularly the Olathe Police Department—their preparation, courage, and coordination has been exemplary, and I know their response helped many parents feel safer during a terrifying situation.

My thoughts are with the students, staff, and families of Olathe East as the investigation continues. These are the texts no parent wants to receive, the fear that far too many kids live with, and the headlines that every American is tired of reading. I stand with our community and with every Kansan who has come out to support us and ask for change.’

Nothing will change.

It’s still snowing

15 Sunday Dec 2019

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Kansas, snow, weather

Late this afternoon in Prairie Village, Kansas:

Rep. Sharice Davids (D) – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019

20 Sunday Jan 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, 3rd Congressional District, Kansas, Kansas City, missouri, Sharice Davids

Yesterday’s Kansas City Women’s March was centered at Unity Temple on the Plaza. After the 2:00 p.m. march through the Plaza and back participants gathered for a 3:00 p.m. inside rally, this due to the extreme cold.

Reprentative Sharice Davids (D) spoke at the rally:

Representative Sharice Davids (D) – January 19, 2019.


https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ste-010.mp3

The transcript:

Representative Sharice Davids (D): …Thank you all for being here today, um, and for, well, actually it’s so much, it’s so much nicer now than any of us anticipated I think, so. Um, I’m grateful for that. Ah, so happy to be here today with all of you. Uh, this will be the third, um, march, rally, uh, that I participated in, the first time I was in Washington, D.C. and I marched with the native women rights group. And then last year, without realizing it, um, I didn’t know that I was going to be running for Congress in that moment but I got to stand on stage with Laura Kelly who is now Kansas’ governor. And now this year I get to be here with all of you.

I’m so excited about the progress that we’ve seen since twenty-sixteen although I now we have a lot more work to do. Um, certainly my victory and Laura Kelly’s victory, which was all of our victories, um, meant a lot in Kansas this last year. But, we all also recognize that twenty-nineteen is gonna be a lot of work. Twenty-twenty is gonna be a lot of work. But we’re here for it. I know we are.

I can’t express, because I’m not as amazing as the poets that stood up here before me today, the honor and privilege that I feel standing in front of you as the Congressional representative for the Third District in Kansas. But I can tell you that the reason that I ran was because I had a lot of faith in the people in Kansas in the Third District and my community. And, this year, Kansas showed up. This year women showed up. LGBT folks, people of color, people of different socio-economic statuses, people with different educational backgrounds, all showed up. And it made a huge difference. And I’m here for that, too.

I knew that we were ready for something different, something that all of us know that our communities stand for. We all want public education, regardless [inaudible]. That we want public education regardless of what zip code you live in, that you should have high quality education. It doesn’t matter who your parents are, it doesn’t matter what your background is, that you are just as deserving of a quality public education as anyone else.

That’s the same for health care. We showed up this year because we know that in the most wealthy country in the world, I heard it from a couple of other speakers, no one should go broke paying for health care. No one should put their family’s ability to have their livelihoods at risk because of something that they can’t control. We all have to worry about our health care. And no one should go broke because of that.

We showed up because we know that those are our values. We know that people, regardless of your background or your socio-economic status, that you, you’re voice should be heard in thi political process.

I ran because I know, I represent a voice that, until Deb Halland and I got elected this year, had never been heard in Congress before. But that didn’t happen because of me, it happened because of all of you. It happened because the people in Kansas showed up. It happened because people on the Missouri side showed up. I know that’s true. It happened because so many of us put our blood, sweat and tears in to this last election cycle in a way that so many of us had not done before.

And a whole bunch of people had. A whole bunch of people have been doing all of this work for so long. And their voices were not being listened to. So many people have been fighting for women’s rights, for LGBT rights, for the rights of Black women, Black men, and Black trans people. And those voices were not being listened to.

But we have started a path of change. This year that’s changing. But the work’s not done. We can clap even though the work’s not done.

We’re at the beginning of a new year that’s gonna be really hard. It already is. I did not anticipate getting sworn in to a closed, partially closed federal government and going to sleep at night knowing that part of the responsibility that I hold is that the decisions I make impact a whole bunch of people that I will never see, a whole bunch of people who are doing work right now and not getting paid for it. Which should never happen, anywhere, and it shouldn’t be [inaudible]. People who are trying to keep us safe.

And I know that a lot of you, probably there are people in this room who are experiencing that right now, that a lot of you care about, not just our federal Civil Service workers and the contractors help keeping, who help keep the federal government going, but also all the people who depend on those federal programs. People who make use of HUD for housing, who make use of SNAP and WIC, so our children and our families in our communities can be fed. All of these things are so important. And it is so heavy going to and from my office and meeting with federal employees and people who are affected by these programs. But I signed up for that.

I intentionally put myself into this process because it matters that we now have more people in Congress who actually know what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck. [inaudible] To have people who are making decisions that this is not a thought experiment for. It’s not a thought experiment for me to be thinking about what it’s like to not have health care. Starting February 1st, when I have healthcare for the first time in over a year.

When so many people in this country know what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck and we have people in the Senate and in the White House who will never understand the pain and that feeling in your chest when you don’t know if you’re gonna to be able to make rent or pay your phone bill or pay for child care or gas to get to work. All of these things that affect all of us are not affecting the people who are sitting in the halls of Congress right now. Until this year, when we have seen so many new people. I’m happy to be part of that class.

So, I’m one of four hundred thirty-five in the House of Representatives right now. But it’s one voice that represents seven hundred thousand people. And each one of us in the House of Representatives has that responsibility. In the Senate there are a hundred of them. And I hope that they will think about the effects of not even voting on the bills that we’re passing because that is unacceptable.

I decided a long time ago that, even though it was not until nineteen twenty-four that Native Americans were recognized as citizens in this country, that, this is a copy of the Constitution. And in this little book is a copy of the Declaration of Independence. And that this is just as much my document a all of yours and the people who signed it. And since I decided that I’ve been keeping a copy of the Constitution with me, all, for like ten years. And, someone bought me this fancy one because I just got in to Congress.

So, the reason that I brought this with me is because I want to encourage everyone to remember that our government has power because the people allow the government to have power.

My favorite line in the Declaration of Independence has to do with the fact that our government derives its just power from the consent of the governed. And that’s all of us.

But recently, one of my more favorite pieces of it is the conclusion. At the end of the Declaration of Independence there’s a pledge. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

During the campaign cycle I told a large group of people that I wanted Democracy as bad as I wanted to breathe. And right now I’m making this pledge to all of you. That my life and fortune and honor is tied up with yours. And I pledge that that will always be the case. And if you see actions out of me and that’s not the case, then you should vote for someone else.

Because I need you to help me keep on the right path to keep representing all of you as best I can.

Please stay active. I know you will. Encourage your friends and family to stay active. Because we are making progress. We’re for sure making progress or I wouldn’t be standing here with all of you. And I hope you’ll continue and join me, continuing to support each other. I’m gonna keep supporting as many of you a I can so that we can raise each other up. Because that’s what we’ve been doing these last couple of years. And it’s working. It’s gonna be a long haul, but it’s working. So keep doing it.

Previously:

Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 19, 2019)

My favorite image of the year – June 22, 2018 – Overland Park, Kansas

29 Saturday Dec 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta, Resist

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#change, #resist, 3rd Congressional District, immigration, Kansas, Kevin Yoder, meta, Overland Park, photo, protest, Sharice Davids

Making a choice was prompted by an exchange on social media.

I really do care. Do U?

On Twitter:

Michael Bersin @MBersin
Replying to @cathysherwin
@KurtEricksonPD My favorite image of the year – June 22, 2018 – immigration protest in front of Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office in Overland Park, Kansas. #change #YearInReview
[….]
12:03 PM – 29 Dec 2018

F 4.5, 1/400, ISO 200, 180 mm – June was a busy month for public protest.

I had read online that there would be an immigration demonstration in front of Representative Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office in downtown Overland Park on the 22nd starting at 4:00 p.m. I arrived early, parked on the street at a nearby park, and walked to the district office. I had expected a handful of protesters. By the time the demonstration was at its peak there were over five hundred people picketing on the sidewalk. There were a few counter protesters, not more than a handful.

Usually protesters face the street with their signs. Early on I noted this individual with her back to the street. I took a series of images.

It was over four months to the general election, this was Johnson County, Kansas, and over five hundred people showed up. That’s when I realized Kevin Yoder’s (r) 2018 reelection campaign was in trouble.

Sharice Davids (D) is now the Representative-elect for the Third Congressional District of Kansas.

Previously:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)

Performance Art (June 22, 2018)

Somebody’s grandmother (June 22, 2018)

Immigration protest at Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office – Overland Park, Kansas – June 22, 2018 (June 23, 2018)

Campaign Finance: maybe they ran out of right wingnut candidates in Kansas

25 Thursday Oct 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate

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34th Senate District, campaign finance, Kansas, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission, two right wingnut Missouri PACs get some of that Johnson County, Kansas silk stocking money:

C171211 10/25/2018 Citizens for a Prosperous 34th Senate District Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C. 11161 Overbrook Rd. Ste. 210 Leawood KS 66211 10/24/2018 $50,000.00

C180456 10/25/2018 Senate Conservatives Fund Ketchmark & McCreight, P.C. 11161 Overbrook Rd. Ste. 210 Leawood KS 66211 10/24/2018 $50,000.00

[emphasis added]

What’s the matter with Kansas?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: No contest is too small… (October 22, 2018)

Campaign Finance: infinite loop (October 23, 2018)

Cargo cult

17 Friday Aug 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Donald Trump, Governor's Ham Breakfast, Josh Hawley, Kansas, Kris Kobach, missouri, Missouri State Fair, Sedalia

Outside yesterday’s Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia:

Well, Kris Kobach (r) is certainly doing his part.

The World Is a Cargo Cult (June 27, 2017)

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