Register and Vote!

By Jerry Marsh

I hesitated to submit this opinion for publication out of concern that it would have opposite the intended effect. I submitted it because the risk of not speaking out is greater. The risk I allude to is the election of Kris Kobach as Governor of Kansas.

Kansas endured six years of fiscal mismanagement thanks to former Gov. Sam Brownback. Given Mr. Kobach’s own pronouncements regarding fiscal policy, one may fairly expect more egregious mismanagement from a Kobach administration. Kansas voters in the past two elections let legislators know they preferred a more responsible fiscal policy and the legislators responded. If voters elect Mr. Kobach governor, they will signal their desire to reverse the hard won fiscal gains of the past four years and a GOP legislature will likely comply.

 

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