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muriel_volestrangler

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34. Kansas Senate condemns federal transgender guidance, ignores school closures on final day

Thu Jun 2, 2016, 03:31 PM

Jun 2016

The resolution became entwined in a debate over school funding. GOP lawmakers opted not to respond Wednesday to a Friday state Supreme Court ruling that found funding unconstitutionally inequitable. The decision drew criticism from Democrats.

“If we are truly concerned about keeping schools open in August, we should have used this sine die session to appropriate the required amount of money — in this case, $38 million — for school funding equity rather than waste taxpayers’ dollars on an election-year charade over which bathroom students should use,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka.

Wagle said the Legislature wasn’t ignoring the ruling but had chosen not to act at this time. Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, R-Nickerson, also pushed back against criticism for responding to the transgender guidance but not the Supreme Court ruling.

http://cjonline.com/news/2016-06-01/kansas-senate-condemns-federal-transgender-guidance-state-joins-lawsuit

"Wasn’t ignoring the ruling but had chosen not to act at this time" - it's the last day of the session. You did ignore it, fuckhead.

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News from Brownbackistan: Real possibility now that schools won't open in August [View all] deminks May 2016 OP

The teabaggers and their GOP minions will call it mission accomplished liberal N proud May 2016 #1

You got it! jalan48 May 2016 #8

It's obviously what a majority of Kansans want, or they wouldn't keep voting Nay May 2016 #15

Gerrymandering has preserved the insanity of ultra CONservative legislators. liberal N proud May 2016 #21

gerrymandering is ruining the whole country, on every issue. Election reform lindysalsagal May 2016 #23

This is Kansas, Kochestan. Look first to them. Hortensis May 2016 #29

Bleeding Kansas once again. GOP red, that is. Feathery Scout May 2016 #2

i hate brownback demtenjeep May 2016 #3

Why did your fellow citizens vote for Brownback? perdita9 May 2016 #11

no one i ever talk to admits to voting for the son of a bitch demtenjeep May 2016 #19

Because those damn gays, colored folks and atheists keep ruining their life. ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2016 #26

Brownback puts me in mind of a corrupt televangelist. Enthusiast May 2016 #16

If Democrats don't unite in November behind the nominee (Bernie or Hillary) our nation TeamPooka May 2016 #4

You're right! Delmette May 2016 #7

Every single school in the state? SheilaT May 2016 #5

https://www.gofundme.com/26wffbg demtenjeep May 2016 #9

Courts ruled here in OH that school funding be totally funded by the state's general fund greiner3 May 2016 #6

Kansans voted the bread out of their own mouths perdita9 May 2016 #10

I feel the same way elmac May 2016 #17

So eff the children of Kansas... KSstellarcat May 2016 #18

What do you suggest? perdita9 May 2016 #25

I don't suggest anything of the sort. Perhaps you could show KSstellarcat May 2016 #27

You have my sympathy... perdita9 May 2016 #28

I fear that they won't make smarter choices regardless. KSstellarcat May 2016 #33

thanks a lot demtenjeep May 2016 #20

Voting or not voting has consequences elmac May 2016 #22

Hahaha! Bs... Oneironaut May 2016 #12

children can't vote. They know that. lindysalsagal May 2016 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author Turbineguy May 2016 #13

But all those tax cuts will result in thousands of new jobs! Enthusiast May 2016 #14

Republicans screw up everything they touch Scientific May 2016 #30

I wish the MSM would cover these GOP-led disasters. Vinca May 2016 #31

Brownie made his bed bonzo925 May 2016 #32

Kansas Senate condemns federal transgender guidance, ignores school closures on final day muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #34

Wagle is a real piece of Koch work, isn't she? nt deminks Jun 2016 #35