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Michelle Boorstein at The Washington Post's "Under God" blog reports that Faithful America's petition calling for Kansas House Speaker Michael O'Neal to resign now has 40,000 signatures. That's up from 30,000 a week ago ago when I reported for AlterNet the continuing story of imprecatory prayers directed at president Obama. (See also my Daily Kos diary ) The "joke" for ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - 11:05 a.m. - 11 clicks 
From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner; Kansans may see one of the largest Occupy demonstrations since the movement began in New York, Feb. 17 through 19, with Occupy Koch Town. Wichita is the headquarters for the Koch Industries. People in this town and many people throughout the country are tired of Charles and David Koch, and their multi-millionaire PACs, buying elections, jus...
Otto's War Room - Thu 9:21 p.m. - 12 clicks
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Otto's War Room - Thu 9:05 p.m.
-In Wichita: NoWar on Iran! National/InternationalDay of Action Sat. Feb. 4, 2012– 11 A.M. Demonstration Downtown CityLibrary – 2nd bl. south Main Bring signs – sponsored by: Peace & Social Justice Center;Molly’s Brigade - Women of Peace; more info? 263-5886 From The World Can’t Wait; I know I am not the only one to experience déjà vu over ...
Otto's War Room - Thu 11:02 a.m. - 12 clicks
International Conference to support people's war in India in Summer. a task for all commmunists, revolutionaries, antimperialists people After the international campaign 2-9 avril 2011, campaign against AZAD murder in july 2011, and campaign 14-22 january 2012 dedicated to comrade Kishenji, murdered from India regime; now the work is for an International Conference that the Inte...
Otto's War Room - Thu 10:47 a.m.
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Otto's War Room - Wed 9:41 p.m.
Education, taxes and poor leadership show how much Gov. Sam Brownback is out of touch with Kansans' priorities. A new poll highlights the disconnect, Kansas Democratic Chair Joan Wagnon said Tuesday. Only 36 percent of registered voters approve of the job Brownback is doing, a SurveyUSA poll reported. Sponsored by KWCH-TV in Wichita, the poll was conducted Jan. 19-24, 2012. Brownback'...
Buffalo Blog - Wed 7:49 p.m. - 15 clicks
Cross-posted from Faith in Public Life Action Blog As immigration policy took center stage in the Floriday primary this week, Presidential candidates debated "self-deportation" as an answer to legitimate questions of how they would handle the 11 million undocumented immigrants already living and working in the country. Adam Serwer at Mother Jones explains &...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Wed 11:21 a.m.
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Otto's War Room - Tue 8:47 p.m.
Today’s events in Oakland Californiashow the extent of brutality the police will go to in an attempt to scare the Occupymovement off. They should know better. This country is on the verge of war withits own citizens. The article below and the videos are letting the world knowthat this is going on. “Freedom and democracy” in the US are hollowempty meaningless words. This is a dictatorship pure ...
Otto's War Room - Mon 10:28 p.m.
Romney leads by 15 points in Florida: Reuters/Ipsos poll and many of us just plain don’t care. - សតិវ អតុ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House hopeful Mitt Romney's lead over rivalNewt Gingrich has stretched to 15 percentage points in Florida, according to results of aReuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, just a day before the state's Republicanprimary. –excerpt from YahooNews...
Otto's War Room - Mon 10:28 p.m.
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Otto's War Room - Mon 10:27 a.m.
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Otto's War Room - Mon 10:08 a.m.
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Otto's War Room - Mon 10:08 a.m.
As president Obama made his way to the podium before his State of the Union address on Tuesday night there was a poignant reminder of the culture of hate and violence that has marked our public life in recent years. Obama paused for a sustained greeting and hug with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) who had just announced her resignation from Congress to complete her recovery from an assassin...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Sun 12:48 p.m.
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Otto's War Room - Sat 2:02 p.m.
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Otto's War Room - Sat 1:41 p.m.
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Otto's War Room - Sat 1:41 p.m.
What is your opinion of the promise to rush into Cuba, as soon as Castro 'kicks the bucket', and establish a democracy? I guess the leading Republican contenders for the presidency don't realize the failure of establishing democracy, U.S. style, in Viet Nam and Iraq. I'm not an expert on the state of the Cuban people, but it seems to me they are better off under Castro's rule than they were unde...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 27
From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner; According to an organization called Kansans Count, About 1/4 of our Kansas legislators have ties to a lobby group called ALEC, that is American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC claims to want “ Limited Government · Free Markets · Federalism”. But opponents argue that the real attempt is to give almost all government control to corporate inter...
Otto's War Room - Jan 26 - 5 clicks
It was sometime ago that MikeEly of the KasamaProject discussed three heads vs., five heads or even just one. In otherwords, many Maoist sites have a logo with Karl Marx, VI Lenin and Mao Zedong’sface. The one below is an example; It’s afairly simple logo that allows the reader to know that the site is bothMarxist-Leninist and Maoist. I wasexposed t...
Otto's War Room - Jan 26
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Otto's War Room - Jan 26
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Otto's War Room - Jan 26
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Otto's War Room - Jan 26
From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner; Wichita doesn’t have any public transportation after 6pm. They lack a lot of services. But not when it comes to investing public money in downtown hotels. According to The Wichita Eagle , the city will spend $30 million on a hotel on the southeast corner of Douglas and Broadway. Some citizens have launched the Wichita Petition drive to...
Otto's War Room - Jan 25 - 4 clicks
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Otto's War Room - Jan 25
In Sam Brownback's Kansas, constitutionality is optional This won't be a particularly insightful post, mainly because I'm just tired of these people and wish they would go away, or secede, or whatever it is they need to do to separate themselves from the rest of modern society and live out their lily-white no-immigrant no-Muslims no-athiests no-gay-people no-liberals no-moderates no-funn...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 25
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Otto's War Room - Jan 24
Newt Gingrich want to teach the work ethics to poor schoolkids while he make most of his money sitting on his ass doing nothing butcollecting investement income that has a much lower tax rate than the working 99%. Is he going to explain anyof this to these children he want to hire. MittRomney is not better. Neither is Ron Paul. Watch What Do Tax Returns of Ro...
Otto's War Room - Jan 24
The beneficiaries of tax overhauls proposed by Gov. Brownback and House Republications are likely to be wealthy corporations -- and not just small businesses that create jobs, The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities says in a report it just released. The major beneficiaries of such a giveaway are unlikely to be the small businesses and job creators that Governor Brownback says he is i...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 24 - 3 clicks
from The Dissenter; By: Kevin Gosztola Wednesday January 18, 2012 Two ordinances drawn up for controlling protests and maintaining security in the city of Chicago during upcoming NATO/G8 meetings passed through the Chicago City Council today. The ordinances, which organizers from Occupy Chicago and the Coalition Against the NATO/G8 (CANG8) call “sit down and shut up” ordinances, were pr...
Otto's War Room - Jan 23
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Otto's War Room - Jan 23
For kids! The state of Kansas has found a way to deny children who are American citizens nutritional assistance they would be eligible for—if only their parents weren't undocumented immigrants. While undocumented immigrants are not eligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, many have children who were born in the U.S. and are, as citizens, eligible for aid. ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 23
Yesterday I wrote about my own experiences from the free lunch system and how Arizona is planning to allow schools to opt out of it. Now here in Kansas we found a way to take food out of children's mouths a different way. Through the food stamp system. ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 23
Today's New York Times reports that Brownback created an Office of the Repealer "to recommend the elimination of out-of-date, unreasonable and burdensome state laws that build up in any bureaucracy over time." Guess which law, disabled by a 2003 decision of the Supreme Court, hasn't been sent to the Office of the Repealer for elimination. Can't guess? ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 21 - 3 clicks
It's official (again). Republican policies are (again) bad for children (again): It may seem intuitive that states that invest more in public services are better places for children to grow up, but the Foundation for Child Development now has the numbers to prove it. The foundation is out with a new study that confirms the “strong relationship” between higher state taxes and children’s hea...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 21
http://www.kansascity.com/... That is the link for those of you who don't know which state Brownback is Governor of. However, the topic of this diary is not the tax cuts for the wealthy in Kansas, and tax increases for the working poor, covered in the article. The topic of the diary is a different Kansas policy idea that my new bride, Tonia, doesn't like. The title is from ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 20
...it's not bad for the Democrats. Let's look at the "least change" map that was posted in today's live digest. McCain '08 Obama '08 District 1 67.2% 31.0% District 2 52.9% 45.1% District 3 48.9% 49.8% District 4 58.6% 39.5% The new 3rd is actually a bit worse for Team Blue than the old one was (old KS-03 went 51-48 for Obama), but its not...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 19
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reports today that Gov. Brownback's proposed tax plan would increase taxes for the vast majority of Kansans, while cutting taxes for the richest of the rich. The Institute writes: An ITEP analysis of the plan finds that the bottom 80 percent of the state’s income distribution would collectively see a tax hike under the Brownback plan, while ...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 17 - 8 clicks
Recently retired Secretary of Revenue Joan Wagnon said Tuesday that the tax plan proposed by Gov. Sam Brownback hurts working families and the poor by literally picking their pockets as it preserves tax credits for banks and wealthy corporations. Wagnon analyzed the list of tax credits the Brownback plan proposes to remove, and the credits it proposes to preserve. She determined that the...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 17 - 8 clicks
With the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision approaching, this song written by Barbara Joye and performed by Atlanta singer Anita Paycheck is right on. ...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 16
In his speech last December at Osawatomie KS High School, President Obama cited Theodore Roosevelt's remarks there a century earlier. . Republican President Theodore Roosevelt served from 1901 to 1909. In 1912, representing the Bull Moose Party, he lost to Woodrow Wilson--the only time a 3rd Party candidate has finished as high as second. Every place I looked, Theodore Roosevelt ran...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 15
My history as a peace activist started in the late ‘60s when I took part in a five-mile march against the Vietnam War. My history with Stieg Larsson’s character, Lizbeth Salander, dates from January 2010, when my daughter-in-law sent me The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , the first book in the Girl series . I devoured that book. I mourned when I heard that Larsson had died of a heart attack at the...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 15
From the DNC's Protecting the Vote site. This week saw the war on voting carried to a ridiculous extreme. In order to prove the conservative case that conspiracies to commit voter fraud exist, James O'Keefe carried out a conspiracy to commit voter fraud. It's a stunt that turned the families of the recently deceased into victims, and opens O'Keefe and his minions to criminal prosecuti...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 14
There is an issue that is greatly neglected in America. It only receives mention in the press once something tragic has happened, and even then it fades from discussion quickly. According to estimates by the World Health Organization, the total number of years lost to illness, disability, or premature death within the United States and Canada are caused more by Neuropsychiatric Disorders than an...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 14
I keep seeing and hearing people argue about those Marines who desecrated the dead bodies of Taliban fighters and whether they are subject to the judgment and standards of those who do not or have not served. People argue as if their service some how excuses them from responsibility for committing an atrocity. I think there is a clear need for us all to step back from this issue and look at it o...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 14
Mitt Romney has gotten slammed for celebrating his endorsement by Kris Kobach , the Kansas Secretary of State and notorious author of Arizona and Alabama’s “show me your papers” laws. (Along with several similar nasty laws.) Of course, immigration advocates have pounced all over the endorsement and the press has written a lot about how this move is straight-up dumb if he’s trying to win...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 13
Mitt Romney has gotten slammed for celebrating his endorsement by Kris Kobach , the Kansas Secretary of State and notorious author of Arizona and Alabama’s “show me your papers” laws. (Along with several similar nasty laws.) Of course, immigration advocates have pounced all over the endorsement and the press has written a lot about how this move is straight-up dumb if he’s trying to win...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 13
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about It's A Wonderful Life and it got me thinking about Frank Capra. Capra is one of my favorite filmmakers. His films are full of energy and fun, with appealing characters and good humor. When I watch these films, I feel proud of being an American. This was one of the intentions of Frank Capra. Capra made his best films during the Great Depression, during a...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 11
7:02 PM: We agree with the Governor - we're the people of Kansas, and we're not quitting. We're not stopping in the fight for good schools. We're not stopping to fight to restore education cuts. We're not stopping in the fight to bring good jobs to Kansas and to make certain small businesses get a fair shake. We need leaders who have the right priorities. And we need leaders who are willing to st...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 11
House and Senate Democrats today announced the Kansas Kids First plan to restore cuts in education funding, lower property taxes and make certain everyone pays their fair share.
"Cuts to Kansas schools have gone way too far in the last few years," said House Minority Leader Paul Davis of Lawrence. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka said, “Our proposal ...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 10
Wichita, Kansas is known as 'the air capital of the world'. In WWII, the B-29 bomber was assembled in Wichita. Private aircraft have been assembled there for years. Boeing and Wichita have a rich history together. What follows is a sad tale of what a 'job creator' really does when everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is handed to them, from tax breaks to a congressional delegat...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 6
Kansas Democratic Party Chair Joan Wagnon issued the following statement in response to an email forwarded by Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal. Wagnon's statement: The emails Speaker O'Neal has been caught forwarding about First Lady Michelle Obama are highly offensive, disrespectful and unacceptable. Regardless of how he feels about President Obama's politics, Speaker O'Neal's d...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 6
I guess we can say: at least he apologized. The speaker of the Kansas House has apologized after forwarding an e-mail that made fun of first lady Michelle Obama’s appearance and referred to her as “Mrs. YoMama.” In Republican Mike O’Neal’s apology, first reported in the Lawrence Journal-World, he said he forwarded the e-mail without even reading it, and had no idea it referred to Mrs. Obama...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 6
When you have clowns like Sam Brownback running my state of Kansas, you might imagine the circus of Republican nutbags who control our state Congress. Add " racist " alonside the word "nutbag" while you're at it. Here's the latest of our House Speaker who apparently forwarded an outright racist email to his fellow Republican bretheren: Topeka — House Speaker Mike O'Neal, R-Hutchinson, has ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 5
A family in our neighborhood is facing the New Year without the home they’ve lived in and paid the mortgage on for the past eleven years. This is the fifth family in the past three years to meet such a fate. The people in this neighborhood who lost their houses have jobs and are upstanding citizens just trying to get by. We live in older neighborhood in Midtown Wichita. Our immediate area compri...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 5
This is a sad day in Kansas. Boeing announced that it is closing its Wichita facility, a move that will throw 2,100 employees out of work by the time the location closes in 2013. Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research has reported that this will mean the loss of $1.5 billion in wages over 10 years. Kansas Democratic Party Chair Joan Wagnon ...
Buffalo Blog - Jan 4
Kansas NOW's state director and special to RH Reality Check 's Kari Ann Rinker testifies before a committee of Kansas state representatives. Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 4
A calling to all Kossaks who reside in or around the Kansas City area! I have begun a new group to act as a rally point for all news or activity in the KC area. It is my hope that the page can become a hub for discussion, calls to action, volunteerism, GOTV, news, and everything else relating to our little corner in the middle of nowhere! The groups name is Kansas City Kossaks, so if you are i...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Jan 3
We are ‘hell bent for election’. We don’t like welfare, so let’s go for serfdom? Are there no other choices? The cries and pleading by the wealthy for tax relief is resounding across the political agenda of the Republican party. We must balance the budget, but in no way can it be shared by the wealthy. It must all come from the ‘government welfare’ being doled out to the lazy, inept, poor p...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 2
Christmas is not Christmas for me until I watch "It's A Wonderful Life" at least once during the holiday season. "It's A Wonderful Life" is one of the great heartwarming films that film director Frank Capra made during the 1930s and 1940s. This film, as is most of Frank Capra's films, is a paen to the spirit of altruism and community that Capra felt was at the heart of the American spirit. Ca...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Jan 2
Whether you believe in the Biblical creation story, as absolutely literal in time and sequence, or the theory of evolution, which has many varied time lines and sequences, WE HAVE A PROBLEM! Recorded history indicates man was entirely at the mercy of nature, until he began developing tools and learning to alter his environment. Evidence clearly shows that the 'human species' has been far superior...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Dec 30
The Christmas season has always been a time to be with family members and close friends for me. This year especially, it's a time to rest and recover from a lingering cold. It's also a time for me to reflect and think of the birth of Jesus and to think about this Christian church that I've called my home for all of my life. I first became passionate about my faith when I was fourteen years ...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Dec 24
I've railed over the last few months about the potential for shocking and horrific results thanks to the change in mental health care policy in Kansas. Well, in the last two months, the situation has moved from "Bad" to "destructive". Mental Health Care Facilities in our state have been shuttered; services stopped.. and now, even long term care facilities are under too much pressur...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 23
Is there no answer to the inequities of life? Is it acceptable to just say, ‘That’s life, get tough and deal with it’? Does ‘culture’ have any bearing on our attitude? If so, what is our culture? I just read an account of Pvt. Danny Chen’s experience and how he chose to end his frustration and the pain of living. Some of the comments following that account were quite alarming and some were q...
Everyday Citizen (Kansas) - Dec 22
A political organizer who helped a Democratic challenger knock off a Republican incumbent in Kentucky will take over as executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party. Jason Perkey will leave his position as a regional field director with the Kentucky Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign in Louisville, KY, to start as the KDP’s executive director on Jan. 3. "Jason has a wealt...
Buffalo Blog - Dec 21
Kansas jobs won’t be exported, unemployed workers will be protected against job discrimination, work training and post-secondary/technical educational programs will be strengthened and unscrupulous hiring practices will be halted under a Kansas Democratic plan announced today. The Kansas Jobs First effort is a fiscally responsible, budget-strengthening plan that will bring job oppor...
Buffalo Blog - Dec 20
My name is Burt Humburg. I grew up in a suburb of Wichita, KS called Andover, KS. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper there, Adam Knapp, has written a wonderful account of my story. Here's his intro to it: This former homecoming king at Andover High is a homosexual. Why is his story important? Because he refused to let it destroy him. http://www.andoveramerican.com/... Recommend it if y...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 17
The Kansas City Star says President Obama "hit all the right points" when he visited Osawatomie. "This is the defining issue of our time," Obama said, referring to income inequality. "At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement. "T...
Buffalo Blog - Dec 8
That was one great speech. Here's the video, in case you missed it. President Obama Speaks on the Economy http://www.youtube.com/... It starts off a little slow, but soon becomes a relative stem-winder. Soon dismantling "trickle down" economics for the shallow, unproven theory, that is. In short, the President says of Reaganomics: "It doesn’t work. It has ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 7
I'm listening to the speech with baited breath. We've seen the rebirth of populist Obama with his American Jobs Act speech, a verbal 2 x 4 which I'm sure many enjoyed. Listening to his speech at Osawatomie, he's now doing exactly what I feel many people, especially on this blog, had wished he had done before. He's laying everything out on the line. I wonder what a...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 6
President Obama finally discusses the economic inequality in this country and destroys the nonsensical Reagan and conservative positions that have harmed our country over these last decades. I am finally glad he is addressing this - What took him so long? ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 6
Yeah, Osawatomie, Kansas. That's pretty much all the details I have on that, but hot damn. ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 2 - 2 clicks
I just called out a chance to help education in Baldwin, but here's one for Emporia. It will be attended by Brownback himself. December 7th, during the day, when people who aren't paid to be a mouthpiece for their propaganda machine have a hard time attending, but possibly we could get some bright students, some concerned stay at home parents? Register here: http://events.ksde.org/... At...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 1
Yeah, I don't diary much. Ok, ever. But this is something near and dear to my heart. Brownback has been pushing to dismantle public education in Kansas, and he'll get his way if we don't stop him. 6:30 p.m. Monday, December 5th at Baldwin City High School . Be there if you can. You'll get to see the Koch mouth piece Dave Trabert (president of Koch-funded Kansas Policy Institute and member o...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 1
SUSA: Kansas is a blowout for the GOP. Unless, of course, it's not. When I was touring the Midwest, a local actually delighted me with the most shopworn of observations about Midwestern weather: If you don't like it, wait 15 minutes. It'll change. Well, if you don't like SurveyUSA's assessment of the political landscape in Kansas, just wait ... well, longer than 15 minutes. But you onl...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Dec 1
When I was growing up, my Dad was a university professor and we took advantage of what the university had to offer culturally in what was, at the time, only a medium-sized town. I am a different person than I might have been otherwise because of that. Ironically, I am now the university professor, but I don't take nearly as much advantage of what my institution has to offer the commu...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 30
http://news.yahoo.com/... TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — When a high school senior tweeted that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback "sucked," among other invectives, reaction at the state Capitol led her principal to demand an apology. Instead, it was the Republican governor offering a mea culpa Monday, forced to admit to a self-described overreaction by his staff that subjected him to ridicule for efforts t...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 29
Sam Brownback, who sucks, has now apologized for his staff sucking Remember this ? “Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot,” [high school student Emma] Sullivan thumbed from the back of the crowd. She actually made no such comments. “Joking around,” Sullivan says of the incident. Brownback’s director of communication wasn’t am...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 28
Good news from Kansas. Emma Sullivan's school has backed down and said she won't have to apologize to Sam Brownback after all . A statement from the district says officials have reviewed the facts surrounding Sullivan’s tweet last week. During a visit as part of a student government program Sullivan tweeted comments critical of Brownback. Staff members saw the tweet and notified the pr...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 28
Just wanted to quickly update the story about Emma Sullivan , the Shawnee Mission East senior who was browbeaten to apologize for her #HeBlowsALot tweet about governor Sam Brownback. At first, she was going to issue the apology. Today she changed her mind. ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 28
Here's Governor HeBlowsALot His reputation's kind of shot Is for free speech? No he's not He's Governor HeBlowsALot Emma tweeted to some friends But that's not where our story ends She was told to make amends But fascism does this portend. We still have free speech (if barely) Brownback's simply not aware, he Told Emma "Make nice or we Will make things very hard for thee". Exactly...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 28
Unless people have been hiding beneath a rock, they are familiar with the Emma Sullivan/Sam Brownback incident . It outrages me to see a student bullied, especially by the school's administration. Therefore, I searched for a way to report this injustice. Thankfully, Emma's high school has given me the opportunity to do just that. The method follows the squiggle of truth. ...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 28
Sam Brownback, known nationwide for sucking Let me set the stage: A high school senior, Emma Sullivan, was on a field trip to Topeka, Kansas, in one of those school trips that supposes you will learn something about government if you pop in for a day and absorb it via osmosis or having politicians speechify at you or the like. You know, standard stuff. But this high school senior w...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 26
I will let the KC Star article speak for itself: Teen's joking tweet on Topeka trip creates a capital fracas Emma Sullivan’s trip to Topeka with other high school students to learn about government taught her a few unexpected lessons: • Gov. Sam Brownback’s office monitors social media for postings containing the governor’s name. • Some folks exhibit little sense of humor or...
DailyKos (Kansas) - Nov 25
