Posted on 03/21/2008 10:04:44 AM PDT by listenhillary
TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill Friday that would allow two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas and strip some power from the regulator who has blocked them.
Legislators who support the bill have been working for weeks to build the two-thirds majorities they need in both chambers to override Sebelius' veto, which had been expected.
"Of all the duties and responsibilities entrusted to me as governor, none is greater than my obligation to protect the health and well-being of the people of Kansas," Sebelius said in her veto message.
The bill is a response to a decision in October the health and environment secretary, Rod Bremby, to deny an air-quality permit to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. for the two coal-fired plants outside Holcomb, in Finney County. The $3.6 billion project has bipartisan legislative support.
Bremby rejected the permit because of the plants' potential carbon dioxide emissions. Many scientists link CO2 to global warming, and Bremby said the state can't ignore the dangers of climate change.
Many legislators, including some of Sebelius' fellow Democrats, saw Bremby's decision as arbitrary because the state has no rules on CO2 emissions. They argued the decision made Kansas less business-friendly and made future power shortages more likely.
Watch her bank accoun- err, her “campaign donations” swell now.
Any idea if they can over-ride the veto?
Sounds like there is support on both sides for the power plants.
From who? The candle makers? The kerosene lantern manufacturing association?
Don’t forget the buggy whip union.
And others.....
Thank the people who voted for Sebelius. You can’t entirely blame her for sticking to her liberal principles. You can blame the voters who picked her as their representative.
I agree with you about the Kansas media. They are horribly corrupt. It is still the responsibility of voters to discover the truth for themselves. It is amazing that the same voters who gave us Sebelius also picked Brownback for their U.S. Senator. Go figure. But still, the buck stops with the voters. No one held a gun to their head and forced them to pick Sebelius. When they select her (by a comfortable margin if I remember correctly), they can’t then blame her for doing these sorts of things. She didn’t pretend to be anything different in this particular area. It’s the voter’s fault.
Democrats don’t want us to drill for oil, explore for gas, or generate electricity for our own coal in the US. They hate nuclear. They know solar and wind power will cause electricity rates to skyrocket.
This nutcase of a governor is determined to follow her sister-in-crime, Governor Granholm and send the Kansas economy down the tubes like Michigan. As others have pointed out, until the voters wake up, the granola bar crowd is going to take us over the waterfall.
This is why we won’t really fix things until we’re in depression. People holding power do not go easily or capitulate from their deranged, liberal views but eventually get voted out because their disregard for the common voting man. Interesting their is so much debate lately about the right to bear arms. Interesting because if the common man’s right to vote out creeps is taken away (remember taxation without representation?) then We the People are armed and force compliance to the constitution and the founding fathers vision of true liberty.
Called both my state rep and senator to override the veto.
I can count on the senator, but the rep is up in the air (dem)
“Actually it is the corrupt press here who do not report politics fairly.
People think Sebelius is a conservative because the press doesn’t report anything negative or reveal her liberalism. People think Nancy Boyda is a conservative. If you read her newsletter she is the second coming of Bob Dole.”
The media wont tell the truth about left-liberal Obama either. It’s needs to be fought.
It’s time people figured it out. It’s time Republicans exposed the liberals. The truth is out there.
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