Posted on 10/13/2025 8:24:47 PM PDT by TigerClaws
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas lawmakers met Monday to approve legislative budgets heading into next year’s session.
Among those budget considerations by the Legislative Coordinating Council was a $400,000 item from the State General Fund, along with $60,000 for licensing costs, to cover the anticipated special session to redistrict the state’s legislative voting districts.
“Republican leadership just appropriated $460,000 from the state general fund for a redistricting special session that Kansans are not calling for. It is clear that Republicans are not focused on the kitchen table issues that Kansans care about. Instead of helping, for example, the 1200 seniors who’ve just been waitlisted for Meals on Wheels in Johnson County due to Republican federal cuts, they’ve opted to spend almost half a million of Kansas taxpayer dollars on a political stunt.” Sen. Dinah Sykes, (D-Lenexa)
Every red state should be doing this. It is time to even the score. The rats have been doing this for decades.
Worth every penny.
And the beauty is the dems have been doing this for so long, and they’ve pretty much gerrymandered things to the absolute limit so they can’t fight back.
If we pick up all these seats during the mid-terms, ALL of the RINOs will have to show their colors to thwart Trump’s agenda in the 2nd half of his term.
“And the beauty is the dems have been doing this for so long, and they’ve pretty much gerrymandered things to the absolute limit so they can’t fight back.”
Except for California of course.
And New York, Maryland, Wisconsin and some other states if they want to (Maine, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Arizona). They don’t control the “process” in all of those states and therefore might be stymied, but they can do some damage in others.
Guess I am not understanding why the state would have to spend this much money to do redistricting. Don’t they have full-time people who are already being paid to work for the state?
It will be a belly laugh to watch the Pelosi acolyte Sharice Davids gerrymandered out. It can easily be done, but the big question is whether the courts will allow it.
most liberal analysts have stated this is a battle the democrats can’t win. Illinois is already gerrymandered to the extreme. If they could squeeze another seat out they would have. Either way the real trouble for the Dems happens when/if the supreme court guts the Voting Rights Act this session and stops mandating the unconstitutional majority minority districts and then the 2030 census will put them in permanent minority status.
Here’s a fact for you....of all the house seats only 69 of them were decided in the last election by less than 10%. Of those 69 44 were won by the democrat. What does that tell you? The democrats do a much better job of squeezing out Democrat leaning districts.
There are always extra costs with more days at the capitol. If nothing else, the state reps and senators and staff have more days in hotels, per diem, mileage, etc. It all adds up quickly.
The same could be said for pretty much any Government endeavor
I live in Illinois. There are 17 Dem to 4 Rep in Illinois delegation, I don’t think they can squeeze any more out. What are you trying to say with that incorrect assertion?
So there are 17 Dems and 4 Reps in the Illinois House delegation, eh?
Might want to fact-check that “incorrect assertion”.
The real numbers are 14 D and 3 R.
It’s true that the Democrats *may* not be able to do any better than that in Illinois, but blindly declaring they can’t is meaningless.
Remember all of the idiots who said that California Democrats couldn’t possibly screw Republicans any more than they already had, seeing as how the Rats already hold 43 of 52 seats — and then CA went and created a map which voters are about to approve, that will try to offset all of the upcoming GOP gains in the new Texas map (R+5 is the dream there).
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