Dave Trabert, author for the Kansas Policy Institute - a right wing Kansas local think tank took to his online blog to declare the Kansas Legislature was prepared to abdicate their duty.
http://cjonline.com/...
A very sad but not uncommon process is playing out right now in the Kansas Legislature that is designed to avoid transparency and prevent citizens from knowing exactly where their elected representatives stand on important issues.
Legislators were publicly encouraged yesterday in the House Republican caucus to allow this stripped-down version to go to conference to avoid a series of “gotcha votes.” It wasn’t put in these terms, but legislators were essentially asked to subvert the full legislative process for their own re-election purposes...and possibly prevent some from having a say in tax policy.
Trabert, who has argued for across the board cuts instead of taxes is contending has contended that the move by Kansas Legislators to check out of the process was clearly political cowardice as Republicans refused to make the kind of cuts that the right wing favors.
