Laura Kelly Archives - Kansas Policy Institute

Kelly admin consciously deceived legislators, taxpayers 0
- Tax & Spending
- April 30, 2021
An Open Records request and public pressure from KPI and our media outlet, the Sentinel, compelled Governor Laura Kelly’s Department of Revenue to tacitly confirm that they consciously deceived legislators and taxpayers. As the Sentinel first reported, Kelly’s Secretary of Revenue Mark Burghart and her Budget Director Adam Proffitt made an unsubstantiated claim on March
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Kelly’s order to delay school opening is unwarranted 0
- Education
- July 18, 2020
Governor Laura Kelly’s order to delay school opening until after Labor Day is simply unwarranted. Neither reason nor science supports such an overreach of authority. In making the ill-advised decision to delay reopening Kelly declared, “I can’t in good conscience open schools when cases in our state are at an all-time high and continuing to
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Kelly’s K-12 budget plan favors government over taxpayers 0
- Education
- June 26, 2020
When Governor Kelly signed the school funding bill in 2019, she knew it would create large budget deficits within two years. One highly placed source asked her what she would do if the state ran short of money, and she replied, “Well if we can’t afford it, I’ll just tell the court we can’t afford
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Governor Kelly’s vetoes showed her disdain for taxpayers 0
- Tax & Spending
- June 2, 2020
Remember Governor Laura Kelly’s campaign promises of bipartisanship, transparency, and doing what’s right for the people of Kansas? Observing her in the legislature over the years made clear it was hogwash, and that it would only be a matter of time before showing her true colors. Her recent vetoes did exactly that. This isn’t a
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