I will be voting in the Sunflower Primary. I don’t know if I can support them in the General.4/25/2019 By Edward Rosson
I will be the first to admit that I never thought I would be writing this article. I have been a loyal Sunflower voter for 25 years. Every election, I voted Sunflower up and down the ticket. That may change in 2019. The Sunflower candidates for Governor fail to live up to the values and ideals of the Sunflower party I used to know. Don’t get me wrong, they say all the right things on policy. I still believe that the Sunflower platform is the best in politics. Unfortunately, that isn’t enough to quell my fears on their leadership qualities. Both candidates in the primary have shown a distain for self-sacrifice in the interests of Kansas. Isabella Southwick is content to double dip. She wants to run the Kansas Department of Education while also making money from her husband’s charter school. She explicitly refused to donate the money to remove any conflict of interest. This comes on the heel of her flip flopping stance on Corporate PAC money. Senator Uriarte meanwhile has never wavered in his willingness to put his D.C special interests ahead of the Kansas voter. He failed to tell us that he moved his family from Kansas and has shown a continued eagerness to take their dirty money. We recently conducted a public poll on the Kansas electorate, the results of which are overwhelming. 89% of voters said that it was important for their candidate to reject corporate PAC money. The only way I can explain their behavior is that they simply have higher priorities than the people of Kansas. That is not to say that any other candidate will do. Senator Boyce takes the same special interest money. Even worse in my eyes, he has changed his political stances like a chameleon changes color. If he wins the Free State nomination, I will probably return to the fold. There is only one candidate in this race who has shown any willingness to confront the corporate corruption at every level in our political system. Mayor Jack Griswold has pledged to take on the broken machine style politics in Topeka. He has never accepted Corporate PAC or lobbyist donations. He has called out the greedy practices of the Healthcare industry and pledged to enact policies to end their rampage. We don’t see eye to eye on many policy questions (he is a Free State guy after all) but he does have my vision of what needs to be done to break the gridlock in Topeka. If he wins the Free State nomination, I will probably vote for him in the general.
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