Kansas - Deceased: Cause of Death, Extremism

An obituary as printed in the Hutchinson News

Kansas 1861-2013

By Jason Probst

TOPEKA - The Great State of Kansas passed away on March 31, 2013, after a long and difficult battle with extremism that became markedly more aggressive in 2010. The struggle left the state so weakened it could no longer fight against the relentless attacks by the fatal disease.

Kansas was born on Jan. 29, 1861.

The state is preceded in death by fair taxation, good highways, strong education, family farms, a good public parks and wildlife system, open government, neighborliness and belief in helping each other out, freely elected public servants, and political moderation.

SNIP

The elections of 2010 and 2012 brought the poisoned pill that would bring about Kansas' untimely end. The first election seated a governor who tossed aside Kansas' storied history and replaced it with a vision of his own design. In 2012, record setting campaign contributions from out-of-state donors financed the defeat of those moderate Republicans who had spent the last of their political careers keeping Kansas alive.

One by one, the things Kansas had spent a lifetime building were dismantled, until the state was rendered as empty and uninviting as it had been in those early days when the first settlers eyed its endless expanse.

Along the way, the state's defenders - the farmer, the laborer, the property owner and the shop keeper - stood mute and passive, hoping for a day when the state would spark back to life, as it had always done before.

They remained silent too long.

The Great State of Kansas passed away on March 31, 2013, after a long and difficult battle with extremism

I die, Horatio;        

      The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:      

      I cannot live to hear the news from England;      

      But I do prophesy the election lights      

      On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;      

      So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,      

      Which have solicited. The rest is silence.      

     

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:          

      And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

  

Survivors include Kansas members of the extremist American Legislative Exchange council - past and present (we don’t know all of them – they hide their membership to ALEC)

Claude	Aruand
Richard	Bond
Elaine	Bowers
Tom	Bradley
Rob	Bruchman
Terry	Bruce
Steve	Brunk
Karin	Brownlee
Mike	Burgess
Terry	Calloway
Richard	Carlson
Dave	Corbin
Jeff	Colyer
Pete	DeGraaf
John	Faber
Joann	Flower
Rocky D	Fund
Mario	Goico
TerriLois	Gregory
John C	Grange
Janice	Hardenberger
Gary K	Hayzlett
Ron	Hein
Phil	Hermanson
Carl	Holmes
Mitch	Holmes
Kent	Glasscock
Deena	Gordon-Horst
Terri Lois	Gregory
Amanda	Grosserode
Gary	Haulmark
Gary K	Hayzlett
Steve	Huebert
Tim	Huelskamp
Lynn	Jenkins
Robin	Jennison
Dick	Kelsey
Daniel J	Kerschen
Kenneth R	King
Lance Y	Kinzer
Marvin	Kleeb
Phil	Kline
Forrest	Knox
Brenda	Landwehr
Barbara	Lawrence
Janis	Lee
Garrett	Love
Julie	Lynn
Bob	Marshall
Peggy	Mast
Ty	Masterson
Doug	Mays
Joe	McLeland
Kelly	Meigs
Ray	Merrick
Jerry	Moran
Susan	Mosier
Don	Myers
Melvin	Neufeld
Lana	Oleen
Mike	O'Neal
Ralph	Ostmeyer
Peggy	Palmer
Joe	Patton
Mike	Petersen
Mary	Pilcher-Cook
Joann	Pottorff
Larry	Powell
Hon. Tony	Powell
William	Prescott
Dennis	Pyle
Pat	Ranson
Marc	Rhoades
John James	Rubin
Ronald	Ryckman
Don	Sallee
Don	Schroeder
Scott	Schwab
Sharon	Schwartz
Joe	Seiwert
Tim	Shallenburger
Sheryl	Spalding
Chris	Steineger
Gene	Suellentrop
Dale	Swenson
Todd	Tiahrt
Ben	Vidricksen
Susan	Wagle
Jason	Watkins
Bill	Wisdom
Kevin	Yoder

 

Oh yeh - and the Koch brothers.

Don’t know who/what ALEC is? 

It is time you did!!! 

For lots of info check out this webpage >>>>>>>  ALEC Exposed 

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